I'll just entertain myself

The ones responsible for cleaning the vile property I've been writing about finally got serious. They brought in a great dumpster. After filling it almost beyond its capacity and hauling it off, they set to work burning the wood. During the process they cut down the trees. What they didn't haul they burned. Yesterday a man used a blower to push loose trash together. All day today a man has been filling a big garbage can on wheels and rolling away with it down a nearby side street. My guess is he found a spot to get away with illegal dumping. At the rate he's working he could finish before Monday, but he has been known to take breaks of three or four days. Soon there will be nothing left to remind me of those bastards.

This is the exact reason I don't vote.by mail! And, that decision was made before the rat skunk Repukes started their illegal polling shenanigans. I was scared of the many pitfalls possible in just routine ballot decisions and mailing problems. Now, I don't trust that a Repuke won't get a hold of my ballot somewhere in the mail or voting systems and corrupt my ballot!

I am not as scared that "someone" will take away rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of of Happiness as I am scared a Repuke will invade my RIGHTS!

I've voted by mail more than ten years without incident. But "our" government in Texas now believes that they have **** up the works in every category, so here we are.

I see stories quoting the inflation rate as either 6 or 8 percent, not including gasoline. That may be what they want us to believe, but the money I spend at the grocery store is a hell of a lot more than 8%. I may have fell off a turnip truck but I know how to use my fingers and toes to cipher.

Rate of infection might be more meaningful or useful.

Seriously, the rate of inflation and how ‘they’ figure it is the least truthful or meaningful statistic to us in the trenches.

What matters to us is how much is left in our pockets after we pay our mortgages/rent, transportation, heating/cooling/maintenance of residences, medical coverage/health, food and entertainment costs. We’ve all taken a massive hit in the last year. worse when you figure 2.5 years of COVID. If they told the truth it would greatly alarm the masses. So ‘they’ dish out pablum and placebo.

Ain’t I the ray of 🌞 sunshine?!

Almost everything they feed us is lies these days.

Lies or meaningless distraction. Oooh, look, a squirrel!

Watching Los Tres Chiflados. They always precede Svengoolie. Svengoolie going to present Frankenstein 1970 tonight.

Went in Walmart the other day. Cops were all over the place. Just learned there were thugs robbing people as they got out of their cars.

Jeez. It’s Walmart, fercrissakes. Haven’t they suffered enough?

I go to those big stores because they put the decent independents out of business.

Yeah, then they rapidly diminish the quality of items they sell. Hooray for us.

It's hard to boycott somebody who is the only one with what you need.

Watched Frankenstein 1970 last night - sporadically, because it was boring. Boris was in it. Total ripoff. Didn't get to see the monster at all, just him being all wrapped up with two eyeholes. Once Frankenstein was dead it ended without following what went on with the monster.

I don't understand this. You go to them BECAUSE they put them out of business or AS A RESULT of them going out of business? Two completely different things. Do you mean you have no other choice in your area?

We just had a family-owned and run hardware store close down after being in business since 1949. Sad to see it go. Every time I went in there, it was fairly busy.

It's much like the migrant workers, as in Grapes of Wrath: The only place to obtain your goods is the company store. They could boycott the store if they so chose, but the children's bellybuttons would then be scraping their backbones.

They got paid at the front of the line only to find at the back end, after they picked up all needed food for the next month, they had to get a loan to pay for some of their needs!

"........
I owe my soul to the company store"

Also, the more days they stayed, the lower the wages became.

Had to write a new short story. It pushed its way in with increasing urgency until I had to drop all else and go at it. Got the first draft in less than a week. That's blazing speed for me, even though it's only two pages. About a Galactic Federation census taker and a bot on a dirtball third planet, a thousand years hence.