One Pick To Rule Them All Once there was a factory. A toothpick factory. A very huge toothpick factory. That made every tooth pick. Sold in the world. Different brands. But from the same factory. The factory was owned. By a large conglomerate. That also owned. […]
Getting Hammered Down
Where’d My Money Go? Stealth inflation is when you get less than you used to, but it’s carefully hidden in hopes that you won’t notice. Like candy bars that are the same price, but a little bit smaller than they were a year ago. Or items that are the same size and the […]
Random Brain Algorithm
Who Are You? I had a friend of a friend call me a couple weeks ago. At first I couldn’t really remember who the guy was until he mentioned our mutual contact. Turned out he was looking for people to help him move. And before I could come back with the “I’m busy that […]
Altering Flows Of History
One Day In The Laundry Room… The other day I was sitting in my laundry room. I had just put my clothes into the dryer and I noticed a book lying face down on the table in front of me. I could tell by the back of the book that it was some type […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
Retreat To The Power Within
Dive Bar There’s this bar nearby my house. A dive bar, kind of a community dive bar. I go there because not because I drink but because it’s a very relaxing place to hang out and talk about things that only are allowed to be talked about inside of your local community dive bar. […]
Ancient Witches and Monsters
No Show Client The other day I went to meet a client at a bar, but as soon as I walked into the bar the client texted me and said she couldn’t make it. I was expecting to eat lunch with this client I went ahead and ate lunch anyway. After I left I […]
Modern Sorcery
Get Out Of The House As soon as I graduated from college I had to find a job as soon as I could. When I was in high school my dad and I had all kinds of conflicts. When I went away to college I was living by myself for four years. When I finished […]
Prototype Society
Book Club Recently I have been going to this book club every couple of weeks. It’s a nonfiction non-self-help book club. We read a lot of books, most of them lately have been economic books. The history of economic thought. Some history books. One of the people that come and always contributes a lot […]