Hits and Misses for this decade

Lot of stupid is all around us.

Same old wine in newer bottles? Of course there is that too.

Some dramatic ideas? Nada.

I do have some real ground breaking stuff of my own that I will put out here in a bit. Not bitcoin .. that is too hard for my simple brain to fathom. Some basic stuff..

Just look at all the BS that is spewing around us. If you were awake you might have heard it -

Organic produce - Stop labeling anything organic. It is coming from this earth. Therefore it is all organic. Morons. Cows treated or untreated with this and that. Hey if you do not want to drink milk your choice. Go find your organic bourbon but stop putting more literature on a milk carton than there are words in the constitution.
Buy now pay later. What? Since someone figured they could make some money lending to other people willing to take risk have used this to build and grow economies. Moving the penalty box around is not a new idea. Just change the interest rate and modify the terms and you got a new idea? That is a lack of ideas.
Same with this so called .com hoteling or Air bnb. It is hot air. Hoteling has been around forever. Adding to available inventory and letting people rent rooms online is not new idea. What is more stupid is the people lining to invest in this so called idea.
Black tie uber. Uber was a smart idea. Getting rid of unknowns and bugger chewing cabbies with no known background checks. Securing a ride in the middle of the night in unknown locales was addressed head on. Now trying to tweak this idea is goofy. Some dude wants to have a luxury Uber experience in metros for the business traveler. What? There already are such limo services. It is called yellow pages. Duh!
Food delivery mumbo jumbo. Completely made up shit for those that like to sit and develop hemorrhoid's. Are you telling me hat the dog walkers are too busy to go get their own pasta?
Ban all PowerPoint and lipstick. These are just my personal peeves but hey it is my blog. I find these two overly used items to be complete warm BS. No purpose and just another legal way to steal money.

Now on to my sensational ideas for the new president.

Dear POTUS -

Perhaps you can recruit some real thinking types in your new administration and do one or all of the following.

1. Make prostitution legal. Many wise men and women including stand up comedians have made this point. What is the problem with letting people have sex and charge for the service - gender not withstanding? (psst people are doing it anyway - it leaks and becomes news is all)

In fact provide government housing and clinical support to do the same so people can have a massage, a cigar if they choose and then some nookie. Accept all forms of money - heck even bitcoin if the customer and purveyor think its a good idea (I do not).

The workers can then take mandatory naps between jobs. Hence the housing. No air bnb please.

2. Legalize all chemical substances that can be inhaled or swallowed. In fact on the first floor of above mentioned housing provide for various counters selling taxable items including condoms, needles, aspirin, Xanax, heroin and anything people might need heading out of their 9 to 5 job and going home. Tax these items that people should be paying attention to in the first place.

3. Stop taxing plastic containers and bags. Morons. This only creates more stress and people drop their bananas on the bus.

4. Finally - double the sanity check on gun sales and also the taxes. This country has far too many guns. In fact train all police staff across the nation to take martial art or some form of self defense class and only give guns to seasoned officers.

Where are all the movie moves when it comes to taking down the guy with the knife spewing obscenities? Take him down quietly - no shooting needed.

All this effort will pay handsome dividends in 12 months. You will be able to pay for all those vaccines and education for those that want it. I say mandate 12 years of education to every breathing creature and teach them basics. Like -

What is a checking account?

How to change a light bulb and a tire?

How to boil an egg?

Your citizens will thank you.

New England is gleaming in the fall

This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f

Searching for a lavish 'fill in the blank with other adjectives and gender' in bed

Many of the readers of this blog have experienced this. Strange sounding messages popping up in your text or WA or emails all day long from some exotic sounding locale with an out of this world individual looking for love, sex, money or other paraphernalia to get a high. I mean granted that electronic spamming is a low cost enterprise and all but the sheer volumes and the variety in these exhortations is beyond imagination. Having a desire to engage you in some sort of sexual payola or invest in some arcane crypto scheme must be a profound algorithm that someone from Oklahoma to Odessa is cranking on through the night and watching one in a few million fall for. Otherwise this nonsense would not exist I suspect. It would be funny to watch the lifecycle of some such persona that creates said content and that of a prospect for this invite becoming an unwilling or willing participant. Then that whole thing could go on some social channel and earn likes and subscriptions for someone else a

Lakeside frivolities

We moved to the Charlotte area not knowing where exactly our new home would be. Turns out it was by a popular lake formed by the damming of the Catawba river which flows north to south in the Carolinas. Local electricity generation utility built a series of dams along the waterway for hydro and couple nuclear plants as well to supply the state grid. The lake our house butts into is Lake Wylie. While tract home build has picked up in the Carolinas the developer often carves out parcels that they can get their hands on leaving behind privately owned lots that the individual owner may not want to sell. Our house is part of a subdivision but backs into actual lake front yardage that has always been part of legacy family owned properties who chose to build a cabin or getaway and did not sell to a corporation wanting to build in the hundreds. As such we can see the water through the year but it does not afford actual water access. That privilege is to our neighbors who still maintain thei

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