Diverted from “The Truth About Money” (Edelman) for a bit, doing other things, making other moves, chatting other crap … soooo … once more into the fray, shall we? Here’s the meat of it … Mr. Edelman asks the question(s), and if ‘”yes” is the answer to any one of them, pass/fail, do not skip …
Broke v. Poor
One is a condition. The other? A mindset. Mentioned mightily amongst these parts re the scammery committed against the Elder’s home, a certain face-tatted, poo-flinging monkey (accompanied by a twitchy band of roving merry tweakers) that attacked, left a mess. Bananas everywhere. Still dealing with the fallout from that … saw online that it takes …
Empires Do Not Fall … Only Drop to Collective Knees and Face-Plant Into the Muck
Watched King’s “The Stand” on the Tubes of You not too long ago, remember reading the author’s cut about a million years ago … seems so very plausible, particularly in light of recent global troubles. Shut down the world, indeed. Had a classmate back in those dim, dark, desperate days of high school whose dad …
And the Journey Continues …
My problem is that not everyone sucks, and not all the time. Mentioned earlier in these parts that a Merry Tweaker bested me, wandered off with a solid five-figure, one comma, double-digited heist … Sigh. Learn me to give the face-tatted stranger a chance. Anyhoo, are where we are, and getting to a better place. …
The Death of a City
Was perusing the Tubes of You and came across a CC “Metal Leo,” who visits decaying cities in CA (yup, there’s Gavin, selling his used BMWs). Recently watched a familiar area – Fisherman’s Wharf and North Beach in SF – and was really surprised at the decline. Gone. Used to work there. Once got catastrophically …
Cognitive Dissonance, or If Everything Is Better Why Does It All Suck?
Gleaned an article re the strong job market, low unemployment, boundless opportunities, Wall Street on record highs (booger shooger will do that). Aaaannnndddd then there’s another article re how tech workers of FANG – Facebook, Amazon, NetFlix, Google – are experiencing layoffs, unable to find work, living on credit cards and out of their cars, …
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XX v. XY = Ø
Made the mistake of reading an article on BuzzFeed re the dumpster fire of entitlement, narcissism, and victimhood as it pertains to MFs and her collective justification of infidelity. Really. And this is what the M&Ms (modern mens) have to choose from. Now, to be honest, upfront and transparent, M&Ms have many shortcomings as well …
Done Deal / Deal Done
Saw a video about how the Webb telescope is just making the case for GOD as the Creator of the universe and everything in it (heh / didn’t need $10B for that) and during which a member of the panel discussed how 2023 was the hottest year on record … and went on to state …
Debt = Samara
Feels a bit like being trapped in the cycle … vortex, perhaps? … of debt, repayment, debt, repayment, ad nauseum, ad infinitum. OK, so the Elder needed work done on the house … had plenty of cash / wait. Back up. The Familial DOs currently living in the home of Elder mentioned a few issues …
Easy Access
One friendly aspect of our highly-digitized times is that there are intro apps to the world of investing, which is actually sorta cool. Carbon dating myself a bit here but remember the commercials – “My broker is E.F. Hutton, and E.F. Hutton says …” and everyone would stop what they were doing, ‘cuz he’s about …