In January 1959, ten experienced Russian hikers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute – eight men, two women – set out for a research trip in the Ural Mountains, which serve as a type of border between Europe and Asia, to a frozen area of the Siberian wilderness known by the locals as “Dead Mountain.” One …
Eat THIS! #2, or … FoodPots No. 1
Another approach to sustaining life with minimal expense is a potmess of food. As a single dish, throw in some meat, maybe veggies/probably not, pasta or rice, a sauce … white/cheesy, red/spaghetti-y, gravypack&water … ovenbake or stovecook … feeds the whole family … daily food=fuel problem=done. Half will usually just shovel it in, or forego …
Eat This! #1, or … Sammiches
OK so again – food. Notably, costs associated with feeding self and others go down pree-sip-pit-tus-ly! (precipitously) upon use of the hands blessfully (yeh I spelt it rite) attached to one’s body (making some assumptions here but work with me) … oooue. A recipe. Meet Meat Sammich, or Meet Sammich of Meat Bread of choice/edibility, …
The Gorilla of Foolishness – Current Ed.
Fed the monkey a bit last month … considered for a good purpose, tho’. Call it a necessary annual expense. Half got happy; theKid had grins. So … Motivation #1/#2 were in good spaces. So … if feeding the monkey just a bit to get them there … under controlled, laboratory conditions … totally worth …
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Food, or a reasonable substitute
Half used to cook but between work travel and a general, unspecified anxiety about the palatability of the final product, the task of food has fallen essentially to me. Care not do I. I have to eat anyway so I just get extra for Half and theKid. Problem? Using the hands of others to feed …
Vanity MainTain, or Toiletries & Unguents
Human bodies are gross. Odors and viscous liquids and dead cell clusters burrowed in the skin … yeh. So, gotta handle that, not necessarily for others but to tolerate yourself. Ultimately, the body reaches a rubicon of funk, and the human either must bathe or … surrender to filth. {Lev. 22:6} And then there is …
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Rotten Fruit
Made almost – but not quite – a grand selling part of the nonsense purchased for no memorable reason … lots of Euphoria at one point while growing my debt monkey. Now? Now, still at the Self-Pity stage, but actually doing something about it is a big switch. The biggest change has to be (1) …
I definitely do / ‘Til death
There was … an object in the intersphere – post, article, meme, whatever – about the nightmare of modern dating, and how people who have managed to get married should probably stay there. On the Tubes ofYou Rollo Tomassi and Aaron Clarey are big in the “manosphere,” the MGTOW (MenGoingTheirOwnWay), Incel(?), whole Red Pill thing …
Totally Mad, Full Crazy, & a Lil’ Bit Insane
The other day me/myself/I were discussing our debt monkey – that Gorilla of Foolishness swollen to $225K – and we all came to the unilateral decision that it is not real. Nope. Not a thing. Because if it were real then we would care. Instead, debt is just numbers on a screen or paper rectangles …
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the Tao of Half – Debt Ed. 101, or Smear it like a Shmear
One of Half’s money wisdoms is that if must, and if option, then spread any debt charges across several cards, and avoid money = mass, as in accumulation, that turns into a tumor. Because that’s what big debt – a Gorilla of Foolishness – actually is — a terminal cancer on personal finances. Half’s approach …
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