tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post2599438302060203339..comments2023-10-28T06:59:59.028-07:00Comments on Squeezing the Hourglass: And now a word from our sponsor...DDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936013880621794157noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post-8123107054658462332011-11-01T12:06:01.212-07:002011-11-01T12:06:01.212-07:00Living and functioning in one world with the abjec...Living and functioning in one world with the abject certainty that we're about to be more or less abruptly transitioned into another. Best of luck under your own shingle, sounds like you been holding it down on a pretty high level anyway, you and the Gurdjieff of Beaumont TX..,CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post-60857766396772878422011-11-01T10:59:50.514-07:002011-11-01T10:59:50.514-07:00It's a weird world. And here I am striking out...It's a weird world. And here I am striking out on my own, signing clients wholly dependent on retail or construction business, buying consumer electronic geegaws to impress them, and riding this consumption horse. You might even say I'm the whip the proverbial rider is using.<br /><br />My kids are little, not ready for anything yet. I'm more of a bug in, connect with the community leaders, both business, legal, law enforcement, and criminal. Like your buddy UBJ, I do lots of favors and kindnesses now while they are relatively cheap for one and all, without looking (or being) rich and a target.<br /><br />I anticipate leading, and as a consequence surviving, a la a mid-level Chinese bureaucrat.<br /><br />My kids are small and there's nowhere to run anyway bro. Best make sure you're in line for those ration cards, or even better, handing them out.<br /><br />Best,<br />DDDDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12936013880621794157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482127507835282032.post-5787456406225376232011-11-01T09:49:59.624-07:002011-11-01T09:49:59.624-07:00So I took the children to Worlds of Fun on saturda...So I took the children to Worlds of Fun on saturday. Did my level best to recreate one of my own boyhood peak experiences, when an older neighbor girl took me to a Parliament Funkadelic concert with her best friend, the then reigning Miss Kansas. <br /><br />The little boy is twelve, hasn't hit puberty yet, but is profoundly susceptible to all the naturally arising, and profoundly mood-altering states of consciousness. I made arrangements through his older sister to have one of her friends - a minor local celebrity/child of major local celebrity - go with them to the amusement park and he of course got to take his best friend (cause such events are even better when you have a witness) <br /><br />Long story short, he had a blast and the girl was nice enough to even friend him on facebook so that the "legend" not only persists in his memory, but can propagate through the aether. Little man was still walking on air monday afternoon.<br /><br />My kids both know what's around that signpost up ahead, yet neither one of them has been effected by it very much aside from the unconventional beliefs and practices of their father which they now consider normative, and we all move along as much like I remember moving along during my own childhood and adolescence - cept everybody has their own bugout bag and is well rehearsed in the use of everything in it. Strange innit...?CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.com