Call a Lid

Why bother to get up and face the world when there’s no point? Maybe you come into semi-consciousness around 7am or 8am, roll over, go back to sleep a few times, and by 8:30am you can be sure you don’t want to talk to anyone or deal with the world today. Your basement is huge…

Expert in a Weekend

On Friday I secured an interview for the following Tuesday. The job requested expertise in a particular technical area I didn’t know anything about. If college taught me anything, it was how to cram. I went to sleep early Friday night so the weekend would be free. There was an online class with 33 hours…

Alcohol is Degenerate

Every time I visit the liquor store, my immediate reaction to the clientele, products, and proprietors is of witnessing outlandishly stereotypical lures for pathetic losers with cultivated schemes to profit off of their weakness. Some customers are functional alcoholics; others just bored with nothing better to do than get drunk. Few of them are able…

Raising a Family

The young couple complained that they could not raise a family on their income, and blamed various systems for oppressing them and forcing them to be childless. Meanwhile, 30 million illegal aliens who do not know it was impossible easily created large families. They had modest apartments and lived inexpensively, cooking simple foods and making…

Heavy is the Head

The phrase ‘Heavy is the head that wears a crown’ is an idiom about the tough burden those in charge must bear. While all others can comfortably wait to be told what to do, someone in charge must accurately decide the best choice and arrangement of things, and then commit to all aspects for achieving…