On the Road Again
"In anguish all the objects of the world and our environment itself suddenly appear devoid of all importance, they become ridiculous and collapse into an absolute nullity."
Interviewed remarkably enough for a job brought by headhunter to my inbox which I would have happily engaged in save for the tiny fact one must have Das Auto and drive to the designated zip code in one of 4 counties to press the flesh with Small and Medium Business owners. Which gave me pause. The job was sold as hard core outbound cold calls but the job was not to qualify these leads but give these leads to the Qualifier and Closer. T-Mobile is tricky. The pay package dangled like grapes before my anguished eyes I toughed it out for four more minutes letting words roll into my ears and politely pointed out my spotlessly clean 3 year driving record arises in that I have had no car since Gulf War 2, no desire for one, no license to drive on, and no understanding of why this lead generation sales role would have me selling in the field.
The options before me are grim and grimmer.
On 1080 each month after bills I have $20. My savings are gone by September probably which is very soon. Need dat job.
My friend and former roomie is 76 in Sacramento and he has a plan to move into HUD apartment housing downtown for Seniors. 10-12 to 24 month max wait list. Rent is subsidized at 30% of income. Spacious and not unattractive senior living in your own space. BUT BUT CONTROL arises in that dinner on site is MANDATORY
5 days each week 4:15 0r 5:15. And $250 is deducted to pay it.
On the other hand maybe my cats and I will hit the winter highway with no car and a huge back pack.
"Homelessness is my number one priority" - Gavin Newsom, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Candide and Martin touched upon the Coast of England, and what they saw there.
(Candide ou l optimiste
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They arrived at Portsmouth. The coast was lined with crowds of people, whose eyes were fixed on a fine man kneeling, with his eyes bandaged, on board one of the men of war in the harbour. Four soldiers stood opposite to this man; each of them fired three balls at his head, with all the calmness in the world; and the whole assembly went away very well satisfied.
“What is all this?” said Candide; “and what demon is it that exercises his empire in this country?”
He then asked who was that fine man who had been killed with so much ceremony. They answered, he was an Admiral.
“And why kill this Admiral?”
“It is because he did not kill a sufficient number of men himself. He gave battle to a French Admiral; and it has been proved that he was not near enough to him.”
“But,” replied Candide, “the French Admiral was as far from the English Admiral.”
“There is no doubt of it; but in this country it is found good, from time to time, to kill one Admiral to encourage the others.”
Pour encourager les autres. Oh middle class these folk use to be just like you "Admirals" of San Francisco-by-the Pacific Ocean but they sunk so low there was nothin' no one would do except like monkey minds throw money like feces much to the applause and approval of tax payers in this City and County surrounded by water on three sides and protected by dykes and the Golden Gate Drawbridge and crony Capitalist Bay Bridge.
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I guess that dinner is designed to keep the apartments turning over.....