Priceless

I was selected for a random drug test for work. I was given 24 hours to go to a third party lab for testing.

The lab had me empty my pockets into a lock box for the drug test. When I pulled out a gun and put it in the box, the look on that woman’s face was priceless.

Inflating Rentals

I am sure that you think that this is going to be another post about my rental property, but you are wrong. This is about some storage space that I rent. I have been renting one of those “you keep the key” rental spaces for the past few years. It’s a 10×10 non-climate controlled space and was costing $82 a month. I installed some metal shelving in it, and it is fairly packed with all sorts of items. The place that I had been renting from was giving us one month free if we paid for six months in advance. That lowered the price to $68 per month. It was one of the few left in the area that were still locally owned, with most of them having been bought out by large companies within the last few years.

Then it was bought out by a large company. This company just bought four formerly locally owned facilities within the past year. They immediately doubled the rates at all of the properties and eliminated the free month for paying in advance. Instead they began charging a surcharge if you didn’t set up automatic credit card billing. My rate is now $164 a month- two and a half times as much as it was before. That works out to $1.64 a square foot per month for warehouse space.

Me charging $1.05 for my rental property tells you how far below market I am.

Anyway, the increase in price didn’t make service any better. They consolidated the staff in their now four warehouse properties, and the office that is actually staffed is ten miles away. There is now only a note on the office where my unit is, saying to call this number for service. The problem? No one answers it, and the management put a padlock on my unit, making my stuff inaccessible. I am trying to get ahold of them to unlock my stuff. If they don’t do so within the next few days, I will go over there with an angle grinder and get my stuff out of there.

In the meantime, if my shit gets auctioned off before I can get in there, I will be suing them for the contents of the locker.

Send Her Home

Kim invites us to comment on this situation:

Here is the problem with what she is wearing:
Women who dress like this do so to get attention. Then they fall all over the first attractive (either through physical looks or having $$, or something else she wants) man who gives them the attention that they are seeking. If some of the attention that they receive is from a man that they regard as being unattractive, the same woman will complain about sexual harassment from that man and about how accusing women of “asking for it” is blaming the victim. This creates all kinds of HR and legal liability.

The other women in the office who aren’t dressing like this accuse the woman of trying to sleep her way to the top, or they get angry that the men in the office are pigs. Women are catty like that.

I once had a woman who was dressed in a skimpy outfit get mad at me when I looked at her. She was confronting me, then her meathead boyfriend came over and wanted to fight. I refused, and he threatened to drag me outside for a beating. Luckily, he backed down before he got himself into more trouble than he would know what to do with and wound up costing me some legal fees.

Have a dress code, enforce it, and this all goes away. Tits are fun to look at and I am definitely a fan, but they are poison to a professional workplace. Send her and her cleavage home.

Walking Away From Omelas

In a short story written in 1974, Ursula LeGuin wrote about a Utopian society located in a nation called Omelas titled The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. Everything there is simply perfect. No kings, no poverty, no misery. There being no poverty, there is no need for money, for crime, it is the ideal society. Life there consists of a daily, never ending carnival celebrating the summer solstice.

Life in Omelas is perfect. In fact, there is only one flaw: In order for Omelas to remain in this condition, one child must be kept in darkness, misery, and utter despair. This fact is kept from everyone in Omelas until they reach a certain age of maturity, when they are shown this child and told the secret.

Once they are old enough to know the truth, most are initially shocked and disgusted. The person is then offered a choice:

  • they can accept things the way that they are and continue their comfortable life
  • they can offer to take the child’s place
  • they can rescue the child, thus destroying the perfect society
  • or they can leave the society and take their chances elsewhere

Most elect to stay and perpetuate the perfect society. The ones who elect to leave are never seen or heard from again. Of the ones who leave, no one knows what happens to the ones who walk away from Omelas.

This powerful story contains many parallels with today. We are watching our children being groomed for sexual predation. We are watching our wealth being stolen, wars fought with our young people and wealth. All manner of atrocities are being carried out. We are faced with a choice:

  • we can allow this to continue to perpetuate our comfortable life
  • we can offer to suffer pain and misery ourselves with the hope that we can change things by risking our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor
  • or we can leave, but where will we go?

Indeed, no one knows what will happen if we walk away from Omelas.

Gaslighting

Those partisan hacks on the View are denying that the left engages in political violence right after they and their studio audience engage in their two minutes of hate on Ted Cruz:

They could just do a search on this blog for violence, or perhaps simply look at the incidents linked on this page.