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Oct. 13th, 2008 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojocattMy new life goal now is to semi-retire at 50 years old. Although my 401k is not reflecting that right now, with a rate of return on my investments for this year at -49%. I won't be able to draw on the 401k until 62 anyways, so I'm betting on the stock market recovering sometime in the next 25 years.
Call it quits on full time work, take a part time job as a Walmart greeter or something like that. Have a side business doing some sort of craft, say blacksmithing, cedar canoe building, ice fishing house building, photography. Live up North in Isanti, grow a large garden, can the extra for winter, raise some chickens, heat with wood, power by wind, hunt and fish for extra food, drive a cheap pickup truck.
At 38 I'm already sick of the rat race, I can't see going another 15 years and stretching it out to 65. I'll be lucky if I don't quit or get fired before 50, and I have a very nice job with a very good employer. Working as a part-time, midwage, brainless drone, I can tell anyone, at anytime, to fuck the hell off and walk away. That's freedom, that's the kind of freedom I want. Not that I would have an attitude problem, but if I had a jerk for a boss, I would be able to express myself in the fullest possible terms.
The house up in Isanti is paid for, sitting on the remaining 120 acres. I need to figure out how to put that 120 acres to work, growing switch grass, pulp wood, raising beef or something. Something to pay the property taxes.
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This is a good idea that has been too long in coming.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/10/13/podcar.city.ap/index.html
The podcar, presumably for the coming pod-people problem that should be in every future. But seriously, this is the year 2008, we should be doing things like this in every city.
What would also be nice would be car pods, where you could drive your car into a pod and travel on a system that would trace the freeways. The difference being you would be zipped along at 120mph on electric power non-stop until you reach your destination city / town, and the drive the 1-3 miles to your final destination. If the car was electric you might even be able to top up your batteries while in transit.
Say when I go to Isanti, I could drive the car onto a car pod on a station in North Minneapolis, ask to be shuttled to a station on the highway outside of Isanti, then drive the final 2-3 miles.
But we don't have these things yet, this future sucks. Where are the flying fucking cars? I want flying cars, I was promised flying cars in 1975. We supposed to have flying cars, personal jet packs, mass transit tubes and a roast beef dinner in a 500mg capsule. Where are the age reversing medications? Where is the virtual sex studios? Where are the green Orion slave women? Where are the fucking service robots? WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE ROBOTS? Where are the vacation resort moon bases? We need a fucking recreational moon base. MOONBASE! I tell you MOONBASE! We sit down here on the earth while we could be making moon trips like going to Florida. Message to the year 1975, the human race of the future is retarded, lazy, we elected a fucking moron for president, still fight wars, burn gas in our cars and let people starve. Most of all, WHY DON'T I OWN MECHA?
This future sucks cow ball sweat.
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Speaking of the future, can you believe it, 22 days to the election, 22 days, three weeks. I hope we do the right thing this time around. Twenty-two days to the beginning of the end of the dubya era, we've spent almost eight total years under the greatest idiot president of the history of our nation. It's hard to wrap one's mind around the scope of the wreckage he is leaving the world. We've made zero progress these past eight years.
Could we elect someone who is not from the two party system? Someone that would be even better than McBama? Yes, that would be nice. But I think Obama will do just fine, also considering how low the bar is currently set, he is an outstanding choice. I would in fact vote for a pig in lipstick over the choices in 2000, 2004 and at least one of the canidates in this years election. I hope Obama can hold on to the lead for another 22 days.
Also the matter of effective public speaking, as many of you agree with me on this subject. To have a president that can speak, even if he is offering up a simmering plate of bullshit, to have that plate of bullshit offered in style and grace will be refreshing. Not this silver spoon Texas idiot wisdom.
"Being a single parent is the toughest job, You're working hard to put food on your family."
We need to have a dubya leaving office party. Less than 100 days folks.
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I also managed to get some target time in with the 1911A1 .45 Colt. Ran some target ammo through it and used 5 rounds of my Federal "Hydra-Shok" jacketed hollow point ammo. My hand actualy hurt after firing those five rounds, so I looked up the ballistic performance of the ammo. The advertised ballistic performance is only moderate, it sure the hell felt a little more than a moderate load, as I've ran 100 rounds through that gun, and I never had a sore hand.
Call it quits on full time work, take a part time job as a Walmart greeter or something like that. Have a side business doing some sort of craft, say blacksmithing, cedar canoe building, ice fishing house building, photography. Live up North in Isanti, grow a large garden, can the extra for winter, raise some chickens, heat with wood, power by wind, hunt and fish for extra food, drive a cheap pickup truck.
At 38 I'm already sick of the rat race, I can't see going another 15 years and stretching it out to 65. I'll be lucky if I don't quit or get fired before 50, and I have a very nice job with a very good employer. Working as a part-time, midwage, brainless drone, I can tell anyone, at anytime, to fuck the hell off and walk away. That's freedom, that's the kind of freedom I want. Not that I would have an attitude problem, but if I had a jerk for a boss, I would be able to express myself in the fullest possible terms.
The house up in Isanti is paid for, sitting on the remaining 120 acres. I need to figure out how to put that 120 acres to work, growing switch grass, pulp wood, raising beef or something. Something to pay the property taxes.
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This is a good idea that has been too long in coming.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/10/13/podcar.city.ap/index.html
The podcar, presumably for the coming pod-people problem that should be in every future. But seriously, this is the year 2008, we should be doing things like this in every city.
What would also be nice would be car pods, where you could drive your car into a pod and travel on a system that would trace the freeways. The difference being you would be zipped along at 120mph on electric power non-stop until you reach your destination city / town, and the drive the 1-3 miles to your final destination. If the car was electric you might even be able to top up your batteries while in transit.
Say when I go to Isanti, I could drive the car onto a car pod on a station in North Minneapolis, ask to be shuttled to a station on the highway outside of Isanti, then drive the final 2-3 miles.
But we don't have these things yet, this future sucks. Where are the flying fucking cars? I want flying cars, I was promised flying cars in 1975. We supposed to have flying cars, personal jet packs, mass transit tubes and a roast beef dinner in a 500mg capsule. Where are the age reversing medications? Where is the virtual sex studios? Where are the green Orion slave women? Where are the fucking service robots? WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE ROBOTS? Where are the vacation resort moon bases? We need a fucking recreational moon base. MOONBASE! I tell you MOONBASE! We sit down here on the earth while we could be making moon trips like going to Florida. Message to the year 1975, the human race of the future is retarded, lazy, we elected a fucking moron for president, still fight wars, burn gas in our cars and let people starve. Most of all, WHY DON'T I OWN MECHA?
This future sucks cow ball sweat.
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Speaking of the future, can you believe it, 22 days to the election, 22 days, three weeks. I hope we do the right thing this time around. Twenty-two days to the beginning of the end of the dubya era, we've spent almost eight total years under the greatest idiot president of the history of our nation. It's hard to wrap one's mind around the scope of the wreckage he is leaving the world. We've made zero progress these past eight years.
Could we elect someone who is not from the two party system? Someone that would be even better than McBama? Yes, that would be nice. But I think Obama will do just fine, also considering how low the bar is currently set, he is an outstanding choice. I would in fact vote for a pig in lipstick over the choices in 2000, 2004 and at least one of the canidates in this years election. I hope Obama can hold on to the lead for another 22 days.
Also the matter of effective public speaking, as many of you agree with me on this subject. To have a president that can speak, even if he is offering up a simmering plate of bullshit, to have that plate of bullshit offered in style and grace will be refreshing. Not this silver spoon Texas idiot wisdom.
"Being a single parent is the toughest job, You're working hard to put food on your family."
We need to have a dubya leaving office party. Less than 100 days folks.
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I also managed to get some target time in with the 1911A1 .45 Colt. Ran some target ammo through it and used 5 rounds of my Federal "Hydra-Shok" jacketed hollow point ammo. My hand actualy hurt after firing those five rounds, so I looked up the ballistic performance of the ammo. The advertised ballistic performance is only moderate, it sure the hell felt a little more than a moderate load, as I've ran 100 rounds through that gun, and I never had a sore hand.
