Today my attitude has changed towards the job that I am about to start. Rather than looking at working in environmental services for a hospital as a personal failure on my part, I am looking at it as a new chance and a new opportunity to re-invent myself. Certainly I wish I could be working…
History Repeats Itself
Some 102 years ago, the United States was under the stranglehold of the Spanish Flu. When the Spanish Flu of 1918 hit America’s shores, Calvin Coolidge was president; an almost equally incompetent and feckless president as Donald Trump. The Spanish Flu had a very high mortality rate and many deaths could have been saved had…
Snagged a Job
As the title reads, I snagged a job and I wish I could be more excited about it instead of feeling defeated. I really wanted a job in Information Technology but I have to give up on that because nobody wants to hire me. I cannot even get my resume past the HR staffers and…
All Used Up Kitty
This morning I feel like a kitty that has used up 5 of his 9 lives. I cannot concentrate on anything to save me life I just want to sit here and cry. This week was tough because it oscillated between excitement and now despair. I would be lying if I said that thoughts of…
Learning WordPress
Now that I have some extra time on my hands, I am going to take a deep dive into WordPress. Unfortunately, the job that I landed I won’t be able to take because I won’t be able to stand in one place for 8 hours at a time. So, I am back to the drawing…
Finally Landed A Job
I have finally landed a job but it’s not exactly what I had in mind. I got hired as an Emergency Security Officer position which basically means that I go on a deployment to an area further than 100 miles from my home. The company that I will be working for pays for travel, hotel,…
Sometimes You Cannot Win For Losing
It looks like I have developed one of the side effects of Abilify that can cause muscle stiffness and cramping. I let my doctor know because these could be signs of a potentially serious problem. So she pulled me off of it and placed me on a short prescription of muscle relaxers while the medication…
A Cautionary Tale
The entire COVID19 affair, the folks actively protesting wearing masks in public while supporting Donald Trump, and everyone signing off on their emails with the line Stay Safe, started me reflecting on the frightening resemblance to the movie franchise, The Purge. To the uninitiated, The Purge (Universal Pictures 2013) is about a future time where…
Socialism Promotes Innovation
Unlike the lies that the capitalists taught us to believe, the capitalist system does not promote innovation. Instead, it promotes monopolization and monetization while actually discouraging competition. The best advances in science and technology were not made through capitalism but through cooperation between industry and government with open standards being enforced. For a period of…
Public Housing Policy
The private housing rental market is now completely out of control. There are no fairness checks and balances that have any teeth. Fair housing laws are mostly anti-discrimination in nature and purposely do not address pricing controls. The rental market is very much the wild west of capitalist industries. Therefore we need a strong public…