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— 25 Oct 2022 —

2022 Ain't happened to us yet …

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— 25 Oct 2021 —

  10:00   phone call …

I had to beg and badger for it, but I did finally get my call with the moaney people, though it was an hour later than the scheduled time. "Hmm, we don't see it [the call] in the computer." Of course. The dollars should manifest in my possession later in the week. [And they did on Thursday, 28 Oct.]

I drove to co/PV for to enfaxerate the required paperwork to the Halls of Money. While the fax was faxing, I had a conversation with a person identifying as Victoria who, when I asked for her assessment of the state of the nation, whispered to me, We're Fvked. Indeed. Faxing is much slower than I remembered it being back when. That Vix and I had plenty of time to talk, and we did.

Homeward bound, I decided to stop and eat beef and cheese sauce sandwiches at the self-proclaimed "America's Roasted Beef." (Yes, sir.) I found no signage explaining why the doors were all locked, but the inside lights shined; I didn't see any humans milling about, though. I waited at the drive-through twice without anyone ever talking through the speaker. I finally pulled forward and sat at the window long enough that a frazzled-looking person opened up and explained the situation to me: the entire staff — including the manager — had walked out about an hour before. Some poobah from The Regional Office was en route and had ordered Frazzled not to sell anything until after The Poobah had arrived and performed an assessment of The State of Affairs. But Frazzled had their own assessment of the debacle: man, nobody wants to work here for $9/hour. Well, there is that. Frazzled also told me that it was the same story up and down that stretch of fast food — low pay and walkouts.

But you know what? The meat-and-cheese-sauce-on-roll denied me that day probably prevented the subtraction of several minutes from my lifespan. (Though it probably removed those minutes from the days of the Poobah.) This is to say: denial of crud hardly counts as a disaster.

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