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For those of you unfamiliar with the SCA aka Society for Creative Anachronisms, its a medieval historical society. For most folks its somewhere between turkey legs at Renn Faires and pissing on your brass buttons for the right patina you often find in the American Civil War folks. You can choose your level of fanaticism and no one will say a thing, provided your thing doesn't involve elf ears or vampire famngs, and not even that if you have the one speck of common sense needed to keep it under wraps.
To most folks, its a party and dress up, which rocks.
The cool thing about it , originally for me anyway, is that you can wear real armor, be trained in how to move in it, fight in it and belong in a unit, or start your own....and you can climb in the ranks based on your own merit. Same with the other two major groups, the artisans and the organizers. The top for most are the 3-5% who are "Peers", whom some see in ALL CAPS and others, like me, generally see in small letters, like 8 font size. Gotta prove your actual worth to rate larger letters in my world. Social darwinism, applied in a natural selection medium. I'm a Peer in the artisan slot, but that doesn't mean crap if I don't keep earning it. Sometimes I even succeed.
Anyway, Pennsic is by far the largest gathering of this international organization. Not necessarily the most fun of the five large gatherings in the U.S., but racking up attendence between 10,000 - 15,000 attendees, most of whom are camping for 1-2 weeks, definitely the largest. This year I spearheaded my camp's Advance Party, setting up the perimeter, smoozing with the other campmasters on our designated block, generally networking into an already established setting. I had already checked in everyone in camp who had pre-registered, figured out the layout, roped off our area and set up our brand new common area tent before opening an ice cold beer in celebration! The block cartographer, Tristan, from Connecticut, bless his soul, is an accomplished brewer, that most noble of pursuits IMHO and generous with his products, a true sign of personal quality and earmark of a sterling person! I want to be like hiim if I ever grow up!
Our camp was started by several women, so its very matriarchial. I joined it purposely as unwashed fighter scum because I really liked The Ladies and you don't eat nearly as well in fighter based camps. Good food rates high in my world, can't eat testosterone though some have apparently tried! I prefer excellent vittles. They had a use for a fairly aggressive, strong willed guy who could remember his assigned role and I was raised by a tough Irish chick with a backbone and a will to shoot first, worry later , so it was like being home again, with less hassle!
That was a decade or two ago so now I'm a former fighter and sort of a Homer Simpson with a house full of teenagers I'm *indoctrinating* into my ethos of life, the SCA, firearms and to a degree, politics and religion. I prefer them to think for themselves and make their own decisions, including scrapping chunks of my training if it doesn't work in their worldview eventually. The SCA is a perfect medium for this because it teaches them strong ethics and habits, which are vital in leaders, but also exposes them to those who fail to measure up and the consequences of that, in a controlled, potentially positive scenerio. Strong role models, personal ethics that strengthen your character. An ideal place to teach my stepkids what they need to know in their early teenager years.
Yeah, I didn't contribute to their gene pools, but I shaped them as people in the mold that my uncles, all veterans of wars and military service, old school and quietly strong, productive, stable men shaped my cousins and my brothers. But I'm a neanderthal in a suit with polish. Apparently, my particular redhead likes that because she hasn't booted me out the door for cause....yet. I'd suck it up if that happened but in a perfect world, I'd prefer to grow old with her and corrupt our grandkids togethor.
What do you think about "Pappadok" as my *grampa* name for them? Personally, I like the thought of having the same name as a Haitian dictator, and with enough bags of candy and pop for bribes, I think its do-able!( Read more... )
My stepkids have now outgrown their garb. T-tunics with keyhole necks mass production sstyle this week by my Lady and I, a la Nenry Ford.
Got fabric shoes to make for my Pennsic class, and the Ladies of Casa di Nicolini.
I have wagons to buy at Harbor Frieght Tool tomorrow after work, along with extra stakes for tents and a grease gun for my new trailer hubs and axles! Yep, I got the same sized trailer tires as are on my car!
I have tents and air mattresses to check.
We have a new common area tent to buy next weekend when I get paid for Camp Famdamily, and folding tables to recruit for the kitchen tent.
Have block position to negotiate as soon as I get definitive word, but it looks like B08 again! Yeah!!!!!!!
Got to recruit folks to bring stuff to the Slavic Interest Group meeting!!!
Goooooooooooooing bugshit crazy and luv'in it!
Apparently my brother's mother in law and her generation are just waking up to what those of us 20 years behind them have known for decades, social security and medicare are empty promises, just vehicles to loot that generation's pockets to pay for pork barrel projects in Congress's home districts, or pay for bloated military spending. Personally, I'm a fan of teh military, but I'm a realist first and fomost.
I hat edoing political nonsense but here it is.......
They stole your money and spent it on the Star Wars Program, the MX missle Program, Trickle Down (which worked if Congress had had any fiscal responsibility), etc., etc., etc. Now they have run out of time and they are scrambling because IOUs in the kitty don't spend well. They soon won't have enough payers in the system to continue paying for what you have already spent 50 years paying into.
Its a pyramid scam now, and has been since 1983. A Ponzi scam to be technical, only the perpetrators have CYA'd their own interests. They can get thier healthcare in prison, which is where they would be if they were ever held accountable, for fraud, like Madoff. Same scam and he got 150 years.
My generation never believed for even a second that we would ever get social security or medicare, so we aren't pissed about being ripped off every paycheck. Its just a tax for us. We never believed the "promise" of care in old age. Still don't. But now we have you guys to care for and kids going to college to take care of, simultaneously. Our plates are full. This isn't our fight. Its your generation's fight. The dust will be settling by the time we get to "retirement age", which none of us ever really expect to ever be able to do.
So, now its up to you to march, to protest, to confront those who victimized you. Its time for your generation to scream so loud that the heavens are shook, God loses his footing, and Congress learns to fear the anger of the American people again. Your generation holds that banner of righteous discontent, what Thoreau called the right of self determination of free men (and women) everywhere in a free society. It won't be easy because the Patriot Act has significantly eroded the Bill of Rights and Congress has no retirement or healthcare worries.
They do fear being outed for their indemic corruption though. Witness the hue and cry when the FBI was going to search their offices....Offices that are owned by the taxpayer, filled with materials owned by the taxpayer, on equipment owned by the taxpayer, containing data and work product owned by the taxpayer. They have absolutely no legal expectation of privacy from their employer, the Taxpayers.
Thats a good place to start your Crusade. If you are unequal to the task, then your generation has condemned itself to the future outlined by healthcare rationing, means testing, needs testing, because the money you paid in just is not there and never will be now. No time to refill those coffers, the Game is on, NOW. Its beyond politics, morality, anger. Now its into the cold world of cost accounting. The only variable with uddles of cash readily available is military spending, the way the budget was balanced in the late 90's. Its a tough choice. Big Stick to the world or the healthcare and retirement benefits you have already paid for, but thats reality, not political rhetoric.
It'll be interesting to the rest of us to see what you guys are made of.
Hugs,
The next generation after you guys....
"Dreams are only the realities of yesterday waiting to happen"
Feeling philosophical today, so I ruthlessly gakked this off the blogsite of a better writer and intellectual than myself. That's truly ironic when you consider that the link above is to my favoritte Kurt Vonnegut story. Its my favorite because I think it was prophetic when written, and of all his many insightful writings about human nature, it best reflects the fallcities and pure arrogance of PC as policy beyond philosophy. Its done some good things, but beyond reconizing abilities and giving those possessing those abilities an oppurtunity to use them gainfully, PC as policy has done much, much more harm to this country and its values than any enemy we have ever had.
Its dumbed down education to the point of irrelevance. Its dumbed down politics to the point where the needs of the nation are second to the rhetoric of the soundbite, the slogan and the catch phrase. Its the same social mechanism as ther tools of dictatorship Hitler and Stalin used, in that it is an active and avowed enemy of intelectual thought and competence subservient to a completely arbitrary agenda of very limited utility in the messy mix that is humankind. To make it fit across the board itseeks to average down the exceptional, glorify the mediocre and elevate the below average, in whatever measure you care to utilize. Its merely intelectual dictatorship with an updated but fraying wrapping. The ultimate jingoism!
Its like this, people are different, from each other, from societal archtypes, heck, frfom cultural standards and other artificial and irrelavent valuations. They are different genetically too, and until the scenerio of genetic selection from the movie Gattica becomes vogue, they always will be and artifical constrants are the worst form od bondage. We have absolutely no chance of using our superlative cognitive, physical , intellectual or creative resources for the betterment of all as long as restrictive movements like political correctness have the support and power of law. And in viewing our current economy, we really need every advantage and resource at our disposal to collectively dig ourselves out of our current hole!
But people are shallow idiots too, myself included. We tend to see the surface as an indicator of content and adapt our behaviors to fit...so we have agism, sexism, racism, classism, even spiritualism. when all of these "standards" are mere echoes of what we see in the bathroom mirror every morning. Hence my repulsion with political correctness, which is a much less accurate valuation system than merit. The obvious problems is: you can't eat it, or fuck it, or be annoyed by it or even lable it as less worthy tthan our own deficiencies, mostly because then we would each have to have the faith and guts to take an honest, unflinching look at our true selves.
I did this during the depths of my post-divorce emotional anguish. A nice, long, detached look at who I truly am as a person while my emotional circuit breaker was off anyway. Even then, it was the scariest, and most exhilerating act I have ever done. To this day, I can't honestly say whether I did it as an act of defiance against mediocrity, insecurity or pretensions. Or, whether I was just indulging a self-destructive, masochistic element of my pshychie. Spffft! I probably was just apathetic to everything and did it because I could and I thought it would be a hoot to do something any sane person would be scared to do to themselves willingly. The experience didn't make me any better of a person, instill any more worth or merit than I possessed before it, or even make me wiser than anyone else.
It just freed me from my illusions: about myself, about other people, about society as a wholle and as an individual even from any expectations or dogmas that restrained or forced my behaviors to conform. My core beliefs remained, levened with pragmatism and realism. My dreams became more focused and obtainable based on my abilities, my resources and my available pool of expertise of those on whom I could ask questions or utilize their skills. The major benefit was that I learned t accept myself as just who I actually am, and that was very much of a relief and very, very liberating to me as a part in the cosmic machine. Less and less am I reliant pr even cognizant on differences whereas that has shifted more to capability and the merit associated with competency. I accept them as is. I don't try to elevate or deprecate them. Thats a guage they have already set through their own actions, I merely accept it as fact and treat them according to the scale they have already set for themselves and the capabilities they bring to the table as an individual.
PC doesn't do that. Its a clunky tool of only limited uses in limited scenerios. And its not flexible or adaptative in the least. One size doesn't fit all in a jigsaw puzzle, its just less effort to attempt to limit th emold to one size. That was also Hitler and Stalin's plan. One mold, one people, one state.....and that is just not good enough for any of us to settle for. Our destiny as a people is much, much greater than that.
Stepping down from the soapbox. No one will ever read this but that isn't the point. It neede dto be said, especially these days and our current "leadership in Congress is to myoptic and cowardly to do it. Hence, Kurt Vonnegit, who was brave enough....
I almost choked. Not a prude or anything but as one of the worlds two oldest cultures, both with 1-3 Billion people stacked up each, who would have thunk it? I mean, Vegas, sure. Its known for tacky crap ( and I love it for that) but a porn park.....yeah, thats culture, I guess.
And they give us crap about being a young and immature culture. What a bunch of posers.
Inner giggle engaged.
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I have a manual online for joining two coats into one larger one, along with tips on fur handling, types and characteristics, using Heatbond and cheap cotton to both anchor the hair follicles in drying leather and to give the leather another 20 years of service!
Google "Sofya la Rus" and tool down until you see the word "Mordok". It'll be one of the files listed under "furlined garments".
We live 100 miles from the Canadian border so we have 4 solid months where furlined garments are quite handing to have at drafty event sites! And My Lady is far too cute to freeze.....
Back to being the costumer I am at heart and dropping my political whining act!!!!
From now on, my posts will be positive (mostly), and much more concentrated on my
Look for pictures soon! I'm working on two new furlined coats and a set of Dane-Rus garb for our Prine and Princess, circa 10th century Novgorod-Kiev. Linen, silk, silk/wool, squirrel fur....
- Mood:drowning in creative juices
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_o
Wow, I guess no good deed goes unpunished! I picture this lady’s car impaled on a telephone pole, smoke and maybe a little flame pouring out of the car and this friend is brave enough to risk having the car explode in her face to drag her friend out of the wreck. Now one case of paralysis and ond one ambulance chasing Beverly Hills attorney later, the friend has spent a mint defending herself for doing a good deed. I wonder if she regrets not standing back out a distance while her friend was cremated alive? It’s a sad world.
THEN THERE ARE THE “OTHER KIND OF GOOD DEEDS”, just ponzi scams disguised as “needed” actions NOW (don’t ask questions or read the fine print). Usually, those are also called “affiliate” scams because only the first people in actually receive the promised returns and usually are “affiliated “ to the scam artist as family, friends or organization members like a church or in this case, business pals.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/M
Which brings us to the bailout and Mr. Paulson, the Federal Reserve Chairman who himself is a scammer and a fraud who should be under indictment, not doing “good deeds” for his pals in the banking & finance sectors with our money. Paulson and his pals fully indulged in and abused the shadow banking/financing structures that grew out of the brand new GOP Congress’s 2002 de-regulation of the banking – investment firm industries. Congress crowed loudly in the press about repealing the 1933 Glass – Stiegel Act enacted to separate and regulate these industries to prevent another Great Depression, citing the free market self regulation theory. Even now, with failing business models, stockholder concerns and crumbling stock value, the party continues for these executives even on the dime of the taxpayer bailout…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_o
The reality is that our current financial crisis ALSO happened in the 1929, ALSO after 6 years of fraudulent “prosperity”, ALSO created by international investment firms, like Paulson’s own Goldman Saches, tapping into the banking industry for deep pockets, ALSO promising everyone huge returns on their money or low, low interest rates. LIKE THEN, Paulson and his pals made piles of money in bonuses on the quantity of these loans made. LIKE THEN, Paulson and pals “re-labled” these risky loans as secure, insured bonds (see AIG). LIKE THEN, they sold them throughout the world, getting more bonuses for the quantity of these sales but crashing the entire world economy in the process. Paulson as CEO of Goldman Saches personally made 545 million in bonuses in 2006 for selling 20 trillion dollars worth of these AAA “bonds”.
Call it the GOP Congress Xmas gift or The Bush Legacy or just call it what it is, politics as usual. How’s your job or 104K these dayz? No good deed goes unpunished! ; )
- Mood:laughing maniacly inside
May as well get it over with!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081212/bs_n
This guy ran the #3 trading house on Wall street, chaired the NASDAQ exchange and now he admits to swindling his wealthy trust fund clients out of 50 billion of their assets……All I can say to all those 3rd, 4th and 5th generations of the idle wealthy is, “Welcome to the Middle Class”.
Am I the only one out there seeing a pattern of pervasive Wall Street corruption, criminal negligence and felonious fraud on truly epic scales and not a peep out of the White House? In fact, they appointed one of the biggest perpetrators as Fed Reserve Chairman AND allowed him to convert 545 million in stocks TAXFREE…..after which he immediately bails out his buddies with our money.
What a sweet deal….for them. We are stuck with a bankrupted country to attempt to repair over the rest of our lives.
How many of the 3 people who read my drivel have been downsized as an extra-special Xmas gift this year?
When does the Middleclass refuse to play along anymore? When do we, the Middleclass, kick the moneychangers out of the temple and reclaim our heritage?
The national debtis owed to the international bankers running the Federal Reserve for their own profit with our money. In my world, our money, our decision whether to pay interest on its us by us.
Lets leave them holding the bill for once and reclaim our future that they have stolen, for a personal profit.
I’m not angry, just disgusted and ready to reclaim our heritage.
http://www.john-daly.com/solar/solar.htm
One of my pet peeves is bad science, followed closely by willful exclusion of information in a lame attempt to prove a theory and create one’s fames and tenure berth…..Then there is the use of movie stars with little or no actual knowledge of an issue beyond what trend or PC movement/eddy/ blip is currently in vogue and “popular” according to People Magazine.
Such is the case with Al Gore and his movie, An Inconvenient Truth…..If he had stuck to the environmental damage creatded by pollution particulate mater or acid rain, then yeah, Id be agreeing. But no, he relied on some very faulty pseudo-science that is rapidly being discredited due to lack of verfiable confirmation by weather measurements around the world.
I guess my major peeve is the mistaken assumption that CO2 gas concentration is a major active component of warming in the atmosphere rather than the secondary symptom of another, longer trend function in the weather. Of course, I speak of solar flares and the Little Ice Age, weather patterns over the last 1000 year cycle and the fact that we are verging at the apex of the current warming trend.
Don’t get me wrong, I was totally on board with the eory of Global Warming, that is, until I watched a show on the History Channel about the Little Ice Age in the Middle Ages. Yep, that’s pseudo history toned down for the masses. I get that. But it sparked some inconsistancies that bothered me. So, I started checking. Looking for a baseline that kept popping up in different sources on related topics. I’m cynical so it isn’t like I’m looking for proof for a personal agenda, I’m looking for a baseline absent any personal benefit, other than finding the true thread beyond any possible hype and hyperboly.
To this end, the cited article does the best job of summing up what I found, especially the 3rd section on. May be crap ultimately. May be foresight. May be needless bother. None of them bother e. I’m just curious by nature.
I love a book where natural selection trumps dogmatism and pragmatic realists save the day, as they actually always do and have done in every society and in every age of Mankind.
A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.
B) Tag 6 people to do this quiz. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.
I tag you….cause I’m eeeeeeeevil that way!
B) 01. What is your favorite show on TV?
Tru blood
02. What are you wearing at the moment?
nothing, but my co-workers are pretending I’m dressed.
03. What was the best part of your day?
Laying in bed with Laura talking.
04. What is your favorite scent?
woodsmoke and BBQ
05. What is your favorite drink?
Dark beer like a sweet porter, triple stout or dopplebock
06. What do you drink the most?
coffee and ice water
07. What is your favorite restaurant?
any BBQ joint
08. What will you be doing after finishing this?
earning a paycheck
09. What did you want to be when you grew up?
retired horndog on daily viagra
10. Your favorite romantic movie?
Doctor Zhivago
11. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
She's incredibly smart and clever!
12. What are you afraid of?
adult children boomeranging with their children
13. What's your favorite item of clothing?
baseball cap
14. What time do you usually go to bed?
10 pm
15. What's on your mind?
Laura, and a small cabin by a lake, an old truck, a polebarn with room for my projects and an beer/meat frig, with a carport for my smithing gear and grilling/entertaining patio.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081107/us
When I was a kid, I had a lot of European pen pals, their letters arriving scrawled on almost weightless translucent paper to save postal costs, mine to them on 3 ring notebook paper. We discussed many subjects, as kids curious about each others country and lifestyles and viewpoints are wont to do.
Even then, they all graduated at 16, some going to tech schools afterwards, some on the University, others into trades and apprenticeships. The deciding factor was a much feared, much prepared for aptitude test at age 12 that determined your career path and curriculum at school for the next 4 years.
Along with this came an earlier expectation by their families of assumption of greater responsibility and behavior earlier than was the custom here in The States. And most stepped up to that expectation, and those people received various intangible social and personal rewards that they spoke of in their letters.
So, from that perspective, I’m fascinated that the US seems to be adopting more and more characteristics that I had deemed “European”, like this starting trend towards earlier graduation, an apparent leaning towards a more generic and affordable Medicare/Medicaid program, a leaning towards a more universal system of the same, and most surprising, the first tentative steps towards partial, yet temporary, government ownership in insurance and banking firms.
Maybe it’s a sign of the times in an ever shrinking world, or a symptom of accommodation with the limitations of a mature and somewhat settling empire, or maybe just the American contingency reaction to a crisis just starting to break in our society (and how often have we done that successfully in our past?).
Still, it’s interesting to see happening here, so many years after my pen pals remarked on the differences between European and American outlooks and cultures! I just try to keep an open mind and keep perspective!
Went over to dinner Gwynubis’s for dinner last night with my brother for some very tasty beef stew, lots of laughs and a movie at the Cheapies, Tropic Thunder. More laughter and a large bag of popcorn later, my brother and I are eating leftover pizza and watching the last vestages of both the elections, and the conservative era started by Ronald Reagan in 1980, gutter out and die with a whimper. I remember a similar night in 1980 when the Liberal era guttered out and died in similar fashion, except when you look at the voting records of last nights two major candidates on the big issues, they are remarkably similar. How ironic, but both obviously score high in graciousness, character and belief in America and the concept of "the loyal opposition".
And it hit me again, this is the first election that the internet and instant information worldwide had a significant and immediate impact worldwide. Gwynubis and I had mentioned that earlier, as had others during this campaign, but proof is its own veracity of existance. Sure, a lot of the internet is full of porn, blogging no one reads (like this one, my inner thoughts turned inside out), YouTube insanity and chatrooms, but its also a powerful medium to track the powerful in Society at large.
I don’t know if Obama can make a dent in the tremendous challenges facing the US and the world as a result, but I do know that this is probably our first President who knows the power of the internet, has utilized it masterfully and will no doubt be tracked quite thoroughly by its patrons for good or naught.
I must admit, that’s a change from the old ways, and no matter how it works out over time, I think change is good. A new century, new circumstances and tools, not a bad start.
DOH! I AM a closet geek.....Seriously though, this is an excellent series and actually inspired me to write stories and books too. I just sucketh at the craft,whereas the writer of this series is quite excellent.
A quick comment on Sacred Cows, both figurative and implied….my parents raised my brothers and I that outside patriotism, the Catholic Church and money matters, there were none. Obviously wrong and myoptic but kids are blank slates waiting to be doodled on! Enter the modern world with its manifold pressures and recreational oppurtunies, to say nothing of instant communications. Into this arena, I find myself at a distinct disadvantage with my training. A symptom of this is the annoying regularity with which I step on toes, slice up sacred cows for steaks and generally provoke reactions of all hues with my commentary. I admit, a small percentage of the time I intentionally intend to create a reaction, but to be honest, my days are so filled now that I’m simply tooo tired and apathetic to care most days. I get enough angst, reactionary impulsive mistakes and general experience starved problems of the teenager variety at home every night to need expanding my entertainment base!!!!
Still, the variety of topics that I step on toes commenting upon is truly expansive and varied, and THAT I do find quite intriguing.
Nuff said. Back to me domestic *tranquility*….
I don’t like either one of these guys. One is Liberal. The other is a Neo-Conservative. Niether has the wide perspective needed to guide us out of the hole we’ve dug for ourselves.
But don’t worry. I did one for each of these clowns and their laughable “policies”.
OBAMA RE-DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH PLAN
Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read
“Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed.
Once in the restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08″ tie, again I
laughed as he had given away his political preference — just imagine
the coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him
that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He
stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to
redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless
guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.
I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the
server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The
homeless guy was grateful.
At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I
realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn,
but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn
even though the actual recipient deserved money more.
I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in
concept than in practical application.
Good Investing
McCAIN RE-DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH PLAN
Today on my way to lunch I enter a restaurant and saw a sign that read
“Vote McCain, Financial responsibility in your Leaders” I laughed.
Once in the restaurant my server had on a “McCAIN 08″ tie, again I
laughed as he had given away his political preference — just imagine
the coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him
that I was exploring the McCAin redistribution of wealth concept, via the recent bailout of wealthy CEOS and Banks. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to
re-distribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the owner of the restaurant to bail him out of slow business during out un-recession, his employer. The server angrily stormed from my sight.
I asked for the owner, gave the guy $10 and told him to thank the
server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more wisely. The
owner was confused but pocketed the cash in a flash.
At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I
realized the owner was grateful for the money he did not earn,
but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn
even though the actual recipient was fast to pocket money he did no labor for. Maybe he spent his bailout money on his own lunch or gas tank?
I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in
concept than in practical application.
Good Investing
