Today I went for an interview in Seattle. On my way to and from I encountered some funky people and I’m not talking funk and soul…just nasty funk. I truly do not understand how people can run around with such a cloud of B.O. surrounding them and just not notice. Stringy smelly hair and just a lack of concern for personal hygiene literally takes my breath away.
I can’t imagine it’s a lack of having a place to get clean but rather just not caring. I know times are tough and money is tight, but Im thinking that commuters going to and from work should consider bathing more frequently and they probably have the means. Try once a day rather than once a week! It’s a shame the people are so lazy that they just let themselves go like that.
The worst of it was on the ferry boat. I used to commute on it but it has become more of a smelly rusty freak show that makes me want to take a sanitizing chemical shower just after being on it. Quite disgusting!
The same bathing suggestion goes for the stinky couple in the store that “breezed” right on by me and made me gack! For the love of god in heaven…SHOWER and WASH your clothes!
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It’s a Sunday evening and I am just finishing up a job application. I have discovered that I don’t really need the job, just the money. But I haven’t quite found that pot of gold and even though we get rainbows here, I don’t think the leprechaun’s loot would be easy to find.
I have been enjoying these last days and being able to not panic without work has been a way of life I could not have imagined but I love. I am enjoying it for now but I know the day is coming when it could all change. So, I continue to look for the elusive perfect job to avoid the panic. I suspect it’s out there. I just need to find it.
In the middle east…where I spent an entire year the weather is now back in the 90’s for heat and the weather is stuck here as if it were winter still. I really am growing tired of living in a place where everything is wet and cold all the time. I never thought I would miss the heat but I sure do now. In fact, I have a fire going in the stove and it’s about 85 inside. I am a happy warm camper…that’s in interesting word to pop up in my thinking…”camper”, as I do feel a little like I am camping here in my own house. Not quite the home it was but I have the required items to survive comfortably. Not quite home because I have discoverd a world well outside of what I had been living in for the last many years. Figuring out what really I want now that I have figured out what I do not want is a lifelong journey. Each day I do a little here to organize my life a little more and eliminate the junk that I collected over so many years before. It has become clear that for the most part, holding onto that piece of junk or the widgets just serves to slow a person down when they are attempting to move on in life and be nimble without having to manage said junk/widgets.
It feels good to eliminate stuff and clean out the closets and rooms. It gives me hope that at some point I could travel again or work abroad with less worries and live daily without the hassle of tripping over something I’m not using and may never use again. I spent a day cleaning up an old RV and afterwards realizing that I haven’t used it in a long time, I felt like it was just something that I will have to consider ridding myself eventually if it’s not used. It’s not a finacial drag but having it here is just one of those things that is something to manage. It also is my shelter in a time of emergency so for now, I’ll keep it…reluctantly.
Tomorrow is another day to scoop up and throw out or at the very least, organize with the newfound space of the scooped and tossed. Life has become one big cleanup operation from a self misguided past of living with to much junk and not enough quality everything else….that my friends is changing.
I hope you enjoy as I continue to write and if I am the only one….it’s ok too because I can always look back at where I have been and how far I have come. This year has been one of the best for learning for me…so far and I’m looking for ward to many more of these experiences.
Life is good.
Been reading about an increase in gas prices coming again. This time it’s due do more EPA regulations. Has to do with regulations to minize the sulphur content of motor fuel. Sulphur is a natural element…just like carbon.
The EPA is a government agency that like most any agency is funded by tax dollars. In order to get funding each year, most agencies must be able to justify their existence by showing that they have done something the year before to make a difference.
If no funding comes, the agency would have to lay off workers. This cycle of making changes to get funding to keep EPA workers employed sets up a condition that has created a very destructive agency. We outsource so much of our work because of environmental issues and the costs associated with EPA regulations that we have lost our ability to make much of anything affordably. We have continued increases in EPA vehicle emissions regulations and they are now further tightening the regulation on a naturally occuring element, sulphur. Is this regulation to justify the EPA’s existence and show they are making a difference or is reducing an emission of a naturally occuring element from the periodic chart of elements a way to recieve funding for the coming fiscal year?
I spent some time living in a country that doesn’t have this foolishness and they seem to be doing quite well. The busses puked out a black cloud of smoke sometimes when they started from a stop and refineries there burn off unusable waste products of the oil refinement process and create smoke and smells that while a little unpleasant, represents jobs for the local people. They are one of the wealthiest nations in the world partiality because they don’t have agencies like the EPA wringing their hands as a special interest group worrying about the emission of naturally occurring elements.
Maybe they could make something up about the harmful vehicle emissions of the inert gasses and regulate them. At least on paper it would look like they were doing something and could be funded and keep their jobs.
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