I got my W-2’s back today so we can file our taxes and maybe get enough back for a can of beans.

If, we are lucky.

I think we got a whopping $40 back last year.

The Wifely Unit also discovered that she makes more than I do per hour but she doesn’t get half the hours I do because she gets paid by the state to take care of our oldest boy and they have a very funky way of allowing hours worked to be claimed.

She is also taking care of her Father all week but that is a family matter.

I also see I didn’t make nearly as much this last year as I have in the past even though I am making more per hour because they don’t want me working any overtime, compared to Assholes Incorporated, where I made almost half of my wages off of it.

Hey, as long as we are getting by without me having to kill myself anymore I’m very good with that.

All that being said, I’m not sure we even qualify as Middle Class anymore.

Maybe, MAYBE, at the very bottom end.

The thing is, Thank God, we are both pretty simple people with simple needs.

I spend way more on crap than she does.

But, neither one of us has a car payment and because both of us are Geezers now with clean driving records, we aren’t paying out the nose for car insurance either.

We paid cash for both of our vehicles. Hers is 19 years old and mine is now 34 years old.

We don’t need or want fancy stuff and she is basically a Minimalist.

I am obviously quite the opposite with a mild case of Hoarder but even at that I’m pretty much done collecting crap.

Compare and contrast us with the typical Keep Up With The Jones’s types we all see everywhere, who are eyeball deep in debt, living check to check yet still can’t quite grok that having all the newest and bestest of everything isn’t impressing anyone anymore.

All it’s doing is dragging them down.

I about fell over when I saw that people are paying $700 a month for CAR PAYMENTS!!

That is freaking insanity in my book, I don’t care how much money you make.

Then we have the working poor as they are called. These are the people I am worried about.

I have no idea how they are going to make it through to the end of this world wide economic collapse.

Because that’s where we all are headed right now, all of us.

It doesn’t matter what country you live in on this spinning marble, the whole planet is right in the middle of an economic collapse yet no one seems to be able to see it happening.

Some countries are in way, way worse shape than we are already but this thing is just getting warmed up.

The best part is that every bit misery here now and yet to come has been planned out for years in advance.

I just don’t see how a few billion people are going to fare here in the very near future.

Our standard of living is being deliberately degraded in a very serious way.

So what are your thoughts?

Any advice, strategies or cheat codes?

As in just on the other side of the back fence, behind a big Arbor Vitae.

Just as I was pulling up in front of the house after work I see a neighbor giving me the high sign so I got out to see what he wanted.

He asked me if I knew about the one person homeless camp next to the fence behind some shrubbery on the street side of the back yard.

I said I saw a big cardboard box someone had stuffed back there a while ago but I had been too lazy to retrieve it and cut it up.

He said oh no, there is more than that back there.

So we went and took a look. Bigger than shit, there were SEVERAL card board boxes back in there and a bunch of garbage. It was pretty obvious someone had been camped out there at least one night, probably more than that, I had just been driving right by without looking,

So I went and backed the truck up, and we started pulling boxes out. There wasn’t anybody in there thankfully and there won’t be anytime soon either now.

You know things are getting bad when you have a homeless camp beside your fence out here in Suburbia.

Especially when the nearest store or any other kind of business is at least a mile away.

Even stranger, The Wifely Unit started scolding me for tearing down someone’s sleeping space!

WTF?

Excuse me?!

Sorry for your luck whoever ya are but you need to get on down the road.

NIMBY?

Fuck yes NIMBY.

Especially when it is literally in my back yard.

The city has little “Comfort Stations”, little heated individual shelters set up just for the homeless, that seem to be all over the place anymore.

Go find one and get out of the weather.

Especially since it’s supposed to go below freezing for a few days and nights starting tomorrow.

The City has been playing Whack A Mole with these people for years now. They set up camp on someone’s property, they get chased off and they move down the road a mile and start over.

So they built a whole bunch of these little shelters for them.

There just seems to be more and more homeless people.

Hey, I’ve been there.

I have lived in my car, couch surfed and did what I had to do.

It’s not that I have any burning animosity.

It just puzzles me why here when it’s so far from anything.

What confounds me is why they hang around this cold, wet miserable town in the first place if they don’t have anything holding them back.

Follow the birds man, head South for the Winter.

I hear Southern California is real nice this time of year and Gavin Newsome just loves new voters.

I’m sure he’ll take real good care of ya.

Weird.

I just came inside from my morning ritual of coffee and a smoke. There is a lawn chair sitting out front The Wifely Unit put there for the purpose and as I was getting through checking my email and putting out my smoke I noticed that it was so quiet that the only things I could hear was the tinnitus screaming in my left ear and some kind of small transformer humming somewhere in the house nearby.

I had to strain to hear the traffic on the freeway a couple of miles away.

Other than that, dead quiet.

That just doesn’t happen here in the Burbs, there is almost always traffic noise at the very least.

It makes me miss living out in the pucker brush something fierce.

I may have mentioned once or twice that I really hate living in the city.

That is one reason why.

I’m thinking clapped out 87 Camaro is right out by the time he gets old enough to drive.

UPDATE;

So far the voting looks a lot like this,

UPDATE: This is what he is driving…

Trump, Biden, Pence, let’s not forget Hillary had an entire computer full of Top Secret shit at home that she skated on.

Yeah, I’m calling Bullshit, again.

This smacks of the Deep State trying to cover their asses that are hanging out, also, again.

Everybody does it, it’s only bad when Orange Man does it and so far, it looks like they got Bupkiss on him after raiding his house and taking a lengthy detour through Melania’s underwear drawer.

If they had found anything of substance they would have already have had him clapped in irons and paraded him him up and down the street in front of the Whitehouse just for the photo op.

There is a BIG difference between Trump and Biden as we are all well aware of.

Biden is fucking stupid for one thing.

Not something I would say about Trump.

Biden also has shit to hide.

Lots of it.

His kid Hunter is a dirty slime ball and it looks like Hunter may have had his filthy mitts on some of those classified documents also. Either he had them or someone told him what was in some of them, to the point they pounded it so far into his thick skull that he could recite them in a very precise 20 point Email to one of his co-conspirators.

It appears to me, in my opinion anyway, that the noose is tightening around both FJB and Hunter’s necks and the MSM is doing the Deep State’s bidding by trying to deflect attention to these things.

Meanwhile the Deep State is doing a balancing act with all of this by trying to get rid of Biden without anyone looking too deep into this very fucking serious breach of security.

Truly, this is how stupid they think we are.

Tsk, Tsk, they don’t know us as well as they think they do.

Just because the Justice Department is compromised to their eyeballs does not mean that there aren’t people out there scrutinizing all of this down to a molecular level.

Apparently they learned nothing from the Watergate episode.

The cover up is always worse than the crime.

Before this is all said and done, I fully expect dozens, if not hundreds, of dirty thieving and conniving assholes to have their dirty laundry hung out on Main Street at Noon for everyone to see.

Eventually this whole Ukrainian Money Laundering Scheme is going to get a huge dose of sunlight for everyone to see.

That is exactly where all of this is going to lead.

So far they have managed to let every crooked sonofabitch get off the hook without severe repercussions. Hillary being a prime example of that.

The Uranium One scandal also got buried and there are DOZENS of high ranking politicians and even Law Enforcement individuals like Mueller involved in that treason.

Eventually they won’t be able to bury things or misdirect enough people’s attention, when the Justice Department themselves finally get implicated.

At that point the call for heads to roll will not be drowned out.

I’m thinking stitches.

Why yes, yes I do.

A Lot.

Probably too much but I get that from my dear departed saint of a Grandmother.

She was a pro at it.

It’s not like there isn’t anything to worry about, as a matter of fact, there is so much to worry about that I worry that I am missing something to worry about.

The way I see it, if you aren’t worried about something lately, you absolutely deserve what you get when the hammer falls.

And it’s going to fall, trust me on that.

I worry so much about things that I aggravate the piss out of The Wifely Unit.

It’s not that I derive pleasure from it, far from that.

I am the literal definition of The Guy That Just Wanted To Be Left Alone.

The problem here, is that there seems to be a bunch of sociopathic megalomaniacs in places that I will never see, who think they are better than everyone else and that think they should be telling everyone else how they should live.

And die.

Mainly that.

They just want 90% of us to die and leave them to create some unattainable utopia where their every whim is immediately fulfilled by ignorant and easily manipulated brown skinned worker bees who barely manage to keep from starving to death themselves.

I have a problem with that.

Anyone else paying attention to current and likely coming events should have too as it directly affects them.

The political and socio-economic shenanigans I have seen taking place lately tell me that there are some serious moves and realignments coming in the very near future and none of them have my best interests at heart.

Right?

None of which are happening randomly.

Living expenses are going through the roof, intentionally created supply chain problems are exacerbating that and those two things alone are enough to cause me to worry about things.

Then we have the Eat Ze Bugs assholes pulling strings and generally making a nuisance of themselves along with the Meat Puppets they control who are doing their damndest to make life as miserable as they can by choking off our abilities to work, travel, socialize, cook, eat and heat the modest living quarters we are still just barely able to afford.

All the while stealing us blind, economically enslaving our great, great grandchildren and enriching themselves with graft and money laundering schemes to make themselves so obscenely rich off our backs as to be unimaginable.

So yeah, I worry about these things.

To tell you the truth, I have had a sense of foreboding in the pit of my stomach for the last few weeks that I can’t ever recall it being so over powering like it is.

It can’t just be me either.

Sure I worry but this is next level dread.

Of course there isn’t a damn thing I can do to stop what’s coming, the die has been cast and the results of events already in motion will be what they will be but this sense of the need of an uprising by restless natives will not shake.

My fear is that it is already too late.

The amount of Died Suddenly I am seeing lately is unprecedented and it is only going to get worse.

It appears to me that The Sheeple inhabiting this world have indeed been dumbed down so far as to literally mimic their name sakes and they are unable to see they have been lined up in the pens leading to the slaughter house.

Like everyone who comes here, I am desperately trying to avoid being collateral damage.

They are making absolutely sure Biden gets gone.

Still no FBI raids and you can guarantee ain’t nobody getting within fifteen feet of Jill Biden’s underwear drawer though.

DOJ seizes more classified docs from Biden’s Wilmington home after 12-hour search

The Justice Department seized additional classified records from President Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home during a search it conducted on Friday, Fox News has learned.

The Justice Department conducted a search of the house beginning Friday morning at 9:45 a.m., which concluded Friday night around 10:30 p.m. and covered “all working, living and storage spaces in the home,” Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer said Saturday evening.

They are lying, Jill’s underwear drawer remains sealed for National Security reasons.

As is customary, I was watching a Youtube of one of my favorite Home Machinist type guys, Steve Summers, and he showed this smoking deal on one of these,

TWENTY THREE DOLLARS!

You can see him demonstrate how handy they are starting at 28:15 into this video.

I have used these before, they used them at Assholes Incorporated where I used to work to weld the tips of Thermocouple wire sets together.

Platinum wire and Platinum and Rhodium wire, welded together at the tips to make custom length Thermocouples.

Expensive stuff that Platinum, a couple years ago it was $1500 an ounce.

Anyway, these little sets can be super handy for brazing carbide tips onto cutter tools, gas welding sheet metal, Silver Soldering, pin point heating of small parts and of course, jewelry making if you are into that.

For $25 and change with tax I already have one coming.

You can buy them cheap to use with MAPP gas and small Oxygen bottle sets too.

Amazon has the whole kit on sale for $58 plus tax.

I had no idea these kits could be had for so cheap.

I have heard that you may run into problems with the fittings so Buyer Beware, you may have to cut them off, buy different fittings and crimp them on but for twenty five bucks I’m rolling the dice.

I bought a little Acetylene cutting torch set off of my Dad before he died for $150 and I’m hoping these will fit that.

If not, I also have that small set up above for $58 that I bought from Sears a couple decades ago so I do have the small MAPP and Oxygen bottles around here somewhere too.

It is just a Brazing kit that works good but Acetylene gets a Hell of a lot hotter than MAPP gas and I can see this little Jewelers set being real damn handy for certain things.

You know me, the TOOL JUNKIE FROM HELL, it came naturally and I figure there are a whole bunch of you out there just like me when it comes to tools so I thought I would pass this deal on.

The Wifely Unit gets upset with me every weekend because she thinks I get up too early and make too much noise.

I try to be somewhat quiet but the bedroom shares a wall with the kitchen and she has the bed crammed right up against that wall so even Nuking a cup of coffee sounds like the microwave is right behind your head.

Which it is, basically.

She can’t seem to understand that when a guy gets up at 5 in the morning all week that getting up at 6 IS sleeping in.

Sorry dear but my bladder over rides your peaceful slumber every time.

I wake up because I gotta piss and once I’m vertical it’s a done deal.

Of course The Murder Princess is up and whining the minute my feet hit the floor so I gotta feed that critter as soon as I can get back to the kitchen after I get out of the bathroom.

You could set a nuclear clock by that cat’s stomach and I’m not joking, it’s unnatural.

I swear she lays awake waiting for my breathing rythmn to change so she can start sniveling.

After that I usually make a new pot of coffee and then I grab my coffee and smokes and head out the front door.

It’s been cold enough to freeze in the mornings lately so there ain’t no dilly dallying around with that.

Done and into the recliner to start catching up on everything.

At that point, if she got woke up, she usually either goes back to sleep or else lays in bed watching who knows what on her little Tablet thingy.

Either way, she doesn’t get up and start moving until 9.

That gives me about 2, maybe 2 1/2 hours of peace and quiet.

I can’t articulate how much I enjoy that little bit of peace.

The entire world can fuck straight off for just that little while.

These people are insane.

16 year old posts.

Seriously?

Like anyone is going to be digging through a basically defunct blog and reading shit from 2007?

Oh yes, they are quite serious.

My phone started blowing up while I was at work today with Email notices.

I was like, WTF?

When I open it up there are TEN notices from Blogger that they have hidden some old posts from my old blog Ornery Bastard, behind their infamous “Sensitive Content Warning” page because all of a sudden these ancient screeds of mine have come under scrutiny and someone got a truck full of sand in their vagina over them.

After clicking through and reading one of the old posts at random, the very first thing I noticed is just how much I have mellowed over the years.

You think I have a dirty mouth now?

Go take a look at the stuff I used to crank out when I was still drinking.

Another thing that I noticed?

It’s still quite relevant, all these years later.

No wonder some Libtard wet their pants.

Yes Moonbeam, I used to call ’em like I saw ’em.

The last thing I noticed is that I used to be just a bit more eloquent, when I wasn’t cursing.

When I put the cap on the bottle I trapped my muse inside apparently.

Ah well, it’s far better no matter what that I no longer drink. Even though I do have to admit I had a lot of fun getting likkered up and letting it fly back in the day.

This just goes to show that I do sometimes outsmart myself.

Like the time I said Fuck Google and bailed out of their Blogger platform.

They were disappearing blogs entirely when I bailed and as I can plainly see, they are still rooting out Bad Think, no matter how old it is.

You can also bet if they are still after me, they are after other Bloggers who have or had their stuff on Blogger.

In the mean time,

Ya bunch of miserable, pathetic, cunts anyway.

Your time is coming.

Gaetz introduces ‘Abolish the ATF Act’ after ruling against stabilizing braces.

You can be assured that this is wishful thinking.

There is way too much money and power involved here for the Deep State to allow that to happen.

Besides that, The Liberals also have entire industries devoted to making and laundering money trying to disarm us anyway.