I’m In The Dog House Again

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Big Time.

No jury of her peers would convict her.

I couldn’t help myself.

I should have known better than to be cruising Craig’s List at 2:00 AM on a Saturday night.

But it was an offer I couldn’t resist.

New they are running anywhere from $2500 to $3500 depending on where you look.

For just the machine.

I got that, with an upgrade to a brand new 12V motor and controller system that is adjustable for speed, a machinist’s vise plus several milling attachments and a couple of add on lights, for $900.

Easily a $1,000 worth of extras.

The thing is in excellent condition too.

The Wifely Unit is furious.

Mainly because I sprang it on her at the last minute but just for General Purposes because I am spending money too.

It took quite a while and the help of a good friend to get it out of the back of the truck, onto a big metal work table and then back into the garage but it’s in there just waiting.

It has the R8 collet system and I even have a set of those out there already.

The guy was an engineer apparently and had passed away, his nephew is a lawyer and came up from Oakland CA to clean up his estate and said flat out that he knew it was probably worth a lot more than what he was asking for it but he had no use for it and it needed to go away.

So now it’s out in my garage and I can’t hardly get to it to use it.

I gotta get rid of some stuff man.

By their example, how elites see us.

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“They should be, he thought. The unknown was not nearly as terrifying as the known. And he understood quite clearly that these people were well aware was about to happen to them. And they also knew that no one else cared.

They were not rich.

They were not powerful.

They were truly the forgotten.

And their numbers were growing exponentially as the world was settling swiftly into a permanent state of the rich and thus powerful and then everyone else. And what the rich and powerful wanted, they usually got it.”

“What most people didn’t understand was that it was the risk-takers who made America great. It was said the rich had captured nearly all the wealth and all of the income generated over the last decade or so. Well Lampert thought, they should. it was right and just. The only thing wrong with income inequality was that it wasn’t equal enough

The 99.9 percenters were sheep and stuck right where they should be. They were the players to be named later. There were billions and billions of them and they looked exactly the same. The 0.1 percenters deserved everything because they were the elites. They were special. They moved the world to new heights.”

David Baldacci, author, The Forgotten