Money's Too Tight to Mention I always seem to be working like a mad thing but falling significantly short. I need to catch a break, but it never seems to come. I honestly don't know what to do. It seems like the only thing I can do is work harder for longer, but that's not going to be enough (even if I put up my asking price/charges yet again). To add yet more insult to many existing injuries, my parents' business has failed, they're ~$2 670 in debt and have nobody to turn…
Bored and Privileged White Housewife Post #3: Meet a Dunning-Kruger Dominant Meet a Dunning-Kruger Dom. He's been practicing BDSM for fifty (50) years even though he's only thirty-one (31) years old. He writes books on kink, so he doesn't need all those stupid virtual workshops the next generation (TNG) are attending these days. His last (and only) book was titled How to Use Your Mega-Hypnotic Gaze to Emphasise Your Dominationalism Like Christian Grey. Dunning-Kruger Dom is…
How do you live on $26.50 a month (>$1 a day)? "I spent $3.30 to get here and I'll spend another $3.30 to go home." This article originally appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Sun on 2022-02-18. It caught my attention since, for a time, I was living off that amount and spending $3.30 to get to work and back. I have changed the figures to dollar amounts in order to make it easier for a wider audience to comprehend the amounts. If you've never lived on a diet consisting mainly of…
Opinion Poll: Do beards make men look evil? "Kneel before Zod!" Recently, on one of the few antisocial media sites I still frequent despite my best efforts to avoid them, someone in my extended circle issued a fun challenge: Put a picture of yourself through a "cartoonify" algorithm/filter and post it. Indeed, I did just that and was quite pleased with the result. However, one of my followers commented on it, stating that the fact that the process added more facial hair to…
What has Happened to Our Bananas? This piece originally appeared in the "Letters to the Editor" portion of my local newspaper. It caught my attention since I am a fan of bananas and have recently been collecting Banano (BAN) from both faucets and Jungle TV. The writer's "plight", about which he complains, did amuse me somewhat, but it is actually no laughing matter, on closer inspection. Personally, I have no issue with the dimensions or quality of this particular fruit,…
Apparently, "We All Hate Putin" is the Extent of the Average American's Grasp of the Ukraine Crisis "At least we all hate Putin, right? Surely we can all agree on that?" I think "we all hate Putin" is an extreme oversimplification of approximately fifty years of historical political tension and mistrust, to the point of uselessness and playground-level name-calling. Democracy is not something that Russia or the USSR ever had and lost; they simply never had it. If what…
I loved you like a man loves a woman he's never met. Maybe it's stupid to think I can love someone I've never met in the flesh, with whom I've only had online exchanges, in forums and private messages. At any rate, I'm infatuated with a gorgeous, raven-haired and forthright wild beauty who scares me just a little bit. I'm fairly certain she knows I want her quite badly (because I'm as subtle as a steam-roller). I'm sensible enough to know that, at this stage of my life, I…
If clients don't pay me, I have no money with which to pay my bills or rent and buy food. If I don't pay rent, I have no place to stay. If I have no food, I have no energy and therefore can't work at maximum efficiency/effectiveness. Surely, this is not a difficult concept to grasp, right? Yet, I keep having to explain this to my customers. This is why I insist on a deposit up front. I'm tired of getting burned by bad debtors. No dinero, no trabajo!
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