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RDCanecutter

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  1. Hope I don't jinx it, but a guy reached out to me that I did more than 200 drawings for in the 90s. Most fun I ever had working on commission. He said they need more, and implied they had more money now. I mean hell I made a decent rate on the old pay scale, but if you felt bad about that, I mean, I don't want you to feel bad.
  2. I didn't know we wuz usin' code hieroglyphs... Basically all my arm woes bored the Oncology Nurse and she told me to hike my weak ass over to some regular doctor. So my wife (PhD Chemistry) hit the Googles and it says the main cure is rest. So I guess when I look at porn I'll become a Leftist.
  3. wut. Oncology nurse was supremely uninterested in my elbow booboo. Something about "wrap it up until the swelling goes down." Compared to some of the truly suffering people I see going in and out of there, I kinda came across like Ben Stiller giving a little cough and thinking he had black lung. Nurse said "Check with your regular doc, maybe your shoulder hurts because of the rotator cuff." Science Wife found a diagnostic checklist for shoulder pain and thinks my Tater cuff is fine, but my biceps tendon is injured. Really only hurts when I'm pushing up the center pole of a tent, or flangin a banana peel out the passenger window. So maybe I need to imitate a sorority girl, and ask some nice boy to do all the heavy work, and drop the banana peel somewhere for the maid to pick up.
  4. A few years back I sat on the front stoop drankin wine, and recording the best price per year of gold and silver since 1973 when Nixon pulled out the chock blocks. I also estimated average price per year. Then I had some more wine and adjusted numbers for inflation. Then I looked at all the numbers. What I saw was that if you bought gold at the average price every year, and sold it at average a year later, you'd hardly make any money. But if you waited 5 years to sell, you'd almost always get a worthwhile profit. (Obviously in RL if you could hold on and avoid a loss you would, but I didn't give my little theoretical guy the option, he had to sell 5-year-old stuff every year. Still did ok overall.) In fact, IIRC, even having the guy buy at the highest price each year, and waiting to sell 5 years later at the average, he turned some profit. I didn't try this with 100 different stocks, so maybe they'd do better, or not. I can only drink so much wine. I have not figured up how the recent crazy run-ups add in, obviously they're good for those who bought in the past. If I eat me a sandwich and go down to the gold shop to get an ounce today, no idea if it'll be worth more in 5 years.
  5. Give copies of the keys to people you know who need shelter. They pay a "convenience fee" to "work" as cleaners, security, whatever inside the buildings for a set period of time each day. Maybe while sleeping. Their performance is assumed to be satisfactory, no reason to follow up and inspect.
  6. 2nd Atlanta Show, mixed success. In a busy park but most people seemed surprised there was an art show there. Made some sales anyway, even had one pair of repeat customers. On home turf (Birmingham) I have lots of repeats. If I can get close to the same in Atlanta, that would be more. Coolest part was having a beverage and watching some football with @baboso The second day I wore a dirty shirt because my clean one mentioned the state of Alabama. I didn't need any jug-eared Dawgs fans coming over my table like Santa Anna's troops at the Alamo. Yeah it woulda been funny, but I was there to get their money.
  7. So less than a month later, my $100 mini-stack of silver is worth about $13 more. I am such a dummy I didn't invest 100 million.
  8. [RDC hisses like a vampire caught in sunlight] I am not here to express myself artistically. I am here to sell the shit out of weird little cartoons.
  9. If you see a Cybertruck parked outside an art show, that art show is gonna suck.
  10. I am scrawny but persistent. I started buying my Art Show gear right after my tumor-plucking in 2018. I was still at about half-strength, knew I'd get stronger but predicted "this is how I'll feel when I'm old-old, so do a favor to the 75-year-old me." Instead of one big-ass heavy table, I bought four little tables. Same with most other components. So no, I probably can't (can't means won't!) do one correct push-up, but my slow-ass can set up and break down mighty art show booths, clangy weights and all. Probably the only healthy thing I do.
  11. I am astounded that I had any respect to lose.
  12. Right. The muscles/shoulder joint kinda come and go in twinginess, either old injuries or new horrors. I was moving heavy junk all weekend and maybe got it inflamed, doesn't feel like I bashed the elbow and forgot. Though as swellings go, it's nothing compared to how my balls swollt up half a year ago Got an oncologist appointment Wednesday. I'll tell her about it and let her worry about what to do. May be some cancer drug side effect. Anyway, the sore shoulder goes back more than a decade, on and off. Maybe I can snag me some physical therapy with She-Wolf Ilsa.
  13. Hold the door for me, @MissingInAction, I woke up today with a swollen elbow.
  14. Tomorrow is the Great Test of whether I rewired the Square Reader correctly. It's the only one that auto-deposits. Others like Venmo let money sit there until I ask for it. Assuming I don't give it away in a scam.
  15. Yep. In Junior High we had a neighbor, Miz R, full on Church of God fundamentalist. In fairness she'd had a childhood that would have chewed up and spit out Grapes of Wrath, and probably all of us as well. She was my Mom's friend when others were back stabbing her, so we sorta set one foot inside that circle, though we didn't actually step all the way inside it. When I played trombone in 7th grade band Miz R contracted me to play blaring horn bursts from hiding in the church balcony when a visiting faith healer got to a dramatic pause. I kinda blarted it but it still woke people up. Later I went up as part of the line getting faith-healed. He was gonna fix it so that I wouldn't need glasses. And he did, when God guided the hands of the engineers building Lazik machines. But yeah, the rapture was real. They were nice ordinary people, it's just how they believed.
  16. You build one fence, they don't call you a fence builder. Drive one truck, still not a truck driver. But you fuck ONE sheep...
  17. When they use AI to copy the real CU workers, in your case the Okie chick, that's when it gets real.
  18. Is it really a Popeyes if the crew doesn't seem like they're from Louisiana?
  19. That's no way to talk about the American public.
  20. It's always some lonely dude in an ordinary house crammed full of junk squirreling away bullion, when he could take a fraction of it and go buy a vacation home on a tropical mountain. Maybe I need to sell some.
  21. At this point I just cackle as it bounces more than double when I got into it and it was "high."
  22. Only if I get to play tambourine and keep half the money.
  23. I dunno. Even as a cynical tween there was a certain wonder to sitting in a ring of folding chairs and watch several women bust loose in outbursts of strange languages. Missed out on snakes though.
  24. [Fingers in ears]NA NA NA NA NA NA That part's not in it that part's not in it NA NA NA NA[/]
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