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You’ve Got To Have Faith! — Riding the catastrophic wave of change part V

So we’ve been talking about how everything is broken. Yes, I know I haven’t gone into everything, but that’s easily explainable: first, I don’t have the rest of my life to do this series of articles; second, I don’t have visibility into a lot of areas (while I have visibility into a lot of them because I have a wide circle, and I like listening to people talking about what they do.)

Now, to a certain extent everything has always been broken. I mean, we’re humans. Humans are…. not perfect....

Romance Is In The Air by Dan Hoyt

*Yes, I will continue my series. Tomorrow. But when Dan handed me this (right after I posted yesterday, of course) I realized I’d have to run it.- SAH*

Romance Is In The Air by Dan Hoyt

Amazon Unlimited has me figured out. Yesterday I got an email notification of my 2022 progress:

51 Books1963 Hours35,682 Pages18 AuthorsTop Genre: Romance

Most people who know me well aren’t surprised by that last bullet point. After the Sad Puppy kickers completely twisted the mo...

Ladders, Ramps and Holes – Riding the Catastrophic Change Wave, part IV

I come not to complain about employment problems, but to try to figure out why “everything is broken.”

Most of us worked sh*tty jobs coming out of college, or while in college, or just starting out if we didn’t go to college. This is part of the American work experience. It’s like living in the stupidly cr*ppy student apartments or starting homes. (I actually lucked out on those, which I suspect is compensated for by older son’s first apartment, where what should be a corner cabinet in t...

So It’s Off To Work — Riding the catastrophic Change Wave Part III

In case you thought that my rant at the educational system was the worst you’d see about what faces the new generations — and frankly has been going on since I was a young kid, but it’s worsened significantly — you were kind of wrong.

The working situation is completely broken as well. Not just for kids, but for them it must seem bizarre.

Recently at one of my groups, someone asked if anyone had ever had a job where they weren’t either cheated on money or time…. The silence was deafen...

The After Christmas Book Promo and Vignettes by by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Here at According To Hoyt we like to Book Promo All The Time. We’re savage that way. I just had to wake the internet hamsters because they got a wee bit soused on port wine last night. They’re bad like that.

Book promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you’re me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per week. Amazon links only....

Merry Christmas and a Free Gift

Click here or on the image below to download a (mostly) cleaned up collection of this year’s Christmas stories.

The Christmas Cat

It was Chrismas eve, and he was alone.

This wasn’t necessarily unexpected. He and Ellie knew, when they’d taken the prospecting job — fly a two-person spaceship out through several jumps to unknown worlds and asteroids, and run analysis from orbit to mark those those that might be interesting to mine — that it would be a lonely job.

But it hadn’t mattered. Not really. They’d been married 10 years and all the very advanced science had confirmed they were thoroughly and completely infer...

Kids These Days – Riding the Catastrophic Change Wave, Part II

“We had a great civilization going, and we’d have made it, if only it weren’t for those darn kids.” Or perhaps you prefer “we are in a time of declining decliney decline, and nothing can save us from declining till we crash.” Or perhaps “Kids these days don’t want to work. In my day–“

I hope you’re happy repeating USSR agit prop, because that’s what all of those were at their origin. To be fair they fit in very well with the idea of the heroic parents who walked uphill both ways to scho...

Everything Is Broken Riding the Catastrophic Change Wave, Part I

Everything Is Broken – Riding the Catastrophic Change Wave, Part I

This is going to one of those posts that’s Multi- Part because it’s actually impossible to even delineate everything that is wrong with our economy and cultural situation in one post, without defaulting to simple answers.

In our situation, simple answers are mostly stupid. At best they explain a percentage of what’s wrong, but very often they don’t even explain that.

In my defense, this started with something that co...

On Christmas Day In The Morning

There are situations in space that have to be dealt with or will degenerate.

One of those is when you’re headed into three successive jumps and a trip into new territory to establish new trading outposts with colonies, some just rediscovered after thousands of years on their own, and your first mate develops a case of not talking to you except in officielise as though he swallowed all the Rules and Regulations of a Space Bound Vessel, published at the turn of the twenty second century...