Writing's Back on the Menu

Added a search bar up top. Not sure I'll keep it, so send an email/comment if it makes the site better. I kinda like the idea of keeping the older posts at the bottom of the heap where only some intrepid sleuth will find it. Your thoughts?
Over at Patreon I've penned my first short in about a month. Go check it out. Actually used the iPad penthat turns hand writing into text. Not as great as using a normal pen, but it does make the transfer of writing to digital text a lot easier. 
This story was inspired by memories of a book my grandpa brought to me from the USSR. Malachite Casket, is a brilliant set of stories. My mom had found it and I was immediately hit with a whole bunch of memories. I loved this book as a kid, even if it was dark af. I'm assuming my memories aren't lying to me. Still, check it out if you can.
Now for the annals of the past is never past, here's a link showing that pollution levels from the Victorian era that forced the poor to the east side of things, are still with us today. Some links in the comments showing this happens in more places than just the UK.  [image error]
Also, here's an example of the lady doth protest too much. I went to an Ivy. Really good times and I learned a lot. And plenty of smart people there, but what does that mean? Seriously? This is in a society that truly values "it's not what you know, it's who you know." We've already heard about people bribing their way in. And that actually might be a legit part of any college's admittance system given that we live in an age of grift. IOW get the rich kids to mingle with some super smart kids and you have better numbers in terms of outcomes and being able to fund good ideas. 
That's assuming the "bestselling ideas" like FB etc are good for society or anyone in general. I'd like to see that score. Which colleges don't have the highest paid students after the fact, but which ones have done the most for humanity. Sure throw in Nobels, but use other measurements. Who started BLM? etc etc etc. Not who can grift best in a grifters paradise that follows the "after us the floods" ethos. 
Then the job market. If you see this volatility and think it means something, you need a break. But twitterers gonna twitter. 
Though, tbf, real economists are saying wait and see, it's too crazy right now. That includes the lumber price spike. 
Oh and more on aerosols being the main thing for Covid, so closing playgrounds increases the spread. 
Oh, and by grifting, I mean this. Where the person who's picked clean like a carcass by a vulture, the creator, doesn't get squat but going in and out of homelessness. So it goes. 



That's it for now. Remember the rocket and to be safe from it!

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