Loading ...I have not been around lately because shortly after my “Buffalo Shine” post, something changed at the Oasis server… I suspect some “new & improved” spam repellant. I am unable to make a connection to the goldtentoasis.com server using the TOR network anonymously. Mostly it just times out with no connection. On the rare occasion that it DOES connect, when I try to log in it again times out after I put in my handle & password. So I am effectively frozen out of using the site anonymously. Maybe the Admins can find a cure for this… maybe not. But I will not be regularly posting from a revealing IP address.
Today is an exception, and I will confess I am in Hawaii looking to buy a retirement home… and camping on a neighbor’s WiFi temporarily to make this connection… so the NSA will still find a dead-end to find me. I’m already gone. 🙂
Lots has happened recently. New owners bought my employment place, and announced plans to install MORE automation and cut 15-18 workers. I always figured my job was safe because I am the maintenance guy who installs and maintains the equipment. But the new owners, in their infinite “Business Model” management wisdom, decided to pare the department down to ONE maintenance man. Guess who was second in the seniority line? Me! My job slot was cut, and I was downsized. Helluva present for my 63rd birthday! So I got a few months of severance pay and unemployment benefits for a few months while I try to find some gainful employment.
I decided it was time to cash in some pet rocks and buy a cheap home down by the volcano to retire into. I had hoped to work to age 70 to maximize my social security payments, but now I find myself faced with ‘forced early retirement’ and that prospect sucks! You may yet see me greeting you at the door at Walmart! But I am determined to find a cheap house here to pay off and retire poor with no mortgage payment. And no winter heating bills. Change is the only constant… and just when you think you have your life-plan all mapped out… somebody comes along with a hammer…
Still climbing a mountain, in the cold winter and twilight of my life…
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—Maya