I get no bump
from cocaine.
Mere alcohol
It doesn’t … thrill me at all.
So tell me why should it be true?
That I get a kick
–A fantabulous kick
Yeah I get a kick, Outta You.
Cole Porter, 1934, with … adjustments
***
The deepening problematic aspects of Civilized life are hardly limited to BS like an enforced obligation or civic duty to jump when they say jump, as with jury duty.
You have to make time somehow to do too many things. Not just what they say you Gotta. But the good things, for yourself. Cook. Eat. Warsh up. Take that walk and make it a mile if you can’t swing five today.
I have no clue how I even managed to do even as right by myself as I did all those years, when they said you Gotta Work, son, and like a dipshit, I believed them.
But today, I did okay. I walked to the grocery store at least. Credit my account with 1.2 miles.
When I got there and Gathered my grub, they had two checkout lines open and like five, six people ahead of me in each. This just started happening. Management cut cashier hours, took down the signs that used to say “Three’s A Crowd!”, and the results routinely look like Beirut, or god help us Mobile.
Plan B. I wandered up to the service desk even though there was no one there and starting unloading my handbasket at that register. Twenty seconds later, the lady’s head popped out from behind the security door and she said, “Hey honey I’m counting out my drawer, kin you wait?”. I gestured at the hordes of shoppers and said, “Sure. I’d rather wait here. It’ll still be quicker.”
It was only two minutes, and while I was standing there I noticed that they were selling my organic American Spirits now, and that they were a bit cheaper than the convenience stores. I commenced to cogitate.
This is a bigger deal to me than you might think. Theoretically, it means that I have no reason to ever walk back into the hell of that Speedway gas station. And, it means that the only place I really ever have to go, in an average week or month, is that grocery store. I mean, there’s the dentist and the PA once in a while. But that’s not everyday. And there’s places like Jake’s Steakhouse, but that’s optional, and quite rare given the downsides of eating-out.
So the groceries flow in, sometimes from a Natural Grocers if I’m near one anyway. From off the Azure Standard truck during their once-a-month delivery. And from the walk every couple of days to the grocery store to keep fresh and not overripe avocados and the like.
And anyplace else is optional and can be for only good reasons, personal … fulfillment, maybe.
I’m a rich man.
***
Given all that, where do I actually want to go, for that fulfillment or whatever?
Well, not Corsica nor even Lascaux.
I want to go to Community, wherever that is.
Getting A Kick Out Of You: First Tentative Halting Testing Steps
https://www.vairtere.com/spill/community/main-forum/
I’ve actually installed two forums and a chat as WordPress plugins around here. Just for play and testing … I’m pretty sure the real deal will end up on its own installation, possibly under a different domain name.