Looking through my Drafts folder, I’m seeing the one I wanted to write about yesterday, but couldn’t find.
It has some bits that are relevant. I should finish it. But not today.
How current are you on pop culture? (Memes, creepypasta, etc)
I am totally up with all of this. Or not at all.
Part of me says that’s okay. I’m old. I’m not supposed to know what the kids are doing when I don’t live with any of ’em.
I do wish they’d learn some of the things that were common when I was young, but whatever.
Microsoft Word is getting really picky lately about me putting two spaces after colons and semicolons.
This is what you learn when you learn how to type on an IBM Selectric II.
When I could see well enough to drive, on the rare occasions I drove a vehicle with an automatic transmission, I’d naturally reach for the clutch with my last foot towards the end of braking.
My wife never did learn how to drive either of my vehicles with a manual transmission. She is beginning to love my cast iron cookware, finally.
News. This is something that isn’t showing up where i normally look for news.
But, with the incoming Administration, there’s something that’s been bubbling among the hipster progressive crowd — Student Loan Forgiveness.
I was opposed to it on its original mention. I worked during college, and took care of many of my expenses. There was no room and board for me. I didn’t want to take a bunch of my parents’ money when I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with my life.
Although it’d have been long-since paid, now, they would have definitely fallen into one of the two two quartiles mentioned here.
I can see how this would be attractive to a rich Native Americanwhite Ivy League professor.
But to someone who got into a state school, and comes out with tens of thousands per year less earnings, it’s a really bad deal.
But it might suit their suburban moms.
If you forgive the debt, any part of it, that has to be counted as taxable income, at least.
But this is a problem that’s only exacerbated by government. Government has only made it less affordable. Virginia’s senior senator, Senator Nextel, was complaining on Twitter earlier today that the outgoing Administration is going to stop spending money that doesn’t exist.
I’m having trouble being too broken up about that. Let people live their lives, and they will find a way to care for themselves.