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Small Business Saturdays<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh my. I need to find something. Do the taxi rides I plan to take this evening count?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SBA links the AMEX site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did order food last night, though it wasn’t on my AMEX. \\^\/hatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I kinda go out of my way to shop with small, especially local, merchants as much as I can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can recall early in my time working where things like computers would be purchased from a local shop for what seemed like an unreasonable price. In retrospect, the markup really wasn’t that much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it kept other people working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sort of goes with where I am with travel now, too. I could save a few bucks here and there, or I could be taken care of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think the bigger part of that, though, is that I was broke back then. There were many instances where I did things the hard way, because that’s all I could afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kind of getting distracted by what I’ve got on in the background<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m reminded of Trump talking about dealing with labor unions. You want something don, you go talk to this guy, and it’ll get taken care of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of my company’s annual training involved grease payments. It’s generally okay to bribe people<\/s>pay extra to expedite things that would normally occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned the taxi rides tonight. Full review of what I did is coming later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OH!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fits with some of the refreshers on mid-90s Feminism in preparation for… Almost forgot. During the Dolphins-Jets game yesterday. Space Cowboy Jeff’s TV series called something along the lines of Small Duck. (Yes, I did make an effort to STFW and find it…and couldn’t this morning. Don’t care enough to look further.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been a dude for a long time. But I can’t think of a single dude with whom I’ve compared the size of my junk. Certainly there were dudes with whom I am acquainted that there’d be giggling among the women about physical size. Then there are stories like Milton Berle<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a very young age, it became just one of those things. I’ve got a schqantz. You’ve got one, too. Whatever. I’ve never considered, much less been jealous of, another guy’s equipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would say that it’s just another example of me being weird, but I really don’t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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