Notes for a future post

One day after I found out that I will be losing my job in six months, I also found out I've been elected to public office.

We are all bound by webs of obligation. Some of us more so that others. Some people find it easy to walk away from everything and follow their own path. For others, such a thing would be unconscionable.

My life might be much easier if I could simply pick up and move on to someplace else, someplace where there are jobs that fit my skills and aptitudes. Somewhere with more possibilities for relationships. Lots of people do just that, and think themselves more free than the people who are bound by ties of family, or home ownership, or jobs - the serfs. But are these peripatetics any more free? Or they just slaves who cannot see their own chains?

Another post not written

It's getting harder and harder to do posts on work days, when I want to be in bed by 9:30 AM so I can squeeze in four and a half semi-solid hours of sleep before the alarm goes off at 2:00. I planned to write "The theory of the Homonculus"* today, to help lay the foundation for some future posts, but I'm almost out of time. So you'll just have to wonder what the hell I'm talking about for a while more.

There was something else I was going to mention here, but I have forgotten what I wanted to say. Time to sleep.

(One other thing: I am going to start experimenting with manually reposting blog entries to my Facebook page, rather than having them automatically imported as notes. We'll see how that works out.)



*Not to be confused with the "Homunculus argument." By the way, I prefer the spelling that uses an "o", though it's valid either way.

Another note to myself

Just so I don't forget this brilliant piece of brilliance by the time I have time to actually write a full post...

Two words:

Gun Tourism.

Carry on.

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