My breakfast today, a small plate of a large cup of small curd
cottage cheese topped with a sliced banana and a bunch of really ripe
strawberries with a few chunks of apple cut up along the sides of the
plate. That's breakfast at 10pm. Now it's out the door to drive the
stinking cab and come home with a net earning of the usual less than
minimum wage.

Simple is good,
TJ

On Apr 20, 8:21*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:11:43 -0700 (PDT), Tommy Joe wrote:
> > * * My breakfast today, a small plate of a large cup of small curd
> > cottage cheese topped with a sliced banana and a bunch of really ripe
> > strawberries with a few chunks of apple cut up along the sides of the
> > plate. *That's breakfast at 10pm. *Now it's out the door to drive the
> > stinking cab and come home with a net earning of the usual less than
> > minimum wage.
>
> I have a friend who drives a cab. *His wife also drives. *They have 3
> kids (expesive girls) and just bought a house.
>
> Maybe you're just not working hard enough.
>
> -sw

Probably more than you...

On Apr 20, 7:11*pm, Tommy Joe > wrote:
> * * My breakfast today, a small plate of a large cup of small curd
> cottage cheese topped with a sliced banana and a bunch of really ripe
> strawberries with a few chunks of apple cut up along the sides of the
> plate. *That's breakfast at 10pm. *Now it's out the door to drive the
> stinking cab and come home with a net earning of the usual less than
> minimum wage.
>
> Simple is good,
> TJ

I feel your pain...

On Apr 20, 11:21*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:

> I have a friend who drives a cab. *His wife also drives. *They have 3
> kids (expesive girls) and just bought a house.
>
> Maybe you're just not working hard enough.



I'm through working hard. I don't work hard, I work good. I do
what is right and I'm proud of it. I pick up a lot of people other
drivers don't want. I don't know you're friend, and I'm not saying
your outlook is wrong - only reminding you that buying things is not
always proof that those doing the buying can actually afford it. I
know guys who work 7 days a week, 12 or more hours a day just to make
ends meet. I'll sleep under a tree before I go through that. I don't
work a lot of hours, but when I work I do a great job and am proud of
the honest way in which I do it. Such can not be said of most cabbies
or most anybody in most any profession.

TJ

On Apr 20, 11:29*pm, Ad > wrote:


> >Maybe you're just not working hard enough.



> Hard enough to do what? Make life complicated?



Beautiful, my sentiments exactly.

TJ

On Apr 20, 11:29*pm, Ad > wrote:


> >Maybe you're just not working hard enough.


> Hard enough to do what? Make life complicated?


My theory is that everyone who works is a slave. Some have loose
chains, some have tight ones. Some have heavy ones, some have light
ones. Some people, maybe most people, when they work hard and make
more money, all they do is buy themselves a more expensive set of
chains.

TJ

On Apr 20, 11:59*pm, merryb > wrote:


> > My breakfast today, a small plate of a large cup of small curd
> > cottage cheese topped with a sliced banana and a bunch of really ripe
> > strawberries with a few chunks of apple cut up along the sides of the
> > plate. *That's breakfast at 10pm. *Now it's out the door to drive the
> > stinking cab and come home with a net earning of the usual less than
> > minimum wage.



> I feel your pain...



I have always openly despised work yet feel that I'm one of the
greatest workers I've ever met. I cherish laziness and never knock it
in anyone except in the workplace. I hate pretend-workers clogging up
the workplace. I do a good job at just about anything I do - which
isn't much - but I openly detest the very concept of jobs and am not
the least ashamed to say it. There is no pain anymore since I
inherited a small sum of cash - small for most, large for me - I will
make it last till the SSI kicks in in September - but I'm also still
driving 2 nights a week. Before I found out about this inheritance I
had gone from making about 300 bucks a week down to 250, then down to
200, then 150, to 100 or less per week. To me it's all about the
ratio of monthly bills of necessity to weekly income. The standard
for years was one weeks wages pays a months rent. I had that for a
while. Then it went down to where I couldn't make the month's
overhead in a whole month. I inherited that cash just in time, and I
didn't even know it was coming or that it even existed. So, stress in
that area has abated, but for a few years there I never went a month -
not one single month - where I did not know until the very end of each
month whether I'd have the rent or not. Hard on the heart. But I eat
good and I walk and I drink once a week because I can't handle more of
it, and maybe that's a good thing too.

Mr Positive,
TJ

On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:00:47 -0700 (PDT), Tommy Joe
> wrote:

>On Apr 20, 11:59*pm, merryb > wrote:
>
>
>> > My breakfast today, a small plate of a large cup of small curd
>> > cottage cheese topped with a sliced banana and a bunch of really ripe
>> > strawberries with a few chunks of apple cut up along the sides of the
>> > plate. *That's breakfast at 10pm. *Now it's out the door to drive the
>> > stinking cab and come home with a net earning of the usual less than
>> > minimum wage.
>
>
>
>> I feel your pain...
>
>
>
> I have always openly despised work yet feel that I'm one of the
>greatest workers I've ever met. I cherish laziness and never knock it
>in anyone except in the workplace. I hate pretend-workers clogging up
>the workplace. I do a good job at just about anything I do - which
>isn't much - but I openly detest the very concept of jobs and am not
>the least ashamed to say it. There is no pain anymore since I
>inherited a small sum of cash - small for most, large for me - I will
>make it last till the SSI kicks in in September - but I'm also still
>driving 2 nights a week. Before I found out about this inheritance I
>had gone from making about 300 bucks a week down to 250, then down to
>200, then 150, to 100 or less per week. To me it's all about the
>ratio of monthly bills of necessity to weekly income. The standard
>for years was one weeks wages pays a months rent. I had that for a
>while. Then it went down to where I couldn't make the month's
>overhead in a whole month. I inherited that cash just in time, and I
>didn't even know it was coming or that it even existed. So, stress in
>that area has abated, but for a few years there I never went a month -
>not one single month - where I did not know until the very end of each
>month whether I'd have the rent or not. Hard on the heart. But I eat
>good and I walk and I drink once a week because I can't handle more of
>it, and maybe that's a good thing too.
>
>Mr Parasite,
>TJ

Ad wrote:

> >> Now it's out the door to drive the stinking cab and come home
> >> with a net earning of the usual less than minimum wage.

> >I have a friend who drives a cab. His wife also drives. They have 3
> >kids (expesive girls) and just bought a house.
> >Maybe you're just not working hard enough.

> Hard enough to do what? Make life complicated?

Don't mind sqwishy. He has to dump on somebody periodically. It's one
of his compulsions.

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> ObFood: Bak kwa is ready to be spread and baked in a very low oven.
> Then grilled (or broiled) later.


There you go with that Vietnam stuff again. ;o

On Apr 21, 11:51*am, Sqwertz > wrote:
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:53:04 -0700 (PDT), Tommy Joe wrote:
On Apr 20, 11:29*pm, Ad > wrote:


> Hard enough to do what? Make life complicated?



> Beautiful, my sentiments exactly.



> Then don't bitch about how little money you make.


The only bitching I see is coming from you. If you had been in
my shoes the past decade you'd either be dead or in jail for flipping
out and killing a bunch of people. I'm proud of how I manage to get
by on less, I'm not complaining (although I have at times done so) -
just explaining.

TJ