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86129squids
| | Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 03:08 am: | 
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Bump. Dammit.
FB, I'm guessing a great reference to Gran Torino. Wish I had nice Korean women bringing me food...
Been enjoying home cookin more than evar. Hope to get some campside cookin done at BTF3- that's gonna barely fit the budget. If I can swing the $$$ for a motor swap in the Buell. After I get the Shovel out of the shop. And hopefully sell the R65.
Thank God football season is upon us- in the restaurant biz that always helps. Gotta get out of these summer doldrums. GOTTA GET A BIKE TO RIDE.
Dammit. |
Alchemy
| | Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 07:01 am: |
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I am looking to go back into agriculture in a small way. Enough to have something to work on and a product people like.
It will take a couple years to scale up but it should be enough (once my heavy learning curve is over<g> to provide some income that I have at least some direct control over.
Where I work today they are dismantling the office around me. They have tried to sell desks and work stations but now they are free for the taking. Companies still operating in our complex come wandering through looking over the bones.
Some good number of our folks moved to another affiliate company a few miles away but now that company is also looking rocky. We think our facility will be closed probably by the end of Sept. People are cranky and resentful.
There is a new startup opening across from our building and they will probably take some employees.
I think there is a very poor future in going the Ayn Rand route beyond a very few talented individuals. The future will likely be mostly a mix. A mix of individual independent work but also connected to community/cooperative type buying and selling arrangements.
The socialism concerns are hogwash IMO but some portions of our world will be cooperative with some Gov't component. We need to think of our local and regional interests. Nationalism as a political force is in the decline. Get with your neighbors and regional interests and find out what your community needs and then find a way to deliver and charge for it and have a lot of fun and community.
The future for the Urban centers, well not so great but not going away. Find a way to live rationally, locally and sustainably. Lots of work to be done and lots of opportunity but we have to find different ways to get there from here.
Looking at what is going on in the agricultural field is a bit scary I must say. It is going to take years to figure this stuff out. |
Dynasport
| | Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 12:58 pm: |
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It will take a couple years to scale up but it should be enough (once my heavy learning curve is over<g> to provide some income that I have at least some direct control over.
This statement makes me think you have never worked in agriculture. I grew up on a farm, and perhaps things are different now, but in agriculture you have little control over two major things in your life: weather and market prices. When the weather is good and your crops are bountiful, so are everyone else's and the price declines. When the weather is bad and your production is low, the prices rise, but you have little to sell. In many ways I really enjoyed growing up on a farm. It taught HARD work. It also taught how few things you really have control over. I wish you the best in your efforts. |
Rick_a
| | Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 08:38 pm: |
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As slow as things have been, we still have the occasional person that puts down some serious dough. As my coworker commented today, the people who were spending big money before are still the people who have the money to spend. It seems to be true for the most part.
Our shop is still doing pretty well...all the hourly employees were given the boot as soon as business saw a decline. The people left have about all they can handle. |
Delta_one
| | Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 08:54 pm: |
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I feel you its been a year and a half for me. School was the only option left. I'm just lucky I still had GI bill left to use. |
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