The Capital Scene

I travel down to the State capital two or three times each week now. I like riding the bus, it's usually peaceful with few riders. The most notable feature, to me, is the surprisingly low population density downtown and quiet restaurants with low customer counts.

Today the restaurant is full of legislators pre-planning for the upcoming session. A hundred suits and ties seated in large groups, chattering, laughing and only me by myself in jeans and t-shirt. Normally I'm not very visible but today I feel curious eyes on me.

Somehow I attracted a suitress this month who is twenty years younger but relationships weigh out as a net negative for me now.

I sent out 35 more mailings yesterday to a more focused audience, most have submitted relevant 2025 legislature bills. Each packet costs $2.50 but they're nine pages of colorful graphics in a physical form and carry more weight than the flood of emails from other constituents. A deliberate strategy and a cheap decentralization revolution.

Caretaking my mom for seven years was terminally depressing and it's taken twenty-two months to reshape the river's course but I'm pretty sure I have. Not 100% sure I'm up for a full-time show, though. My dad had been retired for nine years at my age. The US Army taught me persistence, a.k.a. "Accomplish The Mission" but I stopped wasting it on dubious corporate projects about twelve years ago. The future doesn't advance on intelligence, it advances when people run out of stupity, resentment and greed.

Here we go.