“The ‘paraglider’ is this year’s ‘dancing nurse’, the ‘ghost of Kiev’ was last year’s.” – Dr. Freckles
GREYHOUND to VORKTON …
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Bleenbensville (state of Vorkton):
– Alive and well.
– Don’t like giving out details of other people’s homes.
– About a month ago I had to quickly come up with a plan because I would have no place to live.
– Shit happens, I miss my friends Justin and Beth, I miss Boomer. I miss that place in Utah.
– I didn’t have time to come up with a great plan. Not even an adequate time.
– I had a sibling moving from Maine to the Olympic Peninsula in WA State. Podcasting from the state park at Dungeness Spit. Two people drowning can’t really help each other. I bought beer and cigarettes.
– Little Saigon, Seattle, showed me how hard actual street homelessness.
– Vorkton isn’t far from Michigan or Ohio or South Dakota, Grinken Town is east of us.
– “Survival Quest Theater” might be coming back.
– Vorkton is not far from Florida in a way.
– “Shadow Over Innsmouth” by H.P. Lovecraft, kind of like that, but no “fish man” ending … instead just me being a country boy. I think through progression I’ve realized that I am a country boy.
– Safe and sound and okay in Vorkton0
CLEAR THE AIR ON COVID (a slight concession):
– I’ve stated since 2020 that what we’re going through is primarily military psychological warfare. And every great PSYOP is also a snuff flick, people are killed for realism.
– There might have been a bio-weapon used, but it wasn’t first generation style. It was highly targeted geographically and demographically.
– Little Saigon, Chinatown Seattle, transient housing and lots of undocumented Chinese workers. Construction never stopped, flights from Asia never stopped, commies marched up and down 12th AVE, bisecting all major access paths to the Seattle hospital system’s emergency rooms.
– Targeted bio-weapon with built in self-destruct.
– They don’t want you to have a sample of this bio-weapon, so self-destruct seems necessary.
– A lot of organizations have the money for the tools to produce bioweapons.
– COVID doesn’t make sense as a first generation modern bioweapon – it makes more sense as a very advanced bioweapon.
– they have mastered the art of geographically and demographically controllable bioweapon. Not a normal bioweapon.
– Vaccines: some are poison and some are placebo (saline or flu shot). “Seattle Mike” and I looked at the CDC and other government data, and found that the flu disappeared.
– CDC to Hospitals: “here’s a check, call it COVID, put them on a respirator”
– CIA likes to kill in a way that looks like a natural death.
– Prior to the COVID there was a banking crisis in 2019.
GREYHOUND JOURNEY:
September 2nd:
– Got enough money that my brother was able to help me to get tickets on the Greyhound.
September 3rd:
– went to Seattle.
– going to boondock the night before the Greyhound ride.
– we went to see a movie that night, “They Live”, on the big screen from 1988.
– John Carpenter, a dark visionary.
September 4th, Labor Day, part 1:
– wake up from boondocking
– get to the Greyhound station in Seattle and no one working there.
– they had one guy who cleaned the poop seat
– 8:30 AM the bus showed up, we lined up behind door B
– that first bus ride was okay
– bad “sky painting” visible in Ellensburg
– “I blame Jesus” – t-shirt
– 50 mega bytes of data
– one of the best chicken strips ever in Pendleton, OR, Union 76 station
– drove through the Blue Mtns, 4194 feet
– dude with alerts on
– read ZH headlines: ARGUS AI from SOCOM that will scam the WWW about Putin and monkey herpes … Ukraine-monkey-herpes nonsense
– Ontario, OR, no bathroom – left a stench in the trench
– got a weird infection from the bus
September the 4th, 10:40 PM, in Boise, our next bus driver (worst bus driver ever):
– trying to help a fellow traveler
– who are you
– fuck your keyboard
– “I don’t care” “I’ll make sure it doesn’t get smashed”
– “can’t leave early”
– young MAGA African American gets targeted by the bus driver
– “Luke Skywalker pee speech”
– “if you’re going to Denver, you should have put your bags in the first compartment”
– “if you’re a man raise your hand”
– he seemed high on meth
– bus driver loaded up on sugar
September the 5th :
– “All’s well that ends.” – Dr. Freckles
– “fuck you” incident with next bus driver, talking to meth-bus-driver.
– “have you ever been to a place where all hope is lost, where all that is left is patience?” – Conspiracy Theory (1997) ans: GREYHOUND
– Driver replacing meth-bus-driver was still kind of angry
– “I am traveling with the lost, discarded and forgotten.”
– Greyhound will make you want to kill yourself.
(so much more)
Customer Service
There’s too much about the last 3 days to put in one post.
The focus of this post is: customer service.
I just got off an hour long phone call with United Airlines, and spoke with two people who barely spoke English (Artificial Intelligence YAY – when’s that coming?). The first gentleman was yanking my chain, the second one basically told me a bunch of bullshit …
Here’s the situation: my brother in order to help me escape Denver after Greyhound abandoned me there, to the streets … (hey Denver, why don’t you look into Greyhound’s liabilities for your street person problem?) any who … my brother did me a favor. He upgraded the ticket believing it would include at least ONE checked bag – but this is not the case according to United Airlines.
I don’t know, specifically, the details of what my brother did when he reserved the seat to Newark – but the key point is: he did nothing wrong. He was trying to help me, he believed, based on the additional upgrade charge, that this would include ONE CHECKED BAG, but no. So I thought “hey, people still want to treat their customers well, right? – why not just refund me the 35 bucks I paid for the additional bag” … that was incorrect thinking.
You might think this is a petty issue, but for those of us who CAN’T print money, like the Federal Reserve and most banks print money, every dollar counts. I am not alone … during my brief but painful experience on the Greyhound bus this week, I’ve come to realize, talking to many people, that a few dollars here and there is a big deal, and not something to be taken lightly. I had a few conversations on that bus with random travelers, all reporting the same thing: money is tight, jobs that allow you to live are hard to find, everyone is doing their best to hang on. And this, as President Biden touts how “strong the economy is”? – what sideways crap to spew … “strong” … if being near death is strong.
I studied the collapse of the USSR in grad school. Studying how the Soviet Union collapsed has given me some insights into the last couple decades of American history. But it’s one thing to be academic or abstract about “collapse”, it’s another to live through its initial birth pains. My experiences with United Airlines, and ESPECIALLY Greyhound, this week has given me pause to remember that STUDYING SOMETHING is not the same as living through it. Well – we’re in it now.
How fast the collapse happens is unknown, all I know is this: it will be non-linear, discontinuous, cascading and brutal. Once it really takes off and gets going? – it will be as I said: like having someone punch your teeth out.
I lost a few teeth this week.
I need to remember, this is still the slow part.
As for this $35 fee? – I intend to waste their time, United Airlines, once a week for the next few months. I’ll get that money back one way or another … and even at low cost rates of Indian telephone support, the money adds up for them too.
“Weimar Wheelbarrow” or your HOME – 3 legged stool
“Shelter (your home) is a three-legged stool: food, water, security. If any of those legs is missing? – your home is worthless.” – Dr. Freckles
