Oh No! The Old Guy is At It Again!



I've got some bad news for lovers of well written prose: Old Grump has dusted off his keyboard, and is "back in the saddle", figuratively speaking.

The stupid Kung Flu killed his job, so now, with lots of time on his hands, (and less intelligence than ever), he has teamed up with his offspring to not only start writing on this blog again, but has started a new, "money making" blog.  (Cough, cough ..... we'll see how much money, if any, the old guy makes.)

In the meantime, he can do as he damn pleases on this old blog, and maybe even link back to some of his more cringey, ancient posts on his old, old blogs that he really doesn't acknowledge anymore.

Speaking of making money, (which the old guy loves to do more than anything else, now that he is, uh, you know, OLD),  this blog also has its fair share of affiliate links, particularly to Amazon.  However, it uses a different affiliate id than the one on https://gimmethecash.blogspot.com/ , which may, (or may not), make things interesting.

Finally, since it is nearly the Fourth of July, I thought it appropriate to mention a book, "If You Can Keep It", that Grump has been hearing a lot about recently.  Recent events, (and even more importantly, the reactions to them), in the USA have been troubling.  Whether this portends the collapse of our country or not is debatable, but I would surely bet that the next few years will be very interesting.

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