A Snowy November Thursday On The Quiet Side of The Lake

I’m trying out a new coffee blend this morning in my seemingly endless search for the ideal home brew. This time it’s half dark roast and half medium. Not sure it’s there yet. But it’s not too shabby.

Today has been designated a lost day. This is one of those days when I do a lot of thinking about what I want to write about. Tomorrow, by my self imposed deadline, I’m due to post another in the series I have pompously entitled Superhero Of The Week. I never really decide on that until the day before, which allows me as much time as possible.

It’s a lot harder than you might think, coming up with A Super Hero in today’s world, so fucking riddled with con men, fascists, power crazed oligarchs, bought off politicians, right wing assholes, narcissists and other forms of ‘human scum’. But they are out there. Somewhere.

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One of my paying jobs is writing/editing blog posts for my client, Peel Scrap Metal Recycling. This is a family run business that I have been with for the past 9 years, and am very proud of the work I have done for them, and the success they have had over the years through the hard work, smart salesmanship and start ahead business practices they have developed.

This week’s post was an update from 5 years ago on the nickel industry, particularly in Indonesia. My client/partner in crime at Peel was Jeff Shafer, one of the owners, along with his brother-in law, Gary and nephew Jeremy Dvorkin. Sadly, Jeff passed away last year and he is really missed.

So Jeff and I worked together for a few weeks, figuring out the kind of subject matter that would be best to communicate. I insisted that he write the blogs and I edit them. And because Jeff was a really smart guy, he would study the editing I did and ask me questions and in literally a few months he had it down to a science. Which was fabulous, considering he had never done anything like this before.

The topics he preferred were either current and newsy, institutional and focused on the industry and its role in the overall economy, or political and focused on suggesting common sense approaches to governments, at all levels, about how best to create and implement regulations for the industry.

This week I updated a post on nickel mining in Indonesia, which is one of the world’s largest nickel producers. The update is timely because the nickel miners have just announced a new suspension of activities starting in 2020. The original post was written to coincide with the same sort of activity in 2014.

It makes for an interesting and timely story.

https://www.peelscrapmetalrecycling.com/nickel-its-at-the-centre-of-the-worlds-economic-futureand-heres-why/

So while I used to do a lot of ads and video and brochures back in the day, most of what I do now involves designing and writing web sites and the blogs that support them. I must confess that I do miss the old days.

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Today is my wife Heather’s quilting day. She’s very crafty and makes a lot of unbelievably beautiful things, and then gives them to people. So she loaded up the car and headed off to Jordan, which is the next town west of where we are, about a 10 minute drive on a good day. So this leaves me alone in the house with no real desire to go out there and fall on my ass on the ice.

To be honest, I love these days. I do a little writing. Pick on the asshole Trump for a while and then do some puttering. Today will be touching up some spots here on the walls, finally coming to terms with the fact that its now stationary bike season, and later in the PM spending an hour in the sauna, working on eliminating the pile of old lyrics and poems still there. The pile has shrunk from about 5 inches down to one, so I am on the home stretch, so to speak.

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I watched a little bit of the impeachment hearings on CNN, but that shit got old real fast. You and I both know that this asshole, as crooked as he is, will never get impeached, because he owns the senate and if they were to vote to impeach him, he would simply out all their corruption and ruin their lives. That’s how extortion works and they are painfully aware of it.

You don’t have to be particularly sentient to figure that out. All you have to do is listen to these poor frightened Republican bozos spouting their bullshit and know that, deep inside, they are constantly regretting the day they ever threw in with Trump.

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I’ve been at this for an hour or so. The coffee was OK, so I may give it another try tomorrow. The snow is still coming down, and I may have to go out at some point and push it around. So I will just mosey along to the next job. Have a good day wherever you might be.

jim out

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