Go through all your stuff.  With a fine tooth comb, every drawer, every last corner of your closets, pretending you are your own children and grandchildren and you are dead.

One thing we found: A letter written in 1916 to my grandmother shortly after she married my grandfather. It was from a guy she had apparently friend zoned. He opened by expressing shock to have been informed of her marriage, then wished her all the happiness in the world. Then, he went on for several sentences about how hurt he was that she didn’t choose him, that she didn’t care anything for him while he basically worshipped her.  But still, he is thrilled she found the man of her dreams (my grandfather) and hoped to become good friends with him!  Ended with repeated wishes for all the happiness she “so justly” deserves, even though “she and fate conspired” against them being together; nevertheless he will always love her.

Imagine shortly after your wedding getting a letter like that from a guy you thought was “just a friend”.  Creepy!  And then you keep the letter!  And your son finds it after you die and he keeps it!  And then a century later your grandchildren, whom you never met, end up with it.  (She died young.)

Or imagine you’re the guy and you write that highly personal letter in a frenzy of conflicting emotion, and a century later a bunch of strangers are reading it.  But there’s one thing I got from it: Young guys then were no different than young guys today; getting a crush on some female who thinks of him like a “brother” but being too shy to do anything about it, then getting their heart broken when she gets serious with somebody else.

That’s just one of many interesting things we found. And we barely scratched the surface of all the crap in mom’s house.

And a lot of the snowflakes think the “right wing” stuff is allowed

A moderate Democrat, a left leaning centrist, or what was a liberal just a few years ago, are all now “far right”.

The WSJ editorial board noted that Trump discussed abortion at the New Jersey rally:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-wildwood-days-2024-presidential-election-77942db7?st=9emjh2kfnn7pyka&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

But the Democrats are lying about this, saying Trump is for banning all abortion, it is a total lie, Trump NEVER said that.

It was going ok until some guy starting talking about Marxism.  That derailed it.

Wow. Literally, mention Marx and they lock it down. Insulted somebody’s hero I suppose.

I flew east today. Weather enroute. Landed at RDU about 2 pm and it was a bumpy approach. Pilot had mentioned “low ceilings” and nobody had their window open so I was in a closed off box and couldn't see outside and had no idea where we were and so feared a missed approach the whole way until I felt a big “bump” and realized we had touched down. Yay, I get to live another day. First class roast chicken was good. I will NEVER fly in the back again. All they do in first class is treat you like a human.  Been raining cats and dogs here ever since. My Uber driver was named Mohammed. He was actually a righteous man, we had a good conversation about how to do right by your spouse.

I think we're related. 

Haha!

It’s obvious he’s gonna lose the election.

Photography is hard.
But running a business is still harder.  Dealing with every level of government, employees, taxes, strategy, and a zillion other things.

That said, I had the skills and personality to run a business.  I don't have the skills or personality to be a good photographer.  I have done both.

edit:  At least I used to have the personality to run a business.  I am too old and grouchy now.

I don’t have the personality to run a business unless I am the lone human in it. And there’s no inventory. And no production of actual things. And no real life interaction with anybody.