Recycling

Recycling stuff, cast-off goodies and other residue from daily living has become a normal activity for some folks.

Other folks do not bother.

It is a personal choice.

For those who do recycle, especially paper, cardboard, etc. here is some interesting news.

The Pizza Box Recycling Mystery

“…pizza boxes that are tarnished with food, or any paper product that is stained with grease or food, are not recyclable – unless you remove the tainted portions.”

“Grease from pizza boxes causes oil to form at the top of the slurry, and paper fibers cannot separate from oils during the pulping process. Essentially, this contaminant causes the entire batch to be ruined. This is the reason that other food related items are non-recyclable (used paper plates, used napkins, used paper towels, etc).“

 

Why this information has not been made widely know to the public baffles me.

Is the information accurate?

To be on the safe side avoiding tossing paper products with food on or in them into the recycling container is a good idea.

Toss those paper-type items into the regular non-recycled trash and do your part to save a tree or something!!!

 

Cardboard Carton Comfort

Cardboard… it may be a friend for those with nowhere to dwell.

 

Being forced to live in a cardboard box tells me that the one inside is truly down-and-out.

He Is Living in a Cardboard Box

There are so many variables if you are forced into cardboard box living.

Some common things are safety, protection from bad weather and keeping warm.

Then there are environment factors.

Be a Blow-hard

Blow hard or softly (soft likely the best) and fill the air with soulful sounds.

Play a flute-like device that is described by various names.

Some flutes are very simple to play… just blow into the hole and cover the various holes with your fingers to alter the tone.

There are so many types of flute that I will not attempt to describe them all.

I am NOT writing about the “traditional” metal flute seen in marching bands or at your local high school concert band, etc.

Here are some examples of what I am referring to——> Here

(Thank you to Lombroso for this pic)

Tightwad

Tightwad, Missouri USA 64735

The fine folks residing within Tightwad must be mighty proud that they rate a Wikipedia entry.

City-data.com info

You can use Google street view to peek at the buildings next to the main drag; state highway 7.

The Harry S. Truman reservoir is nearby where ample recreational activities related to water and boats, etc. is available.

I have not visited Tightwad but the hamlet’s name attracted me.

It appears the “wide spot on the road” has a restaurant, a convenience store with gas pumps and a bank.

Haiku 俳諧 俳句 現代 Haikai 俳諧

In contrast to English verse typically characterized by meter, Japanese verse counts sound units known as “on” or morae. Traditional haiku consist of 17 on, in three phrases of five, seven and five on respectively. Among contemporary poems teikei (定型; fixed form) haiku continue to use the 5-7-5 pattern while jiyuritsu (自由律; free form) haiku do not.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

Reading the Wikipedia entry regarding Haiku made my brain not hurt but I am too Cootish to devote the time or thinking to understand all that stuff.

There are other types and forms of Haiku.

Coot Comments Carefully Composed

(image via Lee Wag)

Coot comments and commentary are well-researched and based upon clinical studies composed and compiled at the world-renowned Disgruntled Old Coot Clinical Studies Center located across the ridge and a couple hollers over yonder.

With a highly-trained staff of one you are assured that every Coot written utterance is at the least semi-coherent.

Lucidity is not guaranteed, however.

Neither is factuality.

If visiting the clinic watch out for the rotten floor boards.

Thank you for visiting this blog and may the contents never be useful to you due to homelessness and/or circumstances beyond your control.

My last “good” job that actually provided benefits such as a pension plan, a 401K thing, affordable health insurance, etc. was sent overseas along with 7,000-plus other jobs at the same firm until that corporation no longer used USA citizen workers.

The “American Way” was maintained by ensuring the maximum amount of wealth was sent to those running the corporation.

I believe I am safe in assuming that the bonuses paid to the corporate higher-ups that year were either maintained or maximized.

Sadly, many Coot Assumptions ™ can not be clinically studied due to a lack of information and time to perform the intricate research required to compile data, information and other stuff that those higher up the socio-economic hierarchy possess.

A Coot of the working-poor class is limited in many ways and the upper levels of the socio-economic hierarchy have erected various barriers along with their life-long indoctrination that begins at a USA resident’s earliest years and is hammered into our minds throughout our Kindergarten through high school years and even into the college and university levels.

I wonder to what extent trade schools are engaged in that indoctrination?

Not that it matters since We, the People, are confronted by a HUGE array of sources relentlessly spewing the ruling-elites propaganda to ensure that the status quo so vital to the continuous ever-upwards flow of wealth and power continues.

Urban and Suburban Tent Living

View the excellent story and additional pictures here—> HERE

Urban Camping: Subversive City Living from Times Square to the Car Tent

“Instead of hiding in a park or making up excuses in a public location, car tent users can camouflage themselves right in plain view.”

More Car or Truck Living

 

 

Individual circumstances vary greatly.

When younger I believe it is much easier to find a friend or relative to stay with.

Will you be expected to chip in on rent and/or utilities right away?

How about life-style limitations?

I am an Old Coot over 50 and friendships at my age are far different than those when in my 20s.

Things in general change as one ages.

I am on my own so a vehicle to live in not only makes sense for me but may be the only available alternate living arrangement.

As with the other post about this topic I am including links to hopefully helpful Web sites.

Selecting A Vehicle To Live In: A Guide for Wannabe Car Dwellers

Mom forced to live in car with dogs

No, not forced to live with expensive-to-feed mutts. It is a choice.

Toss That Television

Some time around 1983 or so the Disgruntled Old Coot

that’s me 

tiring of the idiocy spewed by Television output tossed the device outside into the back yard.

And there it sat.

Until I moved and I have no idea what happened to it after that.

I remained TV-less until around 2006 when after a move to a Midwestern state inside “tornado alley” led to my decision to grab a TV since it was the best device to be warned of approaching tornadoes and if close enough to the shanty requiring I take shelter.

The weather reports were also handy when the winter storm season arrived.

Tossing the TV for those years allowed a LOT of non-fiction book reading and the amassing of ideas, thoughts, knowledge, etc.

And the shedding of some of the implanted indoctrination/brainwashing all of us within the USA are immersed within from an early age to the day we die.

Perhaps that is not the “best route” to personal happiness!

Remaining “ignorant,” happily oblivious to reality, may be the best way to live life.

Considering Societal Placement

“I thought about the kinds of friends I want to keep in my life, as well as new friends I’d like to attract. These include people with qualities and values such as: Offbeat – people whom others might label as weird, quirky, or unusual (I like social rebels; the social conformists don’t seem particularly sane).“

 

Good advice?

Maybe not if you are one of the multitude milling about with a cell phone glued to your ear.

Smack the spot to read the lengthy essay—-  THE SPOT

If the link above ever fails go to the site’s main blog page—>  stevepavlina.com

and look for the essay titled; “Social Bankruptcy”

 

I can not personally recommend all the site and its essays but the linked-to article impressed me and I will be returning to poke around some more.

Maybe I will see you there!