Feeling a bit cynical.

Shoot, that reminds me, I’d originally clicked on my blog at all because I meant to make a post about ignorance and the bizarro genre. maybe. Maybe sleep, instead.

You suggest, in the case of wages, that you have trouble understanding how such disparities can be allowed to persist. Then later claim to be fiercely independent. I find these two statements to contradict. If something isn’t allowed, then there must be a controlling authority (as well as punishment if not followed), but if you are so independent then I can only assume you would abhor some comity deciding what you should paint or charge.

Not only are you not concerned for the trouble your “friend’ claims to be in his blog. You seem very condescending towards your “friends” profession and I suppose mine. You say, “The man is literally selling data; not prints, not hand-crafted originals, but simple IP. ”

You really should read Matthew 20. I think you will find two things. One: it is the right of the employer pay what he chooses. Two: what he chooses to pay someone else is not your concern.

Also Philippians 4 comes to mind.
12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

PS I have paid $2,800 for a single photo. I am pretty well versed in what photographers charge, your friend is less than the norm.

another real friend
taylor

Wait. I was ML in 2002, and not since, because in 2003 I was living in a different region & had no transportation - and when I came back to PHX in 2004 it already had a good ML or two. Huh. Maybe I should usurp the throne next year! Mwahaha!

I liked the painting you posted on twitter a few days ago, the blue and white with the circles? Now I can’t find the post, but I swears I’m not nuts. Is that the one you sold? Are you going to put it on wretched creature? I, like a teenager, would have to save $$, but that was the first of your paintings I’ve been “drawn to”.

Love,
~Hillary

99c stores intimidate me. Unnaturally so. I will try giving them another try; typically the only thing I get in such stores is anxiety attacks.

I’m still getting used to everything; a year ago 90% or more of what I ate was processed, packaged, frozen, microwaved single-serving junk. In a few years I’ll be caught up with where Zoe was a few years ago, maybe.

Oh, and I try to avoid soy as much as possible, so margarine is basically non-existant. We exclusively use canola oil mayo, and canola oil or olive oil (hah! Now, that’s expensive!), never “vegetable oil” (though I do double-check labels), and I try to avoid any product with much soy.

Batteries is good. We definitely compare prices with WalMart (sometimes better prices than Sam’s). I’m also building a database of prices/places/dates/sizes so I can compare actual values & changes over time at various retailers that’s finally helping make decisions instead of just collecting data. On the other hand, thinking that much about money, costs, and value usually makes me feel bad, get sick, or collapse into depression, so it comes in fits and starts, a little increase in value at a time.

We don’t buy butter, too expensive… we generally get blue bonnet margarine for $.77 lb at Wal-Mart. Come to think of it, most of the “case lot” stuff at Fry’s can be found at those prices year round at the $.99 only store or Wal-Mart if you need to stock up even more.

Maybe some bullions, tomato, chicken, beef. Rice is mighty tasty cooked in a “broth” rather than water.

If you’re serious about dooms-day, get a gas or propane generator, but if you’re broke like us, you’re laughing at me right now for even mentioning it.

We were at the $.99 only store today and they had fairly large containers of pure vanilla for a buck, also Cocoa powder.

Maybe stock up on frozen or canned vegetables…

Herbs and spices.

Boxed mashed potatoes.

Batteries.

I can’t think of anything else right now.

I love you.