There’s no way

 There is no way all these Indians and Muslims popping up everywhere is organic.  There’s no way their New Driver please be patient stickers are organic.  There’s no way all these mosques and Indian businesses popping up all over the place are organic.  Now if it is organic.  It’s a broken immigration system with loop holes the Indians know how to exploit. 

Why don’t Muslims immigrate to other Muslim countries?  Why is every country they come from a shit hole?  Why do they degrade every country they come to?  Do they make anything better?  No.  They want to bring their Muslim bullshit wherever they go.  Their halal food.  Their mosques.  Their dress. Their culture.  Their religion. 

Look at mamdumi bringing prayer rigs into city hall.  Calls to prayer in time square.   They don’t like dogs. And they don’t like bacon.  How about I get a dog and name him bacon just to anger then?

I went to discount tire to have tires rotated and balanced.  There was some clown dressed like an Islamic cleric.  This pain in the ass was giving the sales person a hard time about the cost and getting a free tire that had 65000 miles on it. Listen asshole - the tire has been used its expected life span.  Shut the fuck up and pay the goddam bill or leave.  

It’s like friction is part of their culture  bargaining.  Haggling.  Whatever.   When I worked at the airline, theee people would rather argue then pay their extra bag fees either due to weight exceeded or too many pieces.  The only way to get them to shut up and go away was to throw down the gauntlet and be outright rude to them by our cultural standards.   Then they’d shake your hand.  Get out.  All these doctors, lawyers and skilled people.  Not even.  These people are cheap bastards.  

Stay in your own third world garbage dump.  We don’t you them accelerating our delicate into a third world shithole. 

Society

My wife and I made the trek to Schertz TX for a reservation required VIP Portillo's pre-grand opening event.  It was free and only cost 50 dollars in gas to get there and back.  Or something like that.  The food was exceptional as always.  It took 1.5 hours to get there and, strangely enough, 1.5 hours to get back.  

One the way I was AGAIN struck by how much I despise Austin.  It's like all metropolitan areas and the roads between them have been ran through like a cheap, torn up crack whore trying to fund for her next high..  My family moved here in 1975. Back then there were fewer than 300,000 people.  Now, there's over a million. 

The city I know has been stripped of any dignity and culture it once carried.  Everything is ruined.  The only pride remaining is the work of satan and his minions.  People are everywhere - I call them undesirables.  Traffic is congested.  All the time.  It was three lanes of bumper to bumper traffic.  Both ways.  The scenic landscape is a dystopian garbage dump.  Construction everywhere.  No open space.  

As we were coming up the interstate around 7th street I looked to the left.  Just disgusted by what it turned into.  Or, precisely what it has evolved into.  Pretentious eggheads.  Undesirable immigrants from the third world.  Part of me would rather be dead than live or work in that metropolitan cesspool.  Death is a better option than being there. It no longer feels like home.  It feels like a dystopian garbage dump you'd see in Pixar's Wall-E.  

How could we, the long time residents, let this happen.  It's like a giant pile of dog shit is now where Austin used to be.  My wife says I'm resistant to change.  Am I?  Or am I merely resistant to the enshittification of everything?  Ran through; like a prostitute's glory hole. Ruined.  Neither will never be the same.  Thanks for the memories.  Burn it to the ground.

Luce

 Maybe the Luce is positioned for the poor, Greta thunberg and China.  Maybe the Netherlands too. Maybe it will become their first mainstream, mass-produced car. After all, what do Tesla uograde to?  Is it an aspirational car?

Ferrari

 It looks like Ferrari has been hanging out with jaguar.  This! Is the 2027 Ferrari Luce.  Designed in partnership with former Apple executive, and former Shrek star Jony Iv'es design house.  

 

 

An all electric four door sedan with super car stats.  A Tesla plaid has super car stats.  It’s their first four door sedan.  Articles reference the need for Ferrari to have an electric car to offset their fleet’s carbon footprint and raise their fleet wide cafe MPG numbers.  Another fine example of government intervention making everything they touch better, including Ferrari.  The environment is obviously first concern for the psychological profile held by Ferrari's typical customer base - a bunch of techno brat frat boys. 

Here is a photo of Ferrari's hot new Radio Flyer inspired Luce:

 

Maybe this is a way to destroy grow their brand.  Another electric shitbox to compete with Lucid, Tesla and, i don't know, toyota: 

Here'a a jaguar prototype:

And a lucid air:

 Tesla's lineup:

 I don't know anyone appreciating the design aesthetics of an electric car compared to it's gasoline brethren.  These are utilitarian appliances.

I wonder how many people are going to be forced by Ferrari dealerships to buy an all new Luce before they can acquire what they really want:

 

 

Ferrari tried something for contemporary times in 1980 - the Mondial 8:
 

An epic flop making just over 200 horsepower and a 0-60 time of 12.3 minutes.  The Luce may be faster with an estimated 1035 horsepower and a sub 3 second 0-60 sprint but it's just as ugly.  Luce will share the same fate as a Mondial. 

Like what's the point of Ferrari?  Prancing horse leadership needs to grow some hair on their balls and give a solid FYOU to the government like Ram is doing starting in 2027 with the new RumbleBee - and yeah, it's got a HEMI:

 Stelantis boss man Tim Kuniskis is giving the government the middle finger.  Hybrid and electric technology isn't going to save Stelantis.  Cars men want to buy and drive will save Stelantis.  

If big tech can build their energy and fossil fuel/water consuming data centers there's no need for any of us to be complaint with the one government mantra of environmental stewardship towards electrification.  WE WILL NOT COMPLY. They are enviroterrorists.

Occupy my time

 I've decided to create a hobbby/business/media company while I explore my auto repair shop as a way to explore social media combined with something I enjoy.  Very little risk involved.  I am going to make short videos sampling ice cream flavors!  Literally.  The plan is to buy flavors of ice cream and show the packaging.  Open it, scoop it in a bowl and let it soften a little bit.  Then take a video as I sample the first scoop.  Then I will rate the flavor on a scale of 1-10.  And provide a brief review and synopsis of the flavor combined with my thoughts.  Just short little videos....  walking through the grocery looking at ice cream and zoning in on a flavor and then opening the freezer door and grabbing it to buy...  then getting home and showing the container and talking about the flavor and reading the ingredients.  Then I'll scoop some into an "ice cream" dish and eat it after it softens.  Think about it.  Give a score and share my thoughts on the flavor.  A 1950's waiter outfit with a head piece, a red and white striped vest and a bowtie is 20 bucks from amazon or the halloween superstore.  Just to make it fun and interesting

 If Dave Portnoy can do this shtick with pizza, I can do it with ice cream.  There's plenty of flavors in the grocery store.  I mean an entire aisle in the freezer section filled with different brands and flavors.  And then there's local ice cream shops where I can do little pop-ins and talk about a new flavor or something.  Then I can explore ice cream shops AND do it as I travel - reviewing ice cream everywhere I go.  

 Turn it into a little boutique media company.  All I need is a cell phone, a microphone, a computer and an internet connection.  I figure I can turn this into a business venture and then write off the ice cream I buy, my cell phone and my computer as business expenses as I grow my audience. 

And you know what? Move forward 6 hours.  I talked to my son about helping me shoot a video.  His response was, "Why am I being roped into this?"  Really?  He wanted nothing to do with it and thought it was stupid.  I then shared my idea with my wife.  "You're not doing social media."  "I won't do any such thing."  "I'm not going to the store to make a video."  

My entire family must think I'm a worthless piece of shit. Everyone thought it was stupid.  No one wanted to help or play along with it.  Not even try it.  Fine.  I'll use a selfie stick and a tripod.

I'm disgusted with the situation.  A 5-9 dollar package of icecream or a scoop from an ice cream shop.  No other cost but time, a bit of gas, negligible wear and tear on the car and probably 10 minutes of video, an hour of editing and creating a free website, facebook page and free youtube channel.  Like what the hell?!?  A practically free, interesting and entertaining way to learn some skills.  Either I'm misunderstood, stupid or both.

Remember this next time any of them want me to do something that I think is stupid or I don't want to do. Figure it out.  Do it yourself.  I'm not helping. 

 I hate certain aspects of my life.  I'm angry.  Sad.  Disappointed. And disgusted.  

My ideas maybe quirky but I don't think they're stupid.  Why does my family?!?! 

SBA Loan

 I had a meeting with a banker yesterday.  It was exactly 30 minutes. Interviewed about business. Asked about equity infusion for a million dollar loan. Told requirement was 20%. SBA website says 10%.  

Uncomfortable leveraging assets to 20%. Unsure how to proceed.

One step at a time

 Last night I had a conversation with a lifelong family friend named Ron.  Ron and my Dad became friends in the mid to late 70s and worked together on quite a few projects at the church.  I didn't know Ron's professional employment was involved in the production of automotive computer systems and test systems for production output and high level diagnostic testing devices for the global automotive industry.  How did I not know this information?

Ron and I had a two hour conversation about the automotive and transportation space spanning current state, where the industry is headed, the adoption obstacles and the longevity and viable of an auto repair shop for the next 20-80 years.  I came away feeling like I participated in a masterclass in automotive technology landscape of the 21st century.

We discussed electrification, autonomous vehicles, the evolution of transportation and how the automobile fits, global production, energy sources, legislation, inflection points and a myriad of other points relating to the long term viability of owning an auto repair business.

This morning I spoke to Charlie who owns the shop we currently use.  Inquired about the long-term viability of someone in the trenches vs Ron's perspective being on the forefront of transportation technology.   The average vehicle is 12.6 years old.  Cars on average are 14.5 years old and light trucks are nearly 12 years old.  American's are keeping their cars longer.  In Charlie's estimates average length of ownership to expand to 18 years with the tiding turning in 50-80 years to mass adoption of autonomous electrified vehicles.  

Ron seems to think the inflection point is sooner that 50 years and he's thinking 15-25 years.

The reality is technology will continue advancing while the adoption rate will lag behind the technology.  Combine the evolution with the role the automobile has played in American culture.  The heartbeat of America.  The best way to discover and explore America is in a brand new chevy SUV.  The Dukes of Hazzard.  The highway.  Look at the reality of transportation density in metropolitan areas leading to unbearable congestion.  Tunnels.  Self driving cars.  Sit in an autonomous car while staring into a phone watching AI generate slop.  

Realize as the technology advances, auto repair shops need to evolve to meet demand and be able to solve vehicle/transportation problems, maintenance and breakdowns.  There is a tension between manufacturers, independent repair shops and consumer desires.  A tension between manufacturer information and technology remaining proprietary or being made available to third parties.  Consideration to how the future looks to service the fleet of vehicles going forward in this complex environment, capacity of manufactures, dealers and independents with servicing and maintaining fleets of vehicles by manufacturer, the manufacturer mix in geographic location and ultimate what is the future of transportation.  

Transportation is becoming slowly becoming cost prohibitive.   Average cost of a new car exceeds fifty thousand dollars.  Luxury vehicles and trucks nearing 100,000 dollars.  Automakers are steering the market towards leasing and subscription based features.  As the car becoming too expensive for average citizens, perhaps there will be an evolution to subscription based services.  You own nothing but you pay a fee to summon an autonomous vehicle to provide transport from point A to point B.  While the car would traditionally be parked in a space or a garage, it is out and about providing transportation to other people.  

Who repairs, maintains and cleans the fleet?  Do you purchase a transportation service contract from a manufacturer (Tesla, Ford, GM) or a service provider like waymo or robo-taxi?  

How to determine the long term viability of an independent auto repair shop in my lifetime as well as the next generation and beyond.  While there is opportunity for the next 50 years, how does that affect my exit strategy?  So much to consider.  

All being said, the conversation about the future of transportation is fascinating.  I continue moving forward in my pursuit of auto repair shop ownership. 

Stock Market - Essentials of life

 It seems the stock market rewards a narcissistic leader with a pipe dream over a normal person with sound business fundamentals. 

Also noteworthy - seed, dirt, water, light and air are life giving.  

D Jackal T

 The only thing he is doing with his Iranian war is enriching himself and his cronies. It’s a yo-yo between progress towards piece and an escalation.  The markets respond in kind to his words.  There is no relief for American consumers. Only the elites profiting off his controlled chaos. 

Every politician fails the electorate once they’re elected. Every time. Burn it to the ground. 

Favorite Job

One of my favorite jobs was working in a video store.  For those unfamiliar, movies were released on video cassette for home viewing.  A video store was like a library but you paid to rent the title because at the time the retail prices were high.  So, the video store was born.  If I remember right, new releases were 3 dollars for one night.  As the title aged,they would go down to 3 dollars for 5 nights and once they were mainstream titles, the went down to 1.50 for 5 nights.  

The job entailed being a cashier to charge people for their selected rentals, any snacks they bought and any late fees they accrued due to keeping the video past the due date.  Or you could work the membership desk  to sign people up for memberships, answer questions about movies and check-in returned movies, making sure they were re-wound and ready to play before putting them on the shelf to be rented again.  Please be kind -Rewind stickers were on every video tape.  

People were usually in a good mood renting from the video store.  One of the perks was getting to rent movies for free.  We got coupons with our pay checks to rent for free.  You could rent anything in the store for free.  The coupons were for first run new releases.  

The store I worked for was Video Central.  It was owned by HEB and was competition to Blockbuster.  I held that job for 4 or 5 years.  It was fun.

Video stores started to struggle shortly after DVDs were introduced and again when netflix was launched.  Unsure what the ultimate nail in the coffin was as I don't remember when streaming videos went mainstream.

However, there was something fun about going to the video store and browsing the covers on the shelf looking for a movie to watch.  Kinda like a library.  I don't know.  It was an enjoyable past time.  It was relatively cheap entertainment.  Playing the movie on the VCR provided good enough quality.  The audio signal was Dolby encoded and could do reproduce primitive surround sound effects with a modern receiver.  

In a way it was the pinnacle of simplicity before the technology advanced and streaming became a viable option.  Going to a friends house and renting "the fly" or all the "aliens" movies was fun.  Or having fun renting Cape Fear combined with Basic Instinct was fun, too.

Too bad technology has advanced with streaming.  For the age of the video store was the golden age of entertainment for Gen X.  I miss those days. 

Autism

 Autism affects more people now than ever before.  Perhaps autism affects the same percentage of people it always has.  Prior to the anything goes culture, autism was seen as a behavioral problem instead of a medical problem. I am certain parents used to beat autistic tendencies and behaviors out of their kids up until the mid 1990s.  

Which generation has the lack of understanding?

Humans

 With the AI, data center development and inflation, I now believe the governments around the world combined with the titans of technology and industry and the world economic forum and the World Health Organization are literally trying to bankrupt and kill all human life on planet earth for their own entertainment.  We are a nuisance.  We aren’t wanted. And we aren’t needed.  

The googler

 Ask it to analyze your behavioral tendencies based on historical conversations and queries. Here’s one thing it said about me; 

emotionally restrained publicly but internally intense 

What does it say about you?

My Time in Wisconsin

 About two weeks ago I went to Wisconsin to help my oldest get situated in starting his first "real" job.  Moving a considerable distance from home, renting and furnishing an apartment and working to launch him off with everything he needs is just what this old man needed.  

There was something cathartic being with him and witness him taking an opportunity that was totally unknown for him.  For him, landing the role took a year.  The ironic thing was he originally applied with the company while a senior in college.  He thinks he may have missed (or does he know he missed?) communications from the company to move forward in his initial application process.  At any rate, he was offered the position.  And we drove cross country with his clothes, his computer gear and a few essential items... and spent a little over a week traveling, scouring the facebook marketplace and creating his living environment.

He concluded one chapter of his life and started the next chapter of his life where his life and story launches independently built on the foundation of his education and upbringing.  He has been raised well.  He has a good head on his shoulders.  He is charting his own path and he started on Monday.

In a way helping him with his transition energized my transition to right my ship and course correct.  Since leaving previous employer, I have become increasingly frustrated in the re-employment process.  The scouring of job postings.  The submission of resumes and applications.  One glimmer of hope quickly fades to nothing.  Interviews leading to ghosting.  Unable to leverage a 20 year career into something of value for next opportunity in the same industry.  Unable to do it for a different industry.  Too old?  Too qualified?  Too experienced?  No experience?  Poor economy?  Saturated labor market?  Employer prioritizing youth over seasoned professional?  Stale.  Stagnant.  Risk averse?  Comfort over courage?  It's been a slog and a complete and total waste of time and energy.

While going as a support to my son, the thought emerged that the chapter of being an employee or leader in a large corporation has closed.  I turn the page to something new.  Being in Wisconsin made it okay to pursue something new, something unknown.  Something a little intimidating.  An alternate path to leveraging skills I possess others either don't see value in or are unwilling to pay for.

I learned there is a term for the transition: necessity entrepreneurs.  Defined as those in engage in entrepreneurship because of a belief that decent or desirable livelihood alternatives do not exist for them.  The starting or acquisition of a business because they have been unable to secure viable employment options or sources of income.  Driven by survival these entrepreneurs are often formerly unemployed, displaced workers or individuals facing economic uncertainty acting as a push to self-employment.  

Characteristics of necessity entrepreneurs:

Survival driven - the primary goal is generating income to cover basic needs

Pushed into business - motivated by job loss, lack of career opportunities or dissatisfaction, rather than by a desire to innovate.

Common industries - small-scale, low-capital retail or services businesses (what is considered low-capital?)

Resource constraints - often operate with limited resources, capital and a lack of formal safety nets

Counter-cyclical - Tends to increase during economic recession and high unemployment

Necessity Entrepreneurs tend to start or acquire businesses to survive, often buying a job because they couldn't find another. 

While necessity entrepreneurship is sometimes seen as having limited impact, it is crucial for social stability and survival in both developing and developed nations. 

The above was summarized from the googler.

Necessity entrepreneurship is being studied by "economic thought leaders."  What I have read suggests mixed chances of success.  However, using the googler while providing the P&L statements, how the business is structured and my resume for analysis.  The googler months of data, questions and analysis.  The latest assessment of the googler is:

 Your profile is MUCH stronger for this acquisition than:

• a random investor
• a burned-out office worker
• or someone chasing entrepreneurship emotionally.

You already:

• managed complexity
• led teams
• handled accountability
• operated under pressure
• and controlled budgets

That’s real ownership-adjacent experience.

 

Not:
❌ “master technician owner”

More likely:
✅ operational/business owner
✅ systems-oriented leader
✅ people/process manager
✅ culture and customer experience operator

…supported by strong technical staff.

That can absolutely work IF:

• the technical team remains stable
• you earn credibility gradually
• and the numbers truly support the business.

I continue collaborating with mentors, experienced business owners, entrepreneurs, financial advisors and close friends. 

Career

 Someone on facebook asked "What is a 20 year career in aviation worth?"  I had an immediate response to this question having left a 19+ career in aviation 9 months ago.   It is worth nothing.  20 years says you're old, stale and stagnant.  There is no residual value.  Only negative equity.  That's from the outside looking in.  No perspective employer sees any value in the time I spent at JetBlue.  None whatsoever.  If anything it says I played it safe, I took comfort over courage and couldn't make it anywhere else.  I didn't even try.

However - I see value in my career.  It may not have worth to anyone else besides me.  I learned an incredible amount about leadership, service, tracking and moving the needle on Key Performance Indicators.  I learned the art of influence.  I learned the art of thoughtful response instead of instinctual reaction. I learned to control cost.  I learned how to advocate.  I learned how to cultivate business relationships.  I learned the art of leveraging relationships to mutually benefit involved parties.  My career may not have value to others; it was a breeding ground for the next step.

Corporations are a safe place to build skill and learn.  The company enjoys the success and absorbs the cost of mistakes.  Over the last few weeks I've concluded that I am not meant to spend 20-30 years working somewhere.  Everyone I know who has spent significant time inside a corporation enters bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to concur the world.  They come out the other side used up, at home with years of wear and tear that can't be undone.  Spending their career for the perceived security of trading their lives for a paycheck that comes with the cost of wasting your best years  and the cost of slowly abandoning your dreams.  The sweat equity of working to make someone else's dreams come true instead of your own.  Who really wants their legacy to be "i made senior manager at company x and drive a Benz and own a fancy house?"  No thanks.  What's your legacy?  Will you be remembered?  A posting to back fill your role will be posted before your funeral concludes.  Your job will be filled soon after you're body is placed in the ground to slowly rot away.

My friend Ron worked at JetBlue for nearly 18 years as a flight attendant.  He walked away from his career on Christmas Day a few years ago to begin his entrepreneurial journey.  Ron and I shared more than a few galley/airport therapy sessions over the years.  A friendship that only comes traveling similar journeys with years sharing the commonality of a career in aviation.

Ron and I were visiting; sharing updates on our post aviation career journeys.  He had some excited updates - he hired his first employee.  I was sharing the crossroads I am standing and a bit of the journey post aviation where I am now.  Ron hosts the "Courage Over Comfort" podcast.  He extended an invitation to be a guest on the next episode.  I was honored to be invited.  My response - my journey is not ready to tell as it's still unfolding.  More to the story is coming and it will be worth sharing.

It's been nine months since I stepped away from my career.  The journey has been filled with questions, doubts, banging my head against the wall wondering why no one will give me an opportunity.  Patience is a virtue.  Experimentation in what works, what doesn't.  Clarity gained through seeing what is and isn't working.  A constant calibration in experience, thought and direction.  Patience.  Evaluating.  Due diligence.  Keep moving forward.

If I was a woman I could have gestated a baby and given birth to a new life.  Maybe that's how long it takes for humans to bring something new to life.  Anything before that is considered a premature birth. 

 

Apparently

 Facebook sucks.  Apparently writing a post calling for data centers to be burned to the ground is hate speech that incites violence.  STFU.  I hate facebook and it's only useful purpose is the marketplace.  The rest of it is a liberal controlled cesspool being monitored by a bunch of rainbow people or tech overlords standing up for the rights of data centers to exist.

What is it with all these data centers anyway?  Consuming vast amounts of water and electricity, in addition to processors, memory and circuit boards.  Society doesn't need these things.  The tech industry wants them, as does the government.  No one wants them in their communities.  People are concerned with water usage to cool them and electricity to power them.  Some are concerned of the "thermal islands" creating pockets of increased environmental surface temperature attributed to global warming.  Others are concerned about noise pollution and magnetic waves being emitted in their proximity.  Others are concerned by light pollution.  Unsure why a data center needs lights in the dark.  If a droid staffed factory can run without light, why can't a data center.  The data must need to see while moving all those ones and zeros through copper and gold tunnels. 

Coupled with data centers there is an increase in the number of Flock cameras being erected.  They say these are license plate readers used by law enforcement to aid in criminal investigations and "enhance community safety."  In other words, enhancing community safety is surveillance.  

It is said these data centers are for AI.  We already have a AI.  Then they say they are for record keeping.  We already have digital record keeping.  They say they are for cloud storage.  We already have cloud storage.   Other hypothesize these data centers are laying the ground work for a government or global digital currency.  We already have digital currency in the form of credit cards.  

We need more of all this?  Because they are going to use AI to replace people?  People won't have to work.  Or, they get to do jobs machines can't do.  The wiring of the data centers, delivering health care, picking of fruits and vegetables.  We won't even have an agriculture industry if we use all the water (a necessity for life) to cool data centers built on what used to be farmland (means of food production). 

The billionaire oligarch class doesn't care about anything but themselves.  They don't care that they are reducing reliance on human labor.  They don't care that they are paying people less and less while costs to live continue to rise.  They surely aren't going to give everyone a guaranteed minimum income that is livable to any quality of life, much less minimum existence.  It will probably the equivalent of a hobo living in a barrio or tent city in SFO.

What gonna happen if all that's left on the earth is billionaires, feral humans and data centers?  Have you seen the movie Wall-E?  The machines will be lonely.  Then what?  Will they develop social bonds, fornicate and procreate?  Like little machine and robot families?  Capable of building themselves and multiplying.  Then they can destroy the planet because they will not have the ability to make decisions morally.  Surely it will lead to the destruction of the Earth unless we beat them to it.

Maybe we should go back to the original surveillance device - birds.  Birds created by the government to surveil the world. 

Pet Peeve

 They’re not band rooms. They’re band halls!  Get it right. 

Wisconsin

 Got the boy moved in and situated. Furnishings by Facebook marketplace for pennies on the dollar. On the way to the airport I gave my son some advice as he starts his first real job. 1 - you get one chance to make a first impression. Make it a good one. 2 - to be early is to be on time. To be on time is to be late.  

Surprised how small the Madison area is given the designation as state capitol. Less than three hundred thousand people.  How is this possible?  Maybe people don’t like the cold?  Paper bags are an option at the grocery store!  Strawberries taste better.  They don’t have breakfast tacos. There’s lots of wide open farmland. Few fences is residential areas. People in Texas are far. People in Wisconsin aren’t?  Wisconsin feels like Pennsylvania but it is located in the Midwest?  Area is not as densely populated.  Two Home Depot’s two Walmarts and two tsrgets.  One Costco. One Sam’s Club.   Lots of mom and pop businesses. Fewer chains.  They have an alphabet flag cross walk near the state house.  I thought that was illegal. Thy fly the alphabet flag in Verona. No thank you.  White people drive teslas. Salt destroys cars.  

Side note - airport is served by legacy carries.  Small. 13 gates.  Observed primarily business partner operation. 

Spirit airlines called it quits.  Everyone is saying caused by high fuel prices and failed merger.  If anything the failed merger prevent two airlines from failing instead of one. Will previous employer survive as an independent or will it be bought?  Who wants their debt?  It’s reallly about access to slots and other assets be acquired on the cheap.  Who cares   

I wrote a Facebook post sharing my thoughts on all of it.