Home sweet home
Posted on: November 19, 2010 - 8:14am
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Home sweet home
Well everyone, I have to lay down my self-assigned title of Richest Homeless Man in America. I bit the bullet and finally bought a place. After a year and a half on the road I am ready to finally have a place to call mine, the extended stays were starting to wear on me. It is a nice rural cabin where I am close to good hunting and fishing and the best part is I can't even see my neighbors house. 
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
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Rich homeless people are more common than you might think
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/02/BAG2K42A441.DTL&type=news
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624
I could go on; those are just the first couple links I hit.
Didn't know you were homeless. Where did you use the internet? Or were you just surfing from spare room to couch to spare room?
I rent rooms now and then, but I don't usually stay anywhere long enough to sign a serious lease (anything more than month to month). I'd like to have somewhere permanent to put things, but it would have to be something mobile to take it seriously. I'm back and forth between the West cost and China too often. Even Mexico (next month).
Whereabouts did you settle down?
Sweet. When they are not in your face all the time people are actually nice to sometimes see. You might even wave to each other as you pass by.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
I may be a city slicker, born and bred, but I have noticed an odd habit of mine when living in very rural areas. It could be a product of some sort of evolutionary thing, but there is an intense feeling of liberation to stand on the front porch and take a leak. Now, the first few times that this phenomenon happened, I thought that it might only apply to me. BUT, I asked other dudes if this happened and I got remarks like "MAN, AIN'T NOTHING BETTER THAN DOING YOUR BUSINESS OUTSIDE OR ON THE PORCH,". This is something that LOTS of guys have actually agreed with me on. Why this tendency seems to exist is something that I cannot fully substantiate, due to the fact that it is only empirical evidence on my part. But just wondering if any other guys in rural or country areas have ever experienced this ?
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno
I have a place in the country - I'm there about a week a month. It's a liberating feeling getting it out on the porch or under a tree. Maybe it's just that you are not breaking a social rule. There are no rules on your own front porch. And the grass can handle it.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
Lol, exactly. I think it is just the freedom to do whatever the hell you want and nobody can complain. If I want to sit on my front porch naked I can, if I am too lazy to go inside to take a leak I can. Males in a lot of species urinate to mark their territory so maybe it is some kind of now useless evolutionary trait that has just stuck around? Personally, I like nothing better than to spend my mornings on a porch drinking coffee in my robe. I can't wait until spring.
@Blake
Well I never slept in the gutter. A few nights in my car here and there. Mostly I rented at extended stays, a spare room or a cabin. When I didn't have internet access I went to some coffee shop that had wifi. I'll still have to do the hotel thing from time to time when my job takes me too far away. My new place is in a little town in south central Ohio about halfway between Columbus and Cincinnati.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
Oh, alright, more or less like me. I don't keep a car, so I haven't slept there, but otherwise. It's hard to buy a place, since I'm always moving around.
I've thought about getting an old school bus or uhaul van one of these days and gutting it for a mobile studio apartment.
Unfortunately, I really hate driving, and I can't figure out what I'd do with it when out of North America.
Oh, just South of Dayton? If I'm ever up that way, you'll have to take me a'huntin
(strictly as an observer, of course)
Okay, a "cabin", sure. Just don't send any packages to me. Will you be working on your "manifesto"?
(Note to self: Did I think this, or type it?)
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Lol, yeah it is a perfect place for me if I decide to go militia. I own the high ground and there are a lot of trees that would serve well as shelter from overhead surveillance... I would work on my manifesto but it sounds like too much work to me. I'm far more likely to go Galt than to go militia.
@ Blake, Can I trust you not to stand up and shout "Run Bambi Run!"?
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
When observing alien cultures, one practices the prime directive.