It is February. A kind of slow time for business. Unless you do taxes or something like that. But two weeks? I used to get them in two days. From Portland to Denver. From Portland to Little Rock. But now, from Albuquerque to Portland: 10 days. From Feeding Hills, MA to Portland: 8 days. And the real crown jewel, from Southwest Portland to Southeast Portland: four days. Four days to cross town? I am accustomed to two days. I sent something to Eugene, Oregon (that is 112 miles via the I5 route) Sent on a Friday, responded on a Monday via a txt message. Two business days.
Back last fall I asked people who they would be happiest to see replaced by Biden. My response was DeJoy. If our postal service goes downhill there is a bunch of things that just won’t function properly.
OK, enough ranting.
A while ago I wrote about the costs of things we go to cheapest on. A nickel pencil vs a two-dollar one. The paper I am typing this on aside from being the backside of a toss-away piece started as a 3.2 cents. I did not buy expensive bits of paper because I could not use them. At least until I had practiced enough to have a hope of getting good with it. (It equals drawing) Typing about this got me to thinking about the time spent when I used the raw materials. The raw materials are the cheapest stuff in it. Whatever I do with the materials my time spent doing it is way more valuable. So I quit questioning the cost of paper, pigments, pencils and pens. Except for the cost of composition books.
I have grown to like them.
— MichaelRpdx rkmm
I have a special topic for Sunday. Hang on, it will be good. It may even be thought out and pre-typed. Or I might just think out loud.