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Mon, 2008/12/22 - 4:02pm — Benjamin Melançon
At the Dan and Eva Melançon palace in West Virginia.
The huge beautiful (and new) place needs some drafts sealed. But with a fire or the southwestern exposure of the glass wall, it's plenty warm.
Grandpa is reading a trash romance novel in German.
Cassidy is trying to get his foot stuck under me.
Zelda has been very ill at ease with the other dogs.
Yesterday I helped Dan tie down the large (but just $200 he said) tent covering his proto-workshop and sawmill.
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America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.
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our palace lol
our palace lol too funny. the drafts are for the fresh air...yea, thats why they are all there, and we had the most incompetent contractor in the world. We still find the german smut novel amusing. The saw mill is finally together now too!