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Monday, August 04, 2008

On discount furniture


I live in a stretch of Manchester that is full of furniture stores, one after the other, for miles. It's an area lots of people come to shop when they're looking for furniture, which makes for an irritating amount of traffic on Saturday mornings. I'm not sure how much of them sell discount furniture, however. Maybe you have to go to Goodwill, which is also there, next to the Post Office, or to Rothman's. There's one of those across Manchester from my apartment complex, but they never look busy. I never see more than a few cars in their parking lot. They'd be much better off to go to Boyles $10,000 Dream Room Furniture Giveaway. They could shop for terrific furniture, and be entered in the giveaway. They might win $10,000!

On energy pills

Part of the strain of modern life comes from the constant need to be on "on duty" so to speak. When we lived in caved, life as a whole was much tougher, but in some ways it was easier. That is, if you felt tired, you laid down and rested, unless you were starving. Of course, you were often starving. But if you were a man and you'd just brought home a deer, you could spend a few days hanging around, relaxing in the sun. You didn't need to take energy pills to keep yourself going the next day. You got to rest and relax until the meat was going or turning bad or something, and so your family wanted fresh food, then you had to go back out into the woods and kill something else again.