last week? I do my own, yucky but mine is enclosed in a Rubbermaid can with holes drilled all around (many), lidded so that I can roll it to mix. Fruit fly heaven now, also I admit spiders for fly control. But it works for winter storage of food waste. I keep out fat and meats. There may be rubber bands that escape!

Is billed along with sewer and water. We've been recycling for at least 20 years, and they went to single sort a couple of years ago. Apparently, that increased the numbers, though I never saw sorting as a problem. The city will have a plastic bag ban next summer; apparently, plastic bags are a terrible bane of recycling. They are banned from recycling containers, but of course, many get tossed in and really clog up the processing! This past spring, they began collecting organic recycling once per week. I have a container with a tight fitting lid, so we put all food scraps in there and keep in the refrigerator, then empty as needed into a compostable bag. Now, we have to empty our kitchen trash container only once a month or so.

With the good news. . .

I eat. We habitually honor the frequent toga. Paul says it's a crazy life. Doors in Bali are convivial and elegant. I appear to be imperious, with a human vocabulary. With equal service, it is.

Dang, but they said odd things back then! smh

Just one more measurable casualty of the 80's Gordon Gekko Greed Is Good. That era of deep Conservatism, religious fervor and the worst music (and fashion) remains a bane of my existence. So much of that beautiful Flower Power stuff, communalism and questioning authority traded away for Get Rich Quick schemes and tawdry Me First culture. The current presidential race is another by-product of that plastic, soulless and dumbed-down era.

Does nobody really hitch hike anymore? Say it ain't so...

From the Guardian, " The death of hitchhiking is a modern tragedy" by Anne Perkins.

Yet even before the poor Frenchman had a tantrum on State Highway 6, there was plenty of evidence that hitchhiking is no longer a cheap and reliable way of getting to where you want to go. Maybe hitchhiking is just too analogue, a bit 20th century for millennials. In a hyper-connected age, when it’s necessary to text to announce a five-minute delay, there is diminishing appeal in committing a whole day (or even just an hour) entirely to chance.

Anyway, there are ride-sharing apps that mean you can be picked up at your door and taken to your destination, which offer some of the virtues of hitching but in an organised, digital kind of way. Yet they also mean sacrificing an element of serendipity, the happy accident of the unexpected place or person, to the security of predictability, and it feels like an expensive compromise.

Hitching depended on a sense of solidarity, and the sense of trust and mutuality that allowed me as a teenager, and practically everyone else I knew, to get around when there was no bus and no obliging parent. For me it was sometimes indispensable. Hitchhiking in uniform had me expelled from school (it was the uniform that did it).

People who hitched, and people who gave lifts to hitchers, were two sides of the coin of mutuality. People with assets regarded it as perfectly reasonable to share them. The dishonour was not in the asking but in the driving by. It was a kind of echo of the spirit that once unquestioningly sustained schools and hospitals, the idea which nowadays seems to be a fantasy, that we were there for each other.

OTH, they tell opposing lies in the same paragraph and nobody cares.

The hair of the dog that bit you. Why not?i I can think of a million cliches to support it.

none, zero music instruction, i got a cheap axe, an intro to what those lines and dots with the flags on them were, a Leadbelly songbook and a Cisco Houston songbook. Working through the latter I hit that song and was truly boggled.

help me answering my own questions. I also don't give a damn anymore. Things come to an end and it's just not good to see where they end.

I think I have seen stuff in the last six weeks and then last two weeks that are beyond what I could imagine. Can't really talk about it. May be one day I can find it out, but it will be too late, and I guess I will break out and down of the system.

Thanks for your response.

well, I did a little bit of what you said, but it didn't bring me much further and I doubt that it even makes sense to find out.It won't change the facts. I think the company is owned by some investors and they are related to a larger corporation that is traded. But that's just a guess. Listen I can't wrap my mind around it anymore.

With regards to your last sentence, well, you find out by being a little guy who got loaded off, that's how you find out. As have around twenty more during the last year. They use all the tricks in the books to make sure you end up with no rights, no unemployment benefit and are thrown around like dogs. Well, I think it's criminal, but you know yourself that engaging in tricks, white collar crime criminals they get away with anything.

Sorry, can't deal with it here. I am done. It's over.

company B happens all the time. Companies hire their workers over temp agencies and companies contract out their payroll and accounting duties to other companies. Then you have three entitities involved. Took my son some time in the beginning to understand, why he got paid by some other company than the one he worked for. When he finally was hired as a regular employee (still hourly basis), the company's paychecks were still issued by some other company.

Then they use a nice trick I also was not aware of. After having worked over a year for that company, they offered him a pay raise and guaranteed full time employment. He signed that contract, being quite happy, hoping his job situation would be a bit more stable. He had full time hours the whole time already, even over time etc, but now it was "per contract guaranteed" so to speak.

Six weeks later they staged a situation which gave them the opportunity to give him a warning for something he hadn't done and they couldn't prove. As they are under suveillance cameras 24h/7 the incidence they accused him of should have been provable on their surveillance videos. He knew he hadn't done what they said he did. So he refused to sign the warning (three warnings and you are fired), because my son didn't want to get a warning for something he had done. So they said they will search for the video and get back to him.

So, they called him in a couple of days later and showed him the video, which didn't prove anything (he was supposed to have scratched another employees car with his delivery van. The other employee was not supposed to park her private care on the company's parking lot, as they have separate parking lots for the employees's private car). So the video showed the van, but nobody driving the van in and out ot the dedicated parking space for the company's vans. Aside from the van was the other emplouees car. There was no proof that he had caused the scratcher with his van. Neither him or any other employee was seen on the video driving the car into the parking space. The scratcher was so minor that it hadn't even a dent So my son refused to sign the warning. The time marks on the video were clearly to see and the incidence that "scratching" had happened according to the employee, who complained about it, matched her statements made before.

Then they said in addition he had missed to check in some pallets into the warehouse system the day before in the evening and next morning they needed a part for a project they had scheduled for that morning. My son was sent to do a delivery on that afternoon, evening, when he came back, nobody of his co-workers was anymore there. And the warehouse with the pallets was closed. So, he couldn't have checked in the pallets on time himself, while being on a delivery at the same time.
He also couldn't have refused to do the delivery, ordered by his direct boss. They said that they found out that the part they were needing was in the pallet that were not checked in in the evening and found out the next day in the afternoon that the missing part was in those pallets. They had to postpone the work on that project for the day and it was his fault.

That was used to give him two more warnings each, not having communicated with other co-workers to check in the pallets (There were no co-workers in the warehouse left all gone by two to three o'clock). He was supposed to sign all the three warnings. He refused and they told him to take his paycheck and pack his stuff and not come back. That was on a Friday afternoon/evening.

Well, barely recovering from that shock, he was advised to go to the labor department to file the case and for unemployment benefits. He did and they told him that from all he could prove that has happened he was fired for no justifiable reason and that he might have rights to unemployment benefits.

Later he found out that, as e got this new, nice contract with a payraise, he also got into a new probatory period. Though he had done the job for more than a year already and his job description and responsibilities hadn't changed at all, he was now again in a probatory period, which gives the employuer the right to fire you nilly-willy legally. So, the trick was to lure him into a new contract to get him on to a new probatory period to fire him even if they don't have a cause.

Then he was instructed to look for work and hand in all the proof he had done so to the labor department, three times a week. So, my son went from one temp agency to the next. And he filled out applications online, a lot. He proved it to the labor department as instructed. There are more temp agencies than work or workers in that town. He signed with the temp agency and started to do the "Schlepp work" (warehouse schlepping boxes from freezers to outside heat, loading and unloading trucks etc.)

The lady at the temp agency, he signed up with, did know him, because she also processed his first job a year and a half ago to the employer, who had just fired him. She asked him if he had a co-workter with the name (xxx) and he said yes. Oh, the temp agencylady said, then it was a staged firing, because the same day he (my son) was fired a friend of his co-workter with the name (xxx) just got his job the next day, starting at Monday. Well, how nice is that?

A couple of days later the department of labor called him and said he is not eligible for unemployment benefits, because he is now "employed" by the temp agency. So, he had several interviews, each time he has an interview, he can't take the day job they might have at the temp agency in the morning, If he doesn't take those jobs, the temp agency will give him a bad review. On the other hand he is supposed to search for work and needs to go to interviews. Basically they put up a system that doesn't give someone a real chance to find a regular job, as they penalize you for going to interviews and with it missing out on a day's temp agency work offer.

My son just said, it's no wonder that this place has so many homeless (and homeless vets), because the way they "treat them" to find a job, you really have to have a lot of nerves to "play their system". My son just said Thank God he has a little bit of money. How are the dirt poor able to put gas into their cars to get to the temp agency's work places, is beyond him. I dunno either. No wonder the people out of jobs retire into the woods and give up.

Well, learning by doing. Clearly it's always the worker's fault. Blaming them to not have enough education, they get that rubbed in under their nose all the time, expecially if they are brownish or native-ish. "if you work hard and go to school" you will make it. Well, my son did some school (which is worth absolutely nothing) and did more than that, he killed other people who look like him in Iraq so that those "elite educated ones" can be "safe" in their country, sitting around and being drug addicts or being one those rich investor types from the West Coast and NY area, buying all the land, destroying the landscape with over development, residing in their mansions not working hard but living of their rental incomes they get from poor working folks who can't afford the rent.

Well, for a scratcher without a dent on a car, you didn't cause, you can get wiped out your lifelihood within a couple of hours. Really, what kind of labor laws do you have in the land of the brave and free?

I think there is a lot of good will broken in many folks.