Now I understand why the cute barista, who walks with the bent-back of a 70 year old, is charging me only $1.57 for my travel mug of horrible Starbucks coffee. It’s because she is only filling it up to the ‘tall’ level, not the $1.91 Grande height. Funny I thought it was called ‘Venti.’ And why are there three baristas for less than 2-dozen people? most involved in reading, although many are using obviously expensive laptops–after all this is Norterra.

Inside the B&N Cafe

Little would they know I’ve grown accustomed to the extreme wealth of Scottsdale’s Kierland Commons.

And money doesn’t impress me, maybe simply because for the past 9 years (with the exception of the two hell-filled years at Anthem C.C.) I’ve been awash in the tidal wave of possessions that high income allows. I’ve not drown or succumbed, I’ve simply become aware that there are people who will work much harder than me, who will lie, cheat, double-cross those closest to them, who will crush anyone in their way without regret and also a few who chose their birth parents more carefully.

And I’ve learned there is about as much connection between wealth and happiness as there is as there is between a spider’s web and the dew it traps.

Darn! Taking my secret photos from my table for posting on this blog, got my mind racing. Hate to get kicked out of the Barnes & Nobel, but the blog monsters say I must have photos.

Popeil Pocket Fisherman & miniature camera

Signed up to three dating sites. Having a real challenge coming up with what to put in any profile. Should I enclose my years with The French Foreign Legion, my work with the Mossad and the time was a double-agent with the USSR’s KGB while pretending I was an international salesman for The Popeil Pocket Fisherman?

There was ‘The Number 1 Tip’ for getting women in the side-bar, and it said to be nonchalant, not needy. Such a game. But since men behave incredibly selfishly naturally, why the instruction to behave nonchalant?

That’s my problem, I understand what inconsiderate bastards men are (and have managed to tame my own behaviors, although being almost 60 that happens naturally) but at the same time those behaviors draw women.

No wonder I’m going insane.