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Ode to a Tin Pig

Why Torture Friends when I Can Torture Readers..?

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  perhaps getting images like this on a regular basis keeps those that know me from reading my chats?   So.  As they say "What's it all about Alfie?" I am either reading or writing or stuck in a YouTube session for hours on end. Food breaks. Coffee breaks, smoky breaks and getting as high as possible, as this spurs on my creativity. That is crap logic as I am sure you can read between the lines and can smell a crock of steaming poo? My predilection for Mary's wacky-weed, my creativity is more consistent, but my immediate short-term memory can even shock me, it's so bad. Spelling errors? Notsomuch, thanks to lovely little AI drones , but the grammatical errors of a first grader. No, all of my English faux pas are mot much better stone cold sober. Does depression and a lack of self-worth figure into all of this. Oh yes, and more. That is a conversation for a a bit later. I will add and fill in my discussions about mental disease . Right now, I've got a bunch of...

A nice, behind the scenes look at "Sincerely, Yours."

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Welcome, dear Online Shopper! By accident or design, you have happened upon the story in real time, of setting up this commerce website I call Sincerely Yours . I'm not new to retail or b2b sales--I have been in the retail industry for over forty years. The difference now is I am not working for somebody else, which is a lovely thing. There is nothing more disheartening than working for a company, knowing what could be done , should be done but can't because decisions are made from offices, not working the sales floor. I have been on both sides of that position, and it shocked me how much of the sales floor action faded away from me. Opening a store as a sole proprietor just wasn't possible twenty years ago, for me or anyone else that wanted to open a store but was not independently wealthy or have as healthy business creditline. It is my hope that I will be able to offer many options for the consuming public, though my plans will be to open with a smaller amount of merchan...