Anne N. Mouse: Blog

I've given up listening to Dave Ramsey. He keeps trying to tell me that poverty is a choice. Yet I've lived and worked through pretty close to 45 years and never once gotten off the bottom rung of the ladder, and it always feels like someone is either stepping on my fingers as I desperately cling to the ladder, or cutting the bottom rung off, dumping me back in the roiling maelstrom. One year ago I was dismissed from my job for incompetence... Or inability to adapt, I'm still not sure what it really was, other than the usual for me, that when I get near enough to operate industrial equipment it enters failure modes.

Then I was too slow to be able to run a weed whacker or lawnmower. So I'm crushed, because I have no hope for another job. I have applied and interviewed, and not been hired since. I'm really not giving up, but I don't see a way out. I apparently failed to develop any salable skills. I'm so disorganized that I've been skipping my injections, that, and well, it doesn't matter. I won't even be noticed when I go. It will take a week or maybe even several months for someone to find the body.

Don't tell me to door dash. My car is 22 years old, and I essentially live in it. So, no I didn't decide to be impoverished. I just have never been able to develop any skill fast enough to satisfy any employer.

I'm sure at least some people who visit this site know the name of Tommy Flowers. For those who don't I suggest you take the time to dig up an article about Tommy Flowers.

I wish you all a merry Christmas, and a happy new year. May 2026 be a prosperous time for you all.

I never believe any of my work is good enough. I want to write the perfect story and never finish one. I'm not even sure I learn how to have better endings, because, well I spend so much effort polishing unfinished stories that I never really complete one...

To all my American friends, I'm wishing you much joy in celebrating Thanksgiving day.