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Nutty Struggling Women Versus Stable Contented Women

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When I was in my mid 30s, and working as a caregiver for terminally ill adults and later doing self employed contracting work, I noticed something strange about women.

Married women who had everything that they wanted, were often very welcoming and nice to me, whereas single women who were struggling, ran from me like they were frightened.

As a typical example, when I was hired by a housewife to do some work at her home, when I arrived on time in the morning, she was happy to see me.  She was happy to see my work truck with all of the ladders on its ladder rack, all of my tool boxes in the truck bed, and my large flat bed equipment trailer.

Though my work boots were scuffed, and my jeans had some paint marks on them, I was clean, not dirty, and I didn’t smell.  I didn’t play loud music, I didn’t yell, I didn’t use bad language, I didn’t bring anyone questionable with me, I didn’t have many people calling me on the telephone, or anyone stopping by.  The housewives were happy with my work, that I did what I said I was going to do, for the price that I said, and that I cleaned everything up when I was done.

The married women that I worked for, who had nice large homes, and vacation homes, they kept my phone number, and would call me from time to time.  They would also say hello to me when they saw me in town and in stores.

On the other hand, when I got done working for a nice housewife, and I went to the grocery store in my work truck, young single women would run from me and my truck like I was going to get them.  Inside the grocery store, when I was merely shopping for food, young single women would try to avoid me, because they were certain that I was going to do something to them that they wouldn’t like.

The difference in women’s behavior was so blatant, that I was interested to know what was going on in their minds.  After thinking about it for quite a while, it came down to the Chicken and the Egg question, which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Were the women who were polite, friendly, and welcoming to me, were they this way because they had everything that they wanted, or, or, did these women have everything that they wanted because they were polite, friendly, and welcoming with people?

I really started to believe, that the women who were polite, friendly, and welcoming with me, were probably like this for most of their lives.  When they were young, it wouldn’t be surprising that men would want a woman like this to be his wife, they were so pleasant and agreeable.  A woman like this, would probably have the interest of many men, and she would be able to choose the one that she thought would be the best or most successful.

Conversely, the single women who ran from me in parking lots because I drove a work truck and was wearing construction worker clothes, believing that I was going to rape them, or tried to avoid me while shopping because they believed that I was going to do something to them that they wouldn’t like, these women were quick to find fault with anyone, and they rubbed people the wrong way.

One type of woman sees a man, and she thinks of what he might be good at, what work that she might get him to do for her.  Another type of woman sees a man, and she thinks that he is going to follow her home, tie her up, and rape her.

One type of woman could get a boyfriend in five minutes by being friendly and positive, whereas some women can’t get a boyfriend in five years because they are so negative and fault finding.

But I think that there is a third aspect to all of this.  The married women that I worked for that had everything that they wanted, a large home, and a vacation home, who were very friendly with me, yes I can see why they were able to get a good husband, they were friendly, positive, and agreeable.  However, when I thought about it some more, they might be the reason why their husband was successful.  It wasn’t just that they were able to pick a husband that was most likely to be successful, they might have been one of the reasons why their husband was successful.

The friendly, welcoming, positive wives, they were encouraging, they had faith in you.  They were not negative, doubtful, or fault finding.  I wanted to do a good job for them, I wanted them to be pleased, I didn’t want to let them down.  I can imagine that their husbands felt the same way.

Can you imagine having a wife that was encouraging, supportive, positive, who believed in you, who didn’t say and do mean things to you?  Wouldn’t it be easier to go to work in the morning, wouldn’t you want to do better?

The single women, that think, talk, and act like every man that they encounter is dirty, bad, and has bad intentions towards them, they don’t care that they are creating a bad impression with men.  These women are often struggling in just about every aspect of their lives, not advancing in employment, not making much money, being forced to live in low rent housing, only being able to afford a cheap automobile, struggling financially, not being invited to participate socially, very few social contacts.  They don’t realize that their struggles originate with them finding fault with everyone else, particularly men, and that they are alienating most people, especially men.

Fights And Thefts When An Elderly Spouse Dies

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Today I received a telephone call from a lady who lives in a different state, asking me if I was available to do some work for her.  At first, I only vaguely remembered who she was, but as we talked for a few minutes I began to remember very clearly who she was.

The last time that I had spoken to her was about two years ago.  At that time I had explained to her that I was working in North Dakota.  She remembered me telling her that, but she hadn’t known whether I had returned yet.

I asked her what was going on with her, and she told me that her husband had died about a year ago, and things have just been insane, that I wouldn’t believe it.  I thought to myself, no, I probably would believe it, I probably could have even predicted it, because I have seen it before.

Besides the contracting work that I have sometimes done for elderly people, which allowed the opportunity for elderly people to tell me about themselves and their lives, I have in the past also been a caregiver for terminally ill patients.  When people who are elderly begin to have failing health, even elderly people who own just a home and a vehicle, there are some strange plots and schemes which begin to unfold.

In this blog post I can’t cover everything that happens when an elderly spouse dies, but telling what happened to this woman, describes many of the things that do happen.

This woman, who I will call “Jean”, this was her first marriage, and it was her husband’s second marriage.  Her husband, who I will call “Tom”, he had an adult daughter who was the same age as his wife, Jean.  Though Jean had been married to her husband Tom for thirty years, because she was so much younger than her husband, and because of his previous marriage, there were other people that felt they had a right of precedence over his wife Jean in inheriting, receiving, or even keeping her husband’s property.

Prior to Tom’s health failing, representatives of the Church that Tom had once belonged to, would come visit him at his house, trying to ask Tom to reconcile with the Church.  Tom would explain to the representatives of the Church, the events that had made him decide to be done with the Church once and for all, back when he was a teenager.

As Tom and his wife Jean became older, they found that they had to be more forceful with the Church representatives that would come visit them at their home, telling them to please leave us alone, we have no desire to be involved with an organized Church and an organized religion, please do not come back.

As Tom’s health became very bad, and his wife Jean was struggling with Tom and her own health problems, the Church stepped up its efforts to try to reclaim Tom.  What Tom and Jean suspected, was that among other things, what the Church wanted was Tom’s large farm and ranch property outside of town.  Even though both Tom and Jean had told the Church representatives to leave them alone and not come back, they kept having Church representatives “accidentally” showing up at the wrong address and asking for directions, fairly frequently.

Jean suspected that the Church was hoping and trying to catch her husband Tom by himself, when she was away dong errands, so that they could try some type of tactics or ploy to get Tom to agree to transfer the farm and ranch property to the Church.  Jean came home one day to find several very attractive, and attractively dressed Church women knocking on her door trying to get her husband Tom to let them in, even though by this time, the Church had been told again, and again, and again to not come back.

This Church felt that they had more of a right to inherit and receive Tom’s property than his wife did, after all, this was his second wife, and she was not even a member of this Church.  I believe that Jean told me that shortly before her husband Tom’s death, they went ahead and gave to the Church, a copy of a legal document showing that long ago Tom had placed the farm and ranch property in a Trust for Tom’s daughter, so that the Church would leave them alone, and quit trying to obtain the farm and ranch from them.

Jean told me that when her husband Tom’s health began to fail, that began the long drawn out legal battle with Tom’s daughter.  Tom’s daughter then also began trying to use and make opportunities to take property away from Tom and Jean’s home.  Jean and Tom had been married for thirty years.  Because Tom was ill, Jean did not object to Tom’s daughter visiting him at their home.  However, during these visits which were supposed to be about caring for Tom, Tom’s daughter would surreptitiously sneak around the home, searching for valuables to take with her at that time, at a later date, or by someone else.

While Tom was sick, Tom’s daughter would remove family heirloom jewelry from the home, personal items, memorabilia, art objects, and other property without permission.  When Tom and Jean would go to medical appointments, often times when they returned home they would find that some of Tom’s tools had been taken from the garage.  Tom’s daughter and her accomplices were removing property from Tom and Jean’s home, because they felt that Jean did not have a right to this property.  Tom’s daughter even spoke about selling Tom’s home and everything in it, once Tom died, as if his wife Jean didn’t even exist.

Between the day that Tom died and the day of his funeral, when Jean left her home to go make funeral arrangements and cemetery arrangements, when she returned home she found that someone had gone through everything in her garage.  In the back yard, someone had pulled down the railroad ties that framed in their garden, so that they could dig through her garden, looking for who knows what.

Following her husband Tom’s funeral, every day there were phone calls or people knocking on Jean’s front door, saying that they were friends, relatives, acquaintances of Tom, or strangers, asking her what she was going to do with Tom’s guns.  She said to one of the strangers, why are all these people calling me and showing up at my front door asking about my husband’s guns, who is telling you to come here?  The stranger replied, that he was told by the people at the local Ranch Store.

Everything that I wrote up above, I have seen before.  Daughters of fathers who re-married, thinking that the new wife, is not entitled to anything, though their father and the new wife might have been married for twenty years or more.  Legally, the wife of a deceased husband, is entitled to what the husband leaves behind, not just as a matter of inheritance, but because things like a home, furniture, automobiles, and recreational vehicles were jointly owned and jointly used.

I have seen where family members of a terminally ill person show up, under the guise of caring, but who are really there because of their interest in seeing what assets that they might get a hold of.  I have seen two medical doctors get all excited about a twenty year old Toyota Corolla that was worth about $3,000, when neither of these two medical doctors had the right of inheritance to this car, it was the joint marital property of the widowed wife.  You would think that a doctor could buy their own car.

I have seen where widowed women have their house, garage, or shop broken into while they attend their husband’s funeral.  It most often appears that when spotting scopes, range finders, and hunting bows are taken, it was one of their husband’s friends or one of their neighbors that took these things.  I would recommend, that when a family goes to a funeral now, that they post someone as a guard at the home of the deceased person during the funeral.

I have seen where hunters, gun collectors, and other sleazy assholes, read obituaries in the newspaper and then telephone and show up at widowed women’s houses, hoping to get firearms away from some woman who has no idea that these firearms might be worth thousands of dollars, who is grieving and not thinking clearly about things, such as needing to get the full cash value for things like gun collections, or vintage vehicles.

Begging And Other Ploys On YouTube

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I am going to write this blog post about YouTube Channels, in the order of least annoying to most annoying.

When I watch metal detecting and abandoned places exploration videos on YouTube, I don’t recall ever being asked for money.  The metal detecting people very much enjoy everything about what they are doing, traveling to new places, exploring new places, detecting buried objects, and digging up objects to see what they are.

The abandoned places exploration videos, those people get pretty excited, and are happy in what they are doing too.  Now that I think about it, the exploration people usually ask for people to subscribe to their YouTube channel at the end of their videos.

When a YouTube channel gains a certain number of subscribers, and YouTube can see how many people are visiting a YouTube channel, YouTube has a formula that they use to determine how much money they will pay to a YouTube channel owner, based on how much paid advertising that they can place on that channel.

Look at it this way, when a particular person consistently uploads videos to their YouTube channel, and their videos usually receive 30,000 views, that person might as well be producing a daily or weekly television show, with that many views.  When these 30,000 viewers are drawn to a particular person’s videos, yes YouTube should pay the video creator a portion of the advertising revenue, and YouTube does.

The RV Life, Travel Trailer Life, Van Life people, who began making YouTube videos ten years ago, gained enough subscribers to their YouTube channels, maybe 30,000 to 100,000 subscribers, plus they had consistently very high views to their videos, that some of them eventually began getting paid $500 to $5,000 per month by YouTube, based on YouTube’s pay formula.

I don’t see anything wrong with this.  The RV Life, Travel Trailer Life, and Van Life people did not want to be tied down to one spot by having a normal job, so making videos of what they were doing, travelling from place to place, gave YouTube viewers something that they wanted to see and learn about, and in turn YouTube paid the video creators, which allowed them to continue to live out on the road.

However, there became a problem, which I believe that I wrote about not too long ago in a blog post titled something like “Fake People On YouTube”.  The real RV Life, Travel Trailer Life, and Van Life people that claimed to be living in their camper, were living in their camper, and they were making a video for YouTube about once every two or three days.

The fake RV Life, Travel Trailer Life, and Van Life people, practically held a casting call for young ladies that looked good in a bikini, and for cute looking dogs.  They obtained some props, like a camper, van, surfboards, or kayaks, got some wardrobe, and developed a shooting schedule with locations.  They went out on the road, they filmed at about ten locations per day, stayed in a hotel every night, until their shooting schedule was completed after about ten days.

The fake RV Life, Travel Trailer Life, and Van Life people, would film at enough locations in ten days, to have enough material for perhaps 50 to 80 videos.  Then, they could release two of these videos per week, for the next six months, to their YouTube RV Life channel, without ever having spent even a single night in an RV.

The fake RV Life people were called out on this, when the real RV Life people began pointing out that the fake people didn’t even have any food, water, utensils, or bedding in their RVs.

I am mentioning the fake RV Life, Travel Trailer Life, and Van Life people again,  because some YouTube viewers have pointed out, that these people tend to begin sharing all of their difficulties on the road, which leads up to them asking for money from viewers.

What I have noticed, is that just about all of the female campers, whether they are alone or with a man, end up sharing their problems on the road, and their YouTube videos begin to amount to thinly veiled begging and fund drives.

Finally, I am getting to what are now the most annoying YouTube videos to me.  These are the alternative lifestyle videos.  Typically, these alternative lifestyle videos involve people who do not have a job, but they seek to enjoy a good lifestyle, which often includes travel.

There are so many tangents that I could go off on complaining about the alternative lifestyle videos on YouTube, that I will try to stick to just one subject, employment.  These people who make YouTube videos and do not have a job, are living in their car, or are staying with friends or family, I can tell from watching them, that they could get a job as a waiter, waitress, at Home Depot, or a car wash.

Yes, they would have to put on and wear shoes at work, they might be required to shove their dread locks up under a hat or scarf, they would have to show up to work on time, and stay at work until the end of their shift, but I think that they could do it, just like everyone else has to.

The alternative lifestyle people see themselves as too sensitive, too creative, too intelligent for ordinary work, and they are trying to find work that is meaningful to them, or a lifestyle that suits them.  They create a YouTube channel, and they begin uploading videos, hoping to gain enough subscribers and enough video views, to begin receiving monthly payments from YouTube.

More and more young people are creating a YouTube channel, hoping to gain thousands of subscribers, thousands of views to their videos, and eventually receive monthly payments from YouTube.

In order to set themselves apart from other people on YouTube, to gain extra sympathy and extra attention, they begin making videos about their ADHD, their depression, their bi-polar disorder, their schizophrenia, their homelessness, their step brother trying to have sex with them, their step father trying to have sex with them, their teacher trying to have sex with them, them coming out of the closet as a lesbian, or why they like to have sex with their dog.

With about 320 million people in the United States, it is not going to pay for much longer, when you have about 20 million Americans with a YouTube channel, trying to make shit up on YouTube to gain sympathy and subscribers.

A Blog Post About A Woman, That I Should Probably Not Make

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This is going to be the closest that I have come to not making a blog post, yet still go ahead and make it anyway.

I know that I need to start out with a bunch of warnings, and a few explanations.

I live in Dickinson, North Dakota, where there is a shortage of women, and a scarcity of attractive women.  On top of that, the Police in Dickinson try as hard as they can to stop and arrest people for DUI, or anything else that they can come up with.

There is nothing to do in Dickinson, and no reason for me to leave my apartment.  In fact, I am wary of even going to the grocery store or a fast food restaurant drive thru in Dickinson because I doubt that I can make it without the Police stopping me for something.

I am lonely, and I wish to converse with attractive women, like I used to do before I came to North Dakota.  One of the places where I have found women to look at and communicate with, is on their YouTube channels.  In the past, I have found interesting women on Facebook, but the women on Facebook are sometimes or often times not interested in meeting or hearing from strangers.  On YouTube, this is a different situation, the whole point of having a YouTube channel, is to have as many viewers and subscribers as possible, so receiving comments from viewers, is not unwelcome.

There are crazy, crazy women on YouTube.  It is often times hard to tell, if what they are saying is true or completely made up.  I could go on and on about the crazy, strange women on YouTube, there are probably a million of them, but I want to just write about one of them in this blog post.

I need to warn women readers now, that they are not going to like hearing about this particular woman, some readers may already know who she is, because they have seen or heard about her YouTube videos.  I had first seen her YouTube videos a couple of years ago, and I had only had a brief curiosity at that time.

This particular woman, appeared to be skirting the YouTube rules about uploading videos with nudity, by uploading videos of herself topless, nursing her infant son.  At first, because she seemed sincere about the benefits of nursing children, YouTube and the public, did not make much comment, except for the men that enjoyed the five to seven minute videos of her showing her bare breasts.

This woman, her name is Linzi, she was 29 years old, she was tan, thin, in shape, with long brown hair, and she was very attractive.  She was a hippie, a Vegan, and a health and fitness enthusiast.  She was very proud to be nursing her child, and she posted nearly a hundred videos of herself nursing on YouTube, sometimes not even wearing a shirt, and just a bikini bottom.  Linzi also began to express her belief in nudity.

As time went on, and years passed, with Linzi continuing to upload videos of herself nursing her son, women in the United States became more and more outraged.  Women in the United States, accused Linzi of being mentally ill, and they wanted to have some kind of intervention from Child Protective Services.  The problem was, that Linzi and her husband were living in Ecuador, where there is no Child Protective Services.

Once again, I need to warn the women readers, that they are not going to like what I am going to write about Linzi, so they might want to not read any further.  Perhaps to seek attention, perhaps because she is an exhibitionist, or because of her sexual desire, Linzi began to post more and more YouTube videos that were of a sexual or erotic nature, but YouTube kind of let this pass, because Linzi was proposing that everything that she was showing had a health benefit to it.

Linzi began making videos discussing her breasts, her vagina, her anus, nudity, sex, and masturbation, usually while wearing very little clothing.  Sometimes, Linzi would make cooking videos where she was completely nude, with just a small food bowl hiding her bare pubic area.  By this time, many men loved Linzi’s videos, while at the same time women thought that Linzi was crazy.

When I recently went through almost all of Linzi’s YouTube videos, I had always suspected that Linzi was very interested in nudity and sex, and it was the case that Linzi’s videos over time became more and more sexual in nature.

By the time that Linzi was 34 years old, she was very openly expressing her sexual desires and habits in her YouTube videos.  Linzi was still thin, tan, in shape, with long brown hair, still very attractive.  Her husband had left her, for a younger Ecuadoran woman, and he told Linzi as he was leaving, “that her vagina was too big and stretched out”.  This really hurt Linzi’s feelings.

I am again warning women readers, to quit reading, because this only gets worse.  As perverted as Linzi was, I could relate to her and her situation, because I had a girlfriend exactly like her, who was 34 years old, when I was 24 years old.  This girlfriend that I had, who was very thin and in shape, who looked and acted a lot like Linzi, was very horny, she was always masturbating, she had desensitized herself because she had masturbated so much, and to make matters worse, she had a huge vagina.

I felt sorry for Linzi, and I could relate to her and her situation.  Linzi was from Arkansas and Oklahoma, she had a sweet voice, a southern accent, and a gentle manner.  She often modeled clothes in her videos, where she looked like a nice librarian, school teacher, or housewife.  No one could have guessed how horny she was, and what a sex fiend she was.

How can I say that about her?  Because one of her viewers gave the internet link where you could find Linzi’s pornography videos.  After her husband left, Linzi needed to make money somehow, so she began making pornography videos.  She has made about seven pornography videos so far, and in them she acts just like the 34 year old school teacher girlfriend that I used to have, that no one would have guessed how horny she was.

Very few of Linzi’s YouTube viewers know that she made these pornography videos, though Linzi is promoting the nude modeling that she is now doing for some website called Patreon.  Because Linzi has been able to make some money, she is now purchasing several acres of land that she wants to plant, farm, and be able to work without wearing any clothes.

The reason why I almost didn’t make this blog post, is because women hate Linzi so much, that there is no explaining her as far as most women are concerned, and some men too.

There are some videos that Linzi has made, that would be shocking and repulsive to most people.  I wouldn’t be able to convince many people that Linzi wasn’t insane.  What I do see, and what I do know, is that there are women like Linzi who enjoy nudity, enjoy exhibiting themselves to others, enjoy sex, but don’t dare let people know because people would be so mean to them, and critical of them.

Here is one YouTube video of Linzi, where she is with a younger boyfriend shortly after her husband left her.  This younger boyfriend left her too, but I wanted to show this video where Linzi is happy, and not any different than other women her age.

Four Stories About Visitors Destroying Things

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In my previous two blog posts, I showed videos of two different abandoned properties, where there was some vandalism, but not complete vandalism, at least no one had burned anything down yet.

I wanted to explain who and why do people destroy things.  What it comes down to is “deviance”, or abnormal socialization.  Yes, poor people, uneducated people, ignorant people, white trash, criminals, and drug addicts are more likely to be destructive, but other people have deviant behavior also.

I wanted to tell four stories about visitors destroying things, and then point out one commonality, that people can use to predict destructive behavior.

  • There was an old, wealthy real estate agent and insurance agency owner in the town where I grew up.  As a favor to a younger couple who did not have much money, he allowed them to stay at his cabin in the Ocala National Forest.  This cabin was grandfathered in, no new construction could take place in this area of the Ocala National Forest.  The young couple stayed in the cabin on Friday evening, Saturday, and part of Sunday.  The cabin burned down to the ground later on Sunday.

The cabin did not burn down by itself, this cabin had existed for eighty years, and now it was completely gone, and could not be rebuilt, that was it, no more construction was permitted in this part of the National Forest.  The young couple had left a fire burning in the fireplace, dumped ashes into a trash can, or threw a lit cigarette on the ground before they left.  All the young husband and wife did, was shrug their shoulders, after they destroyed this man’s cabin.

  • This same old, wealthy real estate agent and insurance agency owner, as a favor to another young couple who did not have much money, he allowed them to stay at his vacation home on Mosquito Lagoon.  The young couple stayed Friday evening, Saturday, and part of Sunday.  Later on Sunday, the smoker house caught on fire and burned down, which very nearly caught his vacation house on fire and destroyed this house too.

A smoker house has a concrete block or brick base, where you build a small wood fire.  The upper portion of the smoker house is made of plywood, and has metal mesh shelves, where you place meat or fish to be smoked.  Any idiot should know, that plywood burns, you don’t build a roaring fire with five or six foot flames inside of a smoker house.  The young couple who built a large fire inside the smoker house, and then left, almost causing the house to be destroyed, they just shrugged their shoulders.

  • In my late teens, I worked at a condominium resort on the beach and intercoastal river.  There was a problem with one of the condominium units.  The neighbors above, below, and on either side of this condominium unit began calling the management office complaining about a terrible smell.  The owner of this condominium unit, as a favor to a young couple who did not have much money, allowed them to stay in this condominium unit.

The young couple stayed Friday evening, Saturday, and part of Sunday.  The young man, being very wise, went to the electric panel, and turned the main breaker off right before they left the unit.  Never mind that the refrigerator freezer was full of shrimp and lobster, or that the refrigerator was full of food.  None of the condominium units were ever supposed to be left without the air conditioner on, because of the 100% humidity on the ocean, all of the curtains, sofas, beds, carpets, and walls would develop mold.  There was a tremendous amount of damage and clean up required in this unit, and all the young couple did was just shrug their shoulders.

  • When I had to leave my home in Idaho in 2011 to go to work in North Dakota, I allowed a friend of mine who did not have any money, to stay in my house while I was gone.  He got a cook out grill from a thrift store, but this grill was missing the bottom metal grate that would have gone over the bottom air vent holes.

He filled this cook out grill full of charcoal, and cooked some meat on it.  The charcoal briquettes burned to a smaller size, and fell through the vent holes on the bottom of the grill, setting the porch boards on fire.  I don’t know where he was, probably not around, because the charcoal briquettes burned completely through porch boards.

For some miraculous reason, the porch boards only burned so far, the fire did not make it all the way to the house, and completely burn my house down.  The friend of mine who did not have any money, he could not have cared less.

I told these four stories about people destroying property, to illustrate a common thing.  People who do not have very much themselves, do not own anything of value, have very little money in the bank, have no way to make very much money, no way to buy anything for themselves, and no way to pay for damage that they cause to other people’s property, Watch Out For These People!

There is a double or triple effect with these people.  They are too stupid, too unfocused, too irresponsible, or too lazy to be able to earn money and have any assets or own anything of value.  They are jealous or resentful that other people earn more than they do, or have more than they have.  The damage that they do, whether accidental or intentional, it really makes no difference with them because they don’t think or pay attention, they can’t or won’t be held accountable or responsible because they have no way to pay for what they destroy.

Yes, it is poor, uneducated, ignorant, white trash, criminal, drug addict people who destroy other people’s property, but it is also people who do not have anything themselves, who are jealous of others, who know that they can’t or won’t be held financially responsible who destroy other people’s property.

Abandoned Mining Town In The Mojave Desert

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I want to share another incredible video from the YouTube channel called Explore With Us.  The video below is perhaps in some ways, better than the abandoned house on the mountain outside of Searchlight, Nevada that I showed in my previous blog post.

The couple who makes these abandoned and forgotten places videos as a hobby, they could not even believe how undisturbed and undamaged this abandoned mining town was, they could not believe that vandals had not found this place yet.

In some of the primitive, rustic cabins, the owners had left securely stored food, utensils, cookware, stoves, books, framed photographs, and sleeping cots with blankets.  The owners did not bother to lock the doors, as there was no point, the location was so remote, people either would or wouldn’t destroy everything.

This is really hard to believe, that everything left on its own, has not been destroyed yet.

Beautiful Abandoned Home On A Mountain In Searchlight, Nevada

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What I am going to share with you, may be one of the most worthwhile things that I have posted on my blog website.  I want to give a little bit of an explanation before I show the video.

There is a couple, who live in the southwestern U.S. who explore abandoned and forgotten places as a hobby.  They make videos while they explore, and they upload these videos to their YouTube channel called Explore With Us.

In Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, there are mining towns where at one time many people lived, but once the mine shut down, everyone moved away, leaving behind houses, shops, schools, and churches, just as they were.  Also, there are farms, ranches, and homesteads, where the owners just left, never to return, due to such reasons as failing health, old age, inability to make a living, or something else happening to them.

The video at the bottom of this blog post, shows a custom home that was completed by a man named Mr. Kay in 1969.  Mr. Kay was born in a small desert town in Arizona in 1908.  He served in the Navy during WWII.  After the war, he and his wife owned and operated a small motel, in the small mining town of Searchlight, Nevada.

In 1950 Mr. Kay bought 20 acres of land on a 1,000 foot high mountain outside of town for the taxes owed on the land.  In 1959 he began building, and it took him the next ten years to complete his home.

Mr. Kay built the concrete pier, concrete slab, and rock wall foundation for his home.  He bought the material to build the home, as he went along.  Some of the building material, was salvaged from oil well, mining, and other industrial sites.

The interior was finished with wood paneling, antique colored glass hanging lamps, a marble fireplace, avocado green shag carpet, and stereo music speakers in every room.  The home was completed by Mr. Kay in 1969, and there was a newspaper article about Mr. Kay and his house in the Las Vegas newspaper in 1976.

When you watch the video, and you see the incredible views overlooking the completely vacant desert, keep in mind what was happening in 1969.  There was the Cuban Missile Crises, the constant imminent threat of a nuclear war, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassinations, the MLK assassination, Civil Rights protests and riots, and the landing on the moon.  The world was in chaos, and a person did not know what would happen next.

Can you imagine what it would feel like to get away from everything in a place like this, with complete peace, tranquility, and the amazing view of the stars at night?

After watching this video, some viewers left comments asking what happened to the owners, where is this located, can people just come there and move in, or how could they go about buying this property?  If you read through the comments, all of these questions are answered by other viewers, sometimes in complete detail.

Yes, a person probably can buy this property, just read through the comments, and there is enough specific information given about the site location, that someone can go through the process of finding the owners, which someone wrote was now a Las Vegas Trust, and they should be able to make an offer to purchase this property outside of Searchlight, Nevada.

Though I believe that there are many people who are capable of purchasing this property, it would take a great deal of money to get the home into livable condition again with the structural, electrical, water, and sewer system repairs.  As soon as someone purchased this property, and no matter what stage of the restoration process the house was in, leaving this place for just a few days might result in someone doing a tremendous amount of vandalism.  Because this property has been vacant for so long, the way vagrants and vandals think, no one has the right to own this place.  Only constantly having three to four large mean Rottweiler dogs on the property would reduce the threat of vandalism.

Here is the link to the newspaper article about Mr. Kay and his house, that was written in 1976.  Once you click on this link and reach the newspaper site, scroll down to the reader panel in order to read the article, use the scroll tab to the right of the reader panel.  I believe that Mr. Kay died in 1979, though some viewers found another person with a similar name who died in 2009, who is not the correct Mr. Kay.

https://newspaperarchive.com/las-vegas-sun-nov-28-1976-p-99/

Watching Stephi Lee On YouTube

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Several days ago, I began watching a young lady name Stephi Lee on YouTube.  Her YouTube videos were somewhat lumped together with the videos produced by people who live in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans, though this is not really what Stephi is about.

When watching Stephi Lee’s YouTube videos, right away most people would say that Stephi is cute or attractive, but after that, opinions would vary greatly.  Some people dislike her or are irritated by her, because of the way that she acts, and some of the things that she does.

Fortunately, Stephi went ahead and made several videos explaining her circumstances, and why she is the way that she is.  I will try to re-tell, what she has already explained.

Stephi was born with cystic fibrosis, a medical condition where her body over produces mucous, which reduces her lung capacity by half.  She speaks with a quiet monotone voice, because it is difficult for her to speak, and it requires extra effort.

She was very shy when she was young, and would only speak to her mother and a few family members up until 4th grade.  Her mother died when she was 11 years old, and she says that both she and her father did not cope very well with the death of her mother.  She had some other problems in adolescence and as a teenager which I won’t repeat now.

Stephi attended college, and was interested in art.  With little or no money, she drove across the United States in her car, in order to arrive in Los Angeles.  In Los Angeles, she sleeps in her car on the street.

Partly because of how she feels, what she believes in, how she wants to live, and also because she does not have a job or money, she lives like a hippie.  She wears her hair in dread locks, does not wear make up, and dresses in minimal Bohemian, gypsy, or thrift store clothing.

Some people are mad at her, because they believe that she is an attractive young lady, who has chosen an unhealthy lifestyle of drug use, partying, promiscuity, self abuse, and self neglect, essentially throwing her life away.  But if you watch Stephi’s videos, which are mostly about her expressing herself through her words and what she is doing, you will see that she is not involved in drugs, partying, promiscuity, or behaving like a vagrant.

On Instagram and YouTube, Stephi met a very popular and well-liked hippie from England named Jason, who is a very energetic world traveler.  Jason helped Stephi begin creating and uploading videos to YouTube about a year ago.  Several months ago, Jason invited Stephi to travel with him through Thailand, Cambodia, and southeast Asia.  Jason and Stephi each uploaded about ten very excellent videos to YouTube showing their travels together in Asia.

Stephi is now back in Los Angeles, where she continues to live in her car, but she has made some friends who make it a little easier for her to survive.  She continues to live like a hippie, and associate with hippies, because this is how she prefers to live.

Though I like her, I like her manner, and I like her videos very much, Stephi is irritating to me.  I am not completely put off by her twenty tattoos, her dread locks, or that she does not shave her arm pits, legs, or pubic area, and walks around barefoot, but she seems to want to find a way to be unacceptable to people to keep people away, until she needs something or needs help from ordinary uncool people.

Here is one of Stephi’s videos:

Time’s Money Magazine Named Dickinson As 9th Best Place In America To Start A Career

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In March of 2018, Time’s Money Magazine named Dickinson, North Dakota as the 9th best place in America to launch a career.

When I see announcements like this, it makes me cringe.  It is annoying and irritating.  Most people who live in Dickinson, do not think of Dickinson as a good place to live.

The author of this article, Kerri Anne Renzulli, wrote that the criteria for selection was projected job growth, unemployment, cultural diversity, educational opportunity, and recreational activities.

Like I said, articles like this make me cringe, they are frustrating, annoying, and irritating.  How can people get things so wrong?

I wish that the people who write these articles about how Dickinson is such a good place to live, would spend at least one week living in Dickinson.  One month would be even better.  They wouldn’t dare do this, because they know that what they are writing is a bunch of made up, make believe bullshit, but they have to turn in something in order to get paid for their article.

In 2011 when I first came to Dickinson during the middle of the oil boom, there were all different kinds of people who had come from all over the United States with high expectations and enthusiasm about becoming rich and successful.  In general, it only took most people less than six months of living in this area to lose their enthusiasm because of reality.

The wage rates in Dickinson were generally $12 to $25 per hour.  By working five, twelve hour days, 60 hours per week, or more, workers could make $45,000 to $70,000 per year, this was not unusual.  However, 25% of their weekly pay was taken out in taxes, rents were very high, and workers easily spent $30 per day on convenience store food and drinks which was all that they could get.

Work conditions were horribly cold in the winter, filthy, frustrating, and dangerous.  It was very common for oil companies, oil field service companies, and construction companies, to have inadequate work plans, missing information, inadequate management and supervision, unqualified supervisors and foremen, and managers, supervisors, foremen, equipment operators, and workers who were working while under the influence of illegal drugs and alcohol.  It was a mess.

Even in the middle of the oil boom, six months was all that many people could stand.  To this day, just about everyone that I talk to who worked in North Dakota, they describe it as a horrible experience.

Even though things have calmed down in western North Dakota once the oil boom went away in 2015 after the price of oil fell to $30 per barrel, there are many things that still make Dickinson a bad place to live.  The local people who are from Dickinson, do not like people who are from some place else.  The local people from Dickinson are hostile and unfriendly to people who are from some place else.

There are very few things to do in Dickinson.  One of the things that people might do, would be to have drinks at dinner at a restaurant or bar at night in Dickinson, but it is not safe to do this, because the Police in Dickinson try as hard as they can to arrest people for DUI.

There is a shortage of women, and a scarcity of attractive women in Dickinson.  Exactly opposite of what the Money Magazine article says about Dickinson being a good place to start a career, all of the young attractive women who grow up in western North Dakota, get the hell out of here as soon as they graduate from high school.  The ratio of men to women in Dickinson is about 3:1, and the women who are here are unattractive and unfriendly.

If I had a son who was between the age of 18 to 30 years old, I would not want him to come to Dickinson, I would try to discourage it and prevent it.  Whether he had a college education or just a high school diploma, I would not want my son to come to Dickinson, it is just too bad a place, and too dangerous.

The companies in Dickinson, and the local people in Dickinson, do not like people with an education, especially engineers.  The employers in Dickinson, managers, and workers, have the intention of causing educated people and engineers problems, making work both difficult and unsafe.  The “Engineers” in Dickinson, are usually local people who do not have any education or degree in engineering.  Degreed engineers either get run off, or they won’t stay in Dickinson.

The employers, managers, and workers in Dickinson, do not like people who are from some place else, and they make work both difficult and unsafe for people who are from some place else.

I know from my own experience, that if I had a son I would not want him to come to work in Dickinson.  In addition to working in an environment where his local co-workers would be difficult, uncooperative, and undermining, and likely try to cause him to have an accident or injury, if the drug dealers in Dickinson did not get him, the Dickinson Police would.

In Dickinson, at the companies where I have worked, the managers, supervisors, foremen, and workers have been illegal drug users.  I have been around drug users, drugs, and people offering me illegal drugs at work.  At the same time, I have had undercover Police Officers in Dickinson come up to me in bars and ask me, again and again, do you know where I can buy drugs, do you know where I can buy drugs, do you know where I can buy drugs?  Then, the Police in Dickinson wait outside bars and restaurants at night in order to try to arrest people for DUI, or anything else that they can come up with.

If you are a young male who comes to work in Dickinson, you will be treated badly by local managers, supervisors, and co-workers who do not like people from some place else, you will not get cooperation, and you will likely be injured by your local co-workers on the job.  You will be around people who will try to get you to use illegal drugs, and you can be banned from oil field employment for 3 years if you test positive for illegal drugs.  The Dickinson Police will try to find a way to arrest you for either illegal drugs or DUI.

The friends and acquaintances that I made while living in Dickinson, several truck drivers, construction workers, engineers, electricians, equipment operators, business owners, entrepreneurs, and business managers, some of them highly skilled, intelligent, or hard working, they have all gotten out of Dickinson because there is nothing here.  No women, no good employment, nothing to do, no where to go, just the Dickinson Police constantly trying to arrest them for something.

If Dickinson has a low unemployment rate, it is because people willingly and gladly leave Dickinson because there is no reason to stay here.  This does not mean that Dickinson is a good place to start a career, because there is low unemployment.  This is how people like Kerri Anne Renzulli who went to the University of Central Florida, who lives in New York City can get things so wrong, she has never even driven through Dickinson, North Dakota, or spent any time here at all.

Strange, Mentally Ill, And Fake People On YouTube

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In the past several months, I have been staying inside and watching YouTube videos more and more.  In North Dakota where I live, in January, February, and March it is just about always below 0 degrees Fahrenheit outside if you take the wind chill effect into account.  I don’t want to spend any time outside, and I actually got pneumonia in March after being outside unexpectedly.

I just type “YouTube” into my Google search browser, then click on YouTube, to see what videos will come up.  I watch car videos, metal detecting videos, exploring abandoned property videos, trail cam videos, bigfoot videos, conspiracy theory videos, prank call videos, home security camera videos, and more.

This past month, I watched YouTube videos produced by people who live in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, cargo trailers, and vans.  I have done this before myself, both in Idaho and in North Dakota.  In Idaho, when I first arrived in the state, I didn’t know where I wanted to live, I didn’t want to rent an apartment, and I didn’t want to live with roommates, so I bought and lived in a used travel trailer.

Later, after I had bought a home in Idaho, the economy got worse and worse, and I had to travel to North Dakota to find work during the oil boom.  Due to the high cost and shortage of housing in North Dakota during the oil boom, I again began living in a truck bed camper, and later my customized enclosed utility trailer.  When you customize a utility trailer to make it into a camper, you create what is called a “stealth camper”, because most people can not tell and do not know that someone is living inside of it.

When I watched the YouTube videos produced by people living in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, cargo trailers, and vans, most of these people discussed common issues that they dealt with, such as where to park for free, how they get electricity from solar panels, how they customized their living area in order to maximize space, how much space they needed, and what their living expenses were each month.

Keep in mind, that I had met and lived among people who lived in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans before.  There is a spectrum of people, from retired engineers and accountants who live in luxury motor homes that cost several hundred thousand dollars, who have a million dollars in retirement savings, to people who did not graduate from high school who are sleeping in the back seat of their car.

The average person that you might meet who lives in a motor home, travel trailer, camper, or van, is someone who is trying to save money and economize by not paying rent, not having a mortgage, not paying property taxes, not paying homeowners insurance, not paying for home maintenance, and not paying for utilities.  They may have found it to be too much of a physical and financial burden to constantly have to earn enough money to live in a traditional home, with all of those costs.  They may be living on a retirement, social security, or social security disability income.

Whether the person is living in a high end motor home, new travel trailer, used travel trailer, old motor home, or van, the incidence of strangeness and mental illness in these people is higher than people who live in traditional homes or apartments.  You will just about always find that people who live in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans are trying not only to live cheaply and economize, but that they are also trying to withdraw from normal life, or escape from something.

It may seem reasonable and rational that some people get tired of paying high mortgage payments, property taxes, home owners insurance, and utilities, just to live in a box, a box wedged in the middle of a bunch of other boxes, where they feel trapped.  But rather than making a decision to relocate to a less expensive and less crowded area, or to downsize, the motor home, travel trailer, camper, and van people often decide to try to check out and opt out of everything, and become a hobo or recluse.

So when I watched the YouTube videos of the people who were living in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans, I saw some stress, sadness, embarrassment, and defeat in these people.  When these people told their life stories, though they often tried to say that they made the decision to live like this, they were actually explaining that their life circumstances got them into the position where this was one of their only options.

Just one example that was common, was that these people or their spouse suffered an illness that was both emotionally and financially devastating, to where they were going to lose their home and be unable to have the household income that they used to have.  Another reason why these people were going to lose their home and no longer be able to afford a similar home, was because the person or their spouse could no longer physically or emotionally hold themselves together in order to continue performing the work they had done in the past.  They were physically and emotionally too burned out from the work that they had been doing, work that they were capable of doing when they were younger.

The motor home, travel trailer, camper, and van dwellers, who made their YouTube videos, this was therapeutic for them.  They got to tell about how they felt much less burdened once they got rid of their homes and most of their possessions.  Once they had so much fewer possessions, their needs became much simpler, and they required much less money to live on.  They no longer felt so pressured to earn money.

When they woke up in the morning at a free camp site, they were not on any kind of schedule, and there was no one demanding anything from them.  They did not have to hurry and get ready for work.  They could take the time to enjoy the view and the beauty of their surroundings.

On the other hand, there were some common problems that motor home, travel trailer, camper, and van dwellers faced.  There was the fear that their engine or transmission would fail when they were out in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of miles from anywhere that could perform the repairs.  There was the fear of strangers showing up at a remote campsite and harming them or stealing whatever they had.

Many of the women travelers had something bad to report every time that they uploaded a new YouTube video.  Whether they had parked in a paved parking lot at a shopping center, a wooded clearing in the middle of nowhere, or paid for a spot at a campground, someone bothered them during the night.  And, women travelers would report suspicious people looking at them, following them, and visiting them during the day.

The combination of women travelers being bothered at night, bothered during the day, feeling unsafe when having to use the bathroom or bathe, and the problems that they had with their motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans, you could tell from their YouTube videos that they were becoming more and more worn out and exhausted each day.

But the strangest thing of all the YouTube RV lifestyle videos, was the people who claimed to live in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans, but did not, they were pretty much faking it.

Apparently, because there were people who actually lived in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans who did not have jobs, who were able to upload videos to YouTube showing the locations where they were parked each day, which people enjoyed watching, young couples, and young women, began claiming and pretending to be living in RVs in order to have their own YouTube channel too.

I noticed this myself, but I didn’t really think about it or dwell on it, thinking that it was just general bullshit.  However, some of the people who actually live in smaller motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans began to call attention to it and complain about it.  The people who actually lived in RVs, were warning that people who watched these fake YouTube RV living channels, were going to get the wrong idea about what living in RVs was actually like, and adversely suffer if they relied on this information.

For instance, the older middle-aged women who had work careers and who owned their own homes prior to selling everything and moving into a motor home, travel trailer, camper, or van, generally reported on their YouTube channel almost every day, that someone had bothered them during the night, someone had been looking at them during the day, or that they had a problem with their RV.  In contrast, on the fake YouTube RV living channels, young ladies in their early twenties would supposedly be walking around all day in bikinis through their camp sites, and not be bothered, at all, ever.  They were not bothered at night, because they were in fact sleeping in a hotel room every night.

The people who actually live in motor homes, travel trailers, campers, and vans, want to stress that it is difficult, rugged, and that you have to give up many comforts.  You can’t take showers every day, wash clothes every day, run your air conditioner, or drive into town every day when you get set up at a remote camp site.  The fake YouTube RV living people who take showers a couple of times a day, change clothes several times a day, are always clean, always have clean clothes, that try to make the RV living lifestyle look glamorous, are actually spending most of their time in hotels.  They are leading many viewers to failure, when these viewers sell everything they own to live in an RV and they are unprepared for what it is really like and how difficult it is.

People Not Getting Arrested For Crimes In Dickinson, North Dakota

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Sometimes in Dickinson, North Dakota, I have been disappointed, angry, upset, and frustrated that some people do not get arrested for crimes that they commit in Dickinson.  It is upsetting because not only do some criminals not receive any punishment for their crimes, there is no deterrent to them continuing to commit crimes, but I know that if I did what they did, I would instantly get a year in jail.

A couple of years ago, I was at an event in Dickinson.  I did not consume any alcohol during the event.  After the event was over, I was talking to the event organizers, when I was attacked by an event attendee, who I had never met before, named Shaun.  Myself, the event organizers, and other event attendees were shocked when I was struck in the shoulders by Shaun, and I was knocked off my feet.

As I quickly got up, Shaun continued to try to attack me, and about four or five people tried to hold Shaun back, as he was yelling “I will fucking kill you!”  I had a metal object in my hand, which I was going to use to hit Shaun in the head, if I needed to.

The security guards telephoned the Dickinson Police, followed Shaun for several blocks, as his girlfriend was telling people that she was a Police Officer or that she worked for the Police.  Right when Shaun and his girlfriend were getting into a taxi cab, Police Officer Justin arrived, and stopped them.

Myself, the event organizer, and several security guards told Dickinson Police Officer Justin that I was struck suddenly by Shaun punching me in my shoulders, which knocked me backwards off my feet.  Police Officer Justin said that he could not charge Shaun with assault because he had not witnessed the assault, but that he would charge him with disorderly conduct.

What Police Officer Justin told me at that time, was that if I had hit Shaun in the head with the metal object that I was holding, that I would have been arrested for aggravated assault, for using deadly force against someone, when deadly force was not called for, even though Shaun was yelling, “I will fucking kill you.”

In a later meeting at the Dickinson Police Department with more senior Police Officers, I was again told that I would have likely been charged with aggravated assault if I had hit Shaun in the head with a metal object, as this would be viewed as use of deadly force.  I still to this day, disagree with, and do not understand, why when a person is attacked in North Dakota, they can not defend themselves by any means necessary.

There was never any record of Shaun attacking me.  Police Officer Justin did not charge Shaun with disorderly conduct, or anything at all.  I did some checking and asking around to find out what was going on.

Shaun’s girlfriend who was there that night, telling people that she was a Police Officer or that she worked for the Police Department, had in the past worked for the Dickinson Police Department in administration or as a dispatcher.  I do not know if the Dickinson Police Department did not file any charges on her boyfriend Shaun as a favor to her.

I looked up this girlfriend on the North Dakota Court Records Repository, and I saw that she had been arrested twice for bad check writing, and once for hit and run leaving the scene of an accident, which says something about her character, and the Dickinson Police Department for hiring her.  Her boyfriend Shaun had been arrested a couple of months earlier for DUI in Dickinson.

I found out a couple of places where Shaun was performing some work, and I knew the managers at these locations.  Within a couple of weeks of Shaun attacking me, he was arrested in Watford City for a bench warrant for failure to appear at his DUI court case in Dickinson.

One of the managers that I spoke to about Shaun, said that Shaun was very passive, and that his attack on me was not like him.  I was curious and interested to see what happened, what would Shaun do next.

Recently I spoke to person who knew Shaun, and I said that I was interested to see what had happened with him, he had never been charged by the Dickinson Police for attacking me, had he done anything else crazy?  Yes, “He beat the fuck out of his girlfriend, and he held his girlfriend and her manager hostage and would not let them go.”

I then looked up Shaun on the North Dakota Court Records Repository, and there is no record of Shaun assaulting his girlfriend, or holding his girlfriend and her manager hostage and not letting them leave.  Women are funny, they pay no heed and take no warning to someone who acts violently towards others, then when they turn violent toward them, beating them or holding them against their will, they just accept it, and don’t even report it to the Police.

In North Dakota, “kidnapping”, has a mandatory sentence of life in prison.  But they just let things like this go in Dickinson.

Accused Armed Robbers in Dickinson

Ghetto Whites And Ghetto Blacks Now Arriving In Dickinson, North Dakota

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When I first came to Dickinson, North Dakota in 2011 during the oil boom, it seemed like about 25% of the young working age males from Idaho came to western North Dakota to work.  The young men who had worked on farms and worked in construction in Idaho, did very well in western North Dakota.  They were accustomed to working long hours, operating equipment, driving big trucks, hooking up and loading trailers, towing trailers, driving in the snow, and working outside in the cold.

Probably the only thing that gave people from Idaho a bad reputation in North Dakota, were the people from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.  Coeur d’Alene is only 30 miles from Spokane, Washington.

Spokane, Washington has a population of over 200,000 people.  There is very high unemployment, especially among young people.  With thousands of poor, unemployed, and under employed young people, who are idle, there is a culture of grunge, drug use, crime, and theft.  The culture of, “Let’s steal something, sell it, go buy some heroin, and get high.”

The young men from the rural areas of Idaho who had earned their living from working on farms and working in construction, were pretty good workers.  The young men, and young women, from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, are nothing like the rest of Idahoans.  They come from a grunge, drug, crime, and ghetto culture, where hard work and trustworthiness is not found or practiced.  If you see an Idaho license plate that starts with the letter “K”, stay away.

Many or most of the people arriving in Dickinson, North Dakota right now are not trades people or construction workers, they are ghetto people from places like Los Angeles, Seattle, Spokane, and Coeur d’Alene.

Trades people, people who are electricians, plumbers, mechanics, welders, heavy equipment operators, or carpenters, find out ahead of time what companies are hiring in an area before they move.  There is no point in moving several states away to a particular town, if there is no work in the trade that they do in that particular town.

The ghetto people who are arriving now in Dickinson, did not do any checking ahead of time before they came to Dickinson.  They are stupid, have low intelligence, low education, low information, very little common sense, very little work experience, and very few work skills.  They do not know what companies in Dickinson want, need, and require from their employees.

These ghetto people are not going to be hired at any of the car dealers or equipment dealers in Dickinson.  They are not going to be hired at any of the hardware stores or material yards.  Nor the oil companies, oil field service companies, city, county, schools, or business offices.  A few might get hired as construction laborers, and some might get hired to work in fast food restaurants.

What the ghetto people can do, is commit crimes, steal, and sell drugs.  In Dickinson, on any street, there are trucks with tools in the truck bed, cars with music CDs in the front seat, open garages with tools and sporting goods, and houses with electronics, firearms, and jewelry.

A couple of days ago in Dickinson, I saw two young men who were about 20 to 22 years old, walking around in my neighbor’s back yard.  I asked them what they were doing, and I told them to not cut through the back yards again.  I went and got my neighbor to come out and check his storage sheds and his equipment in his back yard.

Picture this, I live on a downtown city block that is about 400 ft on each side, which is not divided down the middle by an alley way or utility easement.  There are about four houses on the north, south, east, and west sides of this block.  About every other house has a fence around their yard.

I do not know from what state these two 20 to 22 year old young men relocated from, to think that you exit the sidewalk at the middle of the block, to walk between two houses to get into the backyard of those two houses, and then from there you continue to walk on private property through other people’s back yards.

In other words, if you live in a neighborhood where people’s backyards are all back-to-back and side-by-side, and one neighbor would not even think about crossing over into his neighbor’s yard, what do you make of two young adult men deciding to walk through everyone’s private backyards?

When my neighbor came outside to check his storage sheds and his equipment in his backyard, we saw footprints in the snow going up to beside the back corner of his house.  I asked him if those were his footprints, and he said that no they were not, he had noticed those footprints this morning, and that someone had made those footprints last night.

Since I moved to downtown Dickinson about ten months ago, this is a very common thing, especially at night, for hoodlum ghetto people to wander around trying to get into everything and run off with things like monkeys, racoons, or cockroaches.

Update 4/20/2018:

I originally wrote this blog post on 4/3/2018.  Today, I was reading Google Local News for Dickinson, North Dakota, where I saw an article about five people committing an armed robbery in Dickinson, at an apartment about four city blocks from where I live.

I included the arrest photo of three of the alleged armed robbers at the top of this blog post.  This is exactly what I was writing about, when I wrote that many of the people who are moving to Dickinson now, are not trades people expecting to move to Dickinson to practice their trade, they are people coming from the ghettos in cities, who are criminals, thieves, drug addicts, and drug dealers.

Catching Fish In A Storm Sewer

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In Florida there is a large amount of rainfall.  Because Florida is mostly flat and not very high in elevation above sea level, in order for the land to be developed, the water had to be drained off the land.  Just about everywhere, there are drainage ditches, drainage canals, water retention ponds, and storm sewer systems that empty into retention ponds or other water ways.

There is a man in Florida known as “Monster Mike”, who fishes in canals and drainage ditches, and posts his fishing videos on YouTube.  Here is a video of him catching a very large, beautiful, strong, and healthy fish in a storm sewer underneath a road.

You should look at his YouTube channel to see him catch fish in tiny overgrown ditches.

Too Many Electronic Components In New Vehicles

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My 1999 Ford F150 was the last new vehicle that I bought.  This has been a pretty good truck, I have only put 140,000 miles on it.  I also have a 1976 Ford F250, which is very simple in comparison to new trucks now.

In my opinion, every new vehicle has too many sensors, computers, electrical components, and electrical control.  I believe that it is a mistake to make vehicles too complicated.  If anything, we should have learned how to make vehicles more and more simple, so that they are inexpensive, always start, always run, never break down, and last a long time.

In 2013, my friend’s father bought a new Ford F150.  The battery on this truck went dead.  They could not even push this truck down the driveway to move it out of the way of other vehicles in the garage, because it had electrical controlled steering.  The Ford dealer was telling them something like once they installed a new battery, they would have to wait 24 hours for the electrical and computer system to reset.

In Dickinson, my former room mate had a friend who owned a Pontiac G6.  She claimed that twice while she was driving this car with electrical controlled steering, she turned the steering wheel, and the car kept going straight, it would not steer.

In the video below which I saw on YouTube, this truck had a very bad accident, which the driver and the witnesses said was caused by the electrical throttle control.  There was an electrical, sensor, computer, or computer software error which caused the throttle to stay full on.

People who watched this video and commented on YouTube, asked why the driver didn’t apply the brakes, take the transmission out of gear, or turn off the ignition.  The driver said that he hit his head inside the truck, and was knocked unconscious.

In a second YouTube video which I have below, this same make and model vehicle is stuck on a beach right at the water line as the tide is coming in.  As you watch this video, you will think that the driver of this vehicle is a complete idiot, so do the people who are standing there pushing this vehicle as hard as they can.  Everybody is asking, why doesn’t the driver give it some throttle to help, the wheels aren’t even spinning.  The driver is giving it throttle, the traction control system, computer, and programming, are limiting the throttle.

This vehicle model is called the “Colorado”, which is manufactured by the Australian company named “Holden”.  Apparently, for some reason, the Chevy Colorado is manufactured for Australia by the company Holden.

Girls Of Summer In Dickinson, North Dakota

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When I first came to Dickinson, North Dakota in 2011, at about the peak of the oil boom, when I went to the Patterson Lake beach on Saturday afternoon during the summer, there were usually about 200 people on the beach if it was sunny.  These people on the beach were a mix of kids, teenagers, twenty year olds, thirty year olds, forty year olds, local people, college students, construction workers, and oil field workers.

When I came back to Dickinson in 2013, though the oil boom was still going on, I was surprised and puzzled to see that there were less than 40 people at the Patterson Lake beach during the summer on a nice day.  I wondered what had happened.

Not long into the summer of 2013, I realized what had happened at Patterson Lake beach.  The Dickinson State University girls had wanted to meet 18-28 year old, handsome, in-shape, oil field workers, who made a lot of money.  These college girls did not want to meet older local men, or older out of state workers, who were out of shape and didn’t make much money, not people who were sleeping in their car, camper, or the bushes at Patterson Lake.

As the number of attractive young women going to Patterson Lake decreased, the male out of state workers and the local males began to come into conflict at the beach.  In 2013 and 2014, even though there were not that many people at Patterson Lake beach, I saw some disputes break out between local people who had a larger group of friends, and Mexican workers who were with just a few friends, and vice-versa.

The college girls, the local people, and the out of state workers did not use Patterson Lake beach very much in 2014 through 2017.  On many nice days in the summer, Patterson Lake beach was vacant.

So where did all of the women start going in order to sunbathe, tan, and attract males?  By the summer of 2016, there was a gated outdoor pool area that was completed at the West River Community Center in Dickinson.  I believe that during the week, housewives and college student girls go to the West River Community Center outdoor pool, just like birds to a bird bath.

The other location that the women go to in order to sunbathe, tan, and wear minimal clothing, is Mosset Bay, a.k.a. Charging Eagle Bay, on the southwest corner of Lake Sakakaweja.  Right after Lake Sakakaweja was formed by creating a dam in the 1950s, the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Bureau of Reclamation began selling long term leases of land along the shore line of the lake.

The condition of these land leases were that no permanent structure could be constructed, only manufactured homes and travel trailers.  Within about twenty years, I believe that there came to be a shortage of land available on the shore line of Lake Sakakaweja, and these vacation trailer communities began to become exclusive.  If you were not an important person in western North Dakota, or a person with money, you would have a hard time obtaining a land lease along the shore line.

Mosset Bay, a.k.a. Charging Eagle Bay, became the Redneck Riviera of western North Dakota.  Many of the prominent and successful business people, farmers, and ranchers from the Dickinson area had vacation trailers at Mosset Bay.

Just like the affluent families in the northeastern United States had the mothers and children leave the cities to go to Martha’s Vineyard or the Hamptons during the summer, while the fathers stayed behind in the cities to work during the week, this same thing happened in Dickinson.

As any mother from a prominent and affluent family in Dickinson can tell you, you must control who you and your children associate with, in order to ensure proper breeding, and to make sure that the whole family doesn’t drop down a rung on the social ladder.

Mosset Bay was a suitable place for the wives, husbands, and teenagers to drink, socialize, and play, because they were almost entirely amongst equals and peers.

If you were a lucky, pleasant, and attractive young lady attending Dickinson State University or the University of Mary in Bismarck, you might be invited by a classmate to accompany them to Mosset Bay for the weekend.

In the video that I have included up above, you will not see a young lady of this caliber at Patterson Lake.  This young lady in the video is very likely a graduate of Trinity High School, or a student at DSU or the University of Mary.  You would only see a girl like this at the private enclave of Mosset Bay.  The only thing missing is the glimmering of baby oil on her sturdy legs and buttocks.

Who Gets Hired And What Companies Are Looking For In Dickinson, North Dakota

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As North Dakota emerges from the cold and frozen Winter, oil field service companies and construction companies in Dickinson will begin hiring people for the Spring, Summer, and Fall work season.

Employers in Dickinson like people who will fit in and get along with the people that they already have working.  There is a common expression, “People like people, who are like themselves.”

In this blog post, I am including a short video that shows what employers in Dickinson, North Dakota are looking for.  This video shows someone that employers in Dickinson would hire right on the spot.  This video also shows some of the discussion that might take place in your work environment in Dickinson.

My Room Mate Is Watching Elena Lev Training Videos

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Unlike most people in Dickinson, my room mate is a large frog.  He has his own room, where he spends most of his time reading.  He is not very good at using computers, but once I showed him the Russian gymnast Elena Lev in her YouTube videos and Facebook videos, he has taken an interest in learning how to hula hoop.

He has been watching all of Elena’s training videos on YouTube.  He has been practicing with hula hoops, and although he is not very good, he is making some progress.  Here is a video of him:

 

Elena has about twenty YouTube videos where she shows stretching, warm ups, exercises, and hula hoop instruction.  Here is one of her videos from YouTube:

Breaking My Piggy Bank

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From when I graduated from college until I was about 35 years old, I was kind of scared to spend money.  I was fearful of not having money.  The only thing that made me feel less anxious and less vulnerable in life, was having a lot of money in several different bank accounts, because it is a bad idea to have all of your money in just one place.

By the time that I was about 33 years old, I was sick of living in Florida, I was sick of being stuck in traffic for two hours every day on I-75, living in an apartment like an insect in a hive, and living amongst people who acted like rats, cockroaches, and monkeys.  I left Florida to move out west, not knowing where exactly that I wanted to live.

I lived in Colorado for a short while, but I didn’t like it.  Once you got to where there were many employment opportunities, like Colorado Springs, or Denver, it was almost the exact same thing as what I tried to get away from in Florida, terrible traffic, everyone living in apartments like insects, and everyone behaving like insects instead of human beings.

After I left Colorado, I was very fortunate to find an area in Arizona that I liked very much.  The area that I moved to in Arizona was so peaceful, stress free, calm, and beautiful, that I became very comfortable, happy, relaxed, and I was no longer so fearful about needing to have a lot of money.  The jobs that I had in Arizona generally paid enough for me to pay all of my bills and living expenses.

In Arizona, unlike any other place that I had lived up until then, there were many old vehicles with no rust.  In Florida, you just about never ever saw an International Scout, an old Ford Bronco, or an old Toyota Land Cruiser, because they had all long ago rusted away.  In Florida, old Jeep CJ5s, CJ7s, and Scramblers were also pretty uncommon.

Because I lived in a beautiful, forested, mountainous area, I wanted to get a four wheel drive vehicle to use just for fun, like a Jeep CJ, International Scout, or old Ford Bronco.  The first four wheel drive vehicle that I bought was a fourteen year old Jeep Wrangler for $3,500, which I still own.  Here is a photograph of this Jeep Wrangler with me in North Dakota:

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I had a lot of fun with this Jeep Wrangler in Arizona, and I enjoyed it very much.  I began thinking, “Instead of having money in the bank, I more enjoy having vehicles.  I like owning the vehicle, having it around, driving it, using it, and having fun with it, a lot more than having money in the bank.  And, if I ever needed to, I could sell the vehicle and get some of my money back.”

So very soon after buying the Jeep Wrangler, I bought a yellow 1977 Jeep CJ5 with a 304 V8 engine.  This tiny Jeep CJ5 with the big V8 engine, was really something else to drive.  When driving off-road with the CJ5, if ever you were near getting stuck, you just had to give it a little bit of throttle for just a few seconds.  This 1977 Jeep CJ5 did not have any rust on it anywhere, it only had about 50,000 miles on it, and it had never been modified.  I swore to myself that I would never get rid of this Jeep CJ5, the mileage was so low, and it was in such good condition, that it was practically irreplaceable.

Though I swore that I would never get rid of this 1977 Jeep CJ5, about five years later when I was operating my own contracting business in Idaho, I went ahead and traded it even for a 1976 Ford F250 Super Cab with a custom built 460 tractor truck pull competition engine.  I was really happy with this trade.  I never could find a hard top for the 1977 Jeep CJ5, though the Jeep CJ7 hard tops were not hard to find.  I was happy to be getting this big F250 truck that I could tow equipment trailers with, and something that was warm and comfortable inside the cab.  Here is a photograph of this truck, which you can partly see the side of this truck in the headline photograph at the top of this post:

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When I traded the 1977 Jeep CJ5 for the 1976 Ford F250, I felt like my belief was confirmed, that having and owning vehicles was just as good as having money in the bank, only better, because you could drive, use, and enjoy vehicles, whereas you could not enjoy money in the bank that was just sitting there.

Not long after I bought the yellow 1977 Jeep CJ5 in Arizona, I bought a red 1967 Porsche 911S Targa, the one that is shown in the headline photograph at the top of this post.  Most readers are probably thinking, so what.  This car shown in this photograph, though it may not look like much, just as it is shown would be worth about $60,000 right now.  If it were restored it would be worth $120,000 to $200,000.  Look it up if you don’t believe me.

In 1967, the Porsche 911S, had the highest horsepower engine of the 911 models, and right from the dealer it would go 140 mph.  There were only 2,000 that came to the U.S. in 1967, and none in 1968.  The car that I bought, still had the original engine, which ran beautifully.  The red line on the tachometer was 7,200 rpm, and I drove it to 7,200 rpm many times and the sound was just like a race car at Le Mans.

The car that I bought had been modified in the late 1970s.  It was lowered, the rear wheel wells were enlarged to accommodate wider tires, the front bumper was changed to add an air dam, the rear hood was changed to add a spoiler.  This did not matter to me when I bought the car, it made the value of the car less, and something that I could afford.

I liked the car and enjoyed driving it on open roads and winding mountain roads, but not in town.  It was very low, had a very low ground clearance, no power steering, and something like a 1st gear lock out, which made if very hard to shift it into 1st gear.  The car was not insured for anywhere near what it was worth, and most people had no idea what it was worth.  It was uncomfortable for me to drive it around town, because I felt like I was putting a lot of money at risk.

The value of this particular car was increasing at about 20% per year.  Whether I was driving it, using it, or it was sitting in the garage, its value was appreciating at about 20% per year.  If I would have tried to sell this car in Idaho or North Dakota, I would have been lucky to get $3,000 for it, and someone would have only wanted the air-cooled engine out of it, to put it in a rail buggy and trashed it.  The engine with its transaxle was probably worth $15,000.

This was a car that I promised myself that I would never, ever sell.  If I would have just kept it sitting in my garage, eventually it would have been worth more than my house, or I could have bought another house with it.  But due to some unforeseen circumstances, I unexpectedly needed money, and I found that I could not get a job anywhere at that time.  I had to sell this car.

When I just tried to find out the value of the car from a vintage car company in California, they offered to FedEx a cashiers check to me overnight, and that was the end of that.  I had looked at this car as a Piggy Bank for years.  In a way I was relieved to be getting rid of it, but I also felt sick to my stomach to be losing it.

What I was sick to my stomach about, was that I promised myself that I would never sell this car, and I was not able to keep this promise.  I hadn’t really decided to sell it, I was forced into selling it.  To make myself feel worse, I acknowledged that I would never, ever, be able to own a car like this again.  The next time this particular car comes up for sale, it would be over $120,000 after the body modifications are removed.

Even though I have been telling myself ever since I started buying old cars, that I could always sell them when I needed to get my money back, it is my best and most favorite cars that I will most likely to have to sell, and it is really upsetting and miserable even to think about losing them.

To make myself feel worse, here are some early 911″S” for sale on Hemmings:

$203,500

1969 Porsche 911S 2.0 Targa

1969 Porsche 911S 2.0 Targa

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Deventer, Netherlands

 

$269,900

1970 Porsche 911S 2.2 Coupe

1970 Porsche 911S 2.2 Coupe

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St Louis, MO

 

$225,000

1967 Porsche 911S

1967 Porsche 911S

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Newport Beach, CA

Some Suggestions For Dickinson, North Dakota

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In the past several years I have written more than 500 blog posts about living in Dickinson, North Dakota.  Readers may wonder, what do I want, and what am I trying to accomplish?

I wanted to bring attention to some of the things that are wrong in Dickinson.  I thought that if I explained these things that are wrong, that many people might agree, and consider trying to change things.  Or, at least people from out of state would know how things are, what to expect, be able to make a more informed decision about moving to Dickinson, or be more prepared for Dickinson.

Here are some suggestions for Dickinson, North Dakota:

  • Everyone needs to acknowledge that it was wrong the way that housing prices were quadrupled during this most recent oil boom.  Do not persist in saying things like, “It was a matter of supply and demand”, when there are thousands and thousands of acres of vacant, flat, barren land just outside of Dickinson that stretches for hundreds of miles in every direction.  Steps were taken to make sure that there was a housing shortage, so that local people could profit and take excessive advantage of others.
  • Even though, “Millionaires were being made every day in North Dakota”, there was no homeless shelter in Dickinson.  People that were poor, down-on-their-luck, and out of work from everywhere in the U.S. came to North Dakota because of the lie that was told “Everyone was making $100,000 per year in the oil field”.  The poor people who came to Dickinson, slept in their cars, on the ground, or in the bushes at Wal-Mart, Tiger Truck Stop, Patterson Lake, along the railroad right-of-way, or in the ditch behind Kentucky Fried Chicken.  If Dickinson was not going to have a homeless shelter, they needed to contact every newspaper and every television station to try to get the word out, “Whoa, hold on everybody, you won’t make $100,000 per year in the oil field, there is a shortage of housing, and there is no homeless shelter.”
  • Dickinson needs to decide, once and for all, if alcohol can be served in bars and restaurants or not.  If the Police in Dickinson are going to try to follow and stalk everyone who is driving on the streets at night in Dickinson in order to try to give them a DUI, Dickinson should just go ahead and ban the sale of alcohol in bars and restaurants in Dickinson.
  • There are some things that are done in Dickinson, that ruin Dickinson’s chances for long term growth and prosperity.  One of these things, is the practice of most local companies in hiring convicted felons to be foremen, supervisors, and managers at the companies in Dickinson.  The local people in Dickinson so hate people with a college education, that they give preference in hiring to people who have several felony convictions, with no education.  Although local company owners are more comfortable having people like this working for them, here are the consequences:
    • When you hire a convicted felon with no college education, versus someone with a college education, for a supervisory or management position, what is guaranteed to follow, is that just about every subordinate position to that person being filled by convicted criminals, versus people with any education.  A convicted felon is already someone who has demonstrated that they don’t follow along with what is right and wrong, but whatever they feel they need to do.  If that means hiring only people who are less intelligent, less qualified, and less capable than them, in order to maintain their position, that is what they are going to do.
    • When local companies in Dickinson follow this practice of hiring convicted felons for supervisory or management positions in Dickinson, not only does this load up their company with a bunch of criminals, but this loads up Dickinson with a bunch of convicted criminals.  It doesn’t take long for normal, educated people from elsewhere, who may be doctors, nurses, engineers, attorneys, human resources people, administrators, professors, or journalists, to see, understand, and realize that Dickinson is an “Ugly” town that they don’t want to live in.  By “Ugly”, I mean no culture, no professional peers, no socializing with professionals, no where worth going, someplace that you do not want to stay.

If you people in Dickinson do not believe me, just sincerely ask one of the nurses, doctors, engineers, journalists, human resources professionals, chamber of commerce directors, or teachers who left Dickinson, to describe something that they did not like about Dickinson, and to please be honest.