the gloomy boomer

Julius Caesar. Former ruler of the known world.

In January 2024, the author reflects on the course of his life since his San Diego boot camp in 1972. He ponders progress while reluctantly maintaining a stagnant routine, managing the fallout from a failed window business, and the bizarre obsession of his former boss with making phallic sculptures. As the business dissolved, the author pursued writing and blogging without much success. He details his daily life, including relationships, his job as a free wine sample server, and his struggle to stay afloat financially while living on a boat, avoiding challenges like marina rules and homelessness, all with an undercurrent of wistful cynicism about where life has brought him.
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Life aint that bad, man!

Lenin’s mummy. He gets better looking every year.

the king in his casle

They put old gloomy back together again!

The teeming masses

The day the Beatles showed up.

Be happy!

Michael Anthony (Marvin Miller) hands check to Betty Perkins (Inger Stevens) in a 1956 episode

Wikipedia, describing the television show, THE MILLIONAIRE