Curmudgetante Podcast

My cat Giselle is on a killing spree. She’s enthusiastic, if not always thorough. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

It’s chronologically a little early for a midlife crisis (somehow hoping I live past my mid-60’s), but the optics of a grown man in a little red sports car say otherwise. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

Describing my behavior as narcissistic would have been putting a positive spin on it. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

It’s 1994’s infamous Thanksgiving in July. And the one thing I have to be thankful for during this bonus holiday is being alive to experience it. #Curmudgetante Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

The inevitable consequences of life after I’m officially single. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

For several years, I lived on a compound. Not in a cult on a compound—just a compound. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

What price freedom? Whatever it was. Worth it! Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

Go to dinner? A movie? How about flying up to Portland for the day for a little eating, drinking, and sales tax-free shopping? Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

Through a series of escalating incidents, my marriage to the girl starts to unravel at a prodigious rate. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

The disparity between accountability and pay from the hotel-casino and the airline was shocking. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

Against all odds, I’ve serendipitously networked my way into full time employment as a payroll clerk at a hotel-casino in Reno, Nevada. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

I have no real plan. No job lined up. And no idea what difference moving half way across the country will really mean for me. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

In episode 25, it’s 1978, I’m in junior high school trying to navigate and find my place in young adulthood, while identifying my tribe. In Episode 26, we rewind to middle school, where puberty is kicking in hard, and instead of helpful advice, I get a Zeno-level example of Stoicism from my father. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

Today, we jump around a bit in the timeline. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

No one is ever at their best after they’ve been arrested. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

I was living like it was the last days of Rome—if Rome was the two main bars across from campus. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

It’s June of 1983 and not screwing up during my first six-months in Hawai'i have paid off. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

I simply don’t have the wherewithal to own up to these feelings and stop the insanity. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

I’m on my first international deployment to South Korea. And life for a private in the field artillery is very cold and unusually dangerous. Even for the Army. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

I have the misfortune of being cast in another original play. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

In today’s back catalog episodes, 1982 is all but over and so is my time at home. In episode 52 “A little too present” Christmas, my birthday and New Years are a blur. And in Episode 53, “Fresh Meat” the reality of being in the Army comes into focus. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

I’m deep in denial, and the girl is leveraging her youth and good looks to get a great theater scholarship and work study job. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

In today’s back catalog episodes, it’s late 1982 and my Army training moves from basic to advanced, but not before I learn the Army's standard for clean. In episode 50 “GI Party” I learn when a party is not a party. And in Episode 51, “The end of the beginning” my nerves and body survive basic and advanced training, and I’m headed back to Carson City for two weeks. Get full access to Curmudgetante...

In today’s back catalog episodes, my Army career has begun! Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe

School is out and we’re on our way to Reno for summer jobs in the casino industry. Get full access to Curmudgetante at curmudgetante.substack.com/subscribe