> Like most everyone else, when you got out on your own and found out just 
> how expensive it is to live, and realized that if you don't earn it, no
> one  else is going to support you any more?  :P

That's one of those life lessons I got early, around 14 or 15. When I was a
kid, I felt a little like 8 year old Bill Murrary in Scrooged.

Kid: "I want a ____________________ for christmas!"

Dad: "Then get a job!"

Mom: "Harold, he's only 8!"

Dad: "All day long I hear excuses why people can't find a job - my back
hurts, I'm tired, I'm only 8! Well I'm sick of it!!"

>> I went to a
> >meeting of a group of people who make their own absinthe,
> 
> A non-poisonous version, one would hope.

I tried only a tiny sip -- hey, who wants to go blind drinking
hullucinagenic moonshine, right?  It was a really interesting, eclectic
group of people, really striking me as the bootleg equivelent of Trekkies.

> IOW, about like the rest of us . . .

Yeah, more or less :) 

-k-

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