This morning, as usual, I hit a local fast-food restaurant for breakfast. My lovely wife is off limits until 9 a.m. at the earliest, and since she doesn’t cook, waking her up will only further annoy my morning. Growing up on a farm, milking cows and slopping hogs, forever doomed me to waking up at the crack of dawn.

Mickey D’s is the closest to me and where I often end up in the morning. Wi Fi always works, and McDonald’s is the one place that serves hot coffee, unlike most of the other spots. Pre-COVID, most of the fast-food places in Sin City would put out a large, insulated pump thermos, and you could serve yourself refills. So, they were good places to hang out if you don’t drink five-dollar Starbucks coffee.

I like the kiosks at many places today to avoid waiting in line for the order taker. Today, I’m staring at the one-price drink screen looking for coffee, which is always at the bottom of the screen, but this morning it is missing.

Backing out and pressing the Coffee menu tab, I realize why coffee was removed from the beverages screen: the price has increased by fifty cents, a 36% increase.

Not picking on McDonald’s specifically, but coffee was ninety-nine cents pre-COVID, then $1.29 COVID, then $1.39 post-COVID, and now $1.89 Tarriff Pricing, starting today in Las Vegas!

So, I can only assume that the 50% tariff on South American countries, such as Brazil, is causing the price hike. Why don’t we raise coffee here to escape having to pay the import taxes? I’m assuming this is the camel sticking its nose under the tent and a warning for things to come. Plus, I realize we don’t raise coffee here, so why are we taxing coffee imports when we don’t have to protect US growers, beyond the fact that our dear leader doesn’t like El Presidente down there?

Breakfast burritos were ninety-nine cents for years, but post-COVID are like $2.29 each. I didn’t check them this morning to see if they were bumped along with coffee.

Our financial wennies keep warning us of the impending recession, and with every warning comes the firing of the warner to fix the problem. So only time will tell if we run out of people to be fired or the bread lines form on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I’ve got my tin cup with pencils as a last resort.

Speaking of needing a tin cup, have you noticed the rise of commercials on various news sites lately? It feels like you’re forced to watch one or two 30-second ads with every news story you read or watch as a video. Foxy loves TikTok and other video sites, but to me, they are a waste of time. After waiting for the video to load, watching a couple of commercials, I could have read the article in less time. About the only video I watch now is on xHamster, which is more satisfying.

MSN.com is gradually becoming my go-to site for news since it displays most stories in written form. They often present the Fox News version, so you can decide who’s telling the truth.

End of Rant

To reward myself for the tariffs and how much they have improved the quality of my life, I bought a bigger monitor to play with. I now have a forty-three-inch center monitor with 32-inch monitors on either side.

The first downside I noticed is that my wallpaper didn’t work any longer. Previously, I was running three 32-inch monitors and had a life-sized image of Foxy, au naturel, as my wallpaper, with a cougar cub to hide the naughty bits spread across 6 feet of monitors, as shown below. The screenshot taken from my desktop is interesting, as FullShot capture software seamlessly puts the image from each monitor together to form a wide JPG of the sum of the monitors without any bezels or other things to reduce the quality. I added a CorelDraw of one of my book covers to somewhat obscure Wifey before I grabbed the screenshot, which also highlights the screen space I have to work with.

While all three monitors are running the same aspect ratio of 16:9, the size of my new monitor screwed up the picture because of the unequal sizes. Oh, well, now I’m back to an individual image on each monitor, and the large size of the center image is somewhat of a compensation.

On the plus side, I like the new monitor for programming because I can display a lot of stuff on it. I haven’t had much of a chance to try the monitor in LightRoom for editing pictures, but I think it will be pretty sweet. The 43” monitor, on sale, was only about a hundred bucks more than the 32-inch ones and an easy decision to make.

My writing of erotic stories is chugging along, and I realize that I need to finish something and stop working on multiple stories at the same time. The Mechanic is getting close and will likely be the next one out the door.

The Mechanic has been a fun write, and I’ve included some of Lisabet Sarai’s characters from her Vegas Babes series of stories in it. Lisabet and I have attempted to co-write stories, but our work process seems to get in the way. In her Vegas Babes stories, she uses some of my regular characters in her erotica. It’s fun to read how she pictures my characters, as they often come across completely differently from how I imagine them. Most of my characters are based on a real person in our lifestyle, so I picture them as I see them at a house party, with the name changed to protect the guilty, naturally. Of course, Lisabet has to use her imagination as she’s never met any of my real-life friends, as far as I know.

Lauren and Elliot are a couple from Lisabet’s world. I’ve had a lot of fun with Lauren, and introducing her to our alternate lifestyle has been fun. Elliot is a big-time divorce lawyer from LA and president of NADA (North American Divorce Attorneys Association). Lauren is a slut in the making, with Foxy pushing her into the deep end of the pool. Lauren’s husband gave her permission to fool around, but out of sight of his ambulance-chasing colleagues.

Elliot has acquiesced to having Lauren fly to Vegas when her need to hunt overwhelms her. He’s realized that he is unable to fully satisfy her desires, and giving her to Foxy provides some assurance of her safety, yet she still gets her brains fucked out. Elliot knows that between Foxy’s husband and Foxy’s big-dicked boyfriends, Lauren will come home sated yet not get in too much trouble, as Foxy will not let her stray too far.

I’ve turned Lauren into a bigger slut than Lisabet has and Elliot into a cuck, but that’s how I see them. In the world of swingers, being a slut or a cuckold is not necessarily a bad thing, and we love our wives being the biggest slut around. With their little finger pointed out of course.

Generally speaking, a big percentage of the women are exhibitionists, and attending a house party gives them the opportunity to show off the goods without being arrested for indecency. For the husbands, this means that the show is always great at a house party, plus getting to watch your wife with someone else’s wife or husband is neat.

I’ve been writing fictionalized versions of our travels through the world of swingers, unicorns, Hotwives, and cuckolds for over thirteen years now. My stories are positive, upbeat, highly erotic and explicit, with a humorous look at the perverted world we live in. It’s funny that straights don’t have a clue as to what’s going on around them.

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I’m Larry Archer, and I write erotic stories for the huddled and yearning masses. Foxy and I are swingers in real life. I write about what we do and see, especially swingers, unicorns, Hotwives, and cuckolds. While the Lifestyle is not for everyone, it’s been fun for us. My smut is explicit and hardcore, but with a somewhat plot. Larry Archer’s porn stories are generally positive and fun, as this reflects how enjoyable swinging has been to us. If you want to check out my stories, I publish them at all the popular outlets. Larry Archer’s erotic romance stories are available in electronic, paperback, or audiobook format.

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