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WELL DRAT
I seem to have fallen into a slump. No idea why. Just cannot seem to get it together. Example: Got up before 8am, yay me. Took a shower, came in and sat on the couch and then just sat there for half an hour. Could not decide what to do next. What to have for breakfast? There is nothing easy, wound up having coffee and nothing else. Sat some more. Decided to fold Friday’s laundry, discovered it is still wet. He did run it through the dryer, I thought. Not soaking wet, but not dry. So kind of just spread it out on the furniture to dry. Got dressed. Decided to eat, again could not decide what so no eating. For some reason, my birthday was the start of the slump. So this is the third day. Bored? Lonely? Still not recovered from being sick? Did not get cake. Cheesecake instead, which is nice, but not the same thing at all. I was looking forward to cake. With frosting. Is that a reason to fall into the blahs? IDEK, but I do not like feeling like this. Just blah. I’ll get over it. I always do. Bah! Also, humbug! 🙂
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Actually, it is me. It’s mah birthday. Woo Hoo. Of course it is yet another gray and rainy day in the 40’s, but the trees are still in bloom and later I am having CAKE. I only have cake about once a year, on my birthday, so it’s a treat. My friend Tess gets a little two-serving cake from the grocery, and we split it.
Still sick, but getting better faster, achy all over, too, but took the pain meds, so yay. Listening to my Rusted Root station on Pandora, so that’s good, too. Ignoring the world today. Can’t fix it, not going to stress for today at least. Oh, and I had chicken soup from the local pizza joint this week. They make it themselves, and it was pretty good. Even better the second day reheated. So yum. Not sure if chicken soup really helps when you are sick, but it makes you think it does, so that works. Right? Anyway, happy birthday to me. Can’t believe I made it this far, but really glad I did. Life is good. Pay attention and enjoy every minute of it.
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FLORIDA/REPUBLICANS
You have to ask yourself what kind of humans value profit over saving people’s lives, but just look around you and the question will be answered. I remember when blogging was fun.
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INHALERS COST
TAX THE RICH
‘Affordable Connectivity Program, which is a federal program managed by the FCC meant to offer people living on low-income assistance with their internet bills. Of course, we can’t all have nice things. On Tuesday, the FCC said that since Congress has not approved new funding, the agency has had to make massive cuts that will mean far fewer people receiving aid for high-speed internet.’ From here: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-tell-if-your-isp-is-ripping-you-off-1851399788
I have this, and have been notified it is ending this month. “Congress has had to make massive cuts’. Tax the rich, for crying out loud. They have all the money and we just stand by and let the country go to ruin while they keep it. Why?
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Still Sick
Went to Urgent Care. My friend called and volunteered to take me, since she has recently had pneumonia, and thought I might have it, too. I don’t. Nor do I have covid. I have a cold? that is aggravating my asthma, so I got 5 days of 40 mg prednisone, and a pill to stop coughing. Pill makes me dizzy, but does nothing for cough. First day on 40 mg, so far no cure. Oh well. Had to cancel my new homemaker and my decluttering helper. Did get some chicken soup from the store while we were out, and it was really good. Didn’t cure me, either, but it was very tasty anyway. LOL I’ve been getting their pot pie for awhile, and it is really good, too. Didn’t even know they made soup.
Just went on Instagram, and suddenly was suspended. Wouldn’t it be nice if they told you exactly what you did to get suspended? Noooo, that would be too logical. Anyway, filed the appeal and as soon as I clicked the last thing, the suspension was lifted. WTF?
Another gray day. More rain, although it seems to be around us more than here, but it’s spring, Mother Nature. Some sunshine would be good. Also, since I can only see the trees across the street from here, I had not idea the forsythia is blooming, and all sorts of trees are flowering.
I miss outside. Not looking like I am ever going to be well enough to be out and about again, so I really treasure the times I do get out, even if they are mostly for appointments. Eye exam, rheumy, urgent care, whatever. At least I’m out. Right?
Sorry I just cannot figure out how to align the pictures. I miss the old WordPress.
Wear you masks people. Being sick is no fun.
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SO
I am sick. Four years I’ve been super cautious, I finally ease up and bam! Not covid, but sick. I am such an idiot. I need to listen to my own advice. Wear Your Mask!!!
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THE BRAIN IS DRAIN
While I was looking for something cute to illustrate that, I came across this instead. Oh, how many times I could have used this.
I am looking for a lightweight stick vac I can use to pick up the detritus Miss G leaves after eating her treats (Treats have crumbs? Who Knew?) and other things. The only one that seems to fit the bill (weighs 2.6 lbs) is teal. Ewwww. My regular vac weights 15.6 lbs. But….. I am also trying to eat lunch, make a shopping list for Target to deliver, and a few other things I can’t think of right now.
Oh, and I am listening to my Bleed Radio station on Pandora. I love Bleed Radio and my Caramelldansen station. ‘Makes you want to jump around the room’ music. I can’t do that, but I can jump around in my little office chair. Works for me.
I just got an update on my new Samsung 23FE. I love, love, love this phone. The camera actually catches the colors of the sky that my Moto never did.
Neat. The voice recorder app will now convert to text, too. Oh, happy day. As they say somewhere or other.
I have had a very good week in general. My caseworker came and brought me a bag of goodies Goodies is a relevant term, I think. It is covid tests, a bottle of water, a tiny bottle of hand sanitizer, a cloth mask, and some latex (?) gloves. We had a nice chat, too. She never comes any more, it’s all done by phone since the pandemic, so I was happy to see her.
Thursday, my friend Tess brought a charger to see if it fits my Dell, but no. I can’t find the one that goes to it anywhere, so it works but the battery won’t charge. It is soo sloooow, too, but it was before the battery thing, which is why I replaced it originally. It was nine years old last month, coincidentally. I figured it out by looking when the BIOS was installed, because I bought it brand new way back when. It came with 8, and I immediately updated to 10, so I never even saw 8, which I am pretty happy about. I still miss 7, but 10 is like a thousand times better than 11 so happy Jean is happy. Anyway, I was hoping to walk up the street a bit, but it was raining, as usual.
Anyway, while Tess was here, my friend Beth called and wanted to visit. Yes, please. We all sat around and talked, mostly about me and my issues because therapist said I need to do that. Trying to explain living with Asperger’s (yes, I know that is no longer PC, but I am not ready to say I have autism) is fun. After Tess went home, Beth and I went to dinner at our local Irish Pub, run by actual Irish folks from actual Ireland. Fish and chips anyone? And Guinness. I do love me some Guinness.
Then yesterday around 4:30, the homemaker service we just fired called me to set up a new homemaker, like I had never been a client. Different person than before so I just set it up and then called my caseworker, who was as surprised as I was. It’s another guy, putting himself through school or something. Fingers crossed. It has been nothing but one hassle and disaster after another with this agency, but some help is better than no help.
It is again gray, gray, gray. The past couple of months have been like February in New Hampshire. The sun just never shone there, and it seldom does here lately. And so much rain. I like rain, but this is getting ridiculous.
Back around to my beloved Dell. Does anyone have any ideas about how to speed it up? I have scanned, finagled, removed tons of stuff, but nothing works. It can take several minutes to load a page. Very frustrating. It is so well-made, so much better than the newer laptops I have bought in the interim, and I just want to be able to use it like I used to. Any help at all would be appreciated. Should I take it to a repair person? Is there some secret setting I don’t know about? Something must work. I hope.
Oh, and going to dinner with Beth was the second time we’ve gone to dinner the past couple of months and I did not wear a mask either time. I have had my shot, and am getting braver (or more careless). I think it will be bad news if I get covid in spite of the shot, but I want to enjoy my life as much as I can, so…….
That’s it. Done rambling for today. Stay safe people and enjoy your lives as much as possible. They are very short, after all.
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MORE OF RAMBLINGS
“Later, sandwiches become sweeter, Enderwick says, with sugar added to bread and sauces. ‘That was part of the plan by companies to sell more.’” Haven’t I always been saying this? Sugar is addictive and in the U.S. it is added to everything so you will buy more. Other countries do not put sugar in everything. I have read comments from visitors from other countries that say our bread is more like cake. We are all about the profit in this country. For shame. Quote is from here: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/nov/01/from-compressed-yeast-to-cream-cheese-and-cornflakes-one-mans-search-for-the-worlds-greatest-sandwich
Last night I spent two hours, two, texting with my family, two daughters, one grandson. OMG During which I learned that there is speech to text, and it is amazing because I just cannot type on the stupid phone keyboard. Of course, it gets what I say wrong a lot of the time, but it was so funny. At one point I was laughing so hard I could not read the screen. My grandson is super snarky. He got it from me. My friend Tess says I am the Master of Snark. Yay, me. We are all very funny, too. Also got that from me. 🙂
There is also a little voice recorder so you can speak your text and they can hear you. How cool is that. It’s been there on my Moto all the time, but I never noticed it, but grandson pointed it out to me on my Samsung. I love that phone. Seriously. But I also discovered that you can make long recorded notes or whatever. As long as you want, and then supposedly can send them to people. I am recording what I remember of my life. My oldest daughter asked me to. It’s amazing what I remember, but I think that is partly because my friend Ed asks me the most bizarre questions and most of them spark a memory about something.. Who would even think to ask if I had a pet snake growing up in Colorado. Did I ever see a porcupine in person? Do I like Chef Boyardee? Ewwww. I don’t remember ever having canned pasta. Ick. But really unusual questions. There is a lot of laughing. Laughing is good. But who knew you could do that on your phone? I googled tape recorders and came across the info somewhere. It uses the Voice Recorder app. Free. Free is good. Just so you know.
It is gray, gray, gray again. And raining. Yet again. Wettest year in a long time. Good thing I like rain, and live on high ground AND on the second floor. First floor, if you’re British. LOL
Oh, here is a picture of my full-spectrum bulbs. They are too big to put the cover on the light fixture, which I think would negate the full-spectrum-ness anyway. I would have done a picture of my desk, but it lives under a mountain of paperwork and stuff at the moment. Oh. well. 🙂
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FUZZY, FUZZY, FUZZY
So over fuzzy headedness. Allergies are worse than ever. Hard to get anything done with pain, let alone not being able to think clearly.
BUT, I discovered I have been making coffee wrong. Not enough grounds, not steeping/perking long enough. Much better now. I only have one cup a day, so I want it to be the best. I use two heaping scoops, mine is a tablespoon, for one mug, and let it do it’s thing for 7 minutes once it’s started turning brown in the glass lid of the percolator, or I pour the just-off-the-boil water into the french press. Perked takes longer, but if I heat the water in my kettle first, it takes a lot less time to make. I like perked. I have a little one-mug stove top percolator. Heat it on not quite high heat, once it turns a bit brown in the glass thingy, lower heat to just above med low (electric stove) and leave for 7 minutes. Should be doing a slow perk. Turn off heat and let stand for a few minutes to settle. I also pour it through a melitta brown filter into the mug. Wet the filter first. And that’s how I make good coffee for one. 🙂
Another gray day. And then it’s going to rain for the next few days. We have had so much rain, after the severe drought two summers ago, and not much rain last year, we are def making up for it. Flooding alerts almost every day. Fortunately, I must live on higher ground, because it is not a problem here. But not that far away it has been pretty bad for some people.
My lovely helper person is on vacation, and no homemaker anymore, so am depending on friends yet again. To take out the trash and get the mail, because I am just not up for trekking downstairs to the mailbox. Too much pain makes it very hard to get around.
My Asus laptop has given up showing anything on the monitor, and the HP keeps going black screen randomly, so I hauled out my older Dells. One is okay, but kind of wonky, but the oldest one, the really well-made Dell, works perfectly except for being so unbelievably slow, which is why I replaced it in the first place. I have cleaned it up as much as possible, but it take about a minute to load gmail, for example. Or anything else, really. But it has win10, so I am learning patience. I hope. Oh, I also discovered why I have 2,000 instances of each category, like Documents in my file explorer. You have to go into the Documents or any other folder, choose ‘view’, ‘options’, and ‘change folder and search options’, ‘view’ and check ‘don’t show hidden files, folders or drives’. Voila. Just FYI.
Took a picture of my messy living room. It is a work in progress. My helper and I have been doing the kitchen cupboards, but will get to this next. It actually looks kind of cheery. I must have had the sun on when I took the picture. I have full spectrum bulbs in the overhead light, which I turn on when I get up on the dark days, and leave on for 3 or 4 hours. Makes a huge difference in my mood. Once I was working at the table with my back to the windows, and when I turned around it was dark outside. I thought it was still daytime because it really does seem like the sun is shining. They are Phillips curly bulbs, and I have had them for at least a decade. I should probably order some back ups just in case, but then I’d need to get someone to replace them. I have high ceilings. I love high ceilings. Okay, Rambling on. Later. Oh, second pic it was in slightly better shape. So was I. Second Gertrude had just moved in. When I moved in, I had the table the tv is on, a big brown basket, a plant stand, the blue chair, the table and chairs, the shelf thing in the hallway, and my desk, which is in the bedroom. I seem to have accumulated some stuff in the intervening years. LOL
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GUESS I WAS WRONG
RAMBLING
Saw an article about how low-income people are eating less and less fast food, because it has become too expensive. Low-income is below 45,000 per year. That is 2 and a half times my income. And yet, I make too much money for a lot of programs that are designed to help low income and disabled people. I may have mentioned that my soc sec increased I think 3.2 percent this year, so my food stamp benefits were cut by 20 percent. Your government at work. I’m not sure I understand the economics of this, but I do know that there are people in our government who resent the little I do get, and want to take it away. It matters who you vote for. It matters that you vote, because people always vote for the Red Guys, and the only way for the Blue guys to get more votes is for you to actually vote for them. People I have personally spoken to do not seem to understand this. Is US education THAT bad? I think so. Not voting is saying yes to the other guy. Go right ahead and take our benefits, take our freedoms, take our education, take our money. Take, take, take. They do give, but only to their rich friends, not us.
Those buds I showed you a picture of earlier in the month have still not opened. I think the trees are going to go right to leaves again this year. Last year I did not see one single flower. First time ever. Climate change. It is not a good thing. More bugs, longer allergy seasons, fun times.
My new organizer person came yesterday, and we redid some cupboards, to make items more accessible, as I no longer have enough strength to move heavier things for higher shelves. I tend to ‘all or nothing’ and she just said move some of these here, and then put those there, instead of just relocating entire shelves worth. Worked. Some bowls are on the glasses shelf, some glass measuring cups are where the bowls were. I can easily access everything I need, and the higher shelves have small light items only at the front so are easily reachable. Got rid of some things I never use, too. She is not a pro. She is just doing this because I asked for someone on NextDoor and she replied. She does a lot of good works. Drives people to dialysis, among other things. I really lucked out when I found her. She is becoming a friend, too, which is nice, cause I only have two couples as friends now. Very good friends, but not a lot of them. Which is fine. I am not really a people person, as I think I’ve probably mentioned several thousand times. 🙂
Ordered in. First time in a while, as it is too expensive now. But one place has good food at still reasonable prices, and I actually have cash on hand, so lunch. I usually only order for dinner, but I was hungry and too not together to do any lunch prep. Open package, eat contents. Works for me. I tip well, too, because they bring me food. What’s not to love? I used to order a lot from Papa Gino’s, cause you don’t need cash for that, but the quality of their food has fallen as the prices have risen. Not worth it. At all. Same with Chinese food now. So expensive, and not great quality, so not doing that again. There is a really good Indian place up the street, but I don’t think they deliver, so would have to use Door Dash or some such. Had a bad experience the one time I used Door Dash, so not eager to try it again.
Very fuzzy-headed and off balance today. Doctor says it is allergies. I take at least one allergy pill and use my inhaler at least once, every single day now. Did I mention climate change is fun? Nope. Enough rambling. It is finally warming up a bit. Was pretty chill there for several days. 55 right now. Yay. Be safe. Vote Blue. And all that jazz.
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JUST THINKING
https://lifehacker.com/tech/department-of-justice-apple-lawsuit
I know, I know, but it does happen now and then. Saw an article about how the DoJ is suing Apple. Didn’t read it, but it got me thinking. Remember when big companies had mottos? Walmart, was ‘Everything Made in America’. Google was ‘Do No Evil’. Don’t know Apple’s, or Twitter’s, but they must have had something back then. Now, everybody’s motto seems to be ‘Greed Is Good’, except for Facebook (Meta), which as you may know was started by Suckerberg as a way to rate college girls for “I’d do her” ness, so it was probably something to do with that. Which tells you all you need to know about him. I guess it kind of now is ‘Greed Is Good’, too, though.
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LOTS GOING ON
In a good way, really. First, here’s an article I just came across:
Why can’t we just say ‘Living With’ rather than battling or whatever. I have never been comfortable with being referred to as battling or a warrior. I am living with a so-far incurable illness, more than one actually. I am getting through each day as best I can. That’s all.
I got a new phone. I know, I haven’t taken off that little sticker. It’s too small to see what it says, too. LOL My old one is needing to be charged more and more often and I saw one in Best Buy that I loved, and wound up getting it from Walmart. It is a Samsung. I have always had Moto, except for my first phone, which was a gift from my daughter. It was a Nokia flip phone that I absolutely adored. Star Trek anyone? It’s not the latest model, cause no way am I paying that much for a phone, but more expensive than any Moto I’ve ever bought. So far I love it.
I think I have made a new friend. I hired someone to help me declutter, and she has come a few times and is really nice and we just talk about things and have fun and she clearly wants to come back. I am kind of taken aback. I always think people are not going to like me, and if they do, they will soon change their minds. So much so that I used to find things wrong with people after a while, so that when they cut me out of their life, I could tell myself I didn’t really like them anyway. Yeah, I’ve had a lot of rejection. My fault, as I always manage to say or do the wrong thing without realizing it. Oh, well. Anyway, it’s nice to have a new friend.
I am firing my homemaker service. Well, my caseworker is. I have only had this agency a short time, and I don’t think any worker has come more than twice in a row. I usually get a new one every time. Not happy with the work, either, so am done with them. I have someone who will come once a week to vacuum and take out the trash as a favor, so until a new agency is found (virtually impossible now) I won’t drown in trash. Yay. This is NOT any homemaker I have ever had. LOL
What else? My organizer person completely redid my lower cupboards in less than an hour. Got rid of some things I am never going to need again, since I hardly cook now, and everything else is arranged so nothing is behind something else and I can see what’s there and easily access it. Really important when you are in pain. This is not my cupboard.
I had an amazingly good day Saturday which has not happened in quite some time, so I organized my messy big drawer in the kitchen, the window desk drawer, my coffee table tray where I keep everything I might need when I am in too much pain or too exhausted to get up and go find whatever. Pens, scissors, tissues, water bottle, etc. I have discovered that the bottles Kombucha comes in are excellent water bottles, as they are thick glass and do not break easily if Gertrude knocks one off the table. Inventoried and sorted my backup meds and made a list so I don’t buy something I already have. Pain meds, allergy pills, etc. Also sorted some paperwork and rearranged the table where I have the printer and my laptop. Organization is crucial when you are ill. Not having to search for things or move things makes all the difference. It was a very good day.
It’s been bright and sunny for a few days, too, which really helps a lot. Today of course is gray again. So over gray. In New Hampshire, February was gray month. It seemed like the sun did not shine for the entire month most years. It’s been like that this month here in Mass. I am only about 30 or 40 miles south but the curve of the earth at this latitude really impacts daylight. Amount and brightness. Interesting. Oh, looked it up. You can do that. It is 60 + miles in a straight line, 80+ driving miles. Did not think it was that far. you can see how the curve is above 40 degrees. Can’t figure out how to put the pictures side by side. Oh well.
Done rambling. Very foggy-brained today for whatever reason. Be safe, everyone. Vote BLUE.
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BEEN AWHILE
Been advised to get with it and write something. So. Tried a new med, which I think is generic Cymbalta. It is used for pain as a secondary thing, so doctor advised me to ‘stop being afraid of side-effects’ and just try it. Well, I am the one who gets the side effect every time, but decided to brave it. Nope. First pill, I was awake for almost two days. Waited a few days, second pill awake but not as long, but my blood pressure sky-rocketed. I could feel my head throbbing. Have a cuff bp thing and at one point it was 200 over 190. Not sure exactly how accurate the thing is, but the next day it had gone back to 127 over I forget what, 80 something I think. Not taking that one again. I do tell my doctor that if the odds of getting a side-effect are a million to one, I will be the one. I once took a sleep aid that made me hyper, like being on speed, which I inadvertently took once because it was prescribed by my doctor at the time. He did not mention it was speed and I forget why he prescribed it but it was a very interesting experience. Got a lot done, too. Anyway, it did not help me get to sleep. Duh.
So felt lousy for a few days, because I do feel lousy a lot, then had some stomach issues with pain and everything going through me. Four days of that. On the bright side, I lost ten pounds. In the meantime, my new homemaker came. I get a different homemaker almost every time lately. Worst agency ever. Anyway, sent him to store for four (4) items. He did not return. Was kind of freaking out after an hour and a half, he has my security door and mailbox keys, I will have to call the landlord, what if he’s in an accident, should I call the police, what???? Did call the agency but can only leave messages. Someone called me back (wow) and she could tell me when he got here, when he left for the store, but not where he is at this moment. And then he showed up. IDEK. He said the store did not have everything I wanted so he went to another store. But the receipt is from the store I sent him to and he got all the items and paid two hours after he left here. ??? He is very nice though. But then yesterday I was assured he was to come at 11:30 but he had not shown up at 1pm so I called the agency. I should have called to tell then he was late. No, because every time, you say person will come at such and such a time, but when they arrive however much later, their schedule is completely different than what you said. Frustration. Anyway so no homemaker so far this week, hoping he will actually show up tomorrow. Also had to cancel my organizer person because of being sick earlier in the week.
Then, my laptop has stopped loading the screen. It loads half way and then has a bunch of vibrating lines and the bottom half is black. Unplugged, let sit a couple days, no change. Cannot remove battery like used to do with older laptops. Looked up fixes, none of which worked. Cranked up the old HP, which is what I am using now. So small, but as soon as I signed in and it brought up win10, I just gave a huge sigh of relief. I hate win11 with a passion, so am very happy to be using win10 again.
THEN my phone has stopped holding a charge for more than half a day or so. Ordered a new phone from Samsung that I had seen in Best Buy but didn’t get at the time. Excitement. Got an email they cancelled the order because of some issue with my info, even though my credit card authorized the charge. Waited a week, order again. Same thing. Wound up ordering it from Walmart, which was a pain in itself. Really hope it lives up to my expectations after all that. Supposed to be delivered Saturday. My friend will bring it over Sunday if it does show up. I have things sent to her house because packages are just dumped in the outer lobby with not even a buzz to let you know. And they get stolen. So everything goes to her house.
On the other hand, the trees are working on blooming, it is in the low 60’s, and a beautiful day. And I am not feeling too bad today, either. So yay. That’s all.
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Couple of Things I Came Across
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RAMBLINGS ABOUT IT ALL
There is just so much going wrong, in my state, in my country, on my planet. Our planet. Your planet. The only home we have.
Here is Massachusetts, there is serious violence in Brockton schools. Teenagers are running wild and being destruction in Saphora stores. What the heck is Saphora? Not a store I am aware of, but kids running wild in any context is not a good thing.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/meganeliscomb/sephora-kids-gen-alpha
Apparently, young people are becoming more and more destructive and unruly and belligerent. I get that. Look at the world we have given them. Look at the prospects they have for a future. Religious fanatics taking over their country, rich white men keeping all the wealth and robbing them of even a hope for a decent life with enough food, shelter, etc. So many countries on the planet going the same way. Global warming, whether you can see it is real or not, is happening as we speak, and kids see that the world we knew is not the world they are going to live in as adults. It is already not the world I lived in for most of my life. I would be acting out, too. We need to come up with solutions, and ways to give hope to the generations coming up. But no. We are too absorbed by greed to care about anything but making more money. Profit is the only thing that matters, it seems. I do not know how to fix this.
And I can sit here and watch my favorite tv show, enjoying my snacks, petting my cat, being safe and warm and sheltered, while at the exact same moment, people are being massacred in Palestine. And not only in Palestine. Other countries are suffering the same fate. Genocide is occurring at the same moment I am laughing at a tv show. How do I cope with this? How do I integrate the knowledge that some of my fellow humans are seemingly gleefully murdering other fellow humans? Making videos of cooking and eating the food left in the houses of the people they have just murdered. How does anyone deal with this? We seem to have regressed as a species to something that should have sunk into the mud and vanished eons ago.
We have serious problems with the climate. Once the earth warms to a not-life-sustainable for humanity level, none of the crap people are doing to one another is going to matter in the least. Survival will be all, which again will just engender more genocide, because we always fight over resources, instead of coming up with ways to help all of us. Instead of working to change what we are still doing that is causing the global warming in the first place. No, it’s everything for me and to hell with the rest of you. Humans do not seem to know how to work together for the common good. Look at those rich white men who have more wealth that they could possibly ever need even if they were immortal. Do they use it to better their fellow humans? Any other life on this planet? Nope, they hoard it and work to get more and more. They are the embodiment of Scrooge in his vault playing in his money. I keep telling myself not to care about any of this, because I cannot do anything about it so why just make myself miserable. But children are being denied food and health care and women are being relegated to second-class citizens with no rights yet again, and people are being persecuted because of their skin color or who they love or just because they have no money, mostly through no fault of their own. Because whole populations are being murdered indiscriminately right now, this very second, and how can I ignore these things and still call myself a human being? I just want to give up. But I cannot allow myself to do that without destroying my very being.
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SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG HERE
Concurring with the majority opinion, Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote: “Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”
From here:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68366337
I believe religion is not meant to be part of government, and passing laws based on a particular religion, which not all citizens belong to, is especially offensive. How is this even allowed to happen?
Couple quotes from OMG Barry Goldwater. DuckDuckGo him if you have no idea. Even people we don’t like can sometimes have good opinions.
“The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. … One of the great strengths of our political system always has been our tendency to keep religious issues in the background. By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
“When you say “radical right” today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, they seem to have succeeded. This is very bad for our country, people. We do not need an American version of the Taliban. It matters that you vote. It especially matters who you vote for. Vote Democrat. Please. Biden is not perfect, but OMG he is so much better than the other democracy-destroying choice. Unless of course you think living under religious rule is a good thing, in which case, maybe consider moving to a country that already does that and leave ours alone.
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INTERNET SPEED
Everything connected to the internet; laptop, phone, firestick, is so so so slow recently. For a month or more. And getting slower. Is this because I have a discount price due to being poor? Is something up with the router? I have reset it, but it did not help. So anyway, i did some speed tests. Here are the results. I just did them all, just now, one right after the other.
spectrum says 223 and 371 Next one says 403 and 421 VERIZON says 907 and 942. Surprise, surprise. Verizon is my provider. And I cannot crop the pictures, or get rid of them, so replaced them with my own brand of ‘OMG, this country is such a disaster.’
So here is my disaster of a post for today. It is not going well people. Not going well at all.
strangely peculiar 
