Ebooks, Kindle and the Erosion of Ownership by Plant Based Bride
on YouTube. Brave New World. Ha!
At some point, I hope to do an update of what my life has been like recently, but this is not that point. If anyone cares anyway. (smile)
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-delete-your-x-account
https://lifehacker.com/home/how-to-realistically-doomsday-prep
Do we put ourselves at risk posting things like this? I don’t know, but never give up, never surrender. Right?
Not really. Not even. Found this today:
I am at 7. Every day since January 1st. Pain meds are NOT working. Two celebrex and 4 tylenol over the course of one day, and nothing. NOT working. Just needed to moan and groan.
Today is the twelfth day of Christmas. Unfortunately, I do not see any drummers or partridges or swans or anything.. Oh, well. Not sure why people are so eager to be over with Christmas. We always took the tree down on the twelfth day, Epiphany, the day the wise men showed up. Present day in some cultures, cause those guys brought gifts. I do not celebrate a religious holiday, though, just a winter solstice, days will be getting longer kind of thing.
Have been really struggling with pain, which is why I am not posting much, in case anybody noticed. Hard to think when you are in a lot of pain. Living on Celebrex and Tylenol, which really do not help all that much. Am applying to get more help, but the government only helps the really, really rich, and the rest of us can go hang, for all they care. Seems that way, anyway. The hoops you have to go through to get someone to come in for an hour or two a week to do the things you can’t, like cook. Fingers crossed anyway, but even if I qualify for something, I expect it all to be taken away again, including the assistance I already get, once the MAGA’s wishes come true and Trump destroys every one they hate. They will be destroyed, too, because if they think he will skip over them, I don’t want to be there when they find out how very, very badly they have been conned, and how truly important it is not to just believe everything you are told, especially from a proven liar. Denial is not just a rive in Egypt, as they say.
Anyway, time to put Christmas away, except I am not doing that, because my few small decorations just brighten up the winter season, so why not keep them around to cheer me up? I bought a very cute tree after Christmas, cause I missed having one, and Gertrude and trees do not go together. So I paid 4.88 for this tree. It is so teeny and cute, Just like Gertrude used to be.
How’s that for generic? For the first time in years, so many I can’t remember, I will not be alone on Christmas. Today, a friend is coming over, my homemaker is coming (She insisted. I love my homemaker), and later DD2 and I are going to drive around and look at Christmas lights, and have our traditional Christmas Eve Dutch Lunch. Dutch Lunch is something we used to get at a tavern near the steel mill in Pueblo, Colorado. It became our tradition. It is Italian bread and why can’t you get real Italian bread anymore. It is not bad bread in the shape of Italian bread, but terrible. Every store now seems to sell this. I bought baguettes instead. Provolone, capicola (sp), and cotto salami, the one with peppercorns. Banana peppers and beer. Dutch Lunch. I think my friend is bringing cookies, I hope, or we won’t have Christmas cookies. I can’t bake, and I tried to think of everything we’d need, but forgot cookies. Tomorrow we are having chinese food, and figs wrapped in phyllo dough (frozen appetizers). I am excited. I got used to the being alone for every single holiday, but it never stopped being sad.
My DD2. She has amazed me. She can be prickly (spectrum issues) and moody( body chem issues), but she is so very kind and caring, and thoughtful and generous and helpful, and she does so many little things that seem completely unimportant but make such a difference. Replacing the towels when she gathers the laundry, opening the cat litter box for me, peeling the gold foil off the beer bottle. She doesn’t tell me, and I just notice it when I go to do something, and it makes my life of pain and exhaustion SO MUCH EASIER. I don’t know how it happened, but I have really great kids. Hope you all have great families, too.
So in the middle of this, my friend came over, and I suddenly became super hyper and full of energy and talking about things I want to cook. Prednisone, the wonder drug right up until it kills you, has kicked in. For sure. Happy Winter Holidays, all of you lovely people out there.
From a Tumblr post:
“What now?
When a woman suffering an ectopic pregnancy dies because she doesn’t have access to medical care, that’s on you.
When they take away your neighbor, your co-worker, your friend, and deport them, that’s on you.
When a woman is forced to suffer the agony of carrying her rapist’s baby to term, that’s on you.
When a transgender kid harms themselves because they can’t get the medical care they need, that’s on you.
When your middle-class taxes GO UP, while billionaires get even more tax breaks, that’s on you.
When schoolchildren are killed by an assault rifle in a mass shooting, that’s on you.
When children grow up ignorant because you banned books and dictated how history is taught, that’s on you.
When Grandma can no longer afford a comfortable life because the Social Security she paid into all her working life, and provided income on which she now depends, has been cut, that’s on you.
When violence against Jews, Asians, Hispanics rises again, that’s on you.
When prices on the goods you buy skyrocket due to tariffs, that’s on you.
When Ukraine, deprived of our support, is overrun by Russia, that’s on you.
When the U.S. is the laughing stock of the world (as we were 2016-2020), that’s on you.
What should you have done?
You should have exercised critical thinking skills, recognized the thousands of lies you were being told, recalled that his administration had four years to live up to his promises and failed at all of them. You should have realized that he is a profoundly stupid individual who doesn’t give a shit about you or your family or anything except himself.
You had the last nine years to see that, and you still fell for his bullshit.”
And a comment: “.
It’s not that people FORGOT about all of trump’s crimes, lying, and disastrous policies—Democrats reminded them daily—it’s that they did not care because THEY are racist, sexist, homophobic haters who FEAR someone they don’t like might have more power than them.
They are not uninformed, they knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they voted for trump. Which is why they get NOTHING from me.”
Unfortunately, critical thinking skills are not taught in US schools. We are doomed by our own ignorance.
But it’s not going well. There is no consolation in the fact that those of us who voted blue know what we are in for, but those who voted red are going to have a very rude awakening when they realize that they are not special, and hating the same people that the orange disgrace hates does not make you exempt from what is going to happen.
We could have had this:
Instead, we got this:
And Finally:
In a lifetime of being disappointed by the unfathomable stupidity of my species, I think this is the most disappointed I have ever been. What have you done, people? What have you done?
“The bright day is done, and we are for the dark.” Shakespeare
I now I haven’t blogged in a while, lots going on, some good, some not. But I got a new homemaker who is fantastic, and I just asked her if she voted yet. No, because she doesn’t know who to vote for, because she’s heard they are both bad. She is a college student who knows nothing about Trump’s agenda, because she doesn’t spend much time on line, she said. I explained to her that if Trump gets in, I will not be able to have her back, because I won’t have the services I need to pay for her. Actually, I wouldn’t be able to have her back anyway, because I will be homeless. Trump and his cronies want to take away all the support systems that exist for people who are not rich old white men. Systems we paid for all our working lives through payroll deductions. Our money. I am afraid there are probably a lot of people like her, who don’t really know what’s going on. I explained about reproduction rights, how Republicans want control of HER body, and women are dying in Texas now because they are not allowed an abortion even if the fetus is not viable. A woman was arrested for having an abortion after actually having had a miscarriage. This is our future it that despicable excuse for a human being gest in, and every one who votes for him will suffer the same things that the rest of us will. Voting for Trump won’t mean you get to keep your support systems, your medicare, you housing assistance. I was worried last time, this time I am really scared. Please vote BLUE. Please.
There’s an article in Live Science about companies working to ‘deextinct’ certain animals. The argument against it is strong, but the key to any endeavor is this, from the article:
“Regardless of (company) ecological impact, the company could still see a big return on investment, Lynch said.
“If they’re successful — and I have no doubt that they will be — they’re going to make a ton of money,” he said.”
The only consideration that matters in today’s world. How much money can I make off this?
Here’s an article about how it’s a bad idea. https://humansandnature.org/the-perils-of-de-extinction/
Humanity has no humanity in so many instances, it seems. (The quality of being humane; benevolence.) Here’s a quote from said article:
“Any species that we bring back,” he writes, “could be engineered to be eliminated easily should it pose a problem.”
So if we create these replica beings, living creatures, but decide we don’t want them after all, just engineer them to be easily killed. Meh!
Article in my local paper says there were 69 noncompliance complaints in the past year, and yet nothing was done. Nine people have died, and 57 others became ill. Now they have closed the mentioned plant in Virginia to clean and ‘retrain’ employees. What purpose does the FDA’s Food Safety Inspections serve if they do nothing in the face of multiple infractions? Do you know how many food recalls there are every week? I get emails whenever there is a recall and it is astounding. Why do they not make sure food is safe before letting it out to be sold? I do not understand the reasoning behind this, unless of course, like everything in my country, it involves someone getting money some how, some where. Nothing involves the well-being of the citizenry, it’s all about profit for the corporations. You just cannot trust any agency, any person, any thing at all any more. Very disturbing.
Doctor advised me to stop chemo for a few days to see what happens, as what was going on with me was not normal side effects. Skipped Wed dose, was much better by Thursday evening. Brain working better, thinking happened, even got some things done. Skipped Friday as well, even better yesterday. So skipping tomorrow’s dose, and I have blood drawn tomorrow to see what this has done to my numbers, and I guess doctor will advise me where to go from here. How bad is this without taking meds for it? Are meds necessary for future survival? What does all this mean? Questions, questions. This doctor, though, is one that takes the time to listen to them and to answer them.
Been getting out more now that DD is living closer. Went to dinner a few nights ago at the really expensive but really good place just down the street from me. Can walk there with the Rollator. They have sidewalk dining, so I was okay. Turns out the town was having one of it’s summer concerts that same night, right across the street in the park. So dinner, acting silly, music. It was a very good night.
Today I got to visit my friend’s new puppy. She is so teeny and cute. Just like Gertrude was when she first moved in. Then we got a shake at the DQ, and I hadn’t eaten today, so got an order of fries, which was small, but also quite tasty. Don’t usually get anything but ice cream from the DQ, so was surprised at the good fries. Tired, but a fun day. Cute puppy is so freaking cute. Kept trying to eat my shoelaces. That’s all. 🙂
Why it does not tell you the truth. This is why they destroyed Twitter. You could get actual facts from people on the scene, anywhere in the world.
strangely peculiar 