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shadowkatWell, the x-rays told me what I pretty much already knew - so I was right about that at least. No pneumonia, heart is fine, I've the mild beginnings of disc degenerative disorder, and mild beginnings of osteoarthritis in the knees, etc.
Kind of already knew that. I knew I was doomed to spine and back and arthritic issues when I was in my teens and twenties, it's why I've done yoga sporadically most of my life. (I despise yoga, it's boring, I'm not flexible, floor exercises are painful and impossible with the curvature that I've got, and I'm six feet tall - and most of that is in my legs, making yoga hard to do - it's not designed for giants. It was designed by cultures that tend to be shorter or smaller in stature.)
Anyhow...more February Memage:
10. It’s International Bagpipe Day! Are you a fan of bagpipe music?
Ambivalent to be honest? Although I don't mind it. Heard it a lot wandering around Greenwood Cemetery during the pandemic - there was a mad bagpiper in that Cemetery during 2020-2022.
11. Have you ever won a prize for something?
Yes. I won the Adelaide Bender Literary Award - Second Place for a Short Story in my senior year of college - way back in 1989. I've won other things here and there - mainly for swimming and track, also in junior high and high school.
12. Do you save all the spare buttons that you often find on shirts and other garments (have you a specific place where you keep them)? Have you any clothes with fancy buttons?
I try to, but I have a tendency to lose them - also I suck at mending.
13. Do you wear slippers around your home?
Sometimes? It depends on if I'm doing laundry, or have to take the trash out to the trash shoot. I live in an apartment on the third floor of an apartment complex, so it's not really necessary to wear them in the apartment, but I have done it occasionally - they are actually more pink fuzzy flip flops?
14. International Day of Action for Rivers – a day to ensure rivers are clean and available to all. Are there any rivers or streams near where you live?
Yes. I live on an waterlogged island in the Northeast. We have lots of rivers. There's the East River, the Hudson, and then the Gowanus Canal - all within a few miles here or there.
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Mother thinks the Dems did the right thing by not shutting down the government, shutting it down would have made it a hundred times worse.
I don't know. I'm Switzerland on this. (Although apparently even Switzerland is annoyed by the Doofus. Honestly, I've been annoyed since 2010, I'm long past annoyed - I want him guillotined already.)
Meanwhile Canadians on Bluesky are telling Americans to fuck off and solve their own problems, they can't be bothered. Well, as much as I hate to break this to the Canadians? Canada is the US's next door neighbor - ignoring the fact that 79 million idiotic Americans decided to set their house on fire by electing the Doofus and his minions or rather the Republicans and their Minion the Doofus (whichever way works for you), isn't possible. Any more than you can ignore the fact that your neighbor set their house on fire. It's not the same thing as it happening in the UK or Europe or China. You don't have an Ocean between you. You are literally next door, there's just land. And that fire can easily spread.
So, sorry, Uncle Sam setting his ablaze is also your problem. Just as it's also Mexico's problem. At least the Caribbean has an ocean, and the rest of Latin America has well Mexico, and Mexico for that matter has a wall and barbed wire fence. Canada?
Actually this is everybody's problem. If you don't think it is? Now is a really good time to brush up on your history?
I shouldn't joke. Or be wickedly sardonic (particularly since it's really hard to pick up on the internet). But seriously, this whole thing is just patently absurd. If someone told us all this was going to happen a century ago, or even ten years ago? We'd have laughed in their face. I can just imagine getting in a time machine and trying to warn folks, and getting absolutely no where. Heck some idiots don't believe it is happening now.
Mother: I thought you were staying away from all this stuff?
ME: I tried. I can't. I have too much of the social scientist in me -
Mother: No, you have too much of your father in you -
ME: that too.
Then of course there's more evidence coming out that Facebook contributed heavily to Trump winning, and it was deliberate and Zuckerberg was complicit in it, and even had people helping with the campaign, and the marketing. (This shouldn't come as surprise to anyone? I mean if you saw The Social Network - and know the background of FB, you know Zuckerberg is a tool aka evil marketing guy. Actually 90% of the tech billionaires are.)
This is all from a new "tell-all" book entitled Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams, which Meta tried to stop from being published. (Not sure why, most of us already knew all of this? I guess some people didn't?)
I went to B&N today, discovered I was a member? I apparently am a member of three area bookstores. I'm collecting book store memberships.
Today, I bought Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act - a Way of Being by Rick Rubin. It's a lovely little hardback book with short chapters. Rick Rubin is a music producer and wrote a book about the creative process based on his years in the music industry. But it's not about the music industry per se. Amazon Link to the Book.
I told Wales about it, and she responded: the music producer? Oh he's so cool.
I had no idea who he was. I'm not that knowledgable about art or music, I just do art (the actual act of creating it) and listen to music.
Kind of already knew that. I knew I was doomed to spine and back and arthritic issues when I was in my teens and twenties, it's why I've done yoga sporadically most of my life. (I despise yoga, it's boring, I'm not flexible, floor exercises are painful and impossible with the curvature that I've got, and I'm six feet tall - and most of that is in my legs, making yoga hard to do - it's not designed for giants. It was designed by cultures that tend to be shorter or smaller in stature.)
Anyhow...more February Memage:
10. It’s International Bagpipe Day! Are you a fan of bagpipe music?
Ambivalent to be honest? Although I don't mind it. Heard it a lot wandering around Greenwood Cemetery during the pandemic - there was a mad bagpiper in that Cemetery during 2020-2022.
11. Have you ever won a prize for something?
Yes. I won the Adelaide Bender Literary Award - Second Place for a Short Story in my senior year of college - way back in 1989. I've won other things here and there - mainly for swimming and track, also in junior high and high school.
12. Do you save all the spare buttons that you often find on shirts and other garments (have you a specific place where you keep them)? Have you any clothes with fancy buttons?
I try to, but I have a tendency to lose them - also I suck at mending.
13. Do you wear slippers around your home?
Sometimes? It depends on if I'm doing laundry, or have to take the trash out to the trash shoot. I live in an apartment on the third floor of an apartment complex, so it's not really necessary to wear them in the apartment, but I have done it occasionally - they are actually more pink fuzzy flip flops?
14. International Day of Action for Rivers – a day to ensure rivers are clean and available to all. Are there any rivers or streams near where you live?
Yes. I live on an waterlogged island in the Northeast. We have lots of rivers. There's the East River, the Hudson, and then the Gowanus Canal - all within a few miles here or there.
***
Mother thinks the Dems did the right thing by not shutting down the government, shutting it down would have made it a hundred times worse.
I don't know. I'm Switzerland on this. (Although apparently even Switzerland is annoyed by the Doofus. Honestly, I've been annoyed since 2010, I'm long past annoyed - I want him guillotined already.)
Meanwhile Canadians on Bluesky are telling Americans to fuck off and solve their own problems, they can't be bothered. Well, as much as I hate to break this to the Canadians? Canada is the US's next door neighbor - ignoring the fact that 79 million idiotic Americans decided to set their house on fire by electing the Doofus and his minions or rather the Republicans and their Minion the Doofus (whichever way works for you), isn't possible. Any more than you can ignore the fact that your neighbor set their house on fire. It's not the same thing as it happening in the UK or Europe or China. You don't have an Ocean between you. You are literally next door, there's just land. And that fire can easily spread.
So, sorry, Uncle Sam setting his ablaze is also your problem. Just as it's also Mexico's problem. At least the Caribbean has an ocean, and the rest of Latin America has well Mexico, and Mexico for that matter has a wall and barbed wire fence. Canada?
Actually this is everybody's problem. If you don't think it is? Now is a really good time to brush up on your history?
I shouldn't joke. Or be wickedly sardonic (particularly since it's really hard to pick up on the internet). But seriously, this whole thing is just patently absurd. If someone told us all this was going to happen a century ago, or even ten years ago? We'd have laughed in their face. I can just imagine getting in a time machine and trying to warn folks, and getting absolutely no where. Heck some idiots don't believe it is happening now.
Mother: I thought you were staying away from all this stuff?
ME: I tried. I can't. I have too much of the social scientist in me -
Mother: No, you have too much of your father in you -
ME: that too.
Then of course there's more evidence coming out that Facebook contributed heavily to Trump winning, and it was deliberate and Zuckerberg was complicit in it, and even had people helping with the campaign, and the marketing. (This shouldn't come as surprise to anyone? I mean if you saw The Social Network - and know the background of FB, you know Zuckerberg is a tool aka evil marketing guy. Actually 90% of the tech billionaires are.)
This is all from a new "tell-all" book entitled Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams, which Meta tried to stop from being published. (Not sure why, most of us already knew all of this? I guess some people didn't?)
I went to B&N today, discovered I was a member? I apparently am a member of three area bookstores. I'm collecting book store memberships.
Today, I bought Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act - a Way of Being by Rick Rubin. It's a lovely little hardback book with short chapters. Rick Rubin is a music producer and wrote a book about the creative process based on his years in the music industry. But it's not about the music industry per se. Amazon Link to the Book.
I told Wales about it, and she responded: the music producer? Oh he's so cool.
I had no idea who he was. I'm not that knowledgable about art or music, I just do art (the actual act of creating it) and listen to music.