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29239. Ms. No - 10/23/2023 5:02:44 PM Ditto -- still teaching. Still in Sacramento. Still wondering wtaf is up with so many people in the world.
How in the hell did we let all these crazies take over? I mean, there have always been radicals and nutjobs, but the sheer volume of what-the-fuckery these days is just stupifying.
I wouldn't ever actually do it -- I'm too lazy and I like city living too much -- but I do have the odd daydream about living some bucolic life of communal hippiness way off the grid somewhere just making art and talking to feral cats or whatever. 29240. vonKreedon - 10/24/2023 2:10:53 AM That sounds so good to me, given that I'd be in easy driving of Seattle and could regularly stay with friends in Seattle.
29241. Ms. No - 10/25/2023 11:57:10 PM Right? That's the trick --- have a city-center home you can stay in when you want to be in town.
Mostly I think right now I'm just resentful of anything and anyone that needs any of my time or effort or attention when what I really want to do is pull some hard-core hermit-ing. 29242. vonKreedon - 12/25/2023 6:17:27 PM Happy Christmas and New Year to all the Moties, may your New Year be blessed. 29243. arkymalarky - 12/25/2023 11:25:20 PM Merry christmas and happy new year and all the other holidays Motebuds!
29244. arkymalarky - 12/25/2023 11:26:34 PM Great to see you vonK!
Keoni called us yesterday and we had a great conversation. he sounded really good. 29245. Ms. No - 1/5/2024 8:27:46 PM Happy New Year!
Arky -- that's good to hear. I need to call him and chat --- hell, I need to call YOU and chat! What's your weekend like? I go back to school on Monday, so I'm squeezing every last bit of relaxing and catching up with friends I can out of these couple of days. 29246. arkymalarky - 1/13/2024 1:56:56 AM Hey, No! got a little hectic. But if you got any time this weekend mine is wide open. 29247. arkymalarky - 1/13/2024 2:08:00 AM Oh, and forgot to tell y'all, especially Wabbit, that Hobo died in October. He was almost 16, sweetest boy. We got a card from the vet that everyone signed because they all loved him there. 29248. vonKreedon - 1/13/2024 4:28:43 PM So sorry for the loss of you loved animal friend, Arky.
29249. arkymalarky - 1/14/2024 9:35:55 AM Oh thank you vonK! My daughter found him as a stray. She and I worked together and she Lived a few miles way. So she was in front of me driving home and saw a litter of puppies on the side of the road, and I'm like Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop and she stopped and there were several. we gave them all away and kept him. We think he was half coyote. He was the best watch dog and companion. He stayed in the house last few months of his life and was a good house dog too. Everybody at the vet came to say bye to him When Stan took him for the last time. It was as good a life and death for a little stray Animal as you could possibly want. 29250. Ms. No - 1/17/2024 12:10:32 AM Hobo did have a good life, but I know you'll miss him. I've got a picture of him still from the last time I was out....ten years ago? Has it been that long? I can't believe that. 29251. vonKreedon - 10/31/2024 4:23:35 PM Happy Halloween everyone! 29252. Ms. No - 11/6/2024 1:36:53 AM I'm worried that Halloween might turn out to be the least scary thing to happen this month.
Hope you're all doing well and managing your stress levels tonight!
I am avoiding everything until tomorrow. I think maybe I'll watch a baking show or play video games where I kill zombies and save the world. 29253. vonKreedon - 11/6/2024 3:47:53 PM Woke this morning to my clock radio delivering the nightmare. 29254. Ms. No - 11/6/2024 9:50:03 PM Yeah, I was avoiding all media and planning to find out in the morning -- no point losing sleep over something I had no power to change -- but my friend texted me at 9pm and I looked before I thought about it. So, no sleep until around 3 or 3:30, then waking at 5 to my alarm and a text from my youngest brother that my father had been missing since 3pm the day before.
He's safe and odds are good he's going to be okay, but he's going to need some rehab after falling off a roof and knocking himself out. He didn't break any bones, but he's got some bleeding on his brain and is still disoriented and having short-term memory issues. The news could have been so much worse. The other upside is that I was so focused on the family crisis that I haven't been able to dwell on our democracy's existential crisis.
And now we know for sure that all those folks who claimed to be undecided were just too ashamed to admit they were intending to vote for Trump all along. Maybe if you hold a position that you cannot defend, that you know will make people whose opinions matter lose all respect for you, maybe you should change your position. 29255. vonKreedon - 11/7/2024 4:12:32 AM I'm both sorry to hear of your father's accident and very glad it was not much worse, Coz. 29256. Ms. No - 11/7/2024 5:53:23 PM Thanks - I'm so very relieved that it wasn't worse, but it was also quite the wake-up call to realize that he says he's put all his affairs in order should anything happen to him, but I don't know the details and I don't even really know for sure that he's done that.
So I may have to make a trip out to ensure all the Power of Attorney stuff, get details on his life insurance and burial plans, and make sure my little brother is accounted for should my father die while Lagan is still a minor. Lots of stuff -- and for the moment I'll need to be the one making sure bills get paid while my dad goes to rehab for a couple weeks.
Oh, yeah, and maybe I should make sure all my own affairs are in order. The most I've done to this point is look around the house and think "Jeeze, if I get hit by a bus, what in the hell is my family going to do with all this stuff?"
All the morbid but mundane duties of life are adding a lot of stress but also helping to distract me from the horror of the election.
How are you getting by? 29257. vonKreedon - 11/9/2024 5:43:57 PM My normal low level vague sense of unexpected doom is turbocharged, but all the thing happening in my actual personal life are quite good. 29258. Ms. No - 11/10/2024 6:12:37 PM Glad to hear things are going well! Am I remembering correctly that you relocated a few years ago? It's funny, I didn't realize until just this minute that when I'm talking to Moties I don't visualize faces, I see general areas on a map. I see this even for folks I've actually met in person.
I'm with you on the sinister background track. I didn't know that not everyone heard that, and then I got a random request through my doctor to take a test for generalized anxiety. I took it, but I told her, yeah, we're just calling that realistic these days.:-)
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