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Sick Days

I am thankful for their existence, but i hate taking sick days. I hate being incapacitated, not being able to work. I love sleeping, but i loathe when it's because I'm sick.

Ups and Downs

Lately I've been working hard to stay on track, to go down my checklist of things to do. It's an endless supply of errands, paperwork, planning, and chaos unfulfilled due to lack of funds or time. Still, it's motivating as hell to check that stuff off and build some momentum getting through an evening. It's closer to ten than nine at night. I'm still going. Let's do this.

The Super Bowl

Watching the Super Bowl today with my family. The Los Angeles Rams are hosting the Cincinnati Bengals. The second half just started, and it's a close game. The Bengals are starting to run away with it.

It's an exciting one, and I'm so very thankful that it's not Tom Brady or the New England Patriots. So very thankful.

Pets

This type of companionship cannot be bought or won from another human. Loyalty by a dog is unrivalled, and the calming purrs of the cat are less intrusive than sleeping pills. Surround yourself by those who can't think enough to betray you.

Fleshing Out the First Phase

I just looked at my budget, and took the numbers from last month into my graph. Costs have been going up, but income hasn't. The plan must start now. The first goal is to buy or build a storage shed large enough to hold all of our stuff. We gotta get ready to leave. 

The Coming Storm

Maybe we've been saying it with every generation, that the end is near and all that stuff. I personally don't believe the end is... ever. But i do believe that our society, as it exists on Earth, has the technology to expose the ugliness that is humanity. We can see it now, instantly, from the other side of the globe. We can see racism and sexism and torture and failed military operations and all of the ugly consequences of all that. We can see our political leaders bumble around justifying their corporate-friendly lawmaking. We see it all. We are all disgusted.

That's the first step.

The second step is the action that follows the disgust. Our Black neighbors have been on this for years now. Simply arguing that Black lives... matter, they are on the front. Power has been bringing the disgust to their front door since any of us can remember. They have every right to be mad. We should all be just as mad. And we are getting there. The disgust is coming.

Then...

... what happens once it's decided in our heads that we've had enough disgust? Are you going to fight back? Are you going to talk? Are you going to run? Hide? Or are you just going to tune it out? I challenge you to ponder what this country means to you, and what you think it needs to be. Then look around you, and see what is keeping that from happening.