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For those whose marriages didn't work out, I hear you. I grew up in a marriage that was held together for the children. The result, I never married myself.
For those who found love, companionship, and trust you were blessed. I am grateful for your joy. My father's brother had a marriage like that. One of the islands of safety in my life was when I stayed with them.
Sleepless - last night I caught a conversation on a news channel that really disturbed me. When I was able to sleep finally, it was full of nightmares that woke me up couple hours later. Play solataire to quiet my mind enough to try sleeping again. And promptly at 3am Simon started the meow protest for breakfast. I tried, slept walked to fill waterbowl, there was dry food, went back to bed. Meows continued, jumping on mirrored closet door commenced, I gave up at 3:45am. Now Simon and Charlie are asleep on my bed and I am on the computer. Awake for the day. On a Sunday. At least it is 62F.
@WendyLuvsCats I'm sorry to hear you lost your dad so soon. It's never easy for younger kids to lose a parent.
@tsroemi Yes, definitely a lifetime thing. We've both been married to the other for more than half our lives now.
Regards,
Richard
I just had a dream that our refrigerator was rolling forward from the wall. I wondered how unlevel our floor had to be for that to happen, and if this was a new problem. Then the refrigerator rolled back to its original location and I figured that was good enough. Then I woke up and unloaded the dishwasher. Because that's what people do when they awaken from dreams they wouldn't bother to try to understand.
Last night, I dreamed I was with a small team of people, and we were about to be attacked by a bigger team of people. I had to decide whether we should engage in a bloody gunfight with them. So I said let's do it, and we did. Then I woke up. But there were no dishes or laundry to tend to, so I tried unsuccessfully to get back to sleep.
Oooh, I loved that, and SO relatable ('ah well, that's good enough then')! Except for the dishwasher emptying thing which I hate doing awake and asleep. Good on ya for stepping up with the little people gang!
I woke at almost 2am from a dream trying to figure out how to move overseas with computers. And what country to move to. Gave up. Turned on old computer in my bedroom and downloaded three days of DAZ purchases over DIM. Both cats finished their fight and are now asleep, again. I am going to make coffee. I am tired of dreams/nightmares driven by the news. Even when I am staying away from the news.
I had a crazy dream I can only semi describe as political
in real life on GEDmatch a person in my DNA matches had a surname very similar (1 letter different) to an Americal TV presenter I dislike
in my dream it was that person and it caused me so much distress I had to recheck the spelling once awake
the person in question is also a different gender and deceased too so why I dreamt that I have no idea
Solidarity.
Little dude probably should've been to sleep around 10 yesterday morning, but didn't manage to wind himself down enough for it until about 3 PM, so we did a 6-hour schedule jump again. Today a nurse comes to the house for the annual assessment to get him re-approved for his CSG grant. Appointment is at 8:45, but I kept waking up all night from dreams that I'd slept through her arrival... which was nuts because there was no way I was going to sleep a solid 16ish hours, even if there are days I feel like I could sleep 16 /years/.
It's annoying because I'm in the process of applying for a Developmental Disabilities waiver, which is apparently what he should have been on the entire time, except my initial social worker steered me to the wrong thing. So we're going to have to go through this whole process again in a couple months. And Little Dude is not comfortable with strangers in his house, so I'm bracing for impact with that. We might be in for another big schedule jump today.
We have a kitten called Toby. He's 14 weels old, a Maine Coon and is grey & black.
Just like every young one he keeps playing long past the time he needs to sleep, gets a little bit ratty and then crashes. When he sleeps, it's like the sleep of the dead. He's utterly out of it, he lies full length on the back of our armchairs and the only thing we can see of him is the tips of his ears. The one thing that wakes him within the first hour of sleep is the sound of kitty kibble.
Our adult Maine Coon Ozzie is our only cat left of the four we had from 2012 to 2018. (Fluffy - Norwegian Forest Cat - died of HCM aged 17-ish. Rooster - 7/8 Maine Coon - died of Liver Cancer - aged 15 and Squeaky - Heinz 57 - died of old age at 19.5 years old). Ozzie is 13, and we want him to be boss cat as it'd do his confidence good. He's very timid, given that he's a huge cat. Well, introducing him to Toby hasn't gone too well yet. Ozzie, being 3 times the size and 10x the weight hisses at Toby. Who hisses back. And Ozzie shakes like a leaf during the rest of the hissing confrontation. They've not got past this stage as Ozzie always askes to go out at that point - and as he's boss cat, we pander to his every wim.
Regards,
Richard.
Some cats are bosses, some are not - size has very little to do with it.
Pics of Toby? I'd love to "meet" him!
I never got to know my Maine Coon/Ragdoll as a baby... the Humane Society listed him at 4 years old, but we're not sure if they were right or not, given that everything they said about him for personality was way off the mark. He had been surrendered along with another cat (whom he showed no interest in at all), and maybe they got the two's paperwork switched. I bet he was adorable, though. He had such gorgeous markings.
Which are you?
I couldn't possibly say.
I finally got the hiking stick figured out, sized right and a fingerless glove to protect my hand thanks to my flatmate and for the past two mornings have walked him partways to his job, then carried on to do over a mile walk before 6am. This morning I woke at 2am, and just got up aching. But coming home this morning, I tried to sit down to do a tutorial and my mind turned off. I read words, but the brain didn't compute. Shut off the computer and took the rest of the day off. Simon of the 3paws was in flatmate's room, Charlie was under my bed. He periodically checked on me due to my odd behavior. At one point he stretched out lengthwise next to me, then climbed over to a pillow and totally conked out, totally boneless.
But I bought two new surge protectors because the previously new ones started to spark when I had to pull out my computer's plugs to save electricity. Now my modem is on one by itself, the others on the other new one. Modem can stay on and the surge protector with my MacMini can be turned off with the 'Power' button. And a 12ft USB C cord for my iPad. A good $97.00 spent today.
But I am still tired. And it is 98 degrees F. Tomorrow it is supposed to be 99F. But I keep reminding myself it is not 105F by 9am nor 120F on the desert floor as I have to guard a crashed B-1. Keeping things in perspective. We should be in the low 90s by the weekend.
....a B-1 crashed?
Sounds about right.
It's hot and sticky here as well, we were supposed (again) to get a thunderstorm yesterday, which (again) didn't show up. By now, I can basically predict local weather better myself by looking at clouds and wind than the professional forecasters. Small wonder though. I tried to sleep nevertheless, inching my way back towards a more normal sleeping time (am at around 2 am atm), but the stupid stupid hot flashes kept kicking in again and again. And because I was so overtired, everytime I threw off the blankets I started shivering 10 seconds later. So that wasn't much fun.
I have downloaded Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (how does one place the double dots above the 'e' on an iPad? - solved by Gordig!) as an audio book to keep me company when I try to relax before bed - gawds, I didn't realize children could be as badly behaved as all that in Regency / Victorian times! I did remember trying to read it once and then stopping because there was such horrific cruelty against animals described in the beginning - remembered that and plucked my ears almost in time. Almost, sigh ... There are trigger warnings for talking about job loss now, for gawds' sake, why can there not be any for animal cruelty?! With the precise time stamp / pages to avoid. I had such a hard time pushing the evil images away afterwards, and I don't know if I can continue with the book at all. Does anyone know it, is there more to come after the initial descriptions?
This comes really close to being kept up by the news for me, it's actually worse. I mean, what's wrong with humanity, you know? Heard someone make a case that much of the evil today is based on the artificial competition set up between humans in Western society, because competition is supposedly not the default human state, rather cooperation. Does make sense, but as cooperative as early humans were in their own group - there are still lots of archeological signs they lashed out viciously against other groups. That I guess was based on naturally occurring competition, over territory and resources. So we're probably naturally both. And I guess we're slowly getting better - at least there are laws against animal cruelty in many countries now, and many people are smart enough to teach their children to leave the critters alone. But it just feels so slow sometimes, doesn't it?
Argh, sorry for the rambling post.
Hold down a key on the keyboard, and you'll get options for variations like diacritics.
Also, the two dots are called an umlaut.
Ahhhhh, thanks, I didn't think it would be in there for some reason!
many letters and numbers have hidden hold extras o° for example
Have you read Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen? It's fantasy, and has the story told through the usual narrative means, but broken up with archaeological reports of a dig happening on the site, with interpretations on how things must have been, and also with folk tales and nursery rhymes that were born from the events. I haven't read it since the mid-90's, so a lot of the specifics escape me now, but I loved how unreliable the modern archaeological interpretations were, though you could see how it got there. And the folk tales weren't entirely right, either, but they also weren't entirely wrong.
Anyway, I think it makes sense that cooperation and creation would be the base instinct. (When my teen was a preschooler, one day they announced that "as long as there have been people, there have been plays" -- the format of theater and art may change, but they're not wrong.) But then there are always going to be some that are wired to do harm, and everyone else has to start defending themselves or go under. And it just spirals from there.
... for me, bedtime was delayed yesterday because Little Dude had gotten hooked on Cirque du Soliel videos on YouTube Kids. Definitely like this better than Pinkalicious.
Edwards is the test base for the Air Force. Yeah one crashed. We lost one pilot and the other was seriously injured. The investigation figured out the problem, fixed it in the models that were released for use in the field.
This one? https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2024/08/05/air-force-fires-ops-group-commander-after-scathing-b-1-crash-report/ ;
No this one was in the 1980s. I was at Edwards from July 1982 to Fall of 1986. And the issue was a fuel design problem. That was corrected.
...I get a 404 error even in "Incognito" mode.
The posted link is bad. Try https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2024/08/05/air-force-fires-ops-group-commander-after-scathing-b-1-crash-report/
Hmmm..., interesting!
I don't have a problem with either link. Both work OK with this machine (Win10, w/GoogleChrome)
I must have missed or skipped reading the reports that day. I take Stars and Stripes and get a summation of all military news every morning. And sometimes more often. If I have a batch of 50 odd news feeds dumped in a few hours I will do a blanket delete out of frustration.
The link in your message has %C2%A0/ at the end. That is something the forum software tacks on the end of a link, if you don't hit Enter to start a new line after the link text. %C2%A0/ shows up in the message text as a semicolon after the link text in the forum message. That issue is almost always the problem when a posted link does not work.
I don't have any idea why the link with %C2%A0/ works for you, unless you have a cached version that you typed before the forum software destroyed it. All I did to fix the link was copy it, remove the %C2%A0/ from the end, paste it, and hit Enter when reposting it.
I think it was Richard Haseltine that taught me about pressing Enter to avoid the link corruption.
or use the link icon above the quote one