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Sometimes even we forget how magical books are.

@TiarePalau #politics #CNN #randomthoughts

"It’s easy to forget how much Tucker Carlson have accomplished over his career. He’s been fired by Fox, CNN, MSNBC and PBS. That’s like the EGOT of cable news,” Kimmel said. “That’s called the EGOT fired – is what it is.” ~ Quote from Jimmy Kimmel

Me: I'm thinking that'a a hard no. And why he's looking at Twitter instead.

@dwalace4 He's actually been quoted (accurately) as saying the worst thing that can happen to man is going bald. Not going to war. Not any other true crisis issue. Nope, it's going bald. FFS he could get hair plug transplants like Biden did.

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I put aside shelf stable food for food banks. It's a "longer table" sort of thing.

Today, a store I was at had discounted a one variety of Quaker Oats from $5.50 to $1.38 because they weren't going to carry it anymore. Its expiration date is 4/2024.

I bought half a dozen and they're in my donation bin. Why not all? Because someone very low income may need it.

If you want to help others, this is a good way to do it.

We need all the people who see the world in strange and unusual ways.

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Not politics. Just an observation.

This is an outtake from a Reuters photo. Considering TFG's obsession with hair loss, is it time for him to get a hairpiece. Because that bald pate glows under the overhead lights.

Your humor piece for the days.

@AshFlambe there are things I believe I need to know. Such as basically outlawing transgendered people in Texas that’s important. And then a lot of stuff is over the top. I looked at places like Reuters.

@DarkeConteur strange as this may be, I once had a client who had lived in the Alaskan bush for so long that she was literally a host for every fungus and allergen you could imagine. Despite numerous scrubbing and hair washing this and giving her a different clothes every time I went into a room with her to meet I had massive asthma attacks. They had to give her a new worker. I was literally allergic to her. And she was a nice lady, coming out of sad circumstances. 🤷‍♀️😮😱

I bought a beautiful rosebush that actually has a scent, which most of them don’t anymore. After it was planted, it went into transplant shock. It’s finally recovering. I extracted the rose from the gravel background and put it on some greenery instead so it look pretty. I wish I could add the scent. Took a lot of water to pull it through.

#randomthoughts so I sent off for a plant stand. No, it didn’t come from IKEA. That being said, I can certainly take out my frustrations putting this sucker together. They sent a rubber mallet to beat it together with. I’m not entirely sure that I’m doing it right, so maybe I should back up and watch the video on it. Ya yhink?

@Gord02 You have 2 teenage children. In fact, you have been good enough.

And there's no reason you cannot be enough within yourself. We do not need someone else to validate our value. In fact, no one can fill up our vacant spaces. We have to do that.

I'm not Buddhist, but I do recommend Buddhist style therapy/thought processes. If there is a Sanga in your area, see if you can trade some of your kick boxing time for time with a monk, mediation and learning detachment.

I'm serious.

@kel I just read that Trump implicated himself in the theft of the documents found at Mar-a-Lago during the CNN town Hall. I didn’t watch it because I don’t feed narcissism, but he can’t STFU, and he may have just hung himself on his own petard.

@WestofMars Short story collections? If they like your work, that's a good idea. I write a short story/novella reader magnet each month for my newsletter. At the end of a year I'm folding them into a book. Maybe some outtakes.

Sounds good to me.

Short Jobs by Jim Butcher (short story collection) did well in terms of sales.

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@Gord02 Also, a week is nothing when it comes to meeting someone and making an evaluation of their character.

So many guys are in a hurry and feeling desperate for a connection. Men have fewer friends, fewer support outlets, etc and being needy can bleed through even though you're not aware of it.

Develop friendships into relationships. Look for someone who is interested in you. My daughter blew me off until it was the guy who became her best friend who is her life-partner.

Good luck.

@Gord02 Taking a break here. Perpetual ghosting is a data point.

My late husband was a computer programmer. If the program keeps breaking then you recode the the program .

I didn't understand the languages he used, but I had expert pattern recognition skills and sometimes I got called in to find where it broke. Then the next place it broke. It is rarely one typo in a program. It's rarely one quirk in a human.

Find someone who can help you identify those patterns that are broken.

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@Gord02 I wish you luck on all this but unfortunately… I’m gonna have to ghost at least for a while because I have got a deadline to meet.

Anyway, if you don’t understand why women are afraid of saying this doesn’t work for me. I think you need to do a little more work understanding what it’s like to be a woman out there in the dating game today because men kill women.

I’m not saying it’s you I’m saying that it happens and it’s scary and you get to be the receiver of that.

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@Gord02 I think you’re missing something on that “if you’re not interested just say, so is that hard?”

Do you have any idea how many women are attacked and killed over that? How men go gonzo on dating sites and send death threats? How women are afraid?

Shit, I get death threats on FB from men I don’t know.

Ghosting can be self-preservation for a woman. With all the misogyny out there no
woman wants to die for saying she’s not interested.

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@Gord02 and there is no one in the martial arts/kickboxing community at all, who is a female who is in anyway the kind of person you’d like to meet?

I don’t know what to tell you, except maybe to sit down and talk with the counselor and see if you can get things figured out.

I am a great believer in organic connections and they take a LONG time to build. If somebody wanted to meet me, they would need to hang out at writing groups. And then it would take them months to get to know me.

@Gord02 have you considered your counselor?

Are you dependent in relationships?

Have you considered the 12 step group codependence anonymous?

I’m just throwing stuff on the wall here to see if anything sticks.

I have a guy friend who is so codependent it’s amazing he can’t see it. And he always picks unattainable women, then can’t understand why it doesn’t work.

It seems to me that meeting people organically is better.

@Gord02 he was one of the most brilliant people I ever met. He was also blind, BTW. He was a great conversationalist. We had similar beliefs. It it took us months of casual communication to connect. Me to connect. I was not really interested in being more than acquaintances. He didn’t push. He knew I had a lot of balls in the air. I’m introverted so after an 80 hour week I wanted to decompress with my kid.

But he also wasn’t looking for a cute girl 20 years younger as happens nowadays.

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