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Surviving this chaos through mindfulness & meditation. Retired engineer. Working certs in mindfulness meditation, MBSR, and energy healing. Because happiness.
Joined Oct 2017
No leaves to make crescent shadows but the blinds did! We got to 98%
my son and I stayed home. My daughter and husband drove to Ohio.
Mom got to see with glasses, weird shadows and the dimness
PSA
If anyone's life explodes like what happened with my son.
PLEASE find a counselor. I think ours is a social worker/therapist. If urgent I would not call private therapy practice unless you can get in right away.
Not sure what my uusbamd google to find her. I'll ask him and post.
^^^ reminder. The homemade suppressor was made by the narcissist. He put it on my son's 22 rifle. Yes my knew this but he was drug addled. (No excuse) bur this case does have some extenuating circumstances.
Between us, (and my son disagrees with this) but I think he was grooming my son to be his "enforcer"
UPDATE on my son's plea deal.
Not great but not horrible
1 felony dropped (this was a stupid charge of gun w/ INTENT)
2 drug felony will be dropped upon completion of 18 mos drug court. He will have counselors and monitoring.
3. The possession of silencer is going to proceed. The prosecutor cannot guarantee no jail time (but at least it would be the local jail and not effing prison)
Obviously we are hoping for probation
1st offense Non violent felonies can be expunged after 5 yrs.
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UPDATE
my son and lawyer are with the prosecutor right now (on the gun charges). They are doing a plea deal. I don't know details yet. π
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Good people of CoSo?
This is just a loving reminder that your brains have not evolved to cope with the stimuli of online environments.
It does you no good to be immersed in images of destruction or harm, particularly if you are not in a position to help.
Stay informed, but take breaks. Look at the sky. Attend to local concerns where you CAN make a difference.
It doesnβt help the world or you if you are chronically destabilized by online content.
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^ if anyone has experience with dividend funds feel free to share
Also my son is applying for medicaid (he should easily qualify)
Btw corporate insurance has shitty coverage of mental heals and addiction disorders, medicaid covers so much more.
So it will just be me and my daughter needing healthcare. At some point we will switch to ACA
Does anyone use ACA? I called once and got 25 spam calls a day for almost 2 weeks. WTF is up with that SERIOUSLY has anyone been able to sign up w/o spam? π
^^ so before after those taxes we will have enough to pay our hefty mortgage lol
Like I said we will trim down our purchases and pay for the rest of bills by selling stock
My husband (who manages the retirement account is still feeling some stress that we now have to use it) is enquiring with our broker on moving our funds from the S&P 500 to some kind of dividend fund that we can get monthly cash BUT we are not moving anything with a clear understanding of the choices from our broker π
RETIREMENT STUFF is kind of a PIA. I can't focus on my training fully until this stuff is done.
Yay! I finally got the cash from my old company's 401k.
This Is to pay off all the debt And cover Cobra healthcare for the time being. I can drop anyone at any time - example, my husband will take Medicare in July when he turns 65. BUT he won't take SS until I do, in August at 62 (ugh)
Husband found out he geys more if he claims spousal benifits (with me)
Next
SOCIAL SECURITY
I'm seeing words out there that Eastman has been disbarred in califo6
Ooh I just got the quote on Cobra benefits for my family And it's a lot it's like twenty three hundred dollars a month.
I don't know if I can just take a month or 2 of that.That might be something.I might consider to keep coverage going.But I need to get my son on medicaid.
They have some really good programs in my county around medicaid. But I figure out how to talk to someone about some of the rules.So I guess I'll just have him.Apply online and see what happens.
Oh no chef Jose π he lost seven people.
WOW,
The the courts response to Braggs motion about trump threats
It's a good thread
https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1774950768912523593?t=PMNKZqQYLbL2mgtcl4Kgsg&s=19
This ending tho π has any judge ever called him out quite like that before
Lol. I keep forgetting it's April fools!
This one almost got me! π 
Oh hey. I read an article yesterday that h5n1 bird flu is in michigan cows that recently came from texas...
Then I saw this today.
I'm not going to monster shout about h5n1 like I did covid bc this is not a new virus
What concerns me is thst we have culled almost 90 million chickens because of bird flu. Now a cow handler has it. Will there be a huge culling of cows? π³ π¬
Havana syndrome: possible connections with russia's special assassination squad.
I've been following this in general. Last month the NIH said no visible injury in brain mri. That just means there wasn't structural damage. I imagine that would rule out microwave...
I agree with directed acoustic weapon
^^ There is nothing more woke than mindfulness imo lol
LOL SPEAKING OF WOKENESS
we all know Musk's compltely disturbing and damaging war on wokeness...
but GET THIS - in my training course, Tesla was highlighted as using the program for workers. π
Nice shift in The Force, in turkey.
π»π€sΞ±Ξ·βΡaα΅π§ββοΈ
Surviving this chaos through mindfulness & meditation. Retired engineer. Working certs in mindfulness meditation, MBSR, and energy healing. Because happiness.
Joined Oct 2017