IT AIN'T ALWAYS ABOUT YOU

Good morning. ☕️⛈️

*Please forgive the grammatical errors.

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For my L.A friends. It's funny 'coz it's true. 😏 The reason this map doesn't include cities east of Glendale like Pasadena and Arcadia is because its heavily populated by Asians. Specifically Chinese. 

Since my last blog post I moved to the basement room downstairs. It's 9:48am and for the last twenty minutes the younger of the two dudes staying on the main floor (mentioned in the last blog) has been vacuuming the floor. I don't know who else is renting on the main or the second floors but 9:30am is a little early to be running the vacuum bruv, especially since the cleaning lady was here just yesterday. Dude is epically quirky about cleanliness and he's a young man. Does he not work? The older guy randomly - well I don't know what he's doing exactly - but he randomly chants or sings or summons spirits, like bro, I don't know what's up but he does this for about 20-40 minutes at like 3am or 9am at the most rando times. Wild. Like I said, they're quirky. Yesterday I caught the younger guy standing alone outside my bedroom door talking (I hope) on the phone. My bedroom is in the basement. There's nothing down here but my bedroom and the washer/dryer. What is he doing outside my bedroom door? So I open the door and I'm like, "Hey. What's up?" He just giggles and says "Hello" then returns upstairs. Crazy. Now his new thing is doing laundry at 11pm, 3am, and again at 7am every day, or every other day. What's that all about? It doesn't bother me or anything, it's just one more quirky thing. And then this morning while doing laundry bruv asked me for a sponge to clean the bathroom. Odd. Housekeepers were here yesterday. He was upset because he thought housekeepers were using the same sponge to clean both the kitchen and the bathroom. That's why I turned on my RING camera. Like bruv could be just quirky, OR have some severe case of OCD, OR he could be weird on a level not yet determined.

It's 2:30am and dude is doing laundry. Right on schedule. Like I said, the only things in the basement is my bedroom and the washer and dryer. I'm so glad I have a Ring camera for my bedroom. Now he's upstairs. It sounds like he's just walking around in circles. What's your deal, bruv? 

I heard him come back down stairs just now - and nothing, silence. He must be just standing in the laundry area. Weird. I cut this dude a lot of slack because he's not American. I would hope people in other countries would be patient with me. Know what I'm saying. He doesn't know, or doesn't think to do as Americans do. Bro, the house is quiet at 3am for a reason! He's upstairs now walking around in circles and moving furniture around. 

3:45am. Bruv is on his second load of laundry. I hear both the washer and dryer going. What is he washing that requires 10 loads of laundry a week. Maybe he has a laundry service. I don't know. He sets the dryer for only 10 minutes at a time. The dryer buzzer goes off and he resets the dryer for another 10 minutes. The dryer buzzer goes off and he resets the dryer for another 10. The dryer buzzer goes off and he resets the dryer for another 10 minutes. Mind you it's 3:30am when he's doing this. I'm awake but if I wasn't I would not be a happy camper hearing that buzzer going off every ten minutes at 3am to 4am. 

It's 5:33am now and I think he's finally done doing laundry - until tomorrow morning at 2am that is. Like I said I give him A LOT of slack because now I'm leaning towards the idea he has a wicked OCD cleaning compulsion. He's probably only washing one thing at a time to make sure it REALLY gets clean. It might even be the same thing over and over and over. That's how OCD works. I have a touch of it myself or so people tell me but not to the severity of this dude. I don't vacuum the floor at 9:30am. It can wait for a more decent hour. Add to that, he comes down to the basement and opens and closes all the cabinets that aren't locked. There's a fridge down here in the basement and he open and closes that too, repeatedly. Thank goodness I have a fridge in my bedroom or else I would have gotten one. Again, wicked OCD. It's an older house so when he walks around in circles the floor creaks. I heard the floor creaking all night long when my bedroom was at the other end of the hallway from his, but now that I'm downstairs I can tell he's just walking around in circles. Sometimes he puts on heeled shoes and paces back and forth. What's going on here? 

SAME MORNING. As I was leaving, going up the basement stairs, dude suddenly came out of the laundry area and said "Hello!" Scared me to death. WTF bro. How long was he down there? He said he was leaving this morning going back to Sweden. Praise be to God. What about the old man? Aren't you two together? He tried to chit-chat with me but clearly I was leaving. I was as polite as could be but then I had to go. I wished him safe travels and ran walked out the door. He said he was a minister, in MN from Sweden on holiday. Normally I would ask why he came to MN of all places for holiday but in all honesty that dude freaked me out. I just wanted to leave the house.

When I finish this book and decide to start another writing project there's going to be one character who is the sum of all the quirky people I have lived with in Airbnb's.

PS. The old man did laundry that night at 10pm but he was done by midnight. 

Again. Whatever, bruv. Just don't bother me. 😄

ANYWAY. This dude again.😒 Every time I think that orange moron can't possibly become any worse of a human being he just accepts that challenge with a gusto. 

A real man makes his own legacy. He doesn't piggyback on the legacy of another man. What does that blowup orange tube donkey know about performing arts anyway? If he actually knew how to connect with the American people maybe maybe maybe he would be honored with his own legacy, but he won't be honored because he's a buffoon of a president and an even bigger buffoon of a man. I personally couldn't care less about the Kennedy Center. It's just wealthy people honoring others who became wealthy with their talent. I love when people find success doing what they love but let's not kid ourselves here. It's wealthy people applauding themselves for supporting successful artists. Still, Trump couldn't care less about music, art, the Kennedy Center, his wife and kids. Why does he have such an erection for the Kennedy Center. How weird.  

As I get older it truly is my patience that gets tested every single day. Outside of my American Gen X generation, I really don't understand people. If I'm in another country, another region of the country even, I go with it, know what I mean, but HERE at home God stops these hands almost every day.

EXAMPLE: Lindsey Clancy. Holy cow, folks. Are you really excusing her for murdering her children? She murdered her children. She admits to murdering her children. Her children are dead because she murdered them. There's no excuse. Look, our Gen X parents hated us. They hated being around us. It had nothing to do with post pregnant psycho-whatever, they just hated us. Every Gen X kid heard their mom scream "Get out of my house!" on a daily basis by the time we were five years old. Our moms legit wanted to dismember us but they didn't. A murdering heart is a murdering heart. When the crazy was in our moms eyes she stopped just short of killing us. Every Gen X girl will tell you our moms wanted to kill us and yet we're still alive. I don't care what Lindsey Clancy's excuse is, she murdered her kids. Anyone who defends Clancy for murdering her kids should be investigated (especially!) if they have children.     

Gen X'ing like: 

I love this dude's account. His photographs are dark and broody like post apocalyptic, not another human being in sight, and yet all his photos look like where I grew up.

I didn't realize how scary people thought the Midwest was until I started watching horror movies. My friends and I are like, "Hey, that's our cabin!" And "What's scary about corn fields?" And "What kind of relationship with trees did that film maker have?!" Being afraid of the dark wasn't a thing for us as kids. Once the sun went down on the prairie the only light for miles and miles was the moon and maybe a streetlight every 15 to 20 acres along the one and only road. What you should be afraid of are the people who look and socialize like everybody else except they have a dozen dead bodies buried on their land. The ones who got caught ain't everyone! People who have cemeteries on their property aren't burying only dead relatives. They just put a cross on one end of the burial and NO ONE the wiser. No one asks questions.

 

Truer words never spoken. 

When people tell me they never been hiking, or camping, or spent a week out in a cabin somewhere remote, I honestly believe they're stealing joy from their own lives. Enjoying nature costs you nothing but respecting it. The term I hear everyone using, "go touch grass" is shocking to me that all people aren't just screaming for their lives from their messed up day jobs and running to the peaceful serene open arms of the woods, oceans, lakes, and mountains. Like how is this not already your weekend plans? I spend one day going to my storage locker in North Minneapolis and I cannot wait to disappear on to a remote trail somewhere. The kids today using social media to break down after a customer service shift day job, I feel for them. I'm just going to and from my storage locker and it takes God to stop these hands from pushing people into traffic. I don't condone violence but I understand it.

HEALTHCARE. Oh goodie this subject again. $250 just to walk through the front door of a doctor's appointment AND I have to go to the DMV to prove my identity before applying for health insurance because I'm still a Nevada resident. I use public transport. It's raining today or I would do it today. What a bang up system we have here in America. 

"What's the $250 for?" I ask the doctor's office. 

"For the appointment." The annoyed office worker replied.

Awesome. Thanks for breaking that down for me. I cancelled that appointment.

And look, I been taking only ten milligrams of Levothyroxine for about two years after I was diagnosed with Hashimito's Disease. A blood test confirmed what the attending doctor thought were inflamed thyroid glands. Problem was, my doctor's office had a massive personnel change immediately following them taking my blood and I didn't know about the Hashimoto's diagnosis until my next annual exam. I went a year without treatment. When my doctor addressed this situation himself he just said everything else was perfectly healthy so he only put me on 10mg if Levothyroxine. 

I been reading online that thyroid inflammation can be managed with a high anti inflammatory diet: Olive oil, chickpeas, avocado, tuna, salmon, black beans, raw shelled nuts, etc. And so that's all I'm going to eat for 30 days and see how I feel. Of course I'll throw in my beloved kimchi and Sauerkraut, adding more gut health. 👍🏼 

I just ordered a thyroid supplement from Amazon. It has good reviews and the product company claims it's good for Hashimoto's, which is what I been diagnosed with. It's a two months supply so I'll take that as I ween off the 10mg Levothyroxine I've been taking for the past couple years. After doing my own research, 5mg and 10mg of any prescription in volume isn't even half of the size of a raindrop. Not even half. It's very low potency. All we're doing is keeping the pharmaceutical companies necessary like Amazon, only Amazon actually delivers stuff I need at a reasonable price, cutting out the middle man. What is the point of 5mg? Low dose Aspirin, which I also take, has 75-100mg per. And before anyone goes crazy that I'm swapping out pharmaceuticals for Amazon products, an attending at my doctor's office told me her family orders Zenwise off Amazon for various gut related issues like IBS which is ALSO an autoimmune disorder. Look, this is just my opinion here folks. My body, my choice. You do you. Healthcare is far too expensive to just throw money all nilly-willy at prescriptions and doctor visits before first trying supplements, a good diet, weight management, and a healthy lifestyle. I beat the heck out of my body for twenty years in my teens and twenties. I own that. But to put things into further perspective, my dad quit smoking in his late 40's. He was a two pack a day smoker for 20+ years. He quit smoking in his late 40's and still died of throat cancer in his 70's. I'm not saying my way will keep me healthy into my 70's, I'm simply saying right now I can't afford healthcare. 

I also take Lisinopril for my blood pressure, 10mg a day. Again, just 10mg. I tried weening myself off that once but it was too soon after my stroke when my BP was triple digits both top and bottom numbers. When I tried to ween off it was like six months after my stroke but now it's been five years.

AND AGAIN, I'm not suggesting you try medicating yourself, I'm just saying I, me personally, can't afford healthcare out of pocket, or at all. And for the low dose prescriptions I'm taking WHY hasn't any doctor even talked to me about what I can do to get off these low dose prescriptions? Why, because it's not their best interest. Their best interest, not mine. Isn't that right Ms. $250 doctor visit but can't tell me how the $250 visit breaks down? Like had she said the $250 visit was just the doctor's fee, that would have at the very least been an answer, right? But no, she was annoyed that I even asked the question.

(Sigh)

SO. CONVERSE. Look, I had to squint to see the Klan hood because this is the photo I saw. Its a person, an Asian girl, in a white dress standing in the Converse logo in the fifth point of the star made by light, holding a pair of Converse shoes, surrounded by other pairs of Converse. That's what I see. What the heck photo did you guys see? 

It wasn't until I saw a smaller photo and squinted my eyes that I finally saw "the pointy hood". Like my mind never even entered a lynching until hysterical librals started crying on the internet. Why did so many of your brains go there? That's more disturbing to me than this ad.

 

  

    

You know, if you cut hole in the sheet, it could be the Holloween ghost dog trend. How are they not Klan-triggered by this? 

Are you Klan-triggered by her? That dress/hat is being advertised as a Halloween bridal outfit. 

 

Mass liberal hysteria. 😏 Not the first time. Won't be the last. 

Remember this? People saw white hooded Klansmen in the snowflake. 😏 

All I saw were white aliens. 👽👽👽👽👽 Makes you wonder. Rorschach ink blots?

THE REAL (REAL) WHITE SUPERIORITY. Are we sure?

This dude murdered his wife.

This woman murdered her children. 

This woman wrote a book about murdering your husband AND THEN murdered her husband. 

And of course you remember these two darlings. They murdered their parents. I say let the brothers go. The only people at risk of being murdered are those who the brothers might inherit money from, and all those people want the brothers out of prison. F it. Let them out then. 

If y'all the "superior white race" you're cooked. Forget AI killing us, you got it covered. 

Yes, I set the penalty higher for women who murder their children because if she didn't want children she shouldn't have had any or at the very least stopped after ONE. Her body her choice - I agree with this basic right for women year after year, but every time a woman gives birth to a child and then murders that child, it takes me quite a while to believe in it again. Every woman who murders her children makes me wonder a little bit longer if women should have control over their bodies ESPECIALLY with all these nutjobs defending her! Clancy had MANY different options to step away from her children and she chose NONE of them. Her soul is GONE. If you defend her YOUR SOUL IS GONE. Clancy should be sterilized. That's right I said it. If you choose to get pregnant and then choose to give birth and then choose to murder that child after giving birth, YOU should be sterilized. All these choices for women are put into place so after they give birth they DON'T murder their children.  

Don't worry Liberals, the person you see "hanging" next to the Klan pointy hat in that Converse ad is probably a family member. 

FUTURE COOKED even in Canada. Well done. 

Last night, half asleep, retrieving a late Amazon delivery, a younger guy was leaving the house as I walked up the basement stairs. I'm like, "Are you going downstairs or outside?" He points to the basement and asks. "Downstairs. Is that okay?" Of course it's okay. I only asked because if you were going outside I would move to the left to get out of your way. If you're going downstairs I would move to right to get out of your way, is all. I find these younger generations really don't assess social situations very well but that's not their fault. They were raised on technology, not people. It's the people who were raised on people but still lack basic social skills - that are scary. My brothers mom was that way all her life. 

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER. For real. 

O LORD JESUS CHRIST, Who didst come into this world to call sinners to

repentance and to enlighten all men unto life eternal, we praise Thee with our whole heart and thank Thy great goodness and mercy, that Thou didst not only enter at this place and in this church and congregation with Thy divine Word and the holy Sacraments, and didst purge out the leaven of papistic doctrine and idolatry, but, that Thou hast also redeemed us poor sinners from the realm of darkness, called us to the light of Thy holy Gospel and translated us into the kingdom of grace. Amen.

Okay, Bye. 👋🏼

Fat bear week! Vote in your favorite Alaskan fat bear.

I voted for Backpack. I love an underdog. 

THE QUIET QUIT OF SUMMER

Good morning ☕️🌿

*Please forgive the grammatical errors 

I am currently in the middle of an X-Files episode. The guy/s renting the room on the opposite end of the hallway from me disappear into the house, just *poof* disappears into the house, and then randomly reappears. Where does he go? Its an old house. The floor boards creak. The doors stick. And I hear this dude creaking and shuffling along the house at all hours of the night just creaking the floorboards, shuffling and creaking along. He doesn't cook. The TVs are in each bedroom so where and what the F is he doing all night long?? Pacing?? Just now I got back to the house, dropped my bag in my bedroom and started a load of laundry downstairs. I didn't see this dude ANYWHERE but now I hear him creaking along the floorboards. Bruv, where are you?? Yell if you need help! 

 

Like seriously, this dude disappears IN THE HOUSE. Help me, Mulder! 

UPDATE: Just ran into the dude renting the room at the other end of the hallway. Good he found his way out! He seems nice. He said he's from Sweden and speaks French and Swedish. My ex-husband is Swedish born and raised. I met and married my ex in Los Angeles. This guy however is black, my ex-husband is a 6 foot white Viking with long blonde hair and blue eyes. I wonder how the black dude got on in Sweden, one of the whitest countries in the world. He asked if he could shower upstairs. Our shower has a little calcium buildup on the shower head. I'm like use the upstairs shower, bruv. I don't care. I doubt the dude renting upstairs cares. 

2ND UPDATE: Its two men in the room. Two bruvs in the room at the other end of the hall. Father and son I think. The plot thickens. 

3RD UPDATE: There is no way bruvs at the other end of the hallway are Swedish. I heard one of them chanting this morning and it most def was NOT Swedish or French lol. Muslim, perhaps? Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have no issue with Somalians, or Hmong, or Muslims, MN land was ripped to pieces looong before any of those I just named immigrated to MN. 

ANYWAY

And then there was THIS Scary Mary 😨: 

 

Dear 50-something white lady with blonde hair wearing posh blouse/skirt combo from 1985 just randomly walking through Walmart today talking trash to women of color, that black woman who almost ran you over in the parking lot, just know I'm a Christian but I turned my back when I heard the black gal gun her engine. That crazy white lady walked past me and slapped herself on her fat old butt and I'm like NO THANK YOU. Yuck. I don't know what plagues some white women of a certain age but just know your behavior is why your husband left you, why your kids won't pick up your phone calls, and most def why you're going to die alone. 

Point is, I don't condone violence but I understand it. 

I don't know what that white woman said to the young black gal in her car but it was enough where a homicide almost occurred had the black gal completely lost her cool. I don't condone violence but I understand it. Why anyone would get "dressed up" in worn out 1985 posh and just stroll through Walmart and Walmart parking lot, not shop for anything, just stroll through hurling insults at people who are minding their own business. Like how miserable are you? Add to that, while I was in line checking out, this old 70-something year old man got so close to me with his cart he bumped me with it. No, "Oops, sorry." Nothing. I had to put my hand out to stop him from hitting me again and he just scowled at me like how dare I stop him from hitting me with his cart. Dude. WTF. Just my opinion but I don't think a lot of white folks over 60 years of age are handling the world we live in very well. I think, just my opinion, most of that is because they cannot accept that they're old. Once you accept you're OLD, there's no need to seek validation. No need to dress like a fool and prance around like a crazy person. I mean why would you want to hold on to something that's long gone? To heck with it, accept it, you're old, now go do things that are old age appropriate like dressing yourself age appropriately. Know your limits, folks. 2026 is SO NOT the world these white folks grew up with. Its not the world I grew up with either but I had to adjust in my 20's and 30's or get left behind. These old white folks who are so miserable being a creep to people I'm guessing don't have children who care about them enough to teach them the world of 2026, but that says more about them than their children. 

EXAMPLE:

Oh dear. And stop blurring out their faces. FAFO. 

Good. We need to stop blurring faces when people act this ridiculous. 

What happens to some y'all white folks after 60? Why did this have to happen? Like you couldn't just sit on the plane, enjoy your flight, read a book and mind your own business? You just couldn't do it, mister? Dang. Funny but sad.

And then today this older white lady in her 60's decided not only was she not going to let anyone sit next to her on the tube, she took up the two seats in front of her with her bags. The bags couldn't sit in the empty seat next to her? 

They were her bags, not his. She was the one with big FU smirk on her face as people walked past her. A part of me wanted to take her bags and throw them at her head but with my luck something on her unhealthy looking obese fat face would break. Aaand besides, I don't want to touch her bags bare handed. Know what I mean.  

HERE'S A REDNECK STORY FOR YA:

One morning last year a white male pal (over 65 years of age) said, "I need you to take a picture of my butthole to send to my doctor." Bro, are you serious? Gross! But I did it because he's my friend and he said he was concerned something not cool was happening down there. He's been known to have bi sex and I guess his doctor didn't want him to come in to look at his BH in person. Not that I blame her! Instead she requested a photo. I guess he just assumed I would take the picture for him. I don't know. Did he take advantage of my friendship, oh 100% no question! BUT he was my friend so I did it. In his mind this was a completely normal thing to ask of a female friend, yeah no, so not normal! It is not acceptable friendship behavior! Personally, I think his perversions just wanted an audience, mine and his female doctor. I never threw the fact he asked me to do this back in his face, not ever, but you better believe that ain't ever happening again. I chose to take the picture that time. I choose to never do it again. As it turns out nothing was wrong with his BH. 🙄 He's saved in my phone contacts as "Butthole". Not really but he should be. I just want to forget it ever happened. Nasty! Point being, that's what many older white men think is normal behavior. Like WTF happens to you people? Is it a neurological thing? Did the age of Alzheimer significantly lower among Caucasians? What's going on here Doc? It's getting to the point where I feel 200% safer on the same side of the street with the most out-of-prison-murdering looking criminal than some elderly white people between the ages of 65-80. I mean, a lot of how safe I feel is how they're dressed too. Just so much anger in some y'all. Wow.   

And it may seem like I'm picking on white folks but hear me out, are they or are they not the self proclaimed "superior race" and this is how "superiority" behaves? WHAT HAPPENED to Nancy Mace?! 

  

WHAT happens to some of you people?

Ms. Mace, you are WAY too old (48 FFS) to be "finding yourself" unless you just recently did a stint in prison. You're the South Carolina equivalent to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Watch yourself. You might be the next U.S. Ambassador to Bhutan. 🇧🇹  Never heard of it? Yeah.

🤦‍♀️ We don't want your stinkin' 5K, Mr President. We want affordable healthcare, affordable housing, lower gas prices, and lower grocery cost. How about you do that instead of buying 5 TRILLION dollers in illegal votes. 

PS I got a flu shot at Walmart for $45.04. Pass it on. 

Preach, Canada! MAGA still have not figured it out. It's this kind of derpy behavior that turned life long conservatives (like me) into Independents. I'm a Christian but that doesn't impact my political beliefs. I'm not Catholic and I'm not wealthy. My relationship with Christ is private. My concerns aren't just about me. Yes, I want my man to make money but men today are not trad-men. Many of them who want trad-wives don't come close to making 2026 trad-husband money, that's an annual income with six zeros for those wannabe trad-men not in the know. That's why women are forced to make do by themselves. God bless us. 

Preach, Preacher! 

AND ANOTHER THING

I will always believe that parenting requires two people. One to make the money. One to stay home and care for the house and children. Trad-women are still willing to do their part. It's the men who don't want to do theirs. If you look at every other animal in the kingdom, there is always a primary caregiver and a primary privider. "But they're animals. We're not." Yes we are! We're animals in the Kingdom with opposable thumbs. If men want to provide they also have to earn 2026 money. We could have lived blissfully in the Garden but no, now we have divorce lawyers and taxes because it's a better way to live apparently. The Amish and Indigenous people know how to live. My childhood was greatly influenced by those who lived off the land. Minnesota used to have 18 million acres of native prairie to live on and now there's less than 2%. Migration after migration of Americans who saw gorgeous land and thought, "Rip it up and put gas lines under it!" Living in the country used to be free. Now there's a price tag to live in what they call the "rustic life" but for us in the 70's and 80's it was just life. Our way of life. 

Anyway...

Yes! Not just because I'm 57 years old with a shaky left hip and no health insurance but because there are A LOT of people it seems who lose the ability to emotionally function in today's society. Include mental health professionals with Medicare.  

FACTS.

BACK IN MINNESOTA for a month now. I'm reminded why I missed being here AND why I left in the first place. As Earth said in the tweet, I miss being a kid here. I miss the friends I made here when I was young. I wish I had done more to keep in touch with many people. Fact is, I simply left MN one day. No goodbyes, nothing. One day I just wasn't here anymore. I miss those people. There's a quiet hostility among friends of old when you come back after a long leave (35+ years). You're not so easily forgiven. You're the subject of criticism until you earn their, I don't know, forgiveness, or whatever. Minnesota isn't a transient state like California and Nevada. People take things way more serious here sometimes forgetting our Stoic upbringing. Hey friends, we were raised Christian Stoics. That said, what I don't miss are the people who, I don't know how to say it exactly, the people who lack common sense and logic.

EXAMPLE: I'm walking down the sidewalk. I stopped to look at directions on the MAP app. It's a big sidewalk. A very big sidewalk. I move over to one side of the sidewalk to be considerate. As I'm looking at the MAP app, unbeknownst to me some young people, teens to 20's, were riding their bikes on the sidewalk coming up behind me. Remember I said it's a very big sidewalk. One kid waited until he was directly behind me to scream, "Don't walk!" Like calm the F down I'm just standing here. He could have peddled right past me without incident, but since he waited until he was directly behind me to scream at me, I got startled and quickly turned around, and at that moment he almost crashed into me. Remember I said it was a BIG sidewalk. No one else around. Like three adults could peddle their bikes side-by-side on this sidewalk no problem. There was no one else on the sidewalk but me and the bicyclists, but for whatever reason directly behind me was where this one guy had to peddle his bike and yell at me not to walk. Do you ever just want to push them over? 😏 It takes the hand of God to stop me from pushing them over sometimes I swear. "That's what you get! Life doesn't punish, it teaches!" 

EXAMPLE 2: I'm at the market. I see there is someone with a grocery cart around the corner probably not paying attention (and you know they're not) so I stop and let them do whatever he's going to do, but no, then HE stops. I'm like bro are you going or what? He doesn't move. So I start to go around him and HE picks that exact moment to ram his mini push-cart into my knee. And yes, he was an older man. An older Asian man. Which is why I don't date Asian men unless they were born and raised in America. Had this dude been born (or at least) raised in America he would have said something - anything - like "ope" or "oops" or "no, you go" or "sorry" and then awkwardly giggle, or SOMETHING. Instead, my guy just rams his cart in my knee and acts like it's my fault. Stop my hands, God! Stop my hands! 

I'm convinced that we Gen X, our 20 years strong generation, is the only generation standing that has Stoic common sense regardless if we were intentionally taught Stoicism in our youth. That's why American Gen X is a generation no one else gets. America raised us. The outdoors protected us. Simplicity is our guide. We're the Square box goes in the square hole generation. Majority of our childhood toys were stress tests, geometry tests, and tests on logical reasoning. Those were our childhood toys. As adults we're considerate to a point. The moment other people start behaving without logic we have nothing more to say to each other. 

Now...

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT the state fair. Today is the last day thank God! I had to pick up some groceries but then came back the other direction to everyone taking metro to the fair. Smart. I get why they do it. The state fair is a big deal. Minnesota doesn't have a Disneyland or Six Flags Magic Mountain. We have winter here. Snow on the ground five months out of the year. The state fair and Valleyfair are big deals. Now there's public transport. Back when I was kid if you didn't have a car you weren't going to the fair. That said, everyone goes at least one day to the fair. Everyone. And if they take the metro where it's mostly stand alone holding a hand strap from the ceiling, you also see all the women who don't shave their armpits. Its a thing. I don't know if unshaved pits is a political statement because its definitely NOT more hygienic. Add to that, the gals with bushy hairy pits don't use deodorant. Aaaand then they walk around the humid outdoor fair all day long, then get back on the metro and hang on to a ceiling hand strap. I did my best to avoid taking that one particular tube that goes to the fair but today it couldn't be helped. I needed groceries. Also, how did everyone get a week off to go to the fair? Is this considered a holiday? I mean, it's jam packed all week long. Today, Sunday, being the last day, I'm sure it's a freaking nightmare. I went on Thursday and it was still crazy packed. I want their jobs. I want whatever job allows me to go to the state fair during the week. *Monday, Labor day, was the last day of the fair.*

ALSO, the only reason I went to the fair was nostalgia.  I hadn't been since I was sixteen or seventeen years old and I wanted to reminisce. The fair used to have more animals, contests, cars and tractors, the Midway, and youth groups like 4-H, but now it's just one food truck after another. Not just food trucks but food tents and food stands and food buildings, like just how many different ways can you make a pronto pup? *Corndog.* 

And WHY y'all paying $6 for one ear of corn?! Y'all Minnesotans! It's literally $1 a pound at the market! Get $10 worth of corn, shuck, and freeze for the winter. The only thing I got at the fair that I can't get anywhere else was a cherry snocone. It was pure Heaven in this humidity. 

 

Many if those high school friends I mentioned earlier moved to the farmlands, the UP (upper peninsula) just under Canada, and the farmlands next to Wisconsin. Look, we're prairie people. We have nothing in common with the twin cities. I, however, like my Starbucks. You don't get Starbucks in farm country unless you make it yourself and coffee runs are an excuse to get out of the house.

AND (sigh)

REST IN PEACE DOLLY. I liked HER more than her music. What a cool Godmother to have. Some people have all the luck. 

I think about death more now than ever. I'm closer to it. Sure, maybe I'll live another 30 years but more likely not. My body relies on a handful of daily prescriptions to function. If I live five more years it would be an act of God though I know not what for. 

Lord God Heavenly Father I pray protect this man at all costs. His words are always kind. We need more kindness in this world. We need more kind men like him in this world. Amen. 

AGAIN, THIS GUY

Welp, I guess 80 years old is when men start getting punchy for Alzheimers. Sounds about right I guess. Can we please stop voting for people this age. There should be a 65 year old cap entering the WH. 

I love my pals on Twitter. I love sharing photos of our walks, hikes, and travel adventures. We're a community of outdoor enthusiasts. They are my daily Zen. 🕊

Outside of my generation (Gen X) I prefer the company of domestic animals & wildlife thank you very much.

 

Peace. It's called peace. Get as much of it as possible.

Preach, Preachers!

ONE-THOUSAND percent correct.

Awesome. 😏

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I really liked this photo of my walk. I wonder why people didn't. It's a mystery. 

They did however like this photo. It's a popular angle shot among the tree people and outdoor enthusiasts. I don't get how trends work. 

September 11, 2001. A lot of people dropped that horrific tragic ball. Not just you. 

Take us out, Vicar of Christ. 

God bless us all. Pray for peace. 🙏🏻🕊

Ok bye! 👋🏼