- Hard to avoid the medical nonsense at the moment.
- Getting the PICC line out as soon as someone figures out the orders.
- I cannot adequately express how much I’m anticipating this.
- I have had to sit here and watch the muscle melt from my bones, what little cardio I had left evaporate.
- I can do stretches and whatnot.
- I’ve done less than I could’ve.
- (Gotta stress that part; I could be doing better rather than sitting here whining about it.)
- I was doing the walking, but that damn rash.
- But the rebuilding begins soon as that thing is out.
- Gone along with the excuses.
- Today or tomorrow, we’re turning the corner.
- I hate waiting.
- I hate waiting on anything.
- Patience is not one of my virtues.
- Other people spending my Time currency is going to be less and less tolerated as we progress.
- (One of my hospital room revelations.)
- The other medical stuff … We’ve been taking care of Mom for almost a week.
- Hard seeing your parent in pain.
- She’s doing well, obviously.
- Knew she would.
- Having to keep tabs on her to make sure she doesn’t overdo it.
- Because that’s where I get it from, after all.
- Have had birthdays in the last week.
- Have a friend who’s lost a parent.
- Had a dumbass internet death scare.
- It’s a lot.
- And that’s leaving out the unnecessary, manufactured unrest of the country.
- Hope you are taking care of yourselves.
- Oh, the other thing.
- The bigger thing.
- At the precipice of returning to work.
- Probably going to ease into some wfh these next two weeks before we go back to the Mayo.
- If they let me, anyway.
- If they don’t, I’ll sit here and burn out the rest of my FMLA and continue to fend off the creeping work stress.
- Because it gets into my head even when I’m not there.
- Insidious.
- And bullshit.
- Work isn’t why we’re here.
- The toll is overpriced.
- I’m sorry, but you’re never going to convince me of the validity of Puritanical work ethos.
- It’s propaganda.
- You know, this is not what the list is for.
- Not its purpose.
- (Though this one’s pretty typical for a Monday.)
- It’s not supposed to be a journal.
- Supposed to be a little more on the entertainment side.
- Like, I started reading T. Kingfisher’s “Nettle and Bone” a couple nights ago.
- Digging it so far.
- Pretty prose.
- Interesting world.
- I had to take a break from Carl and Donut.
- Not sure if that’s an indictment of me or the book.
- Probably me.
- Adult onset adhd.
- Which I’m more inclined to think is happening.
- Boredom induced.
- Takes more to hold my interest outside of that goddamn phone.
- Oh.
- That reminds me.
- The other day, I saw an Instagram post that used the word “seggs” (with the e as an asterisk) to substitute for sex.
- What the actual fuck.
- Apparently the algorithms are filtering for language, so people are coming up with “creative” ways to get around it.
- Which makes them sound like 12yos.
- Seggs.
- …
- This world is starting to piss me off.
- More.
- Seriously though, what kind of head-in-the-sand person are you if you can’t even read the word “sex?”
- Pretending something doesn’t exist is not the way you cope with anything.
- Avoidance is the enemy.
- Another one of those things where … I’m sorry you can’t deal with it, but that doesn’t give you the right to make others filter it for you.
- A country a third-filled with adult-aged infants.
- Check out some of the stuff in the Big Beautiful Bill if you don’t believe me.
- Politicians of all kinds are not looking out for us.
- There are a few.
- But most of them do not understand … do not gaf … about the public service aspect of their “jobs.”
- I should not post this one.
- Reread it.
- Should not.
- It’s all an angry little man gnashing his teeth and spewing verbal frustration.
- Cept for that one little part about the book.
- We rewatched “Super 8” over the weekend.
- Could not help but notice the influence it had on “Stranger Things.”
- (Damn you, Facebook, for making italics a pain in the ass. Yes, I know you can, but the hoops make it ridiculous. However, the quotes around titles when they should be italicized drives me insane.)
- Good flick, though.
- Again, reminds me of the gang and our tween and teen adventures.
- People close to me keep trying to convince me to write a book of those adventures.
- I don’t want to because … I’m the protagonist in my memories, and those are suspect and not necessarily accurate depictions of other points of view.
- I would hate it if I wrote it from mine, it did not line up with theirs, and they hated it.
- Like, there’s an audience of eight, and their approval is more relevant than an Amazon rating.
- Sure, it sounds like an excuse.
- But I have a lot of lines I will not cross.
- Would it be liberating to have fewer morals?
- Fewer ideals?
- Less guilt?
- Less responsibility?
- If you do not feel responsibility, then you’re probably not paying an internal price.
- If you’re not paying an internal price, you can do whatever you want.
- Look down on whoever you want.
- Be Gordon Gekko with his “Greed is good” bullshit.
- And as karma (and other things) isn’t real …
- Now we’re getting somewhere, right?
- The heart of those differing perspectives.
- One of the Discord denizens discovered Spotify uses AI “bands.”
- I read about a month ago about them creating AI “artists” and having them cover a song and then throwing those into the algorithm.
- There’s AI as a tool that can help us do some things more efficiently.
- Then there’s AI used for creating profit at the expense of artists’ careers.
- Again, greed isn’t good.
- Goddammit.
- This list is a skippable offense.
- I warned you at the beginning.
- Or I will when I post it anyway, which puts these last bullets into the time loop.
- Have the Monday you deserve.
- …
- Take the Monday you deserve.
- Fucking take it.
- (The “take” is italicized.)
- (Which means jack on the blog because I can italicize there.)
- (But I write in Word.)
- (if I cut-and-paste from the blog, it jacks up the facebook post.)
- (Screw all this; I’m moving to monetization land.)
- (I may not be able to do lists for work anymore.)
- (These may have destroyed my filter.)
- (“Who will life to escaping? Who is bad milk blood robot? Scream not working because space make deaf.”)
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