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January 01, 2022

It's 2022

At least here on the Eastern Seaboard of North America

Art by Nardack

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December 13, 2021

Holiday Banality.

Narmaya in a holiday mood by Homidere.

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October 31, 2021

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity-Jig

Art by Lansane. Support them on Fanbox and Skeb!

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September 25, 2021

Blogging Via Dial-Up Sucks

On the other hand, finally being able to walk 4 miles without a cane is most gratifying.

I still can't run or jump, but I'm now going to out-patient Physical Therapy and have access to special equipment so I can work on that.

Furthermore, I walked past the school and blundered upon a gun store on the side of the road 2 miles distant and discovered 9mm ammunition for less than 50 cents a round. Walking back carrying the unexpected prize was harder, but it was satisfying.

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September 18, 2021

Annoyances and Frustrations

Banality is below the fold. As compensation here's a rendering of GranBlue Fantasy's Zeta by Houtengeki. Support him on Pixiv Fanbox!

Yeah, I know, but it was pretty canonical before the...'downgrade".

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1 I found that just three deep breaths can drop my blood pressure from 160 to 120.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sun Sep 19 11:46:28 2021 (LZ7Bg)

2 Yeah, I have problems with carrying around too much tension. Breathing helps. Another thing that helps is an exercise involving lying down flat. Hands clasped behind my head. Holding my head still, and facing straight up, look as far right as my eyes travel, and hold. Breath a while. Then switch to looking left the same way, hold and breathe. Then actually turn my head to the right, hold and breath. Then the left, again. It is possible that this only has good results for me because of something wrong with me. News is depressing, but I've actually been on net positive. Compared to the first Obama years, which I spent very depressed. May just be my personal situation, and making slightly better choices in my emotions. I mean, it seems pretty clear that a few of those with power over us are deeply disturbed, and that is never a wonderful situation to feel trapped in. Compared to the Obama years, however, while I still don't see a way out, I do have a lot better understanding of the grounds for hope.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Sun Sep 19 14:54:05 2021 (r9O5h)

3 Argh, I had javascript off, and so a bunch of white space was eaten.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Sun Sep 19 14:55:32 2021 (r9O5h)

4 Are there any more sedentary job prospects within non-driving distance available? Given the health issue(s?), something less strenuous might be preferable.

Posted by: jabrwok at Sun Sep 19 18:37:52 2021 (iyhH7)

5 There are probably some temporary disability plans that can help out in the interim, if you do get fired. If you get going on the paperwork immediately, you may even see some cash in 6 months....

Posted by: Mauser at Sun Sep 19 22:23:35 2021 (Ix1l6)

6 You may try looking into your state's public transportation options, not to ride a bus but because many also have special discounted transportation options for the disabled, including those who can't drive. Usually something like a taxi or a van service that may only charge you a few dollars. A 30-second search turned up this: https://vda.virginia.gov/drivingtransport.htm I'm not sure how quickly you can get access to something like this, but may be worth investigating.

Posted by: StargazerA5 at Mon Sep 20 07:03:42 2021 (olRfA)

7 Hope you can find another possible work place. My son got a job with your 'current?' employer after being overseas for a number of years. They recently told him(verbally) that he needed to go to another work site for some special training. When he went there, his ID badge would not let him in to the different location, but he was able to talk with the people on site and show his badge and got let in. Then said company claimed he was filing false work hours because he didn't show up for the 'mandatory' training. Since his badge wouldn't work there he was not OFFICIALLY present, so he COULDN'T have been there for the training - so they fired him. I'm sure his being over 40 had nothing to do with the setup. Meanwhile, he has started working elsewhere.

Posted by: Frank at Tue Sep 21 15:54:06 2021 (rglbH)

8 Arrghhh.

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September 08, 2021

Achievement : UNLOCKED

Walked 1.2 miles outside.

Unrelated picture of... I guess it's a Windmill... is by Kokotan.

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August 23, 2021

Life's Little Milestone's

I put on my shoes and socks ALL BY MYSELF!

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August 19, 2021

Banality Update

A quick update on the recovery.

Unrelated art by XilmO@å¤•æœ«

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August 09, 2021

Banality SUCKS

Of all the things...that which I needed least was such a magnificent confirmation of my fogiedom.

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August 05, 2021

Having Stroke

called ambulace

typing with left hand

thx for reading

UPDATE:

No computer

Still in hospital.

Will be in rehab for weeks.

Can walk (bÃ rely)

Can talk (barely).

Cannot write.

Cannot use chopsticks.

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July 31, 2021

The Evolution of Policy

Well, that was short lived.

Clown world asserts itself.

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July 15, 2021

Meanwhile: At Work

Art by Hiromu

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1 <i>Despite my having gotten "the poke" twice, I still have to wear masks at work, in part for liability reasons because we don't have a high enough percentage of people vaccinated yet. </i>

Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. By luck, my profession has been pretty insulated from the Covidiocy (I can work from home a lot). It bothers me that in the critical physical jobs that make our world work, the workers are underpaid, overworked, and treated like shit. It's not good, it's not smart, and it's one of the reasons why I'm "off-libertarian" these days. It seems to me like market forces aren't really fixing these problems, and how society really decides how to reward people have little to do with them, and a lot to do with caste systems and social dominance games.

Machinists and engineers are the example I'm most familiar with. The caste divide, and the devaluation of their critical work bothers me.

Posted by: MadRocketSci at Thu Jul 15 13:06:27 2021 (hRoyQ)

2 I'm not particularly underpaid and the company I work for tends to treat is personnel pretty well. But we are working unbelievably hard right now and the inability to get help is causing a cascade effect as people, especially young people get to the end of their rope and let go.
The 'caste' divide you mention, while not as applicable to me, is quite real though and getting worse. It gives a sobering look at the neo-feudalist arrangement many of out anointed are trying to bring about.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jul 15 15:41:40 2021 (5iiQK)

3 Corporate is making a lot of Sam's Club fresh department employees continue to wear masks in states that are mask free. After jab. So people complained, and suddenly corporate starts leaning on everyone to wear masks again! So. Freaking. Dumb.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Thu Jul 15 16:32:24 2021 (sF8WE)

4 Those girls in the foreground need to watch out, because surely there is a pot of petunias incoming.

Posted by: Mauser at Thu Jul 15 23:04:10 2021 (Ix1l6)

5 I don't know how you manage the shift. When I work on any projects like making garden footpaths, planting, or even making a knife at my workbench, it's 2 hours and a long break.

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May 27, 2021

Side Effects Update.

As mentioned a few posts back, yesterday morning I got my second restraining order against Coronachan.

I think I now have every non-respiratory flu symptom.

I misspelled 3 words in the previous sentence.

I have not, thrown up yet, but I foresee it in the near future.

It's 03:30 and I cannot sleep.

Hololive should not be watched while running a fever.

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May 26, 2021

Poke!

Banality is below the fold. The pic is just a placeholder, but some of you may glean more from it.

Art is by Taiwanese Artist Ikaridon, who can also be found on Pixiv Sketch, and you can also support her on Fanbox!

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April 10, 2021

Status

Just a brief rundown of various IRL issues. As usual at such times, the picture is unrelated and the banality is below the fold .

Genshin Impact's Fischl, the high priestess of asymmetry, chunni, and crazy is by Shichijou Natori. Support their work on Fanbox!

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January 26, 2021

My Baby Sister Just Had a Heart Attack

She's 40 and has 2 kids.

I've let work know I'm going down to look after the children.

UPDATE: Well she's been released on her own recognizance and has a series of stress tests and such today and tomorrow. I called work while at the gas station and told them I can come in but they said that staffing was fine and I was already listed as off for the day. My FMLA application is obviously on hold. I'll know more tomorrow.

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December 06, 2020

Programming Note

If I die of a heart attack buried under a mountain of boxes, blogging at this url will cease.

Art by Sun 3 (also here and on Twitter, Pixiv and Pixiv Sketch)

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November 18, 2020

On the Wisdom of Grip Safeties

So, one of the trees in the front yard had grown to where it was in the same time and space as my roof.

This was not readily apparent from the ground. However, during the weekend windstorm, I heard it dragging against the roof and after closer inspection realized what was going on.

So I borrowed a polesaw from my brother-in law, got on the ladder, and, after determining both that I wasn't underneath or in the swinging path of the branch, and that said branch would not damage my roof or my car, I started chewing away at it. The polesaw is like a chainsaw greave, and as I cut away at the first, and then second branches, I could not help but imagine how awesome this would be as a polearm in a minimally realistic martial arts film.

At this point in the process, the tree decided that it had had enough and that physics did not apply to it and the branch fell, not directly down, not to the side that I was cutting on, but, as near as I can tell twisted the cut out towards me, swung towards me and swatted me off the ladder. The polesaw made a long arc through the sky before deciding on the ballistic trajectory that would place it on me. I caught a gimps of it just before it impacted. My heart skipped a beat and I now have a much greater appreciation for the final moments of Elric of Melniboné. However, because I was not holding the grip safety, it was not running, thus I was not disemboweled; escaping with some scrapes bruises and a coating of sawdust and dirt.

Nothing of value was lost.

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October 29, 2020

Oh.

You can get it on Amazon.

The last time I tried to get a Japanese beverage off Amazon it was 212 dollars a bottle.

I demurred.

Relevant art is by Huwari. Support him on Fanbox.

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October 15, 2020

Worry.

Banality is below the fold. As a contrast to that, here is some cheesecake rendered by Jun (@navigavi).

He's taking commissions on Skeb.

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