Entries 769

Page 4 of 31

4/18/22 3:30 pm So. What’s up? My brain keeps glitching. Not just here, not knowing what to write , but in other, worrisome ways. Like. I’ll put the water on in the sink to get hot water, go g...

---

4/15/22 6:18 pm Shit. Hold on. I need my coffee. I am so feckin’ tired! Yes, I could lay down, but there isn’t a TV in the bedroom here, so I have to set this thing up on the bedside table to w...

---

As the war drags on, the parallels deepen. The Russian invasion has already spawned an enormous refugee crisis, hollowed out many Ukrainian cities and towns, and led to the suffering of countless...

---

New Yorker article The Russians Fleeing Putin’s Wartime Crackdown Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster ...

---

I really really really need a subscription to the Washington Post In a dingy Russian classroom with worn-out rugs, elementary school students lined up to form the shape of the letter Z: the symbo...

---

Washington Post The scariest site on the Internet isn’t lurking on the dark web, but hiding in plain sight at nuclearsecrecy.com. “Nukemap” lets you pick the size of a nuclear bomb, plunk it anyw...

---

https://fb.watch/bNmI2JUk0v/

---

I started this entry yesterday morning, but just deleted it, because … well, just because. I am trying like hell to avoid the news today. I got sucked into a horrible depression yesterday, and ...

---

---

Washington Post From email newsletter on 3/9/22 The latest Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, many long-haul covid-19 patients who are unable to work are being denied disability benefits fo...

---

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dana Goldstein, who covers education for The Times, has been hearing from parents concerned that their young children’s language development might have been h...

---

Chernobyl plant disconnected from power grid in what Ukraine called an ‘extremely dangerous situation.’ Ukraine’s closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been disconnected from the nation’s pow...

---

Chipmunks on 16 speed. In the late ’80s someone pumped out an “Alvin & The Chipmunks” cassette tapes of ’80s new-wave and pop hits. 30 years later some guy found it, slowed it to 1/16th spee...

---

3/6/22 1:16 pm This bullshit with Russia invading the Ukraine is making me feel nostalgic in a really fucked up way. Having grown up in the 70s and 80s, I went through the fear of the Soviets b...

---

Maybe a real entry later. I have a question for my GenX friends. If you had to pick just one song to explain our generation to someone, what would it be?

---

I know coming here to write is pointless. I have so much I could write if I … could. But I can’t due to the consequences if I do. I am not in a good place at all.

---

Washington Post The pandemic has not been kind to many couples. Lockdowns have added strains to relationships, leading to a spike in divorces when they were lifted. Differences in opinion over va...

---

Dear Diane, Here is your daily Numerology mini-forecast for Jan 17, 2022 The card I drew for you today is: 23 Mice (7♣) Today’s Overview: Two mice stand near a bit of grain – a feast for creature...

---

Omicron has pushed U.S. cases to record levels of more than 800,000 per day. Infection levels seem to have peaked in some of the places that were hit first, including Puerto Rico, Cleveland, Chic...

---

Fom the New York Post Health workers call it quits The U.S. is experiencing a crisis of burned-out health care workers. For nearly two years, overwhelmed nurses, doctors and hospital staff have r...

---

4 pm Nothing much is happening in my life. Spent Saturday doing nothing. Spent most of the day yesterday sleeping. Oh. I did meet with the new owner of the Chalet, though. Nice guy. Felt a litt...

---

6:32 pm Ok, why the fuck do I suddenly feel so exhausted when I sit down to do something I actually want to do??? It is soooo frustrating!!! And now I don’t even know what I wanted to write. I...

---

5:28 pm I’m fucking exhausted. Even though Pam kept Ty upstairs so he wouldn’t keep waking me up, I could not sleep. I think I finally drifted off around 3-4 this morning, then got up at 6. I ha...

---

9:23 pm Been on a Bowie kick the past week. Happy New Year to all y’all. Betty White died. 99 years old. Would have been 100 on January 17th. I’m kind of glad she went out with a bang (or a wh...

---

4:18 pm Trying really hard to stay on task here at home, but I keep getting fucking distracted! Fuck! I hate that! I’m still not done in the kitchen area. I can’t really call it a true kitchen ...

---