My head is spinning.

I just spent well over an hour on the phone with Verizon.

I talked to everybody short of Alexander Graham Bell.  I was transferred from one department to another, all in the vain quest to get my *69 feature re-instated.  I have two callbacks coming tomorrow.  I was assured it could be done.

Then about 3 minutes ago, the phone rang and it was a rep from Verizon telling me that the *69 feature is  “not compatible” with the voice over internet (or whatever the hell it is that I have now) and does not exist.  I really loved that feature and used it a great deal.

One thing that bothers me–I talked to many different people in many different departments and none of them knew about the incompatibility. That’s super basic–either it is or it isn’t.  I’m getting this sense of everything moving so fast, and getting so big, so fast, that people involved in it don’t know what they should.  For the “information age” this era does not show me much.

I am drained.

I was tired today because I woke up at 2:00 AM and could not get back to sleep.  I kept falling asleep and waking up again in what seemed like ten minute intervals.   So I woke up tired.

Tomorrow has got to be better than today.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

Puppy lived in a tire, plus another tale

How anyone could abandon these precious soul, I just don’t know.

How to rescue kittens with a feral Mom

Tessa, from South Africa, gets a retirement home

This feisty little dog needed to leave her home.  Her people could not take proper care of her, although they did love her, so she was taken in got medical care , and is now waiting for her retirement home.

Ave Maria

Did zip today

That’s true–I just had absolutely no ambition.  It’s gray and rainy–and it was like that all day.  And I am truly tired.  When I looked back over this last year, I was surprised to see that I started posting on this blog right after Lee died.  That sort of surprised me, but I was determined to keep Lee’s work alive.  He had a lot to say, plus a lot of foresight.  Much of what he said was quite predictive–he saw things that have since materialized.

I miss him very much.

At any rate, a day off won’t kill me.

I got some insight from Jill about posting Lee’s past posts, and how to cause them to trigger an e mail to the viewers, but it was just too complicated for me to tackle today.  So, of course, when I posted his  old posts today, they got zero views.  I will continue to try (following Jill’s advice) getting that aspect of the blog to work.

Now I am going to watch something on YouTube  and make my supper.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

A non-cat person finds a cat, and another cat is a would-be potter.

These two cat stories speak for themselves.

Perhaps the one cat could do some original pieces.

Survivor dog, Lazarus, will now go on to help others survive.

An incredibly moving story of survival and hope.

My View of Evolution Has Evolved REPRINT

The Golden Treasury of Natural History – Looky

From January 28, 2023

Oh, that Golden Treasury of Natural History! I couldn’t get enough of it. Dinosaurs and woolly mammoths! By the time I was in third grade, they used to have me visit the other classrooms and give a little talk on dinosaurs. “Just like listening to a professor at college!” the school secretary once said.

At a very early age I already had an unquestioning belief in Evolution, whatever it was. Why not? Nobody questioned Evolution! Darwin wins, hands down. We started out as parameciums or something and wound up with Mozart. All the books said so.

But the Bible did not say so. And yet, like the rest of America, I toodled off to Sunday school or church on Sunday morning and never suspected there would be even the slightest flaw in my belief system. We were all Christians, weren’t we? (I was including Jews.) I was just a kid, but I never heard an adult question Evolution.

But I’m afraid my beliefs have evolved since then. I have lost my faith in Evolution.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. That’s the first sentence in the Bible. Everything follows from it. I mean, if you literally start quibbling with it from the get-go, how far are you going to get with the rest of it?

God did not leave us blueprints, recipes, or a here’s-how-you-do-it manual. He’s left us with plenty to find out on our own. We’ll have plenty to study in the sweet by and by.

Either God is the Almighty, the Creator, and the ultimate supreme Authority, or He is not. And if He is not, then who is?

I don’t like any of the answers proposed to that question. God protect us from all-devouring governments. God save us from the know-it-alls.

I still love dinosaurs. God created them. We don’t have them here among us anymore, but God has the entire universe at His disposal.

And I don’t believe in Evolution anymore. The more I study the matter, the less sense it makes. All it does, in the long run, is leave us marooned on a truly barren desert island.

 

Man loses opportunity to become a firefighter when board rejects his home schooled diploma

This speaks for itself.

Hopefully his day in court will go better.

This man is highly qualified (has a diplomas as an EMT).