Tag: a message to my readers

I Think I’m Getting Cabin Fever

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I did very little today.  The day looked beautiful, sunny with a blue sky, but when I stepped outside it was still bitterly cold with a fairly stiff breeze.  Now it has become overcast and gray and looks like we will have some kind of precipitation.  My guess is snow or freezing rain.  Or maybe some of those cute little ice pellets like we had the other day.  Oh boy!

My step-counter is hanging its head in shame.

My legs have all but atrophied from lack of exercise.

Tomorrow I am getting out to that car and going somewhere.  Anywhere.

I even forgot to take my vitamins at lunchtime.

Now that I have confessed all my shortcomings, I will to out to the kitchen and start to make my supper.

Tomorrow will be a better day!

God bless everybody.

Patty

Today Started off as a Real Stinker

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I rise very, very early.  This morning YouTube (which I rely on heavily for certain content) would NOT work.  And it would not tell me why.

This you really need at 5 am.  I tried in vain to fix the problem, but there was no way of finding out what the problem was.  This ate up close to an hour.  It turned out I must have still been paying with Lee’s old inactive credit card.  Jeez fellas, if you had told me that at the beginning, it would have saved a great deal of time and anguish.  I don’t think Google has too many real, live human beings working there.  You get asked meaningless questions that do not pertain to the problem you are trying to solve and there is no way of hooking up to a real, live person who would grasp the situation in a minute.  It was a very frustrating hour or so.

After that I did get a chance to work on my tax stuff, but still felt like I was running behind all day.

We are supposed to get another snowstorm this weekend.  And the frigid temperatures, as well.  Hot diggity.

If I sound a little grumpy and short-tempered right now, it’s because I am a little grumpy and short tempered right now.

So I will take my grumpy little self and start my supper and watch some TV.  That should help.

Please stay safe and warm.

God bless everybody.

Patty

More Computer Torture REPRINT

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From November 6, 2017

After all the problems Saturday, I discovered that none of the  news links embedded in my posts works anymore. So I’ve spent the whole afternoon trying to get that fixed so that they work from now on.

But first we have to see if anything we’ve done today has worked at all.

If not, that unearthly sound you hear is me screaming.

Some things never change    Patty 2026

I Guess it is Obvious I’m a Little Worn Out Today

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Truthfully, the stress and worry about that storm yesterday left me pretty tired out today.

That’s why I mostly stayed away from heavy-duty topics.  I just wanted some cozy, cuddly animals (sanity medicine). 

We are not done yet–we are anticipating another storm by the end of the week.  We are also into some insanely low temperatures (for New Jersey)–single digits for most of the week at night.  How does 1 degree grab you?

My neighbor (bless him) will dig out my car after he does his car and his wife’s car.  It won’t be for awhile because the snow is quite deep–10-11 inches.  That will take some time.

This is the worst winter I have seen in many years.  And we’re still in January.  There were a number of years when we had no real snow at all.

Tomorrow I will see about arranging a grocery delivery.  Those should be up and running by then.

I hope you all had minimal impact from the storm.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Are They Trying to Tell Us Something? REPRINT

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From June 13, 2014

There are many dark places, these days, in Young Adult fiction. How many books for teens “celebrate” aberrant sexuality? How many get their young protagonists involved with pagan “gods”, or witchcraft?

But the biggest books, occupying the rank once held by Harry Potter, are The Hunger Games and Divergent, their sequels, the movies made from them, and assorted spin-off items.

Both of these depict a highly unpleasant future in which the human race must live under evil and oppressive tyrannies. Both tell stories of teenagers who rise up to overthrow their governments. And both are runaway best-sellers.

Hmmm….

Is there an awareness, somewhere out there in the culture, that we are heading for a really bad time?

My editor remarked to me the other day, “But that’s what I love about Bell Mountain. Sure, there’s a lot of bad stuff going on in those stories; but there are also victories being won, and there is always hope. Right in the middle of all the problems and crises and wars, there’s hope. Those other books seem awfully short on hope.”

In my Bell Mountain series, the hope is always centered on God, not man. After all, it was humanity’s bright ideas that messed things up in the first place. Wrath and envy and avarice do their share of harm in history; but pride has all those other sins beat. In my books and also in the others, it’s pride that has wrecked whole civilizations.

And in this other fallen world, the one that we live in, it’s pride that threatens to ruin us–the pride that convinces our leaders and the prattling pinheads of our brain trust that they know all the answers and that’s why they deserve to hold the power: because they know how to give us paradise on earth, if only they can make us all obey them.

That’s what they always think, and always will.

Hey–if we ever do wind up living like the poor devils in Divergent or The Hunger Games, remember: it started out as some experts’ bright idea.

Mostly I Just Watched the Snow

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The title says it all,  that’s what I did most of today.  I watched weather reports from around the country.  This really did turn out to be the large storm that was predicted.

Here the snow has turned to ice pellets (not happy about that).  I just hope it does not turn into freezing rain.  The weather gurus say that is a possibility.

We will be having the bitterly cold (for us) temperatures again, also.

I did talk to my brother in law who lives in a rural part of Pennsylvania.  He has a nice close-to-nature home and has sent me some marvelous wildlife pictures.

Well I am now going to stir my chili and watch a little YouTube while it cooks.

Stay safe and warm

God bless everybody

Patty

The Case of the Disappearing Plumbers

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Today the plumbers showed up around 8:30.

They went out to the kitchen and began work.  I came in to the computer in the living room and began working on the story about President Trump stopping the use of aborted fetal parts in research.  After a little while I got up and went to the kitchen.  Both of the plumbers were gone.  The job was not done.  I had not heard them leave.  My hearing is not the greatest, and when I am involved researching information online I tend to block things out anyway.

Now what?–I couldn’t leave the house in case they came back while I was out.  I had to get to the store today. It was very irritating and frustrating.  I called my landlord and he said they would call him when they were finished, so they were obviously not finished.  After about 45 minutes (although it seemed a lot longer at the time) they returned with a snake.  I guess they did not have it on their truck.

Twenty minutes later, they were done–sink works great, nice new pipe under there, all good.

One more hurdle accomplished.

What will tomorrow bring?

God bless everybody,

Patty

A Pretty Good Day, After All

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Just a brief note.

Did a lot of diddly-stuff today, and (dare I say it?) the downstairs is looking a lot better.  Upstairs, not so hot.  Actually untouched–that’s a much bigger job, but it will be done.  Have to keep reminding myself there is no time limit.

It’s still pretty much a disaster around here, but not quite as big a disaster.

There’s a great deal of talk on the weather sites about this impending storm.  They all agree it is a pretty big one.  I just don’t want a power failure.  Power failure=no heat.  I still have really bad memories of Hurricane Sandy where we were without power (no heat) for five days.  It was November then and cold, but nowhere as bitterly cold as it is now.

Are any of you concerned about this ?  Will it be a problem in your area?

It is really not supposed to start until the weekend, but I will make sure I am as prepared as I can be.

God bless everybody

Patty

Tired

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I was wrapping up the job of straightening the kitchen a little while ago (in preparation for the plumber’s visit tomorrow)–yes I am throwing in the towel and seeking professional help. When I was clearing out under the sink I knocked over the glass fixture that my neighbor had stuck under there when he changed my light bulb a few weeks ago.  It shattered in a million tiny pieces, so I had yet another thing to do before I could finish the thing I was working on.  Lord, how I hate when that happens.

Aside from that, everything is as OK as it can be.  Doing a little bit of the tax prep every day, still waiting for some documents.

Have a good night, all.

God bless everybody

Patty

Hubris and Stupidity Plus Greed= Disaster

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Today while I was looking back on some of Lee’s posts, deciding which one to pick, a story caught my eye.  I had never seen this post before.  Somehow it had slipped past.  Lee always read me his posts before he entered them, but this one I missed.

It was about the city of Decatur, Illinois where (as Lee states in his post) the city fathers are storing CO2 under the lake.  This is to “take CO2 out of the atmosphere and lock it away where it can’t do any harm.”

This imbecilic project even has a high falutin’ name  The CO2 Sequestration Project.  Give me strength, Lord.

Where to begin?  This is so incredibly stupid.  The atmosphere?  Of the whole planet?  Are they daft?  Do they have dreams of putting CO2 under the earth all over the world?

This is literally too dumb an idea to even express.

I went down the rabbit hole following this story, but there is more to come.  Talk about fantasies!

I’m sure some green changed hands for this one.

More to come.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody

Patty