I hate Winter - P.A.G.A.N. - People Against Goodness And Normalcy

This horribly cold, windy weather is really getting to me. Right now it feels like 16 with a constant 15 - 20 mph wind. Its been like this for days. It doesn't help that I'm just getting over being sick. I can't even think of going out in this weather because I don't want to get sick again. I'm retired so I can wait this out, but its depressing.

One of the worst things this year is watching the awful things Biden is doing to sabotage Trump and his agenda before he leaves the presidency. Ditto the lawfare scumbags in NY and Jack Smith. I know its the end for them, but its still a horror to look at how evil and hateful these people are.

How's your winter going where you live? I hope better than mine.

Misery depends on your perspective and viewpoint.

pollyanna follows...

I am still considering myself lucky to be alive since this summer's medical intervention.

As such, and after much contemplation, I realized that just feeding my "soul" and being in the moment and being grateful for the privilege of being alive and actually feeling physically great is pretty sustaining.

Also after pondering it to me the reason to be alive is to experience, witness, and interact with the world, however I can.

Yesterday I fired up our snowblower and cleared our ~70' long blacktop driveway of 9-12" of snow. My cardiologist basically told me go ahead and do anything (even shoveling snow, the heart attack killer), just pace myself. It was perfectly fine and I felt energized being outside doing something constructive.

Things aren't perfect. I consider the locals in my immediate area to be mainly stupid and worthless individuals who have an emotional age of about 9, are rude, impatient, and trivial. Fuck my area.

But because for the time being I am tethered to the medical system that I've been in care of, moving to an area with more decent less narcissistic-entitled-shithead-fuckwad people is just not in the cards.

So I don't consider it a loss to not be in public. I have to very carefully curate whom I deal with around here. I don't even really consider any neighbor around us very trustworthy.

Point is I don't miss being away from home much. It feels safer here than anyplace else.

As far as passing the time... In good weather, warm months I get frustrated that things I wanted to get to in the winter are back burnered (since I gotta take care of the garden, I'd rather be outside, etc.)

So right now I'm revisiting indoor side projects that I don't get to when it's good weather.

So last night: I hauled out and started evaluating a collection of my vintage cameras dating back to the 1970s. Testing shutters and operation, checking the light seal foam for rot, etc. After awhile it felt like time travel to 1984, when as a young engineer working at an RCA division I bought a Nikon FE2 outfit at a camera shop somewhere around Cherry Hill (NJ). Like $450 or so, which felt like a huge mondo commitment. (Yes, I'm from Dayton Ohio. I moved around the country early in my career and I wound up being specialized in a relatively esoteric area, VLSI design, and the RCA division in Moorestown, NJ was hiring. I was there just one year... then moved to Ft Wayne IN for about 4 years.)

Also this winter I plan to get into finally learning how to set up and program my VHF transceiver (walkie talkie) for emergency use, I want to finally make sourdough bread, and a lot of other BS that I don't get to when I'm not at home cooped up.

As far as being upset-disgusted by the machinations of the left and the enemy... I'm really over politics. The good guys won this time. Time will tell if the Trump win was a Pyrrhic victory or actual progress.

Humans are basically evil I have determined. The people that live around us certainly are on the low end of the effort/goodwill/morality/self sacrifice/ability to think scales just like the people i went to high school with, most people I worked with, etc. Leaders are no different.

And Trump's going to take Greenland by force. :-P

We've entered truly entertaining times.

Anyway, that's what keeps my spirits up until the spring.

Time will tell if the Trump win was a Pyrrhic victory or actual progress.

Yes I tell the missus we'll see where we are at the end of Trump's term. All the to-ing and fro-ing is impossible to follow or predict. The globalists are lashing out as their power slips a little, many of Trump's appointments are untrustworthy including Musk, lawfare is still lawfaring, Biden is still Obama-ing. But there have been numerous encouraging developments as well since Trump's election, in the US and in other countries. Will Trump actually achieve anything himself? I just let it play out.

^ It's the best for one's mental health. The world has gone full insane, full evil.

Trump doesn't have a lock on anything, no matter what his legions of fanbois and fangirlz believe. We'll just see.

What happens at the macro level is something I can't do anything about or even plan for, unless you consider some rice, beans and a 120v power supply "prepared."

I have no doubt Trump and his team will turn this country around. He is uniquely qualified to do it. There is no one tougher than Trump. The globalists and deep state tried everything to get rid of him. Their sabotage won't work either. The cabinet members and other members of his administration are just as committed to the America First agenda as he is so I have high hopes.

Musk is more of a consultant. I don't think of him as untrustworthy, but he needs to not overstep his bounds.

I'll be happy if I can just go out to the food store myself. The past few days, my husband has been going to pick up a few things because its so miserable outside. I'm thankful for that, but we need a lot more than a few things. The weather is finally supposed to get a little better so I'll be able to get out.

I'm glad you're doing so much better. If you have your health you have everything you need in life. Its really good that you were able to do the snowblower. That's a lot of work. I don't bother with any of my neighbors. People stay to themselves in my neighborhood. That works for me. I've met some of them and they're nice people. Country folk.

I don't care about being in public. Most people are a PITA if you get involved with them. I just can't be bothered. I'm happy doing my own thing at this point in my life and lucky to have a good husband. We've been together almost 50 years, which I can't believe. I feel very fortunate.

I don't have any hobbies like that, but I like to cook, especially in the Winter. I'm really into making chicken soup soon and french onion soup. I used to love oil painting. One day I might go back to it but not now. You can't trust anyone now. Some people look good but really aren't. I just avoid it all.

Trump knows a lot of the best sales happen in January. If he can get Greenland during that time, what a deal.

"Half off this small continent!" - Crazy Eddy

Crazy Eddie had some great deals back then. I bought a few things from him.

Every metro region pre-1990 had its own insane, crazy, or over the top, or colorful local usually family owned retailer who blanketed the local media with TV and radio ads.

NYC had Crazy Eddy... I've seen viral video clips. He sounded great. I am totally jealous I did not witness this insane ad stuff first hand.

Dayton had weirdos like "Concord City", a guy who would whine in his ads "see you, pleaaaaase?"

A nearby town had "Kash's Bargain Barn" of "Souuuuth Lebanon, Oh Hah oh".

Cincinnati had the King Kwik brothers (a WaWa/7-11 analog) with super hammy 1920s retro singing ads.

When I lived in the Bay Area as a recent grad in 1980 there was a local camera shop that named the cities they operated in with their jingle ... engraved permanently in my psyche from the background chatter of the tv set... "Dublin Berkeley San Lorenzo Cupertino San Jose"... I hadn't seen/heard those words for 30+ years and typed them into Google a while back... bingo... got lots of videos and article. I actually was a "native" there for awhile... proven.

Plus countless others across the country.

Everything is so fcking bland today. We went to Taco Bell for lunch today... the stores used to be junky with paper hiring posters and chalupa offers all over the windows and walls... Now it's antiseptic. Two touch screen ordering kiosks, no human contact except the guy who slides you your food... It looked like a Star Trek set it was so sleek.

Tony Windsor (car yard)
Bing Lee (whitegoods)
Joyce Mayne (home goods)
Aussie Home Loans

Just off the top of my head. Of course these days I'm impervious and also I don't have a tv anyway but yes I do remember those and more

I miss those days when society had a sense of humor. There were a lot of smaller businesses that were so much more interesting than just going to a Walmart. Walmarts come and go, but they'll never be fondly remembered for their jingles or marketing strategies.

Humans are basically evil I have determined. The people that live around us certainly are on the low end of the effort/goodwill/morality/self sacrifice/ability to think scales just like the people i went to high school with, most people I worked with, etc. Leaders are no different.

So you'd say that humans in general have always been like that? Some say that people are worse these days, after the invention of the smart phone and social media.

smart phones and social media are -7 IQ points each.

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