tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190311062024-03-07T19:22:39.777-05:00I Don't Understand<p>I've changed the title back to "I Don't Understand", now that it's available again. It's more appropriate (although "I Don't Approve!" might be even better).</p>
<p>(Note: The number in the post title is a sequence number, having nothing to do with contents.)</p>~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.comBlogger3712125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-76095483758898081332021-01-19T00:07:00.027-05:002021-01-19T00:47:37.625-05:005121 Grandmother's Attitudes I've been thinking about my grandmother a lot lately. Well, over the past few years, actually. Mainly since all this white supremacist crap has been scaring me. I don't know for sure when Gramma was born, but I think it was probably just before 1900. I was born in 1944, so when my father was off flying jets in Europe during WWII, Mom and I lived with Gramma and ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-63734715056690576282020-11-10T20:28:00.000-05:002020-11-10T20:28:25.604-05:005120 Keeping Me Awake I haven't been updating much lately because I can't see very well these days --- nothing important, just a detail involving my prescription and the fact that I'm hiding from 'Rona. But I felt it important to share this video. It's 16 minutes long. Stick with it all the way to the end. Don't watch it if you like to sleep.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w&~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-73991435007002498832019-07-16T16:21:00.000-04:002019-07-16T16:21:27.274-04:005119 A Day That Will Live In InfamyTuesday, July 16, 2019
This is a comment found on a YouTube video. Forgive the formatting (lousy Blogger).
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Douglas BartonDouglas Barton1 minute agoWhat is it like to live in the United States under Donald Trump?Donald Trump is the worst president I’ve lived under, and I am 80. As many have stated, he simply doesn’t have the ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-91568431391982509232019-04-17T00:08:00.002-04:002019-04-17T00:08:41.712-04:005118 GOP JesusApril 16, 2019
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2L-R8NgrA)~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-37467878423370157222019-03-29T21:00:00.001-04:002019-03-29T21:03:47.876-04:005117 I'm Back!March 28, 2019
Man, it's been a year. Actually, I thought it was longer. Before I get into what's been going on over the past year, here's a bit I found a long time ago and saved.
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Comment on YouTube video, December 11, 2017 "Late Night With Seth Meyers, from user Mr. N ---
Liberals need to ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-16148105862718017682018-03-14T09:26:00.003-04:002018-03-14T09:28:23.507-04:005116 Stephen HawkingStephen Hawking is gone. I am sad. I guess I thought he could stop time.~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-74241743809434965452018-02-17T15:38:00.000-05:002018-02-17T15:40:27.766-05:005115 Share this, please!Saturday, February 17, 2018
I'm not involved in any social networks that could help to distribute this, but everyone needs to watch it. Please, those few people who read this blog, please pass this on. Twitter, FaceBook, whatever. This young lady is amazing, and she says words that everyone needs to hear.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxD3o-9H1lY]
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~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-45243100293816687142018-01-11T00:17:00.000-05:002018-01-11T00:22:01.411-05:005114 A spot of good newsWednesday, January 10, 2018
My primary care physician insisted that I had to see a dermatologist about the spots on my left shoulder. I have two black raised thingies, near the neck and just above the collar bone. They grew over the space of a year to about the size of the pink part of a fingernail, almost thirty years ago, and haven't changed an iota since then. One is soft, ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-52437254414799190712018-01-01T15:18:00.000-05:002018-01-01T15:18:13.837-05:005113 I'm still here!January 1, 2018
I haven't updated here since September. Don't know exactly why, I guess because nothing's happening. Read the previous entry, multiply by the number of posts I should have made, and that's about it.
I'm taking the Femara every day, and I hate it. I always have had aches and pains all over (fibro), and this stuff makes more bone and joint pain, so for about two ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-49600563803948322732017-09-14T23:44:00.002-04:002017-09-14T23:44:46.449-04:005112 Medical update - eyes and mammoSeptember 14, 2017
I had the second treatment with the macular specialist for my right eye yesterday.
Before I saw the doctor, the technician did the usual "read the chart" thing, and did a scan of the back of my eyeball. I did better with the chart than I did last month, and my scan results were spectacular! The doctor was impressed. He said they don't usually see results ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-58258581058704023402017-09-04T11:16:00.000-04:002017-09-04T11:16:45.796-04:005111 Unusually amusing videoMonday, September 4, 2017
This is funny. It's just under 9 minutes long, but when it ends, you'll wish it had been longer.
.~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-40702051501195385722017-08-25T17:07:00.005-04:002017-08-25T17:13:37.597-04:005110 InterferenceFriday, August 25, 2017
FYI, in case it ever comes up in discussion, these are the Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
China 1949 to early 1960s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-53106217861011556492017-08-22T23:19:00.001-04:002017-08-22T23:19:17.305-04:005109 Surreal CityTuesday, August 22, 2017
On the 10th, Daughter, Hercules, Nugget, and I went to Manhattan and visited the 9/11 memorial.
We drove north to some NJ town (I forget the name) across from our target, parked in a multi-story garage, walked about a block to a train/metro/subway station, and took the train under the river, emerging about a block from the memorial park. All very efficient. &~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-17892835840213803322017-08-21T18:13:00.001-04:002017-08-21T18:13:20.992-04:005108 EclipseMonday, August 21, 2017
Nothing much happened here. We were supposed to get something like 73-78% (I'm not going to look it up again), and it was clear skies out there, but there was just a slight dimming as it passed. I was watching the sun patches under the tree in the front yard, and saw no shadow move into them. Birds didn't seem to react, either. I don't understand.
~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-25674403885910807702017-08-21T11:19:00.000-04:002017-08-23T12:12:41.944-04:005107 Collisions at seaMonday, August 21, 2017
There have been two collisions between US warships and large commercial ships in the Pacific in the past two months, nasty enough to rip holes in the steel.
I don't understand how that can happen. It's not like the other guy came out from behind a tree, or from around a corner.
Duh?
Edit 8/23/17 - Actually, there have been four, not two, collisions in the Pacific~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-30634565917843171682017-08-16T14:00:00.000-04:002017-08-16T14:00:12.603-04:005106 Medical update - eyesWednesday, August 16, 2017
As if surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, meds that make me ache, and three teeth pulled in one day weren't enough, I am now getting monthly injections in my eyeball. Yeah. In the eyeball. Told ya it was icky.
I've had this eyeglass prescription for like five years now, so back in maybe early May when I noticed I was having difficulty reading street ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-66160454376393573612017-08-15T20:30:00.000-04:002017-08-15T20:30:09.680-04:005105 Medical Update - teethTuesday, August 15, 2017
As reported earlier, I'm taking generic Femara. After the first few weeks, I no longer have the hot flashes. I do have bone, joint, and muscle pain, but I've always had that, so I don't know whether it's the Femara or not. No big deal.
I have slight osteopenia in my left hip, so the chemo doc wants to put me on Fosamax to protect my bones from ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-39616183118317373912017-08-13T17:29:00.000-04:002017-08-15T22:19:05.740-04:005104 All the news that's fit to .... whatever.Sunday, August 13, 2017
"Trump: a poor person's idea of what a rich person is,
a stupid person's idea of what smart person is,
a weak person's idea of what strong person is."
Fran Leibowitz, Chris Falcinelli, and others
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On Korea. I almost died of eyeroll when Trump did his tough-guy~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-63699591098617216922017-06-08T21:36:00.001-04:002017-06-08T21:36:15.452-04:005103 I'm still here, and there, and ....Thursday, June 8, 2017
Rabbi Julius Gordon: "Love
is not blind - it sees more, not less.
But because it sees more, it
is willing to see less."
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Wow. It's been something like six weeks since I updated here, and a month since the end (May 8th?) of radiation. My absence was not on purpose - it's just that there~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-33498441779817831292017-04-30T18:54:00.000-04:002017-04-30T18:54:53.448-04:005102 Radiation Flagellation Sunday, April 30, 2017
Sometimes you can't really
know what someone is saying to you. You hear the words, but
sometimes the words carry a meaning different from their dictionary
definition. If you have no other basis for interpretation, you
interpret from your own base. In an intimate relationship, the only
way to fully understand the other person's messages, or lack thereof,
is to ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-15626269345710588872017-03-20T17:26:00.000-04:002017-03-20T17:36:25.060-04:005101 Tattoo!Monday, March 20, 2017
We need a president who is fluent in at least one language.
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I now have seven tattoos! They are tiny black dots, three on my back, three on my chest, and one on the back of my left upper arm, acquired last Tuesday, and to be used to position my body in exactly the same position for~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-13801012968185105862017-03-14T21:18:00.001-04:002017-03-14T21:18:21.543-04:005100 The "Blizzard"?Tuesday, March 14, 2017
A lethal dose is also a
lifetime supply.
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We were supposed to have a huge blizzard today, 12 to 18 inches of snow. I don't know how much we actually got, because by the time I got up this morning, the snowfall had turned to sleet, which soaked into the foot or so that was already on the ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-81796863472016118762017-03-13T16:02:00.004-04:002017-03-13T16:02:53.940-04:005099 I've got to purge memories....Monday, March 13, 2017
The reason the washing machine eats one sock is because
if it ate the pair, you'd never notice.
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I've been inundated with scenes from my past a lot lately. The easy conclusion is that I've been feeling mortal, and need to "examine my past", but I don't think that's ~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-258170071544109332017-03-05T20:53:00.000-05:002017-06-08T21:54:22.293-04:005098 March
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Trying to get rich by
playing the lottery is like
trying to commit suicide by flying on
commercial airlines.
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I an in the midst of an ocular migraine right now. It started with the small circle of zig-zags about 10 minutes ago, and has grown to the full field already~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19031106.post-29023156983119935212017-02-22T07:44:00.002-05:002017-02-22T07:44:44.597-05:005097 CautionWednesday, February 22, 2017
I keep hearing, “Nowhere
in Humpty Dumpty does it say he's an egg.”
That's because it's a
very old riddle! That he's an egg is the answer, not the story, so of course it's not given.
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A post or two back I recommended writer Lawrence Block. I have to withdraw that~~Silkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122262422346224632noreply@blogger.com2