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Feels like all the energy is being sucked out of the world right now. I feel drained. My wife went to bed at 9pm. I fell asleep on the couch only to wake up to what I assumed was a helicopter flying over my house that turned out to be a loud, giant drone whose lights I had seen hours earlier.

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“Over the course of the novel, Montag becomes increasingly disillusioned with the hedonistic, anti-intellectual society around him.

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We bought our home in April of 2016. Even though both of my grandfathers and my dad’s younger brother were all career electricians with great minds but my dad was an industrial engineer who didn’t do electric. So I never learned much beyond the basics.

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“Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.”

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Sometimes I wonder what it is about certain cheese that makes me love them with a passion and then other cheese are fine but unremarkable to me. I’m stoned now, but I pondered this years ago one afternoon back when I was once or twice a year indulger of wheed.

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It’s weird. The more ignorant & hateful folks have become the last few years has only made me kinder and more understanding of those that confuse me. The way things have been this year have only accelerated that to a near rolling boil. They can’t make me hate them and I won’t. That’s my power.

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I am a slow worker and I am working on doing better at picking up my pace because even though I am always satisfied with the job I do, I am my own boss and boss-me knows employee-me has a lot of untapped productivity in him along with a lot of good ideas. 😆 Plus, this is economy is on its way out.

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I keep forgetting that if I go out after 2pm the traffic will nearly give me a stroke. Anymore, if my rage overtakes me, I at least am no longer getting angry at my fellow driver but at this crumbling joke we are all currently a part of. So: I need to run my errands earlier & make my money talk.

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I have been sick since February 2nd. Got my Flu & COVID shots in early December. I know it is a bad year. Wonder where I picked it up at? I thought I was doing an OK job masking but I will just have to do better. I enjoyed not being sick from 2019-January 2024.

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Gonna go rip a butt in honor of Kurt Vonnegut.

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“Times ain’t tough - they’re tedious.”

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“Hootenanny” is my favorite Replacements album. It isn’t their best one but it is the one I go back to most. So cynical yet so fun.

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So I deleted Facebook & Messenger from my phone. After thinking about it, there really was no longer a reason to have the app on my phone. I do use Marketplace to buy quality vintage goods for my home, workshop, and job but can do that on my PC where I do my record work. It is a start.

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For the past 3 days or so I have been going out back with the dog around 4:15pm, building a small 3 log fire and scheming till about 6:30pm

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I can be angry but not spiteful. I can hate evil but not people. My righteousness is not hubris. Nor is my kindness a weakness. There are consequences for actions.

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I am smoking so much weed because now.

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Trying to counter the rage I feel with compassion so my heart doesn’t turn black and rot away.

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Aside from this democracy experiment shitting the bed in real time, life is going along swimmingly in the things I have some hand in steering. So that’s something.

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Cleaning up the house/basement like it should have been done 8 years ago before I shut down for half a decade after my dad & grandpa died within 6 months of each other. Anyway, I am so excited now! I am under a deadline but the big picture is so inspiring I am only nervous in how much I can succeed.

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Listening to “Lost and Found” (my personal favorite Sparks song from The Kimono Era) and damn. Dinky Diamond’s absolutely ferocious drumming drove that band to perfection with such a loose intensity.

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Was not expecting my Spotify Wrapped to look like this but I stand by everything. 😂

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Had a nice Thanksgiving at my sister’s house playing F-Zero on the old family SNES that Ingot for Christmas in 1991. Amazing it still works!

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I really love that plants thrive in our great room. Never expected a baby jungle to be where I listen to records but I am not complaining.

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Used my library card to borrow a foo-foo movie on Hoopla about orbs and streamed on our Roku. Amazing how you can utilize your local library without even leaving your house anymore. I really hope younger folks are taking extra advantage these remote features. They can really save one some hassle.

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For a few years now I rarely feel comfortable using YouTube for more than viewing old music videos & TV. Most modern content just makes me uncomfortable for various reasons. If one can not simply write an article or blog post to accompany a video then you are missing out on a lot of good audience.

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The nights Smokey-cat sleeps in bed with me I tend to not sleep very well since I have never shared my bed with such a small creature and worry about rolling over on him. Also, he is like a grey rooster and between 6-6.30am is ready to leave. The joys of teaching a feral/outdoor cat civility. ❤️

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It is 55° out. My wife is out at a brewery with some friends so the dog and I are doing outside things and enjoying the nice weather. Once light fades it is back to the basement to continue sorting & distilling for a cleaner basement + rounding up more interesting things to take to the local fleas.

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If you gotta spend a Saturday afternoon at your local public library applying for your passport, I recommend being a little stoned. Evened out all the BS. Also, support your public libraries. They are very cool places.

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I fully accepted that I am middle aged adult earlier this year when I started having a taste for and specifically added Corn Flakes to the grocery list. Corn Flakes! A cereal I tolerated as a youth, along with regular Cheerios & Rice Krispies. And now I find them all rather refreshing.

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“Well, I got no job to go to I don't work and I don't get paid I got a bottle of wine, I'm feelin' fine And I believe I got it made.”

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Smokey spent his first night inside from 9pm till 7.30am. He started grooming my beard while we were bathed in purple light on the couch. It was about the sweetest thing ever. Then he slept in my bed with me the whole night. ❤️

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I listen to Big Audio Dynamite way more than The Clash anymore. But to be fair, I listened to a staggering amount of The Clash during junior high & high school.

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I’m trying.

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Billy Connolly saying “scrotum” brings me joy for some reason. One day I hope to find someone has made a supercut of him saying it.

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Being productive is always a nice feeling.

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This sweet cat has given me so many happy moments the past few days. I hope I have given him half as many. This is the first night he has been comfortable enough to let down his guard and just go to sleep. He has been there for over an hour and I am afraid to get up because I just want him to rest.

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I am a big fan of taking end of show happy hands photos.

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Next year will be exploratory in familiarizing with the various vintage fleas and such existing throughout the Rust Belt as vendors, finding the positive ones. We have a lot of exciting ideas about enjoying what’s left of our lives and expressing ourselves. So that’s what I look forward to now.

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