USMB Coffee Shop IV

[saveliberty]

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Sigh. It is SO depressing at this place where I live. Stupid rules, and whats worse is....I have always been pretty much a loner. Was always busy running the apartments, my shops, then dealing with tenant issues, etc. Never really had time to make friends. Now that I think about it, it was a blessing.

I have made friends here. But then they die. or will die. I am 69 years old and those new friends are in their 80's and even early 90's. These people I see every day and some I drag along with me thrift shopping. Or giving their dog a bath. Or helping them find their apartment if lost in this maze, or pushing them back to their apartment because their caregiver took off and left them in the community hall.

So..now some of them are in the hospital across the street. One will not be coming back due to needing a more care somewhere else that is hospital like. One is battling sepsis/1 bloodclots/biopsies of her lungs. 2 died in the past month and 1 as recently as just day before yesterday. And when they are gone, for whatever reason, I feel sad. I miss them. I would prefer to be a loner again but can't now obviously. But I CAN return to that mode if I could only get the hell out of here. Which I plan to do asap. I am on 3 lists now. 1 is not just seniors apts. 2 are senior apts. One is in Paradise which is being rebuilt. The other two are home (beach) and the other about 4 miles away on the outskirts of a small town not connected to this one and located in a country setting. Which means less noise. I prefer to go back to the beach. No elderly friends dying, no noise except waves and a fog horn.

Daily, an ambulance arrives at the back gate due to someone falling ill...or found dead. I dread hearing the damn sirens

Sigh. It is SO depressing at this place where I live. Stupid rules, and whats worse is....I have always been pretty much a loner. Was always busy running the apartments, my shops, then dealing with tenant issues, etc. Never really had time to make friends. Now that I think about it, it was a blessing.

I have made friends here. But then they die. or will die. I am 69 years old and those new friends are in their 80's and even early 90's. These people I see every day and some I drag along with me thrift shopping. Or giving their dog a bath. Or helping them find their apartment if lost in this maze, or pushing them back to their apartment because their caregiver took off and left them in the community hall.

So..now some of them are in the hospital across the street. One will not be coming back due to needing a more care somewhere else that is hospital like. One is battling sepsis/1 bloodclots/biopsies of her lungs. 2 died in the past month and 1 as recently as just day before yesterday. And when they are gone, for whatever reason, I feel sad. I miss them. I would prefer to be a loner again but can't now obviously. But I CAN return to that mode if I could only get the hell out of here. Which I plan to do asap. I am on 3 lists now. 1 is not just seniors apts. 2 are senior apts. One is in Paradise which is being rebuilt. The other two are home (beach) and the other about 4 miles away on the outskirts of a small town not connected to this one and located in a country setting. Which means less noise. I prefer to go back to the beach. No elderly friends dying, no noise except waves and a fog horn.

Daily, an ambulance arrives at the back gate due to someone falling ill...or found dead. I dread hearing the damn sirens because I wonder...is it someone I know and befriended?

Anyway...that's my life now and I hate it. I miss what was.

...that's my life now and I hate it. I miss what was.

Tyrosine, an amino acid in capsule form can uplift you, and a bar of Baker's chocolate divided into 5 day portions is better than a capsule of dlpa, aka (phenylalinine) if the Baker's chocolate is too tempting it gets itself eaten all at once. Tyrosine tablets are unnecessary if you count on turkey as a daily meat, which provides tyrosine that provides very cheerful stimulation of brain endorphins and encephalitis which produce almost as good comic rreliefs dear oddball's cartoons which never fail to get a chuckle out of me. I'm glad we shared our disappointments, because I mindlessly forgot about the tyrosine and dlpa, which had been left aside after Mr Negative vibes criticized my self care attempts as hypochondria. I'm considering getting swimmer ear plugs to avoid the noise. Actually, there may be some wax plugs hiding in a drawer below the tyrosine bottle. It pays to be resourceful.

I left USMB because I felt it was not a free speech board any more. Now, out in the US, we are seeing cancel culture and censorship on full display. I was hoping the board had a change of heart with all that is happening. Looks the same to me.

What has been happening with save? Added grandkid number four, Ainsley. Mrs. Liberty let in a momma cat and two kittens in December. We rehomed the most friendly feral kitten Boo. Bella the mom and Buckwheat (quickly renamed Trouble) have found their forever home with us. Took us almost a month to get Trouble to let us pet her. All three are Calicos. Covid has kept me from the grandkids for the better part of 8 months. Haven't met the new yet. As a postal employee I will always be the Covid leper. Absolutely no time to get a vaccine with the hours of work not meshing with appointments for the shot. Essential employees...right...

My big stock investment has taken its own sweet time growing. Hitting $1,000,000 seems overly optimistic at this point, although I am at $100,000 and expect 3 - 500,000 in the next six months. My converted USMB time to watching stocks has paid off. Mrs. Liberty and I bought guns for Christmas. Actually bought them before the election. 380 handguns. She already has a Concealed Carry Permit. I will take the class in April. Never expected to own one. It was a strange year.

Looks like most of the Coffee Shop core is still here and I am thankful for that. I will try to be less of a stranger. Be well and may good fortune shine on each and every one of you.

So glad you dropped by, Save. I have a sad about national covid and some contemporary issues, and some days I tune into Dish TV, western channel 217.. Today I just happened to touch the western channel for a little escape and locked onto a rerun of "How the West Was Won." It first ran as a tv series of 5 succeeding shows (although I thought there were more back at the only time I saw it and couldn't wait till next week when the next segment aired. It started many of my favorite actors 60s through 80s, and had forgotten how beautiful the scenes of the west were in the film. The end.

Really glad you dropped in, Save.

The West was won like all good things are won. Hard work, risk taking, a sense of right and wrong and common sense too.

One of the things I am happy about is my investments are mostly in biotech stocks that are bringing cures and cost savings to the medical field. The main one is focused on a device that measures liver fat. Currently you need surgery or an MRI. This is a form of ultrasound which costs 1/50th of the MRI. It will also assist drug developers who need to document the effectiveness of reducing fat in the liver as they try for FDA approval of life saving efforts. More recently a stock I own got FDA approval for more uses in the treatment of Parkinsons. The next one is a drug that replaces a shot in the eye to help with macular degeneration.

 

[saveliberty]

I'll vouch for the toxic relationship thing. Since my partner became my ex-partner I have: lost almost 40 lbs; been much happier; gotten more things done and done more for myself than I thought possible; read volumes of books (because no one is there to bug me); and just generally enjoyed life without having the glowering storm cloud and not being picked on and bullied. Beau, you are worth so much more than he appears to realize. I recommend you lose some weight, lovely girl!

What??? I told you this more than a dozen times while I was here. Guess it took me leaving to make it your idea. lol

 

[saveliberty]

Trouble (the kitten) just flew by chasing her mousy. There are a lot of soccer players that would be envious of her skills in batting that thing around. Here's the real interesting part. When she's done...she puts it back in a box we have for cat toys.

 

[Foxfyre]

I left USMB because I felt it was not a free speech board any more. Now, out in the US, we are seeing cancel culture and censorship on full display. I was hoping the board had a change of heart with all that is happening. Looks the same to me.

What has been happening with save? Added grandkid number four, Ainsley. Mrs. Liberty let in a momma cat and two kittens in December. We rehomed the most friendly feral kitten Boo. Bella the mom and Buckwheat (quickly renamed Trouble) have found their forever home with us. Took us almost a month to get Trouble to let us pet her. All three are Calicos. Covid has kept me from the grandkids for the better part of 8 months. Haven't met the new yet. As a postal employee I will always be the Covid leper. Absolutely no time to get a vaccine with the hours of work not meshing with appointments for the shot. Essential employees...right...

My big stock investment has taken its own sweet time growing. Hitting $1,000,000 seems overly optimistic at this point, although I am at $100,000 and expect 3 - 500,000 in the next six months. My converted USMB time to watching stocks has paid off. Mrs. Liberty and I bought guns for Christmas. Actually bought them before the election. 380 handguns. She already has a Concealed Carry Permit. I will take the class in April. Never expected to own one. It was a strange year.

Looks like most of the Coffee Shop core is still here and I am thankful for that. I will try to be less of a stranger. Be well and may good fortune shine on each and every one of you.

The Coffee Shop is pretty much the only thing I do at USMB these days but it has been a blessing for so many, including me. So happy to hear from you and that you are well and prospering Save. I've missed you. I suspect a lot of Coffee Shoppers have missed you.

I hear you re the COVID situation. We haven't seen our kids or granddaughter for a year now and our state is still locked down with mandatory quarantine required for anybody coming in from out of state or us if we fraternize with somebody from out of state or go out of state and return ourselves. So we're hermits more often than not here but do see our nearby neighbors occasionally and of course my aunt and her next door neighbor and our friend Dana.

 

[Foxfyre]

Trouble (the kitten) just flew by chasing her mousy. There are a lot of soccer players that would be envious of her skills in batting that thing around. Here's the real interesting part. When she's done...she puts it back in a box we have for cat toys.

Wow. Our last dog--RIP--was absolutely the smartest fur friend we have ever ever had--understood an amazing number of English words and a few Spanish, was quickly trainable and also perceptive and highly intuitive. But I never convinced him to put his toys back in the box after he played with them. And here you have a feral cat that does that automatically. Hmmmm

 

[saveliberty]

The Coffee Shop is pretty much the only thing I do at USMB these days but it has been a blessing for so many, including me. So happy to hear from you and that you are well and prospering Save. I've missed you. I suspect a lot of Coffee Shoppers have missed you.

I hear you re the COVID situation. We haven't seen our kids or granddaughter for a year now and our state is still locked down with mandatory quarantine required for anybody coming in from out of state or us if we fraternize with somebody from out of state or go out of state and return ourselves. So we're hermits more often than not here but do see our nearby neighbors occasionally and of course my aunt and her next door neighbor and our friend Dana.

I exist (note lack of the word live) in Michigan. Gov. Whitler has been running a gulag here for quite awhile. Some of us have not listened her at all.

 

[saveliberty]

Wow. Our last dog--RIP--was absolutely the smartest fur friend we have ever ever had--understood an amazing number of English words and a few Spanish, was quickly trainable and also perceptive and highly intuitive. But I never convinced him to put his toys back in the box after he played with them. And here you have a feral cat that does that automatically. Hmmmm

Mrs. Liberty says, "where's your mousy Trouble?" and often she goes and brings it back. Kind of scary truthfully.

 

[saveliberty]

We bought some cat toys from Chewy. They come in this large box. I know what you're thinking. The cats like the box better than the toys. Nope. They like the 16" wide several feet long pieces of brown paper they used for packing the toys better than any of it.

 

[SFC Ollie]

I left USMB because I felt it was not a free speech board any more. Now, out in the US, we are seeing cancel culture and censorship on full display. I was hoping the board had a change of heart with all that is happening. Looks the same to me.

What has been happening with save? Added grandkid number four, Ainsley. Mrs. Liberty let in a momma cat and two kittens in December. We rehomed the most friendly feral kitten Boo. Bella the mom and Buckwheat (quickly renamed Trouble) have found their forever home with us. Took us almost a month to get Trouble to let us pet her. All three are Calicos. Covid has kept me from the grandkids for the better part of 8 months. Haven't met the new yet. As a postal employee I will always be the Covid leper. Absolutely no time to get a vaccine with the hours of work not meshing with appointments for the shot. Essential employees...right...

My big stock investment has taken its own sweet time growing. Hitting $1,000,000 seems overly optimistic at this point, although I am at $100,000 and expect 3 - 500,000 in the next six months. My converted USMB time to watching stocks has paid off. Mrs. Liberty and I bought guns for Christmas. Actually bought them before the election. 380 handguns. She already has a Concealed Carry Permit. I will take the class in April. Never expected to own one. It was a strange year.

Looks like most of the Coffee Shop core is still here and I am thankful for that. I will try to be less of a stranger. Be well and may good fortune shine on each and every one of you.

Good to see you Save...

 

[Mortimer]

The March on Rome

 

[gallantwarrior]

Sigh. It is SO depressing at this place where I live. Stupid rules, and whats worse is....I have always been pretty much a loner. Was always busy running the apartments, my shops, then dealing with tenant issues, etc. Never really had time to make friends. Now that I think about it, it was a blessing.

I have made friends here. But then they die. or will die. I am 69 years old and those new friends are in their 80's and even early 90's. These people I see every day and some I drag along with me thrift shopping. Or giving their dog a bath. Or helping them find their apartment if lost in this maze, or pushing them back to their apartment because their caregiver took off and left them in the community hall.

So..now some of them are in the hospital across the street. One will not be coming back due to needing a more care somewhere else that is hospital like. One is battling sepsis/1 bloodclots/biopsies of her lungs. 2 died in the past month and 1 as recently as just day before yesterday. And when they are gone, for whatever reason, I feel sad. I miss them. I would prefer to be a loner again but can't now obviously. But I CAN return to that mode if I could only get the hell out of here. Which I plan to do asap. I am on 3 lists now. 1 is not just seniors apts. 2 are senior apts. One is in Paradise which is being rebuilt. The other two are home (beach) and the other about 4 miles away on the outskirts of a small town not connected to this one and located in a country setting. Which means less noise. I prefer to go back to the beach. No elderly friends dying, no noise except waves and a fog horn.

Daily, an ambulance arrives at the back gate due to someone falling ill...or found dead. I dread hearing the damn sirens

Sigh. It is SO depressing at this place where I live. Stupid rules, and whats worse is....I have always been pretty much a loner. Was always busy running the apartments, my shops, then dealing with tenant issues, etc. Never really had time to make friends. Now that I think about it, it was a blessing.

I have made friends here. But then they die. or will die. I am 69 years old and those new friends are in their 80's and even early 90's. These people I see every day and some I drag along with me thrift shopping. Or giving their dog a bath. Or helping them find their apartment if lost in this maze, or pushing them back to their apartment because their caregiver took off and left them in the community hall.

So..now some of them are in the hospital across the street. One will not be coming back due to needing a more care somewhere else that is hospital like. One is battling sepsis/1 bloodclots/biopsies of her lungs. 2 died in the past month and 1 as recently as just day before yesterday. And when they are gone, for whatever reason, I feel sad. I miss them. I would prefer to be a loner again but can't now obviously. But I CAN return to that mode if I could only get the hell out of here. Which I plan to do asap. I am on 3 lists now. 1 is not just seniors apts. 2 are senior apts. One is in Paradise which is being rebuilt. The other two are home (beach) and the other about 4 miles away on the outskirts of a small town not connected to this one and located in a country setting. Which means less noise. I prefer to go back to the beach. No elderly friends dying, no noise except waves and a fog horn.

Daily, an ambulance arrives at the back gate due to someone falling ill...or found dead. I dread hearing the damn sirens because I wonder...is it someone I know and befriended?

Anyway...that's my life now and I hate it. I miss what was.

...that's my life now and I hate it. I miss what was.

Tyrosine, an amino acid in capsule form can uplift you, and a bar of Baker's chocolate divided into 5 day portions is better than a capsule of dlpa, aka (phenylalinine) if the Baker's chocolate is too tempting it gets itself eaten all at once. Tyrosine tablets are unnecessary if you count on turkey as a daily meat, which provides tyrosine that provides very cheerful stimulation of brain endorphins and encephalitis which produce almost as good comic rreliefs dear oddball's cartoons which never fail to get a chuckle out of me. I'm glad we shared our disappointments, because I mindlessly forgot about the tyrosine and dlpa, which had been left aside after Mr Negative vibes criticized my self care attempts as hypochondria. I'm considering getting swimmer ear plugs to avoid the noise. Actually, there may be some wax plugs hiding in a drawer below the tyrosine bottle. It pays to be resourceful.

I keep one of those 95% cacao bars around and nibble them one square at a time. It's difficult to eat a whole bar of something that rich but it is quite satisfying.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I left USMB because I felt it was not a free speech board any more. Now, out in the US, we are seeing cancel culture and censorship on full display. I was hoping the board had a change of heart with all that is happening. Looks the same to me.

What has been happening with save? Added grandkid number four, Ainsley. Mrs. Liberty let in a momma cat and two kittens in December. We rehomed the most friendly feral kitten Boo. Bella the mom and Buckwheat (quickly renamed Trouble) have found their forever home with us. Took us almost a month to get Trouble to let us pet her. All three are Calicos. Covid has kept me from the grandkids for the better part of 8 months. Haven't met the new yet. As a postal employee I will always be the Covid leper. Absolutely no time to get a vaccine with the hours of work not meshing with appointments for the shot. Essential employees...right...

My big stock investment has taken its own sweet time growing. Hitting $1,000,000 seems overly optimistic at this point, although I am at $100,000 and expect 3 - 500,000 in the next six months. My converted USMB time to watching stocks has paid off. Mrs. Liberty and I bought guns for Christmas. Actually bought them before the election. 380 handguns. She already has a Concealed Carry Permit. I will take the class in April. Never expected to own one. It was a strange year.

Looks like most of the Coffee Shop core is still here and I am thankful for that. I will try to be less of a stranger. Be well and may good fortune shine on each and every one of you.

Glad to see you back, Save. Congratulations on the new grandbaby. I certainly hope this panic theatre ends soon so that you can enjoy your skin-fam again. A new fur-fam is kinda nice, though. Calicos mean you have lady cats. Are you going to have the girls "fixed"? One of the three ferals I've adopted, Peepers, won't allow himself to be picked up or touched unless he has chosen to sit on my lap. Then I can pet him, but not too much. He'll sit for a couple of hours and purr but when he's had enough, he's done.
Don't give up and I hope to see you more here. I've been AWOL myself a lot but am busier than a one-legged guy in a butt kicking contest lately. Having fired the partner I have to take up the slack around my place. He didn't really do that much but it was better than a sharp stick in the eye.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I left USMB because I felt it was not a free speech board any more. Now, out in the US, we are seeing cancel culture and censorship on full display. I was hoping the board had a change of heart with all that is happening. Looks the same to me.

What has been happening with save? Added grandkid number four, Ainsley. Mrs. Liberty let in a momma cat and two kittens in December. We rehomed the most friendly feral kitten Boo. Bella the mom and Buckwheat (quickly renamed Trouble) have found their forever home with us. Took us almost a month to get Trouble to let us pet her. All three are Calicos. Covid has kept me from the grandkids for the better part of 8 months. Haven't met the new yet. As a postal employee I will always be the Covid leper. Absolutely no time to get a vaccine with the hours of work not meshing with appointments for the shot. Essential employees...right...

My big stock investment has taken its own sweet time growing. Hitting $1,000,000 seems overly optimistic at this point, although I am at $100,000 and expect 3 - 500,000 in the next six months. My converted USMB time to watching stocks has paid off. Mrs. Liberty and I bought guns for Christmas. Actually bought them before the election. 380 handguns. She already has a Concealed Carry Permit. I will take the class in April. Never expected to own one. It was a strange year.

Looks like most of the Coffee Shop core is still here and I am thankful for that. I will try to be less of a stranger. Be well and may good fortune shine on each and every one of you.

So glad you dropped by, Save. I have a sad about national covid and some contemporary issues, and some days I tune into Dish TV, western channel 217.. Today I just happened to touch the western channel for a little escape and locked onto a rerun of "How the West Was Won." It first ran as a tv series of 5 succeeding shows (although I thought there were more back at the only time I saw it and couldn't wait till next week when the next segment aired. It started many of my favorite actors 60s through 80s, maybe.

So glad you reached out to us today, Save.

I like watching the old stuff, too, Beau. I don't have dish, cable, or any other premium channels so it's all local stuff all the time and they do have a lot of channels featuring a variety of older shows. I used to watch "Burns and Allen" on weekends.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Good night darlinks. I really do love you guys. May the Coffee Shop always be a virtual family for those who need or enjoy one here. Meanwhile we pray or send positive vibes or keep vigil for:

Harper, the inspiration for the vigil list.
Pogo’s friend Pat and special comfort for Pogo,
Kat for wellness
JustAnotherNut for wellness
Mindful and healing for her shoulder.

Good night darlinks. I really do love you guys. May the Coffee Shop always be a virtual family for those who need or enjoy one here. Meanwhile we pray or send positive vibes or keep vigil for:

Harper, the inspiration for the vigil list.
Pogo’s friend Pat and special comfort for Pogo,
Kat for wellness
JustAnotherNut for wellness
Mindful and healing for her shoulder.
Good results for Nosmo King 's step nephew dealing with difficult surgeries.
Beautress for wellness.
Ringel, Peach, Gracie, everybody dealing with depression and adjustment.
Mindful's daughter diagnosed with cancer.
Ollie's brother recovering from major surgery.
gallantwarrior for healing, health & getting through the wint

Good night darlinks. I really do love you guys. May the Coffee Shop always be a virtual family for those who need or enjoy one here. Meanwhile we pray or send positive vibes or keep vigil for:

Harper, the inspiration for the vigil list.
Pogo’s friend Pat and special comfort for Pogo,
Kat for wellness
JustAnotherNut for wellness
Mindful and healing for her shoulder.
Good results for Nosmo King 's step nephew dealing with difficult surgeries.
Beautress for wellness.
Ringel, Peach, Gracie, everybody dealing with depression and adjustment.
Mindful's daughter diagnosed with cancer.
Ollie's brother recovering from major surgery.
gallantwarrior for healing, health & getting through the winter
Beautress for solutions and happiness
Nosmo King for healing and health
Life
And we keep the light on so others who have been away can find their way back and we hope they do.

No matter how cold the winter, spring is out there. . .somewhere.
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I'm thinking I should give my place on the vigil list to someone else now, Foxy. I am doing sooooomuch better. I can even put on my own socks and shoes and am doing pretty much everything I could do before although a little more slowly but with practically no pain. I appreciate you all supporting me with prayers and best wishes all this time. You guys are my Coffee Shop family!

Okay, but you still are off the grid at home, are managing a herd of goats in the middle of the winter, still have a sometimes nightmare commute, and still healing though so happy it's going well. But I'll take you off for now. I keep people like you on speed dial for the vigil list though. (teasing.)

Thank you, Foxy. I was pondering about 'stuff' yesterday and have come to the conclusion that I do what I do, the way I do it, mostly to keep my head wrapped around how important it is to know and like myself. The three new kids are doing well although I have to force Mama to feed the littlest one. But they seem to be dealing well with the extreme cold we're having. I am happy that I can still live the way I have chosen and compete mostly against myself. Yesterday after chores I unloaded and stacked a truckload of hay, carried in enough wood to keep me through the night, read a chapter from my current novel, and felt the intense relaxation of stretching out and enjoying the feeling of my body relaxing the kinks out before drifting off to sleep.
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[gallantwarrior]

I'll vouch for the toxic relationship thing. Since my partner became my ex-partner I have: lost almost 40 lbs; been much happier; gotten more things done and done more for myself than I thought possible; read volumes of books (because no one is there to bug me); and just generally enjoyed life without having the glowering storm cloud and not being picked on and bullied. Beau, you are worth so much more than he appears to realize. I recommend you lose some weight, lovely girl!

What??? I told you this more than a dozen times while I was here. Guess it took me leaving to make it your idea. lol

The encouragement of my CS friends played a part in my finally taking the leap. My brother here to care for me post-op broke the camel's back. Little brother kicked my ass and wouldn't let me waver after I had made my decision.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Trouble (the kitten) just flew by chasing her mousy. There are a lot of soccer players that would be envious of her skills in batting that thing around. Here's the real interesting part. When she's done...she puts it back in a box we have for cat toys.

What a tidy kitty. Hey, did you know they have a Kitten Bowl that runs concurrent with the Super Bowl? Puppy Bowl, too... Lots more fun for me to watch than a bunch of big guys basically beating the crap out of each other over a weird-looking ball.

 

[saveliberty]

Glad to see you back, Save. Congratulations on the new grandbaby. I certainly hope this panic theatre ends soon so that you can enjoy your skin-fam again. A new fur-fam is kinda nice, though. Calicos mean you have lady cats. Are you going to have the girls "fixed"? One of the three ferals I've adopted, Peepers, won't allow himself to be picked up or touched unless he has chosen to sit on my lap. Then I can pet him, but not too much. He'll sit for a couple of hours and purr but when he's had enough, he's done.
Don't give up and I hope to see you more here. I've been AWOL myself a lot but am busier than a one-legged guy in a butt kicking contest lately. Having fired the partner I have to take up the slack around my place. He didn't really do that much but it was better than a sharp stick in the eye.

Kitties that we kept are spayed now. Suppose to keep them quiet for two weeks. Two days was the best we could do.

 

[saveliberty]

What a tidy kitty. Hey, did you know they have a Kitten Bowl that runs concurrent with the Super Bowl? Puppy Bowl, too... Lots more fun for me to watch than a bunch of big guys basically beating the crap out of each other over a weird-looking ball.

I like college football. Pros on their knees pregame make me sick. Haven't watched the Stupor Bowl in three years. Before that it was mostly for the TV ads. They use to be so creative and funny.

 

[saveliberty]

Some days working the post office is the best job ever. Saturday one of the carriers brought me an envelope addressed to God. At first I was confused. The carrier said, you need to do something with this. Then I noticed the name in the return address area. I knew this family.

Later when I was home, I opened the envelope. Inside was a card from a little girl asking for help with school. I texted my youngest as she is friends with the little girl's mom. They went to school together. My daughter thought she might be having trouble at school because she was about to have a third sibling.

Today I messaged the mom and asked if I could send a card back. Emphasizing that her family loved her, that many people want to help her with school and God sends people to answer her prayers. Mom was okay with that.

It has been hard to feel useful to others with Covid. So much distancing.

 

[gallantwarrior]

What a tidy kitty. Hey, did you know they have a Kitten Bowl that runs concurrent with the Super Bowl? Puppy Bowl, too... Lots more fun for me to watch than a bunch of big guys basically beating the crap out of each other over a weird-looking ball.

I like college football. Pros on their knees pregame make me sick. Haven't watched the Stupor Bowl in three years. Before that it was mostly for the TV ads. They use to be so creative and funny.

The ads were good in the olden days. Now, they're just as politicized as the game. Who watches any sports event for the politics?