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Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.  I'm starting a new blog because
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I've started an appendix (I no longer have one personally) to keep track of my Space Cadet journals for Space Blog. It's a work constantly under construction. Mind the mess.
I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
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| Ah... to be orange amidst the blue, in search of moisture, a sip of salt, a spot of warmth among the dark; light upon the fluttering breeze, a mote to please the wandering eye that alights on me settled here, or as I float against the celestial sky. Ah, to be orange and not ignored. © Copyright 2022 Kåre Enga [178.300] (11.januar.2022) I sat with Bill, Phil and Nancy (who I don't know). Didn't eat there but a bologna sandwich and cottage cheese with pear sufficed later. My feet swelled yesterday so I'm going to have to consider salt as a culprit. I seldom add salt but it's in most everything. I'm a bit dissapointed with activity here on WDC so, once again, I need to reassess my reasons for being active here and how much effort is too much or too little.   I have made 13 trinkets. An assessment: 1. Easily collected. A total of 644. 120 Lanterns (Taiwan) 118 Monkees (Taiwan) 124 Umbrellas (Japan) 124 Man at Work (Slovkia) 158 Moon (Hungary) 2. Attached to a blog. A total of 174. 63 Porto (Portugal) 20 Out of the book (Sweden) 17 Blue butterfly and me (Costa Rica) 16 Bees on a rose (Norway) 17 Volcano (Costa Rica) 17 Boat houses on the fjord (Norway) 24 Cat (Taiwan) 3. To be given out. 42 Vultures clean up messes (Costa Rica) A grand total of 860. Folks want trinkets but don't want to go looking. I've put group 1 on the Newsfeed. Group 2 is mostly hidden but available on my blogs. 3? I give out vultures when I review (very seldom). I should make trinkets for every country I've visited. Perhaps someday. Copied from my friend Azir on fb: "Honorable Sultan! When confusion and corruption spreads in the country, when everyone who sees and hears this cruelty and corruption says: "What do I need" focusing on their own troubles, when the shepherds tear the nest and those who see this silence, when you rise up in the sky scream, the complaint and weeping of the poor and the needy whom no one hears except the stone trees, then the state is at the edge of the pile. In such cases, the state treasures are emptied, the people lose faith and respect for the state and the sense of obedience to the state authority is minimized. In this case, collapse and destruction is the only option for such a state." |
| Well Georgia wins 38-18 over Alabama and now has bragging rights. If only they would stand on the side of universal enfranchisement of voting rights. President Biden will speak in Georgia today. An interesting juxtaposition of sports and politics. MLK Day is the 17th... and that too makes it significant. Regardless of what Pres. Biden says about voting rights it will be attacked for going too far or not far enough. The US populace is so divided on simple human rights issues. |
| I got out and spoke to friends today. I really appreciated my chat with Laxmi. She's a fellow budget traveler; so, she understands my age/travel dilemma. She suggested that I sign up for a tour and spend a bit of money since I have far too much saved up (due to no travel for two years). She's in the same situation. So... Laos/Cambodia? Or after speaking with Zehra... Pakistan? Laxmi has signed up for a repositioning cruise out of Rome to the Caribean come autumn. I must consider that too. I also scored a choclate cupcake with peanuty frosting. Lucky me! I must attend to the blog challenge later but until then I have an epsode of Thai TV to watch. Maybe my new prompt #1 will "cotton candy — land or sea, beach or mountains, prairie or city, hot or cold or ___. Where would be best for growing up, making a living, growing old?" ... Andy Smith: When you're lost out there and all alone, a light is waiting to carry you home. ... But then there's the QotD: *Bulletv* a box of blank notebooks *Bulletv* a strong opinion about the Oxford Comma *Bulletv* a horror story about losing an unsaved draft *Bulletv* at least 3 fun coffee mugs Which of these do you have and what can you add to the list? I answered: I don't care a hoot  about the oxford whatever; in fact... I don't care about oxford!Language serves those who use it. Commas, are, the, least, of, my, worries, Notebooks, papers, a collection of spent pens. And coffee. Coffee matters. |
| ... the ice and old age. One must be aware and wary. I made it across the bridge without problems. I got to the postoffice before closing. I'm sitting here with a strawberry cardamom milkshake reading mail. My SS check has gone up. Since everything else seems to be going up it's welcome. My bank balance though is an issue. Because I haven't traveled for 2 years I have more saved than I should. Middle age = saving. Old age = spending down. Received card from Shadow Prowler-Spreading Love and runningwolf04 (& Shelly). I wondered why she spelled my sister's name wrong... oh... Shelly is her cat.  No word from family so I'm going to have to make a call or two to find out who has died. I'm bracing myself for that possible reality. My neighbor Birgit has recovered from covid. That's good. Travis isn't coming back till May. That's not good (for me). Jean is traveling in Mexico. Yang is at Texas A&M. I need to check into facepuuk as well to check on people. Both Yang and Jean are Taiwanese. I do keep track on what's going on there. And... Pakistan, India, Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Israel, Turkey, Kosovo, Italia, France, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Wales, England... I am blessed to know so many people around the world. Wish I had friends in Thailand I could visit. I'll be careful going back over the bridge. I promise. This week = sunshine and mild temps in the 40s. Or so they predict.  I always check the weather before going out and then look out the landing window to confirm. The flagstaff on the depot and the view across the river to the North Hills and mountains tells me what I need to know.Open till tomorrow midnight: "Round 5 Blogvillian Pop Up! January 9-10 POST HERE"  |
| I believe in vomit... then cleaning up the mess. There's a certain 'flow' when I'm not being anal. TMI, but truly, not all blog entries are essays for 9th grade class, spell-checked, grammar-checked, rating-checked, did-i-offend-anyone-checked. I realize that sometimes my opinions offend people; but, most entries are on-the-fly and mundane... boring even... But, at times there are real gems hidden in the vomited verbage.  That was my response to Cubbee in her blog "The Impatient Blogger" .I stole the title of her blog for this entry.  To carry-on... there are all types of books/blogs and some are personal and don't need explanations nor apologies. I always have plenty to say but that can wait for another day as I need to work on my pop-up blog challenge so I don't post it late again. "Round 4 Blogvillian Pop Up! January 7-8 POST HERE" is due midnight-ish tonight, but that's not a firm deadline. I won't award a merit badge till late tomorrow. Weather. It was sunny today and milder. Melt and freeze translates into black ice around here. I was very careful. But I needed coffee! So off I went. Even remembered to pick up mayo. My neighbor Birgit is over covid so we chatted. Omicron? Probably. At this point pretty much everyone is going to catch it but so far it appears milder and less lethal overall. As Birgit and I agreed: it makes no sense for a virus that wants to stick around to just kill off its host. Better to let it suffer.  |
| One of the limitations of WDC is that it can become cliquish and one of the dangers of cliques is becoming an echo chamber. This is one reason why I'm hesitant to belong to groups. I don't feel safe in restricted groups. WDC is very English language bound as many are mono-linguals. WDC is culturally very British Colonial. It is very Christian and very White. And few seem to have significant interactions outside of those echo-chambers. I told Stik that in my opinion, much of what is written in English seems to come from British and British colonial points-of-view (or written by those who went to colonial institutions like Harvard/Yale, Oxford/Cambridge and have learned how to speak in filtered colonial language). In the U.S. that is also greatly informed by Western Christianity. I doubt that South-East Asians, Far-East Asians, South Asians, pre- or non- Christian Americans or Africans would agree on 'masculinity' and many other issues as defined by British Christian Colonial norms. We are all culture-bound but those bindings are tighter among mono-cultural individuals. I doubt that much of what anyone here suggests will be helpful when I visit multi-cultural but Buddhist-informed Thailand. Few have been there other than as tourists. Even vlogs are suspect as the bling-bling $$ commercial aspect seems to have become dominate. I'm better off watching Thai TV series that are helping me understand a culture I know little about. The series "55:15 Never Too Late" is specifically exploring generational issues that cover language usage, sex, relationships and attitudes. Much can be learned by exploring outside mono-lingual mono-cultural echo-chambers (which is what I get here at WDC}. I'd suggest travel and a multi-month stay in multi-cultural crossroads such as Dakar, Dubai, Houston, Istanbul, or Marseille among many others, learning from common people and not just the elite. That's what I did when I spent a year abroad in Costa Rica. I wish a similar eye-opener experience for everyone. |
| My blog entry in repsonse to Robert's response "Acceptable" to "JAFBG" prompt: Tell us something about yourself that you've had to learn to accept as just part of who you are. My thoughts reflecting on myself: Laziness: yep, but I'm not always okay with that aspect of myself. When I have no energy I just don't care and live with it. Lack of ambition: I wax hot and cold. Regardless it's not sustainable and saps too much energy. A biphasic sleep cycle: I've been wondering about this. I took a nap this evening and now I'm up at 11 pm. Until when? I don't know. If I could get into a routine... In Montana that may be 4-8 am and 6-10 pm. In Thailand or Costa Rica due to heat and rain. 12-4 am and 12-4 pm. Then again... maybe just taking naps when my energy is low. Refusing to live with dogs: I don't refuse to live with them. Like kids, they are just high maintenance and I have no energy. Bachelorhood: I'm resigned to it and a bit selfish with my time and energy. An alcohol-positive lifestyle: I live without any alcohol. An unacceptable choice to many people here who only socialize when social relaxer is available in front of them. Generic apathy: I tend to care too much about everything accept what others wish to impose on me. Collector tendencies: Yep. Very much so. I tend to reuse and won't throw out until it's unusable. Clutter doesn't bother me. Less-than-perfect health: I don't like anything that keeps me from traveling. Losing weight would make it easier for instance and when I do travel I lose weight; but exercise? Not happening. The conscious decision not to change any of these attributes or many others: I'm uneasy with many of my choices because depression and lack of energy is a factor. Plus, they keep me from doing what I want at times. Now I have my own blog entry! Thanks. Conclusion: change it or accept it because at my old age anything less is just piling misery on misery. And that's a waste of time. |
| A bit drafty in here. Here = WDC. A couple of old friends have posted recently and folks are responding to my prompts. But... would less = more? How about photo or video? Noon and I'm almost done with my first coffee. 22°F and dropping. Snow misting the mountains. Tomorrow will be snowier. In the Thai TV series "55:15 Never too late" those near and dear are figuring out that the 'new' kids aren't quite so new. It will be interesting to see their responses. The old/new folks may be learning what their 'real' mistakes were. It may not have been the obvious or what we have been shown so far. San's reunion with his father was very moving. Jaya may not have a clue; she's still self-centered and immature. Paul... wasn't true to himself... but now it's very complicated. Thep may need to wake up to how good his life is with his wife and son. Charunee is making progress but young or old she's still herself with an admirer too young / too old. By now the 5 main leads are becoming very real. There are 6 more episodes of 16 left. I was reminded that "love speaks with the eyes". Thoughts I'll share with QueenNormaJeanGreeneggs&vegham: I finished reading entries and awarded a merit badge to Cappucine. 8 entries were enough to read. I wish there were more but over 12 or 15 and it gets to be work. Which is why it's every-other day. If there were three of us (10 per month), on a basis of judge 1 day, off 2, a full month would be doable. That or 7 of us who have one day of the week. But, I'm proposing reading, commenting and awarding one entry, not just a quick read and score on a chart with people x'ed off once they're out of the running for a prize. I'll begin reading and commenting on my present post now. Entries are 'due' by midnight January 6th. "Round 3 Blogvillian Pop Up! January 5-6 POST HERE" 5533 |
| Pop-Up: I awarded my first merit badge. I posted Round 2 and now need to read, comment, award by tomorrow. I need to post Round 3 tonight. I got to the grocery store and back. Getting back was important. I don't know what the food fuss is all about because I had hundreds of items to choose from. Perhaps there are shortages elsewhere or maybe folks are fussy because their favorite item isn't in stock? I dunno. I scored chocolate milk and dark chocolate m&ms. With bread, eggs and sugar, I'm fine. My eye isn't totally better but I was able to go outside on a bright day. Took notes for "Maggie and her magical shoes". Spoke with a couple people today. Watched 4 hours from January 6th last year. Watching CBS it seemed 'peaceful' from a distance but they covered it poorly imho. I remember watching ABC as it unfolded and they reported from inside as it happened. Christie was appoplexic. Very dramatic day. It took hours for Trump to respond (yes, he knew what was going on) and when he did he was inappropriate and ungracious. Biden did well and responded before Trump did. Time to go to work. |
| I wrote: "I've been upset by many Christians who believe "it's MY way, or..." In the 70's in the US, people would ask "are you saved?" I never felt that I needed to be 'saved'. Loved? Yeah, I needed that, but it seemed conditional. As a Baha'i I have to be more careful how I word things. The Baha'i Faith is much more inclusive than most of its followers who may have been raised differently. We have no problems with Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed... the issues arrive when we are excluded or executed by their followers for our beliefs. And for me personally, that makes it uncomfortable to join in certain rituals and practices. Not all Christians are exclusionary but I would say many, if not most, are in the US. There's a perceived unwillingness to interact with anyone who isn't a member of their religious community (even among themselves). Here at WDC I've upset a few of them. Facebook is worse; almost toxic. And in the US there is a movement to make Christianity the state religion. And because we are a democracy with weak human rights (as in... we can vote on your humanity) that's an issue of great concern. " So I posted "Round 2 Blogvillian Pop Up! January 3-4 POST HERE " and will judge "Round 1 Blogvillian Pop Up! January 1-2 POST HERE" later today. Time will tell whether this approach was acceptable. I have to give it a chance. I may add to this later... |
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