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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/1311011-Porthole/day/4-17-2023
Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #1311011
A terminal for all blogs coming in or going out. A view into my life.
Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.

Ferry boat between Solvorn and Ornes across the Lustrafjord i Sogn og Fjordane.




I'm starting a new blog because
BOOK
L'aura del Campo  (13+)
Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
#982524 by Kåre Enga in Montana
had over 1,200 entries and that was getting close to full. I don't want to trim it by deletion. I did that once, much to my dismay. Will be used more for poetry.

BOOK
Hoarfrosts from Hell  (GC)
Anything I'm not happy about or that I don't want in my main blog!
#997339 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is still hidden from the public and will remain so. It's more personal and full of angst. Was used for 30DBC for May 2020 and now used for Blogville.

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Enga mellom fjella  (13+)
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
#1317094 by Kåre Enga in Montana
was full... until the number of entries was increased. A mixed blog, mostly stories.

I'll be linking to
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On The Write Path  (13+)
ON THE WRITE PATH: travel journal for Around-the-World in 2015, 16, 18.
#2032403 by Kåre Enga in Montana
as I need to post there about my travels.

 
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O Pinions!  (XGC)
May my opinions gather wind under their wings and fly, perchance to soar.
#1501776 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is for my opinions. *Laugh*

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Nurture your Nature  (13+)
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
#1439094 by Kåre Enga in Montana
was set up for nature observations and musings.

 
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Watt's Gnus  (18+)
On topics and today's gnus. Definitely opinionated. Set to 18+ for a reason.
#1439092 by Kåre Enga in Montana
come out of a need to share interesting stuff I come across. When I was young I did a small newsletter named as such. (or was it column in the newsletter? Been 30 years... I think.)

 
FOLDER
Flash Fiction  (GC)
Short 300 word, more or less, "stories" .
#2190336 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is where I put my flash fictions. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and have enough good ones to publish. Ratings vary and some are hidden from view.

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.
STATIC
Space Cadet - the never ending journal  (18+)
Journeys of an Alien Space crew.
#2226611 by Kåre Enga in Montana


I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
 
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Conquest ... to keep track of contests  (18+)
A place to keep track of in progress works and up-coming deadlines as well as any awards.
#2233119 by Kåre Enga in Montana
(also very messy!) *Shock2*

 
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Blogville   (XGC)
Where bloggers meet and greet to read and share. No required prompt. Alias: blogville.
#2253938 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is for posting personal blog entries in hope that folks will comment and post their blog entries there as well. I will be commenting on all blog entries posted. It's my effort to rebuild a blogging community.

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Bibimbap 비빔밥   (13+)
Left-overs piled on hot rice and mixed.
#2296648 by Kåre Enga in Montana
an E blog focusing on food and culture. Easily digestible for the Queasy and Questioning.

April 17, 2023 at 9:46pm
April 17, 2023 at 9:46pm
#1048351
23.abril *Rose**Rose**Rose*

08:46 ... I already charcoaled a hotdog. Time for coffee or falling back to sleep. It's 0°C.

24°C at home in Udon Thani; 9°C here in Missoula. I ate mashed potatoes ... but still not doing well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zDt8xyVKtw

I Think It's Going to Rain Today

         Song by Randy Newman

Broken windows and empty hallways
A pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today

Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles
With frozen smiles to chase love away
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today

Lonely, lonely
Tin can at my feet
Think I'll kick it down the street
That's the way to treat a friend

Bright before me the signs implore me
To help the needy and show them the way
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today


For some odd reason I thought of Aunt Verna... gone many years.

On-line: Another Reddit poster chimed in, “First, they will drive out the trans families and gay-accepting families.
Next, they will drive out liberals and democrats.
Next, they will drive out any minorities who are able to move away.
Finally, when everything is just white, they’ll drown due to the climate change they don’t believe in.”


I'm burnt out, one smashed lightbulb.

HH: The addicts still shoot up under the Anker Brua.

W: Do we ever really change?

HH: No. Any better for you?

W: No. Unlike Ove, they always mind their own business. Nothing shakes a hard headed Swede or makes them pay attention.

HH: We are the oddballs, aren't we.

W: Just like the addicts... and the occasional dead body. [180.19]


22.abril *Rose* *Rose*

I'm okay as long as I don't face reality. My anxiety is very high. I can get out of bed and shower, drink coffee, even eat. I'm at Butterfly Herbs stressing. I'm not doing well.

To Mighty: "I have a Le Novo chromebook. I do have a computer with a much larger screen, but I don't use it. The chromebook is light and travels well.

I'm old so I don't feel a need to 'work' but my boyfriend is 'young' and may need my help to network properly and expand his on-line content. I'm not a professional photographer but some of my photos are more than passable.

We could visit local sites, and take photos. He could write from the fashion/beauty-products perspective in Thai and I could write from the traveler perspective in English.

I'm fine with my income and doing-with-less, but he needs to build a future. Freelance is one way."

My nerves are still shot. At BH: Chatted with Lundi and Cathy Mae. Had fire&ice, coffee and an Asiago bagel with cream cheese. Bit of a melt-down.

Travis gave me hot dog buns. I ate two hot dogs for supper.

21.abril *Rose*

Ridvan. *Flowery*

Daffodils braved the snow.

Yep. Snow... quite a bit actually.

Saw Jamie. Sat with Dalton and Bob. Kathy P. won pinochle.

Nerves not good.

Looked at flight options. Nothing cheap.

Chicken strips for lunch. Scored hot dogs, rice, noodles, potatoes.

20.abril

Up before 9. Still in bed, need coffee ... and a life.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/lifestyle/why-airplane-seats-are-so-uncomfortabl...

I really want 30" minimum on any flight over 4 hours, 32" on flights over 6. I've had dvt 3 times. I use Google Flights and Seat Guru. Ergonomics are important to me. Asian airlines like Asiana and ANA do much better than Euro-American airlines.

Black roses: I was born in the wrong century, wrong city, wrong soi (ซอย). I can love you, but can never be your lover. Not in this lifetime. May I strew your path with roses, their fragrance reminding you of my love, their thorns a memory of my pain. May we someday be reborn in a garden where our roots may touch and our branches hug each other. 62w Heliotrope healing a Bleeding Heart. [180.18]

"I walk down Memory Lane because I love running into you."

Nerves still shattered.

Sat with Angie and Billie Jo.

19.april

Snow. Cold and bitter.

Meatloaf. Saw Merry, Ron and others.

Cake (white/confetti) with Scott and Travis.

A day for me to chill.

18.april

BCoF: Scott baked a cake for his birthday, dry as Wyoming, flavored with pistachios. He'd always been a bit of a nut. A bit... different, at ease in the emptiness, looking after mountains and those humans who got lost in them. Like him, I'm lost in private thoughts I never shared. He sliced the cake, gave me a piece of paradise, an echo of long-lost Persia, dry yet flavorful. My day followed his. [180.17]

I didn't have to bake a cake. His was enough for both of us (for Scott on his birthday).


Video with Pannya. He looks good. I look haggard. I let myself go. Hello to his mother.

Scott's birthday. Said hello.

Taco salad... had eaten turkey-cheese-bowties for breakfast... so I brought half of it home for later.

Scored 4 cans of canned chicken.

Spoke with Joyce, Kathi, Dalton, others... Chat with Birgit. I ramble too much. I'm 'doing better'?

Scored a Reese's peanut butter cup. It's an addiction.

Snowed.

39°F at 6:20 pm. It was wintry cold all day.

17.april

Saw Kathi, Willie, Phil... at Sr.Ctr. Did not eat though.

Bought rosemary focaccia at Le Petit. $6. Most everything is double what I paid 15 years ago except my income and rent.

I'm okay but still anxious and unhappy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KYqWpZKso

Thai elections are May 14th.



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