December 4, 2025

I have a question for the DU family here.

(Just an estimate, mind you...)

How many posts/replies do you write and then erase on this site?

Irregardless of the reasons, is this a normal thing for most on here?

These days, I find myself at around 50% discarded posts/replies.

November 27, 2025

So, a Happy one to all!

My handsome hubby is working on the 'feast', which will be various veggies, Norwegian Salmon, and baked sweet potato.

I have had my morning grub and I had a snack to tide me over until the repast later.

So, it is time to have the first delicious adult bevy of the day. I have to be light these days, so it is coffee with a heavy shot of Cream de Cacao, and a very heavy shot of Woodford Reserve Bourbon Cream.

VERY nice...

November 26, 2025

We got a white Thanksgiving.

I hope everyone has a good one. We need it.

November 23, 2025

Thanks to everyone who helped out!

Again, I cannot express my gratitude enough for helping me get these new shoes and socks for my husband. (He barely had a sock that did not have holes in them.)



Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

November 23, 2025

A valid question that could be asked of every red state these days.

November 15, 2025

I wanted to thank everyone who helped us out.

I cannot express my gratitude enough to all those who pitched in to help my husband and myself during this time. He has already ordered the new shoes and we are going to head to get some new socks as well. (He is brutal with socks. He does not like using them and he doesn't care what he does to them when he removes them. Sigh.)

He was very surprised when I told him about the GoFundMe, as he did not know I was doing it (per my design). He was very grateful about it and wanted me to pass on his extreme thanks as well. He was very down about the entire footwear thing and did not see a way to take care of it any time soon. Of course, the company he works for is not doing well and will probably fold soon enough. (Some folks are going to be surprised when this happens, but we are not. He used to be a market manager with them and knows all too well what is going on 'behind the scenes'.)

Now, if I can just get the rest of my prescriptions done, I might make it to the new year. We cannot afford one of them at the moment, and I don't see it happening for the next few weeks. I have asked for enough from everyone, so this is what it is. The entire point is to make sure people see what this regime is doing to folks and the consequences of denying the majority of your population proper healthcare and necessities. So, it is what it is.

At least my husband will not suffer ankle, knee, back and neck problems as much now. That is what is most important.

Thank you all again. This community is why there may be hope for the future.

November 13, 2025

The 'green' elephant in the room.

Any discussion of The Way Forward (that is truly going to be a discussion of how to salvage our society and individual lives) must address the main problem in our society.

The fact remains that we as a culture have become so greedy and arrogant and self-absorbed that we just cannot function as a cohesive society anymore. When our internet and our media is inundated with messages about how 'your time is too important' to worry about this or that, when you are repeatedly told that you are someone if you have more than everyone else and nothing if you don't, when you are fed lies about just how integral to the future your presence in the world is, we get the arrogant dismissal of anyone who is not in that social 'caste'. Anyone who is not rich, or is not slowly dying making someone else rich, is seen as a waste of resources and not worth the effort. Of course, those who have no chance (or desire) to become the next Rockefeller can't just check out either, because if they fail they will be prosecuted for the attempt. (Let's look at this logic for a moment. Someone's life is so ruined that they want to leave it, they don't succeed, and then they are treated like dirt and put in jail because they dared to remove themselves from the equation and that constitutes a threat to the oligarchy. We can't have peons trying to take charge of their own lives, now can we?)

Face facts, we are so far down the 'greed' hole that we will probably never get out of it... unless we start seriously regulating business and making taxes progressive, meaning that if you have more, you pay more. Period. We need to make sure that those with more money can't influence anything other than their own house decor. We need to set up government alternatives to the privatization of essential services. (You know that most of the healthcare/insurance issues would be over with once there are options that don't further the capitalistic agenda. They know this as well, which is why there is such massive resistance to this concept.)

And why is this path so reviled? The programming worked. I know it, and you know it. We were programmed to worship the rich and to always believe that having money made you the equivalent of a saint. We do this even when reality show otherwise. That line from the first 'Men In Black' was so fucking prophetic and I am still amazed that it is not repeated more often.

As far as I am concerned, any ideas that would be able to 'correct' the issue of socioeconomic bias and imbalance will have to address the entire concept of 'unfettered capitalism' as a societal model. And, that is not going to happen as long as the wealthy control everything.



Which, they already do. So, if we won't face reality in regards to our situation, I doubt anything will change for more than a few years.

We could do this, but not until we stop with the money worship.

November 11, 2025

I stand before you with hat in hand...

Things are not going well on board the starship Enterprise, as any of the few regulars that don't have me on ignore can attest. However, this is not about me. This is about the man I love. The one person in 61 torturous years that stood by me and even decided to propose to me and then to wed me. I told him not to and did not hold back in my description of just how dangerous my curse can be. Now, 21 years later and he is still here, albeit not doing well either. Here is where I am asking for help.

My hubby works as a baker and he is now pretty much wearing rags on his feet. He needs new work shoes and pretty much needs new shoes altogether. He is the one who actually has a job here, as I cannot work without problems that none seem willing to accommodate, and he is really suffering from all kinds of knee, back and neck issues because of this. There are specifics that are part of the issue with his footwear. He has special sized feet that do not match, and his work requires what are known as 'kitchen soles'. These elements combine to make getting him footwear very difficult and right now we are struggling financially pretty badly.

Any or all of you that can do a little something to help me get him some new work shoes, and maybe some decent walkabouts or something as well... I would be very appreciative of it. This is not for me. This is for the man I love more than anything.

Thank You. Here is the GoFundMe. This may be the only gift he gets for the holidays this year. Please help me get it for him.

https://gofund.me/54b514cf7

(Just know... I REALLY hate doing this.)

November 9, 2025

Well, let's keep it going with The Art Of Noise.

They were fed up with the 'pop' sound and felt that one could do that by just 'making noises'. Then, a wonder invention came along.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI

This thing made a whole new area of music available. Trevor Horn got one, the Art Of Noise gang was all into it, and the rest is history.

The band has been around for almost forty-four years.

(I admit to a bias, because this is one of my all time favorite bands.)

Here is the group playing at The Prince's Trust. Note that they don't need the Fairlight these days, but they do still use it.

November 4, 2025

Not doing well right now.

Not that anyone should care, but I am. Last night, I was removing the bandage from the FUCKING FOOT WOUND THAT I HAVE HAD FOR FIVE FUCKING MONTHS AND IT WON'T HEAL and the sticky part peeled back some of the skin on my foot. I did not notice this, thanks to not having any feeling in my feet, until I saw the FUCKING BLOOD ALL OVER THE CARPET! (We rent.) Instead of going to bed I was up past midnight cleaning up the mess.

Today, I learned that my husband is going to drop his insurance because we cannot afford to have both of us covered. Let me tell you, it is such a great feeling to know that you are the cause of all of the horror he is going through. I am having other issues as well, and there is no relief in sight.

I cannot be productive to anyone, including myself, and I cannot continue to be the agent of destruction for my husband.

I have some serious thinking to do.