(0947) Deliveries, cooking for a few days, lunch, just finished, cream-crackered. I need to complete Tue 11. (1201)

Also: https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/05/at-daggers-drawn.html

 

15. Places of worship

14. Govt smuggling

13. Independent windows

12. Vox

11. Saw this on Quora just now

… from a lady called Colleen Wysocki:

“My mom is now 65 years old and she is a covert narcissist. One night I was in her house and I heard her crying in her room, I went to see what was happening, why she was crying. Then she started to tell me how she wasted her whole life. And she said she never should’ve married my dad and her life would’ve been so much better if she hadn’t.

My parents got married when my mom was 22 years old, and back then she hadn’t a family, she had no education and no money, nothing at all. My dad worked so hard and he became a teacher, made a good life and always treated her well. He never hit her and never cheated and he never even drank.

With all of that she was miserable, and of course in her opinion, it’s always someone’s fault. Now she sits in her room every night drinking and feeling sorry for herself. She tells herself that she is special and that she could’ve gone far in her life if my dad hadn’t ruined everything.”

Classic hypergamy. Also, daughters often enough support one or the other. How to get across to someone like that mother that she’d caused him to give up hope? Of course, it could have been the other way with the next family … sort of a Ryan Giggs maybe.

There’s an ego factor, a dumbness factor too. Dumb and greedy is not a good mix.

I sometimes look back and wonder … could I have visited more countries? Could I have done this or that? What fraction good to bad? I’d say 5/8 good, 2/8 my own bad choices, 1/8 diabolical luck but 2 of the first 5/8 maybe the Guardian Angel.