(0656) This was a test of the Unherdables system … was always going to sleep right through the night once in a while … this was it, so no new post at NOWP for DAD today. Continued in n2 below……
5. Housekeeping Op Ed thingy, part two of two
Being locked into the Steve-DAD nexus of needing to wake up sometime during the night to publish a new post … that can fail at times, e.g. this morning … first reaction is what real damage?
Nichevo, not a lot. Are Steve’s items up? Is DAD’s? Yes to both questions … that’s the main imperative for readers … all the pretty numbering and formatting can be done in due course.
Second imperative is that I signpost at HQ asap, though regulars know to check out NOWP anyway … so again … nichevo.
Which is immensely useful as I do have some health/sleep issues just now, inc. dental. Having to be super careful, follow my own rules set in rock. If I do, then things are 65%.
I do have another RL issue upon me right now … involves this house, not a blogging topic … and it may well be terminal by the wording in the letter. But not immediate. My bday coming up too and for some crazy reason, for the last three decades … bad news day … some sort of divine retribution for my sins? I suspect the two issues will come together … Sod’s Law.
Far more important for all of us is the old fear and insta-blow torture Them so love, the psy-op people … might be this, might be that, we’ll “review it”. The stress factor is off the scale, people going mental across the land … it takes a seasoned warrior, to be frank, to wear all this and still function in a halfway jolly way.
Then there is the Slog Factor … poor bggr is a bit out of it just now … last post Jan 22nd. Hmmmm. Not good. Might be WP at fault (they don’t heavy me for some reason) or it might simply be age … he was showing signs.
(Cough) Look, dear readers … blogging don’t juss happen, there’s some work involved behind the scenes and it requires mental acuity to ride the bumps. I have vastly fewer bumps due to MMutR, thanks sir, plus the system works at the front end as well … hence there’s a blog here you’re reading, despite all the mayhem out there.
The bigger issue is my mental acuity … I see signs of early Oldtimer’s, to a great extent the poisoned air, water, food. Now this is quite real, tavern patrons, causing errors, delays etc., as I battle to stick to the current plan.
Write everything down … can’t stress it enough … MMutR taught me that … write everything down, notes to yerself, keep the notes in the same place, no new brilliant hidey places … keep them in the one place you can return to. Periodically go over your notes.
Which requires time, something I’ve not a lot of, having slowed down, everything taking twice the time. Hurtling towards my “shuffle off” day. Blog occupies huge time, plus cooking and cleaning … solution?
Solution is to go over your notes again, chaps and chapesses … and they need to be good notes too at the time. Plus schedule time for reflection … go for walks, looking out for jihadi ambush at all times … keep up an online social whirl, better busy than slowly dying in a rocking chair … methinks none o’ us will have that luxury somehow in the coming months.
Why still blog? Coz you’re there, as simple as that. A ready made social whirl while still being able to sneak off to the loo when need be. Not to be sneezed at … about to go over to AKH … I would hope he’s posted. Plus the ticker just showed me my NHS course buddy has just posted … must get over there, then write to Bob and Isilme, Amfortas, already wrote to DAD.
Request … do check in please … it means a lot to the rest of us … maybe not to you as such … but to the rest of us … immeasurable. End of for now at 0850 … brekky beckons.
4. Steve at 957
Four: ISIS Airstrikes in Somalia … Guantanamo Bay “Will Hold The Worst of The Worst” … Rebecca Lobach’s Entire Social Media Scrubbed … Uke $$$$ gone missing … more……
Three: Graham voting yes … Trudeau slammed by CEO … rich slam Euroleftist cold shower … Trump charges on … more…..
Two: Uke sit-rep … Uke’s still trying to take out Russ villagers … US iron dome planned … more…..
One: Czech Women Covid vaxxed 66% less likely to give birth … Pentagon’s role in bioweapon research … more…..
3. DAD at 957
a. French draft budget for 2025 now in final preparation stage after negotiations in joint committee … a compromise text was reached…..
b. EU already second corruption scandal of 2025. The shady money laundering business of former European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders……
c. France has confirmed its title of world champion of controversy hands down. By explaining that the French have “a feeling of being overwhelmed” on the immigration, Bayrou has caused a fire…..
d. (Windmill burning pic)
1. Uber returns … plus general op ed, part one
Long time patrons know of our esteemed Ubermouth … one in particular will be interested but as he never reads all my posts, I’m safe in knowing he won’t see this.
Tell you wot though … was re-reading my own housekeeping posts from yesterday … got bored and clicked out, ha ha.
Uber, who’s in eastern Canada, was asking what I thought of the tariffs and I gave an oblique answer. Good relations though, her and me … strange that, given polar opposite views on the world out there … I confess I did call the charlatan “PM” Soy Boy Castro.
Far more important to me was that she was alive and kicking, still not on the chain gang over in eastern Canada … she complained about the site being unnavigable now … all this Reader drop this and that. Ah … so she’d gone to ONO, had seen the notice by blgr, had gone to the failsafe … at that time in the past NOWP … had not checked out the navbar. Is not on X, that terrible far right platform.
Hmmmm, useful that … someone comes in cold to N.O. or to me and NOWP becomes the default, publicly … no bad thing imho. I put her onto UHC.
(There’ll be a part two to this in Mon 5 in a few mins … it’s 0811 now.)
