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Celebrate Membership in the “World of Odd”

I grew up as an Odd in a family of high-functioning Norms. There was generally about one chance in ten that things that struck me as hilarious would elicit as much as a chickle from my sibs. In their kindest moments, I was the recipient of the iconic “calf-at-a-new-gate” looks from them.

And so even today, I get my own laughs primarily from observing Norms. Primarily pity laughs, but I do find Norms amusing from time to time.

(Yeh, DSM-IV, the latest perversion of the DSM, was written to reclassify my norm, as for most Odds, from “eccentricity” to “disability” when it really just reveals the disabilities of Norms to view reality through a different lens.)

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Buh-Bye, Bygones!

Looking back. . . all the falls, run-ins with cars (several rear-and-even side-enders while biking, for example on top of my own teenage driving experience—don’t ask *heh*) and. . . other things, I have outlived my own projected life expectancy by around 35 years. *heh* I attribute those decades mostly to my Wonder Woman (MINE!) and just God saying to Himself, “Nope. he’s only maybe half-baked.”

Of course. *rips rear view mirror off the windshield* Enough. I’ve got decent enough vision for my age (and a fairly recent pair of glasses to go with it). Keeping my head on a swivel, I think I’ll just direct most of my attention ahead, for now. Buh-bye, bygones. 🙂

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[V]PRA[P]

[Virtual] Paperwork Reduction Act [Personal]: Eliminate ALL technical/instructional material in any language I am not/am no longer fluent in (decades of little use can do that, ya know. Sometimes the rust is just too extensive *heh*). Oh, heck, at this point, unless it’s unavailable in English, eliminate all instructional material that’s not in English. Life’s too short and storage space too limited to include technical instructions I do not need to have.

Besides, my command of French, German, Spanish, and Italian is more and more sketchy as time goes on and I have less and less use for them.

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Freedom! (?)

You do realize the two greatest benefits that would accrue from going back to a federal government that actually operated within the confines of its delegated powers, right?

    1. Elimination of at least 80% of the government workforce (since at least that much of the “feddle gummint” is outside constitutional legitimacy). It’d be MUCH less expensive to put all those bureaucraps on welfare than to continue to pay them and have them waste even more money on illegitimate crap.
  2.  Get the “feddle (rhymes with ‘meddle’) gummint” out of your life, as long as you do not violate the ACTUAL inherent rights of others.

Add in the FairTax and the federal government could become what it was intended to be: a defender of inerent rights whose significance is only brought to mind when it stomps on thugs violating (GENUINE, INHERENT) individual rights and on patriotic holidays.

It’d be a start. . .

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Amusing Ani-mules

Physical setup: My “comfy chair” in front of a bay window; blackout curtains over window (often closed, especially early morning, since the window faces east); my cat uses my chair (and me) as a stepping block to enter the bay (curtains in the way? Nope. She doesn’t care *heh*); new puppy—all nearly 40# of him, now—on my ottoman staring over my notebook at the bay window my cat has just disappeared into. . . seriously puzzled look on his face: disappearing cat?!?

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Sometimes, the Little Things Make a Difference

This lil walking stick/chair combo is really cool. Bad knee means I sometimes need a cane or walking stick to get around, and STANDING around can be a real pain, so

Ta-Da!

(The “Ta-Da!” link above isn’t an affiliate link; I benefit from posting it only in warm fuzzies. *heh*)

Of course, I don’t know how many folks would want one at the $190 price. I got mine at my fav “fell off the back of a truck” store, so. . .

At any rate, I really like mine, even though my only choice was blue. ¯\_(?)_/¯

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Quick Mini-Tip

Lil mini-tip: So, ya reached for a pencil to mark your cut and. . . where’d the dang thing go?!? Oh, well, either waste time looking for it, or pull a round from one of your speedloaders or mags and mark that board. Simple, right? A nice lil time-saver.
YW.

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More on New Guy

*huh* New Guy pup will be 5 months old come Sunday. Growing like a weed and into everything he can get to! Not so bad outside, but we are making him into an inside/outside dog, and, ya know that facial tissue ya missed the trashcan throw with? Yeh, it’s a race to pick it up before him. He has also found that my “Poang” ottoman is a great way for him to stay on top of my feet when I’m at the keyboard. *heh*

Still, as active as he is, he continues to have about an eighteen hour zonked out time every day (in bits and pieces, with eight hours—broken into a couple of four-hour chunks—in his “transition to crate” sleep area).

A few commands are working their way into his repertoire, but some behaviors (jumping on folks is worst) are only very, very slowly coming under control. Ah, but he’s a real people person/lover boy, and finds people to be MUCH more interesting than his toys. I expect he will be a zero as a watch dog, though. ¯\_(?)_/¯

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Passing Shot. . . and a Hit?

You know that phrase in The Ultimate Flame, “I would rather bathe with Hitler than be seen with you*”? Yeh, that’s how the current crop of Dhimmicraps make me feel.
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*Cut from recent iterations of the late 1980s version.