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When we were in school, it was the be all, end all. Now suddenly, I end up at my 55th class reunion. What the heck happened and when?
As some of you know, I am a recluse. But, managed to drive all the way, dressed up and dealt with humans. It was interesting. I got to see my gal pals that we hung from grade school on to after a bit after graduation.
It showed how we all aged. Some of the people looked like they did a few years ago. Some changed to the point of even after reading name tags..still had no clue who they were. Some were spry and agile and able and some looked like tomorrow would be their last day on earth. Women for the most part had lost curves and added pounds. Some men had added waaaayyy more pounds. Double chins, sagging skin and wrinkles. Some managed to avoid lots of it and other didn't. Hard of hearing, walking with canes and repeating what they said already 3 times.
I told one neighbor guy I took no pills at all and he said I had to be about the only one there. This is the time of heart attacks, stokes, arthritis and difficulty walking.
I got home by 9 pm. Went to bed and slept for the most part of 11 hours. Next will be 60 years and it will probably end up seeing whos left.
Got a photo with the kids from grade school, all neighbors..6 of us. Exchanged phone numbers I know no one will ever call. Some of my class still work, at least part time. Some have traveled lots and one came from DC and one from AZ and one from Alaska. I made it 14 miles.
Now I can crawl back into my isolation and farm. Whew..I made it!

A short while ago, a thought crossed my mind about this dating thing. If it hasn’t been done before, why doesn’t CS host an Online Speed-dating event to spice things up? I’d appreciate any ‘spice’ that it could offer. I’ve never experienced this approach to dating, but I’ve seen it done quite a view times on television shows, and it’s anything but boring.

At first, I thought that Online speed-dating probably wasn’t a thing yet, but to my surprise, Google proved me wrong! In fact, one site stated, matter-or-factly, that the speed-dating phenomena was making a comeback. So, one worldwide event or several zonal events, could be very exciting.

Then there were other questions that I didn’t think Google could help me answer – What’s the success rate really like? Would people in my age range be interested in the Online version? Most importantly, would CS owners/managers be ‘game’ for something like this since their site is free (and yields them zero $)? You've been in existence for quite a long time, so perhaps you've thought about it?

I've been a good girl this year (mostly), so how about giving me this gift for Christmas.


Merry Christmas!

An airline passenger recently went to extreme lengths to avoid paying a fee for extra baggage - she wore many of the clothes she had packed to bring down her suitcase's weight, New York Post reported. However, the viral travel hack adopted by many didn't work for her, as she ended up getting a fine from the airline.
Notably, 19-year-old Adriana Ocampo was traveling with airline Jetstar from Melbourne to her home in Adelaide, Australia, after a girls' trip with her friend. After realising her carry-on luggage exceeded the maximum weight limit of seven kilos, she put on all of her extra clothes to avoid the excess baggage fee. Her friend also followed suit, as her case was also over the limit. She piled on almost six kilos of clothing including t-shirts, jackets, jumpers, and trousers. Speaking to South West News Service, Ms. Ocampo said that she ''looked like a bear'' while trying to pull off the stunt. The only way take the weight off their bags is if they put it on , so they started putting on our jackets and coats. As well as layers of jackets and jumpers. One woman had about six layers on and stuff in her pockets”.
''Everyone in line was staring at them and laughing , it was kind of embarrassing. People were annoyed that they were holding the plane up”.
However, their luggage was still more than 1kg over the limit, even with best efforts. The airline told them they had to pay the $65 fine. What's more, she then had to wear all the clothes on the plane as well.
In a statement to The Independent, a Jetstar spokesperson said, ''While we certainly see the funny side, we have limits to carry-on to make it fair for everyone. Keeping track of how much baggage passengers bring onboard means everyone has room for their belongings and we're meeting our safety requirements.''
In a similar incident in 2019, a Filipino airline passenger wore about 2.5 kilograms of clothes to bring down her bag's weight to only 6.5 kg. She also posted a hilarious photo on Facebook which showed her wearing around five pairs of pants and multiple T-shirts and jackets.

I might be a bit strange, but I’ve always preferred the company of men, to that of women. Perhaps it’s because I grew up amongst 3 brothers and vacationed at the home of grandparents amongst my 4 uncles and their guy friends who lived next door, played with more boys than girls in my neighbourhood and at school and was a tomboy. All of the above seems plausible.

Even when I had girls as classmates (I attended all-girl high schools, before going to a co-ed one to further my studies), I never fully understood their obsession with boys, gossip and sex, so there wasn’t much we could talk about. My interest in boys changed quite accidentally, when I was kissed by a boy who I had only met for a few hours . He was the nephew of my then stepmother and had been vacationing at my father’s home when my (now deceased) brother and I visited. It was unexpected, but quite nice, and I had then found another reason to prefer the company of a ‘man’.

As I’ve gotten older, that hasn’t changed much. I do spend more time with women, yes, but I often find myself becoming involved in trivial discussions (e.g. house chores, children and gossip), whilst I sometimes yearn for the perspective of a man on other topics. I know that I can’t be the only woman who thinks this way, and the same is probably true of some men my age and older.

What do you think?

In the US and I think others, certain decisions a person makes are reserved for those considered adults...IE over 18 or even 21. Anyone younger is restricted as to what choices they may make. The parents are held to decisions that do not harm their child too. Such as handing a child the keys to a car or a loaded firearm or bottle of whiskey.
Long ago there was a group of men who were called eunuchs. Middle eastern countries and Asian followed this practice to create a segment of men who would be loyal to their rulers since they were never to sire children and become a threat. They also were used to guard harems since they were not able to have relations with women. This practice most often was done without informed consent. Even if informed, they had no choice..either captives, slaves or prisoners. The church did this to young boys who had the pre-pubescent voices of angels that sang in the choir. The child had no say so. If parent agreed or not, the church ruled and they wanted the boys to avoid the change of voice that came with puberty.
Now when it comes to women, there were times of enforced sterilization. The woman was deemed by physical or mental conditions to be unsuited to bare children. Often this was done without consent. Parents owned their children and could order it done.
Now we move into modern times. The only time one hears of sterilization by castration in men is deviates in prison. The man MUST give informed consent and the usual method is chemical. The idea is to stop the man's proclivity to attacking women. Not sure if this is even done anymore. If a woman is sterilized without her consent or knowledge, it is considered a crime and the doctor is punished. Especially a child!
My point? Non-binary, trans and the laws governing children. Laws are trying to protect a child under 18 and getting push back. Now why if a parent tells a doctor they want to castrate their boy so he can't procreate or to settle him down, no doctor in his right mind would do it. It is AGAINST THE LAW! Same if they want their girl sterilized so she can't produce a child or want to be intimate with a boy.
The choice to become sterile is a decision for life to be made by an adult in control of their own body. Not a child who lacks the knowledge of what it really means. They will never sire nor bare a child. The trans to female will face a lifetime of constant intervention to avoid infections that a normal females body protects against. Also to manipulate the un-natural opening to stop the body from viewing it as an open wound to heal and cover with scar tissue. A female to male will suffer body mutilation and face hormone intervention for life along with the issues that drugs cause.
If laws say a parent,society or the government has no right to change a childs gender and that child is uninformed and to immature to make a life time decision, then there should be no question of prohibiting that decision until an adult.

Every day, I get up and then? Is it old age? Is it the world that things don't matter anymore? Lack of demands on my time? The ability to do what I want, when I want..so do nothing?
My no routine is a routine. That irks me if anyone changes. Wake up at same time give or take a hour or two. Get up, dressed, TV news. Argh..it is Saturday..no news. sigh. Go outside and feed cat herd. Make coffee. And then..what. Could do this. Or that. That needs doing. Should be outside if nice. Why.
Lack of ambition? Lack of interest. Knowledge that when no one else cares? Or that when I am gone, what will change? Or all will change and no matter what I did, won't matter?
I feel like I am just treading water until the end. My I dont give a flock attitude.

Here's few photos taken of my favorite shooting range today. Dig it.

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The only thing I do not like about this firing range is they use targets with the Block M of my alma mater on them


a LEO practicing for annual qualifications

For all the time I've been around here, I've never paid attention to likes on my blogs or anyone else's either for that matter ... and I see, comments can be liked too.

As a blogger, does it warm the cockles of your heart to see your blog is like?
does the heat go up the more it is

Same questions applies to commentators when there comments are liked

Personally I thought it wouldn't bother me but after seeing one of my blogs here was given 7 likes, I couldn't help but think wow thought my blog received the most

Then I checked out Jennys blog which has 12
which I don't mind loosing out to her, she works with such loyalty to her blog.

Well done Jenny for having the most like blog

This should reduce the head count in the next census that includes illegal persons as well as legal persons which would definitely increase the number of representatives in those states seeing more illegals invading the USA. Lets go Brandon.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce a law that would allow local law enforcement officials to arrest people suspected of being illegal immigrants.

After the high court temporarily blocked enforcement of the law, the Supreme Court issued a decision to reject an emergency request that was made by the Biden Department of Justice, which argued that states have no right to enforce immigration law and that it violated the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

The Supreme Court’s order provided no reasons, but Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh filed concurring opinions. Three Democrat-appointed justices, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor, dissented.

With the ruling, the immigration law can now go into effect while lower courts consider the law, known as SB4. It was passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature last year and signed into law by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in late December.

Specifically, SB4 allows local and state police to arrest people who have illegally crossed the U.S.–Mexico border and imposes criminal penalties. State judges are also given the power to order illegal immigrants to be deported under the measure.

In her concurring opinion, Justice Barrett wrote that the high court has “never reviewed the decision of a court of appeals to enter—or not enter—an administrative stay.”

“When entered, an administrative stay is supposed to be a short-lived prelude to the main event: a ruling on the motion for a stay pending appeal. I think it unwise to invite emergency litigation in this Court about whether a court of appeals abused its discretion at this preliminary step,” she wrote.

The three dissenting justices, however, decried the law and said it would upend the federal government’s authority. “The Court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos, when the only court to consider the law concluded that it is likely unconstitutional,” Justice Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justice Jackson.

Reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote on social media Tuesday that his state notched a “huge win” and that the law “is now in effect.”

Last month, a federal judge blocked enforcement of the law, arguing that it would supersede the federal government’s authority over immigration. The judge also rejected arguments from Texas that the state is currently experiencing an invasion due to the enormous numbers of illegal aliens pouring into the state.

U.S. District Judge David Ezra in February ruled that SB4 violated the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, which grants the federal government sole authority over immigration matters. The judge also rejected state arguments that Texas was being invaded under the U.S. Constitution’s Article IV.

He wrote at the time that the law would run afoul of federal immigration laws and said that if allowed, Texas would then be able to “permanently supersede federal directives,” which would “amount to nullification of federal law and authority.”

The law presents a “notion that is antithetical to the Constitution and has been unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War,” Judge Ezra wrote, adding that it “threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice.”

Days later, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked Judge Ezra’s decision and upheld the law before the case was appealed to the Supreme Court. Justice Samuel Alito issued several temporary holds on the law, the most recent of which was on Monday.

The 5th Circuit is set to hear arguments in the case in April

The biggest fantasy is that when you get old and retired, life is easy. People take care of you. You have all the time in the world to play. Bull! Reality is how on earth did we do everything when we did work!
I have two houses on the farm. The old farmhouse I rent and the main I live in with a boarder in the basement. He and a neighbor are pseudo sons. I rent the farm house cheap with the lease that they are part caretakers, do barn chores in morning, take care of what the house needs unless major. I have had the gamut of tenants. Ended up with one guy for 23 years who was like a brother. He was killed when the corn plant blew up and came down on him. He buddy took the house years ago. We got along well.
This tenant, a lawyer, grew up on a farm. Smoker and a bit partier. Ends up with lung cancer a year ago or two. Does chemo and radiation and puts it in its place. Regular maintenance chemo.
He gets health issues. Fluid in chest. Swelled arm. He went off chemo to get his hip replaced last spring. 6 weeks and seem all is well.
A week or more ago, he texts me he is having daughter take him to ER. Must have pulled arm and pain too bad.
He texts me he has major infection and a T12 compression fracture vertebra. Surgery is planned on shoulder, spine, etc. Daughter ends up texting, it is staph, he is in induced comma and bad shape. It ends up its in two heart valves and brain. He died a week ago or so. Hard to keep track of days.
She and I both blame the hospital giving him the staph. He had chemo the week prior. They couldn't notice it?
So now I sit with a vacant house that I have to deal with. I need that well for barn water. I am doing all the barn chores am and pm. I told neighbor he needs to move in. Oh..too big a bother in winter. Word of mouth to find a tenant. I am taping heavy vinyl over windows and pink insul foam. Try to shut house tight and keep gas low. 5% a week as of now. 50sF still. His daughter cant find info as to where he got gas. I called and found one that will bring it when I am at 25%. That is lower than I like.
So much for retirement. Good thing I am about the same as at 50..just a bit slower. Cause it is back at it for me. I will do an ad in spring unless neighbor decides to live up to the fact he will inherit along with my boarder so might as well start learning.
Can I run away from home?