Nothing quite feels like cleaning up the house. It’s one of the most rewarding, yet at the same time, useless things I do. I like changing up a dirty room to clean room, yet always in the back of my mind I’m thinking: Yeah; it looks good now. Give it a week. Frankly, I think 45 should use my toilet cleaning method. That takes everyone down to the same level: that of shit-cleaner. He should be forced to clean up a shitty toilet every day. Maybe that would break him of his ego.
Ah, well.
Am pleased to hear from some of my US contacts that yes, they have been talking of emergency plans if and when civil unrest breaks out on a large scale. Sometimes I think I’m talking to air on that one. As usual, I’ve encouraged them to move here to NL. I’m here to help them, and honestly, I’m selfish. I want them here. I don’t make friends very easily, so I hang onto the ones I’ve got as much as possible.
T and I watched thru the Rings films. These are the Japanese versions dubbed into Dutch. Two things happened. One, I mistook the Dutch subtitles for English because I simply looked at them and had total comprehension. It wasn’t until we were 3 or 4 lines into subtitled dialogue that I realised I was reading Dutch, not my native language. Two, I actually got the entire story. WOW! Talk about an American version dumbing it down! The Japanese story is huge. HUGE. The American version is simply a Friday the 13th franchise, with no larger story. Neither one of us is into watching Rings right now, which is part of the American ‘story’. No need. We got the full, real story in 4 Japanese instalments.
Waiting today for my injections to be delivered. Naturally, it’s sunny outside. One sunny day in the entire month and I need to stay here for my delivery.
NL news: Daily infections are back up between 5000 and 6000 per day. The gov’t is catching more and more flak for being obtuse on the rules, tho honestly, I don’t think their instructions are confusing. Have read several articles on unrest in the eastern part of the country. Illegal fireworks, arson, etc. that the cops have had to break up for several nights in a row. The police here are also asking for permission to use spit guards on suspects. Too many are exposed because jerks spit on them while being arrested. I hope people who do that are held accountable for it in court. Spitting on people at any time is wrong; spitting on people during a pandemic is tantamount to manslaughter.
Have noticed very little in the news on Brexit talks. They apparently reached a ‘breakthrough’ recently. I’m guessing England is desperately trying to get something agreed to in the few short weeks before their EU divorce takes place. The hang up is, as it has ALWAYS been, fishing rights. That’s the real issue. Brits can shout about the rule of law, sovereignty, and the money ‘wasted’ in the EU system, but what they’re really ticked off about is fishing rights. That’s been the sticking point from the beginning and it will continue to be the sticking point.
*head shake* I never did understand people laying claim to parts of the ocean, or even land. You can’t take it with you. You can’t ever really ‘own’ it. This is nonsense.
Had a good, long laugh at Guilliani’s running hair dye incident. Wow, dude! Go to a doctor; no one should sweat like you. How can anyone take that man seriously? What a gremlin.
Managing to get more distance between me and my DNA relations. That’s a good thing. *sigh* I just need to accept my closest relatives are my worst enemies. I always hope for the best, and always I’m disappointed. Realised the entire incident happened because I got a new computer and forgot to block their damned emails. That’s done now; I shouldn’t be bothered by my bitch of a sister again. Nor any of my other Nazi relatives.
There is not one news related comedy panel show over here that’s not making fun of the US. Not one. Everyone is calling 45 insane, everyone is talking about the US’ crumbling democracy and rule of law. No one trusts Americans. It’s been shown the US will not support previous agreements and will, in fact, work to overthrow those agreements when it suits them. 45 has done so much damage on the world stage, I’m not sure America can ever make it back to the ‘world leader’ place they used to occupy. Especially when everyone over here views the threat of a right-wing US as only 4 years away, regardless of what happens on 20 Jan.
I guess that’s what happens when a country invites real Nazi scientists and co-conspirators to join their citizenship. The US did that, too. Never forget. That bullshit was pulled in by their own choice. And frankly, the fact that even the KKK has never been outlawed as a hate group points to a disturbing truth: that view of the world has been supported by American leaders for a long, long time. They don’t want to outlaw the KKK. Otherwise, action would have been taken by now.
Then again, the US can’t even ratify the ERA. After all these years. Not a great record on human rights.
Have reached Part 5 of Crime and Punishment. Um… Is Dostoevsky gonna make the point that his main character punished himself with his paranoia and hate, or is there actually some sort of retribution coming? Can’t tell. Enjoying it, but when you’re at page 500 and something and you’re still not sure of the point being driven home, well… I guess it was a notable literary venture at the time. It couldn’t be published these days without major re-writes. And cutting several hundred pages of on-going, nonsense dialogue with zero breaks in it. UGH! The full pages without even a paragraph break are difficult to get thru. And there’s a lot of them.
At least the workmen have moved below our level. Still noisy, but not so deafening. I’ll take it.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t still experiencing high levels of anxiety. I am. More than ever, I hope I die before things get really bad. I suppose it really doesn’t matter if I die quietly in my bed or from a tsunami, mega storm, the coronavirus, or gunshot. Death is death. I’d prefer not to have a lot of pain, but I’ve already been there and done that so I really shouldn’t fear it so much.
Happy stuff, huh?
Pushing that out of my head as much as possible. What happens, happens. I never thought I was here for the long term, anyway.
And so it goes…