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Today's WTF house is a traditional 1910 home in Louisville, Kentucky that is set up for the health enthusiast. Why, just the steps out front, alone, are cardio friendly. And, it has a natatorium (I had no idea what that was, but it turned out to be an indoor swimming pool.) It has 2bd, 2ba, & is listed for $295K.

Check this out- did you expect to see an addition like this? This is the natatorium. (I must say that this property is so overgrown.)

This pool is a 2 lane, probably regulation-size, pool to practice competitive swimming races. Oh, and would you believe this thing is heated? Look at the size of it.

Here's a rear view of the natatorium.

Looks like there's some pool equipment in the basement.

There's a dressing room and shower.

Plus a bathroom with a soaker tub. So, technically, the house has only 1 bath b/c the 2nd one is here in the natatorium.

A room above the pool.

Well, as long as we're here, let's go in the house. The living room has an oddly placed stair case, rail, and trap door.

There's an office thru the living room, but it also has a separate outside entrance.

Those 2 rooms lead to the dining room, which also leads to the kitchen.

Kitchen's not bad. There's an eat-in space, a nice backsplash, and painted cabinetry.

One of the 2 bedrooms.

And, the other bath.

There's a porch with a swing in front of the house.

Plus a small, overgrown side yard.

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Rifts

There's something melancholic to the fact of seeing a loved one drift ever closer to right-wing talking points. They love you, they support you - but they've also bought into Éric Duhaime's row about the rainbow people challenging "institutional" events like Father's and Mother's Day. All of it stems out of a handful of teachers in a single School Board in Montreal Metro opting not to use gender-defining terms on the Arts and Crafts cards they'll have kids make, closer to the end of the week.

As to why? It's because some kids grow up with just a mom. Others grow up with just a dad. Some people have two moms, now. Some kids also have two dads. Justifiably, celebrating these two non-denominational days was turning into a bit of a pickle for Elementary School teachers. They opted to cut the Gordian Knot. They'll have the kids make the cards as usual, just with no mention of Mom or Dad as entities or concepts.

All of it to include a handful of kids with different parenting situations. Where's the harm in that, you might ask me?

Ask locals who veer closer to Duhaime's talking points, and you'd think the foundations of our culture are about to crumble, that the Rainbow Agenda will undo all reified holidays and sort of push Québécois society towards some sort of permanent bacchanallia where everyone gets a holiday, we're always on holiday for something so, obviously, Society as we know it crumbles.

It's laughable, honestly. It's ridiculous - in the same order as people who think others wouldn't want to work under Social Democracies or outright Socialist regimes. You explain it to them and they backpedal point by point. You confront them to the thousands of years of privilege endured by the heteronormative model and they concede ground inch after inch.

The problem is that it hurts - especially when your vis-à-vis is your own mother.

In some ways, I understand why she's afraid. Accelerationism is a definite problem in today's society, in that people no longer want change to be staggered over generations; they want change now. They want it now, because we've given ourselves the tools needed to implement alterations to modes of thought or social models extremely quickly. We live in a world were people like Natalie Wynn can reach out to millions of people after spending forty-five minutes mugging in front of a camera, where others in the same situation would've needed a book deal and decades of ensured social relevancy to reach the same amount of impact, previously. Today, you can rock someone's foundations in less time than it takes to build them, and you can demand seemingly-sudden systemic changes after millennia of observing a single, particular model.

In others, I can't accept her fear. All I want is the right to exist as the bisexual disabled man I am, and I expect others across the sexual, physical and identitarian spectrums to benefit of that same right. I want those kids to not feel caught between a rock and a hard place while their friends get to make Mother's and Father's Day cards.

And that, well - it's led to raised tones, this morning. It's led to Walt walking my father across to a few of our arguments and Sarah trying her best to convince my mother that a right the heteronormative family model claimed in the Postwar years isn't being challenged - all of it over coffee on our shared porch.

What hurts is seeing Mom's distress, when she has no reason whatsoever to be afraid. She hasn't accused me of anything thus far, but I can tell there's some resentment there, maybe the sense that I "robbed" her of grandkids she'll never have or traditional Sunday night suppers with the single, one girlfriend. There's a sense of the comfort she's seeking, and that she's seeing broken up and rearranged into something else without her consent.

I can understand it, but I can't stop it either. I can't do much for this kind of pain.

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