#because it was supposed to be 26C

[mrslittletall]

It's too warm for October but it was even warmer in past Octobers. Wild.

[theretirementstory]

Here I am again, bringing you a slice of my life in the beautiful Champagne region. It is currently 14c but I am assured, by Météo, that we will have 26c this afternoon. Unseasonably warm but I am not complaining after having spent a lot of the sunny days of summer in a hospital bed.

The Foire aux Bulles last Sunday turned out to be a successful day for the ladies of the knitting, crochet and patchwork group. Two of my items sold which was a nice surprise. Apparently, they were talking to a lady who is interested in joining the group, she sews as well so we may manage to attract more people if we offer that facility. the more the merrier I say.

While we are onto the good news, I really must pass on the wonderful news that “The Ex Psychology Graduate” received her grade for her dissertation and only went and got herself a first! She is now awaiting one more grade to calculate her overall Masters grade. Huge congratulations are in order 🥳🥳.

“The Trainee Solicitor”, celebrated his birthday and what a wonderful birthday he had. It has continued until the weekend (well why just keep it to one day!)

“The Daddy” has not had his children this weekend, he has been visiting elderly relatives and friends as well as working too. He has “irons in the fire” to make his work life more manageable, at the moment he has a long journey to and from work (I remember those days), to be able to reduce this is so much better, mentally, physically and financially. We will have to see what happens but I wish him luck.

I do believe I have employed my new cleaner 😃, she is coming on Monday and Thursday and I am so looking forward to that. She requested a step ladder, unfortunately I don’t have one and being unable to go out shopping I still haven’t got one. Maybe my neighbour could lend me his for this week so that she can clean the windows and the shutter housing.

I am still reliant upon my friends (and neighbour) to do shopping for me. It is so hard trying to think what to have to eat, at least if I was in the shops I may see something which catches my eye. As most of my friends cook from scratch (no convenience foods for them) one friend seems to not have the faintest idea of portion sizes. She was trying to buy me a 750g shepherds pie 🙄. I have to cook my food and eat it within 15 minutes, it cannot be reheated so I doubt I could have “polished that pie off” all by myself. I have been rather nauseous with no taste so it would have been a lot of waste I reckon. I was salivating this morning as I asked another friend if she could buy me some greek yoghurt, unfortunately the supermarket in town didn’t have any 😩, however, she is going out this afternoon (with her work) if she manages to catch the supermarket before it closes she will look to see if she can get some there.

Anie delivered some hot soup, compote and some jars of another concoction, I hadn’t the heart to tell her I couldn’t eat any of it, but I did send her the information leaflet I was given. She quickly responded saying you cannot eat any of that food! It is so sad because people are only being kind but I really need to keep myself “right” as I don’t want an upset tummy or worse while my immunity is still low.

Another success was phoning the plumber and arranging an appointment for him to service my central heating boiler.

My gardener pulled up outside of my neighbours house on Monday and I was trying to catch him about trimming my hedges. Typically, I turned my back and next time I looked he had gone! I did ring him and all he said was he would ring and let me know when he can come out. Well better than nothing I suppose.

It looks as if this week has been very successful for me, I like weeks like that!

Now let’s have a look at the songs I have chosen. It seems to be a recurring theme of musicians taken before their time but such is life and as I have said before they leave us with some fantastic songs that we can listen to again and again. So my first one this week is by Phil Lynott, the song is back to 1982, “Old Town”.

The second song I have chosen is an album track featuring the distinctive voice of a Middlesbrough (UK) born “lad”. The track is “Weep No More” from the album “Straight Shooter” by Bad Company released in 1975 (I remember it like it was yesterday) If you decide to listen to the album online (or even just want to hear this track) let it play the next track “Shooting Star” as it really was a toss up between these two tracks. Just this week I found out that Paul Rodgers had suffered a massive health scare 4 years ago. Although thankfully he appears to be fully recovered and has just released a new album.

The photos this week should be titled “What a difference a day makes” (cue for another song).

Well that just about wraps up my week for this week. There will be more from me next week!

Bon dimanche!

[artsychaosbean]

I'm so tired of this (Rant)

My mom is sensitive to EVERYTHING unless shes the one doing it. > I Open the windows for air BAD bc its too cold > Mom opens the windows on the same day GOOD even though its colder than before when I tried to > Mom puts on perfume in the bedroom GOOD (2 - 3 squirts of a strong perfume) > I Put on perfume in the bedroom BAD (1 squirt of a medium perfume) > I put perfume on in the bathroom with the bath fan on or window open so the smell doesnt linger STILL BAD because mom will then decide to walk right into the room to put on makeup despite my warning about the perfume. Then rages out about it. > Mom or my siblings puts nailpolish on in the house, upstairs in the living area and uses nail polish remover GOOD > I put on nail polish and use natural oils to remove nail polish downstairs with the door closed to upstairs and the door to outside open to prevent smells from lingering in the house BAD its still too strong i have to go do my nails in the pouring rain or snow instead. > Mom brings flowers into the house into a tightly closed room with poor ventilation, flowers im allergic to, every year despite knowing it effects my asthma GOOD > I bring flowers into the house after double checking she has no allergy to them and keep them in an open room that is well ventilated BAD What the heck does she want from me?! Everytime I do something SHE does its wrong Everytime I do something SHE tells me to do its not enough and I have to go to extreme lengths like do my nails in the snow in winter or put perfume on out in the snow or she goes into a screaming match with me. But she has no breathing problems or headaches when SHE does it, When my brothers do it, when GUESTS do it. (Yes we've had guests put perfume on right in our house) But when I do it and ventilate the house well, suddenly she can't breathe yet can breathe enough to stomp around the house slam doors and scream.

I'm tired of the heat being cranked up in the fall and spring as though its winter and in the summer the AC being turned off and windows opened wide when its 28C out. I get heat stroke at anything above 21C and have lung problems with it my lungs have to work harder because I can't breathe. I always have since I was a toddler. My body runs hotter im supposed to be careful. But im made to suffer the heat every single year my whole life and when I open the window suddenly its "Im freezing im going to get hypothermia" at 20 - 21C When I was a kid she would go out in -15C weather just fine and enjoy walks in cooler weather. I don't know what has happened to her. I've gone to a seperate room before on cooler days (16 -18C) and opened a window, closed the door just so I could cool down and enjoy the air because the other rooms would have heaters on in them and be 26C - 28C and I would be struggling in them. Heres another kicker: > I have asthma attack > Mom gets mad and says "WELL WE ALL HAVE ASTHMA" - despite the fact theirs doesn't need an inhaler according to the doctor it is a "very minor case". I have always needed one but mom never would get me one when I was covered by medical for minors and its too expensive to get as an adult now. I could never ever afford it. Even if I could she still would stop me or throw it out because "I don't want you reliant on medicine because then your lungs wont work on their own. DO YOU WANT TO BE ON A BREATHING MACHINE" To note im in constant pain in my lungs every single day of my life, my whole life. Im in my 20s now. I have found natural ways to manage it so its not as bad such a caffeine and try to avoid as much as I can that irritates it. But im living my life on a thin rope. > I have depression and bring it up > Mom says "We all have depression, You're not special. WHAT ABOUT YOUR SIBLINGS?" >I bring up my anxiety > Mom says "Well what about my anxiety? I have it too! or your siblings. Just learn to live with it, just force yourself through it. You don't Try hard enough. > I bring up my ptsd and ask her not to do something that triggers it from numerous cases of s*xual and physical abuse / assault and 2 cases of almost being r*ped. > Mom says "WELL WE ALL HAVE PTSD get over it"

Shes my ONLY parent. She treats my siblings so much different than me and I will never understand why. Is it because im the youngest? or is it because im the one with physical and neurological disabilities? > Mom also says "I never need to worry about you. Look at your poor siblings they need me more. I gave you enough attention as a child" > The "Attention" mom gave me being fighting a court case to protect me from my abusive almost r*pist father. Thats it, my siblings got all the hugs and care, favourite foods made for them, presents and birthday parties as kids.

[thewindowsill]

Pond success and pond failure

So I always wanted some flame tetras and they are supposed to be able to deal with 16C so sounded good and they were the first fish I bought. They are not that common in shops anymore but I don’t know why because they were so darn cute. I bought 10 of them and let them acclimatize in my pond for awhile before putting them in. Off they went, gone. Hello? I didn’t see them and I was a little bummed. I got some flake on the second day because I wanted to know if they were alive. Nothing happened. Third day and I got some freeze dried tubifex worms and there was something there, yes, at least one of them were alive for sure. I waited a day or so before I fed again as there should be plenty of food in the pond for them. I did fed a little today and I love it, they are like piranhas and impossible to count but I think they are all there. There’s been some cold days and they’ve done well. (Last few days have been cold so I got the heater in just in case)

With the success of the flame tetras I wanted some guppies, many people have guppies in tubs over the summer and they are colorful and often at the surface (unlike the flame tetras). I did try to find some hobbyist with some fish but... one person had guppies and it was a pure strain or whatever and sounded little prices so despite MANY saying don’t go to like a chain store I went to a chain store (that were kind of expensive) and I got six guppies. Acclimatizing and into the pond they went. They looked great, love it! 

But they were so skiddish and sluggish, maybe need some time? One dead following morning, based on all the complains on guppies it was expected. I check the water, okay, check the temp, okay... and then there were only one left and I was sad because I’m a horrible person that killed fish. I had set up a fish tank in case something went wrong and I bought the poor little guppy inside and she was horrible, she looked half dead, pale, not eating, barely swimming and it was horrible, I was scared to look in the tank expecting her to be dead.

But she made a full recovery! She’s got a lovely dark color and plenty of shine. Refuses to eat flakes but tubifex worms is yummy and even better, mosquito larvae! I have named her Precious.

So what happened? Maybe a combo of things but I think that maybe the fluctuation in temps was the big deal. The stress from moving and then straight into the pond that jumped from 18C at night to 26C in the day. I know of others that have guppies outside over the summer, right now we have some cold days and people have their guppies outside without heater, “Yeah, they go a little sluggish but are fine when they sun comes out”.

Someone said it was due to the fact that I didn’t have an air stone but many people don’t have air stones and my tetras don’t have air. And when I moved Precious inside, I didn’t have a filter for a few days and she perked up regardless. The only thing I can think of is steady temperature indoor, 22C no heater.

I loved the look of guppies but I won’t gamble with anymore of them. I would like to have a fish that is colorful and on the surface, maybe platies will do better? (Looked around and there’s none available... maybe next year?)

[positively-patroclus]

Weird Things That Happened and I Was Taught in American High School and Middle School

Tw: vomit mentions, MAP mentions, School Shooting mentions, tw blood, and tw sex

-Sex Ed. 

Ours was watching three ladies give birth. There was blood and it was gross. No, I didn't learn anything about my body, and we learned nothing about sexual health. Just babies being born. 

-Sex Ed. A different year. The importance of chastity and not having premarital sex. Also asecuals don’t exist. (I exist textbook)

-Weight: 130+ is bad. Don’t get over that. If you do you are fat and ugly. Also watch this video where they throw up :) you totally won’t throw up too

-Peeing is bad. You don’t need to pee for six hours. Changing a pad is impossible to actually do. You can handle not changing it for almost six hours

-If one person misbehaves, you must all get punished so they feel bad

-Is it really a math class without someone causing the ADHD queer kid to have a panic attack because the homophobic girls are telling him to k*ll himself and he gets in trouble?

-You can only miss a class ten times a semester. Oh you missed 11? Well now you have to retake that class.

-Oh you are being bullied and defended yourself? Bad Student

-Oh the three kids who died in a car wreck this year? After that we had to watch a video of people literally dying to try to scare us. There was so much blood

-There were two school sh**ting threats when i was in eight grade. They didn’t tell us till the day it was supposed to happen and didn’t let anyone go home. Same with the second time. I had a panic attack both times and my standpartner had to take me to the bathroom both times so i could actually calm down. 

-Food? You have fifteen minutes to eat before we start kicking you out of the lunch room

-Pledge your allegiance to the flag everyday 

-my hours for in person school are 7am-3pm. When i take drivers ed it will be 7am-5pm so longer than an average american workday before the homework

-5+ hours of homework a night

-walking to school in -15F (-26C) or colder weather and that being normal 

-the fact that a lot of people i know refuse to miss days even if they are super sick on testing days. In 2019 i went to school with a fever, pneumonia, and bronchitis, because missing my test was a death sentence. 

-PE teachers being pedos. I was 13 and had the other teacher (a pedo) stare at my boobs as i ran

-If you don’t run the mile in less than 12 minutes, you have to redo it because it wasn’t good enough. 

-I ran the mile with pneumonia one year and in an ankle brace a different year 

-history class only being about America (at least the required history. You can take the world history but you don’t need to to graduate) where slavery is literlly glorifed and christoper columbus is hailed as a hero. And War Propaganda 

-having to pay to take drivers ed. Art classes, cooking classes, home ecc, etc.

-i took a multicultural studies and a sociology class this year, i found out last night they don’t count for my credits so i have to take two extra classes next year.

[ultramaga]

Now 14.2°C; it was 26C two days ago. I cut off my beard, ironically because I was too damn hot, and the lack of face fuzz lays me open to pain from nerve damage when the cold air hits.

Heavily fatigued, and I have things i can't avoid. Yet sleep has been difficult - there has been high winds slamming around, and the humidity is unpleasant.

It's days like these that I really understand the fall into addiction; the temptation to drink or take drugs or anything, just to get sleep.

I'm at the age of my father, when he had cancer. The tumour I had as a teen was of a different type, but I always wonder if there's a connection.

Certainly there were carcinogenic chemicals in our environment, like broken asbestos, that make me shudder to think about.

A close family member is getting a tumour removed; it is supposed to be day surgery, no big deal.

I just hope that is true.

[purplesurveys]

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surveys by lets-make-surveys 1 - What did you do to celebrate your last birthday? Did you get any decent gifts? Guh I honestly barely want to recognize my birthday this year because 2020 has been a huge waste of my time...but fine, I guess I’m 22. It had been during the peak of the quarantine/pandemic, so we had no choice but to stay home. I just played the Switch all morning, then I think I watched my dad play video games, and then Angela and Hans sent over a box of sushi to our place. Real chill day.

2 - What was the last “random act of kindness” you experienced? It was my first day at the office today and I had to go up and down the stairs several times to bring packages to delivery riders, since I had to send those out to certain people. A member of the maintenance staff in the area was super nice and offered to carry some of the boxes for me, since he saw how much I was struggling with the boxes.

3 - Have you ever “paid it forward” by putting money behind the counter somewhere so the next person can get a free coffee or similar? Not yet. I’d love to be able to do that soon.

4 - What caused the last injury that made you bleed? Was it a serious injury? I was trying to open a bottle of soju last night but the cap just would not budge. Next thing I knew my finger was already bleeding. Never got to drink my soju :(

5 - Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? Are you close to that person at all? One of the delivery riders who took my package earlier. Bless his soul, he was very new to the delivering thing and I think I was his first-ever customer, and he kept asking for my help. I did my best for a while but eventually I had to tell him I genuinely did not know how to answer some of his questions as I wasn’t a driver myself.

6 - What was the last item you received in the mail? Something I had ordered online. It was the gift I’m planning to give my grandma for Christmas.

7 - When was the last time you received flowers? What kind were they? A year ago, I think. It was a single stem of a rose. We were saving up last year hahaha so I had gotten her a single stem as well.

8 - Are you a fan of salted caramel? What about other “odd” combinations like sea salt and chocolate or chilli and chocolate? Ooh, I didn’t know salted caramel was considered odd; it’s a pretty common flavor here and has even gotten more popular in the last few years. I like it as a flavor in desserts, like cupcakes with salted caramel frosting. When it comes to food, I’m generally open-minded and will try any combination that exists at least once; that said, chili and chocolate sound especially intriguing haha. I’ve only ever tried chili ice cream, which was delicious.

9 - Do you enjoy watching bloopers or outtakes from TV shows? If so, which series do you think has the funniest ones? Yes. Bloopers in general are great but it’s best when they come from shows that have a reputation for being more drama-heavy and serious - that said, Breaking Bad bloopers are the fucking best. ‘Bloopers’ from animated movies are hilarious too; they were always made so well too that as a kid, I legit thought the characters were actual actors as it never crossed my mind that animators would take the extra effort and time to make bloopers out of fictional characters and that they had to be real actors in some way lol.

10 - What’s your favourite dessert food? OMG macarons for the win. I’ve been craving them so much. Cheesecake is great too, and also cupcakes.

11 - Do you have any really dangerous wild animals where you live? Have you ever encountered any of them? Nope only stray dogs and cats, and probably some chickens somewhere.

12 - Have you ever dreamed of owning your own shop? What kind of thing would you like to sell? I’ve never dreamed of this; it’s never been a goal of mine and running a business doesn’t sound like my kind of thing.

13 - Are you a twin? If not, would you ever want to be a twin? If you are a twin, do you ever wish you weren’t? No. I’ve never really found myself wishing for it, either.

14 - Do you prefer wearing your hair straight or curly? Maybe just a little wavy. Definitely not in the extreme of either side of the spectrum.

15 - Would you ever want to go and visit the moon? If I had the chance and everything was paid for and stuff, hell yeah. It’d be cool to get to cross out one of my childhood bucket list items.

16 - What was the last hot drink you had? What about cold drink? Or alcoholic drink? My last hot drink was...probably the coffee I asked my mom to make last Friday, but I did wait it out until it was considerably cooler as I didn’t want to drink it hot. My last cold drink is the iced caramel macchiato I ordered tonight and still have with me at the moment. Then for alcoholic drink, I had soju mixed with Yakult about two weeks ago.

17 - Does anything on your body hurt or ache right now? My lower back, unsurprisingly. I also cut my right middle finger trying to open a soju bottle last week, andddd I gained a blister on my right foot today because of the shoes I picked to wear for work.

18 - When was the last time you struggled to get to sleep? Was there was a specific reason for that? I can’t remember exactly when, but it happened within the last week or the last two weeks. Sometimes I just drink too much coffee during the day that it affects how sleepy I’d ultimately feel at night.

19 - What three countries would you most like to visit? Morocco, India, and Thailand.

20 - Who’s your closest friend from another country? How did you come to meet this person? I don’t really have one anymore...I’ve grown apart from my internet friends from different countries a long time ago, and I also don’t tend to keep up friendships with my friends who’ve since migrated from the Philippines to another country. I suppose the one I’m on best terms with is Angel who migrated to Toronto around a decade ago; but I use ‘best’ very loosely as the most we do is comment on one another’s posts whenever we reach like a life accomplishment, like when we graduated college.

21 - When was the last time you had a cold? With everything going on in the news, did you worry that it was COVID? It’s been a while. I can’t remember; it was definitely pre-Covid.

22 - As of today (10th December, 2020) the COVID vaccine is being rolled out in the UK. Are you going to have it once it’s available to you (if it ever is)? A part of me is a little concerned because I know vaccines take years and sometimes even decades to be fully developed, but that doesn’t mean I don’t trust doctors and science. I very much do, of course. It’s just that I’d personally prefer to wait it out first to see if it’ll have any negative effects once rolled out on a massive scale.

23 - What are your favourite websites to browse when you’re bored? Wikipedia black holes are the way to go.

24 - Do you think people should have to pass a test in order to own pets? A local animal welfare NGO already does that; Nina had to go through several tests before she was allowed to adopt Arlee. There was a verbal interview, a written form she had to fill out, and a representative from the organization even visited our house to see if it was a suitable environment for Arlee; I’m sure there was a few more steps she was required to undergo. I certainly think it’s a good and responsible process. 

25 - When was the last time you fell asleep/had a nap during the day? Is this something that happens often? It’s been monthssssssssss. I don’t really take naps during the day anymore.

26 - Do you suffer/have you ever suffered with bad acne? What kind of things did you do to try and improve it? I’ve never had issues with acne and was always rather fortunate when it comes to my skin. I’ll have a pimple or two show up once or twice a year, but they go away within a week or so. Since I don’t want to jinx it, I just wash my face with water and I’ve never experimented with any skincare products ever.

27 - When you think about it, do you think it’s odd that we stop drinking human milk at a young age, but we happily drink milk from other species instead? Not really.

28 - How’s the weather where you are? Is this a good or a bad thing for you? These days it’s humid and hot during the day (as always), but now that it’s Christmas season the weather tends to plunge to like 24-26C during nighttime. I’d say the night part is good for me as I prefer being cold than hot, so I’m glad we’ll be having this weather until March at most.

29 - When was the last time you ate a pizza? What toppings did you get? Tuesday. Relatives came over then and my cousin got us pizzas. I don’t remember what toppings he got but both pizzas had stuffed crust in it.

30 - How often do you wear make-up? What kind of make-up do you wear? Wow, almost never. Gab used to put makeup on me but now that she’s gone, I don’t really see myself wearing makeup for the meantime as I definitely wouldn’t apply them onto myself. 

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1 - If you have caffeine late in the day, does it cause you to struggle with your sleep? Eh, sometimes. Sometimes it’ll do what it’s supposed to and make me stay up for a while, but other times it doesn’t work and I’ll end up getting sleepy the same time I usually start feeling so.

2 - When you struggle to sleep, what do you do instead? Watching videos has eternally worked for me.

3 - Who was the last person you spoke to for the first time? How did you come to speak to this person? Hmm I met my co-workers Ysa and Bea for the first time today, if it counts. I’ve only ever talked to them through Viber since we’re on a WFH set-up, but we had to go to the office today to fix up some boxes that we needed to get delivered. But the last person that I really hadn’t met nor spoken to before was Jhomar, the company messenger who takes care of pickups for the day. 

4 - If you have a pet, have they ever embarrassed you in public or in front of friends or family members? What happened? Kimi is typically unfriendly towards strangers, so as cute and cuddly as he looks he would probably bite your finger off. I’ve had to explain that to guests who’ve felt puzzled about his demeanor. He’s my little baby though and I wouldn’t say he’s embarrassed me because of it. Cooper on the other hand is hyper-friendly to the point that he looks aggressive and it has scared some people away; in reality, he’s always SO pumped to meet anyone and everyone and can never contain his excitement haha. He’s literally the nicest dog.

5 - Do you leave the house every single day? I never leave the house, except if it’s to withdraw cash or go to the Starbucks drive through to pick up a coffee.

6 - Would you rather spend the day at the beach, or a day in the snow in the mountains? I would normally pick beach, but I think the mountains would be best for me at the moment.

7 - Do you prefer tops that are plain, or ones with patterns/logos/slogans? Plain.

8 - Are there any TV shows from your childhood that you still watch today? I’ll watch Spongebob every now and then. When I’m bored and have enough time on my hands I’ll sometimes watch other shows from my childhood just for that nostalgia wave, like Barney or Hannah Montana.

9 - How many texts would you say you send on an average day? Used to be hundreds, but now it’s probably like...5, on average. Sometimes I’ll need to text media for work and that’ll come up to around 15-20 texts but that happens only occasionally, like once every two weeks.

10 - Do you enjoy buying gifts for other people, or do you never know what to buy them? I never know what to buy for people. I like buying gifts for a significant other, though. I tend to spoil one to no end.

11 - Girls - if you get periods, do you suffer from period pain or any other horrible symptoms? I get the hormonal symptoms, but the physical symptoms are almost never there. My stomach will usually contract in a way that tells me it’s coming soon, but it never really aches. Most of the time, I just cry and mope a lot and that’s how I know it’s on its way, ha.

12 - The last time you were in a car, where you were travelling to? Were you the driver or a passenger? I was headed back home. but I came from the office. I was the driver as always.

13 - Who were you with the last time you went out for a meal? I took myself out on a date.

14 - What book do you wish they’d make into a film or TV series? The Septimus fucking Heap series, please. They’ve been trying to get it made into a movie series for years but as far as I know the talks have always fallen through.

15 - The age old question - do you prefer coke or pepsi? That’s a big ‘or’ for me. I don’t drink soda.

16 - What’s the last thing you watched on TV? Is this a programme you watch regularly? Bea took over the office TV earlier and she had it set to a BTS + Taylor Swift music video playlist so that we had background music while working. No, neither are my artists of choice, really.

17 - Do you have a favourite documentary subject (eg. nature, celebrities, history, crime)? Pro wrestling (a seriously underrated documentary subject) and crime. Documentaries on anthropological issues or discoveries are great as well. I do love history, but I prefer to absorb it in text/museum form.

18 - Do you prefer sweet or savoury snacks? What snack would you say is your overall favourite? Savoryyy. I get tired of sweet snacks pretty quickly. My current favorites to munch on are any salted egg flavored chips.

19 - Does having to wear a mask stop you from doing anything, just because you dislike them or find them uncomfortable? It can be harder to breathe and I get exhausted a lot faster with a mask on, but I keep it on because I would want to keep other people safe and because it’s so easy to keep a damn mask on.

20 - Do you prefer zip-up or overheard hoodies? Either is fine.

21 - If you have a yard or garden, how much time do you spend out there? I prefer the rooftop, and if I do go there I usually stay for a few hours during the evening just to have some time to myself. Being in a house with four adults can get pretty overwhelming and taxing sometimes.

22 - When was the last time someone bought you flowers? What was the occasion? I think it was for Valentine’s Day last year. If not, it was for the anniversary which was a week after Valentine’s Day.

23 - How often do you get takeaway? What’s your favourite thing to order? I don’t really do takeout. I usually dine-in or have food delivered to my place.

24 - Do you own a lot of clothing items in your favourite colour? What is your favourite colour, anyway? I don’t have a lot of clothes in pink. It’s not my best color, but I like it in everything else hahaha.

25 - When was the last time you stayed overnight away from home? Was this with friends, family or in a hotel somewhere? What was the occasion? Idk probably a sleepover at Gab’s place early this year.

26 - Would you ever be interested in seeing a live magic show? Sure. Magic shows are already a staple at kids’ birthday parties here, and I’ve always enjoyed them especially since magicians are quite the comedians too.

27 - What’s your favourite period to learn about in history? What got you interested in this particular era? I don’t have a favorite period per se but I’ve always had an affinity for the royalty. I like reading all about them, no matter what period they reigned or what house/country they’re from. Historians have kept impressive and super detailed accounts or records for most of them, so reading about their lives has also allowed me to learn more about the culture they lived through.

28 - Do you still use or carry cash, or do you pay for everything via card? I heavily rely on cash and I actually realized how behind I am just today, when Bea ordered lunch for the office. I paid her with cash and she looked at me all puzzled and was like, “Can you do bank transfer instead?” another big girl stuff I had to learn lol. Everyone in college used cash pls forgive me

29 - Are there any TV shows that remind you of your grandparents for some reason? Not really.

30 - Have you ever had to wear a tie for school or work? If not, do you know how to tie a tie without looking it up? I had a necktie as part of my uniform in my old school. I never knew how to tie it and always asked someone else to do it for me whenever it came loose.

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Dumb Incomplete WIP #1 “5+1 Soft Spaceboys Taking Care Of Each Other”

Soft Incomplete 5+1 Finnpoe. Basically, Poe is very fond of his bf and likes to take care of him. Soft comfort ensues. (Written because I desperately needed someone to take care of Finn...)

Poe Dameron has a problem. He has a very large, boyfriend sized problem. On his own, Finn isn't a problem, in fact he's the exact opposite. He lights up every fucking room he walks in to, and he's sweet and kind, always checking on Poe. 

Poe loves him. He hasn't said it yet, but he does. He loves Finn with everything he's got. That's where the problem comes in. 

The instant that Finn's face falls, Poe wants to wrap him in blankets and hold him forever. If Finn so much as frowns, if there's slightest decline of his lips, he wants to pull him in and kiss him until that beautiful smile returns. But he can't always do this. There's work to be done, and meetings to attend, and he can't just drop everything to take care of his boyfriend. 

Thus, the problem.

*bigass time skip because I struggle at writing*

It's been thirty four hours since the fight with Finn. They got into it late at night, and the yelling came to a roaring climax when Finn simply walked out, slamming the door behind him. 

Poe's chest aches without him. Last night he laid in his bed and waited for Finn to come back. Usually after a fight Finn would show up at his door, crawl into bed, and they would talk things out. But not this time. Poe had stayed up all night clutching desperately at the little hope he had. Now, he walks groggily through his day. There are things that need to be done, and he really needs Finn at his side. He can't do this alone. 

"General Dameron?" Connix appears in the doorway of his office, papers piled high in her arms.

Poe sighs and runs his hand over his face. "What is it this time?"

"Trade negotiations from the Rafa system, mission reports from Jess- uh, Commander Pava, and complaints from the… one of the trading posts." She sits the papers down on his desk and turns to leave. 

"Connix wait-" he calls out after her. 

She turns back around, "yes general?"

"First of all, I've asked you to quit calling me general, Kaydel. Makes me feel old," he fakes a shudder. Connix rolls her eyes at him and shifts to lean on the doorframe. "And second, where's Finn? He usually brings me these reports."

"He called in sick this morning," she answers. "He didn't sound too good."

Finn never takes a day off. Ever. In fact, he usually works himself until Poe forces him to take a day off, or at least get some sleep. Poe decides to go with his gut instinct. "I'm leaving you in charge until further notice." He pushes up from his desk and heads out the door. 

Connix looks shocked as Poe brushes past her, and she follows him down the hallway. "Gener-" he sends her a glare and she pauses, "what are you doing?"

"I'm going to take care of my boyfriend, Acting General Connix." He replies. 

"What am I supposed to do? I've never done this before." 

"Just read over the reports and write a summary, it's simple, really."

She groans in frustration, "but I-"

Poe stops in his tracks, and Connix nearly runs right into him. He turns around and looks her in the eyes. "Kaydel, you're competent. If I thought you weren't up for this I would have picked someone else, but I didn't. I picked you," he pokes her shoulder. "I believe in you, okay? Now let me go, my boyfriend is wasting away as we speak."

She rolls her eyes, then smiles. "Thank you Gen-"

"Kaydel, we've talked about this," he warns. 

"Thank you, Poe." 

"Attagirl," he grins and claps her on the shoulder before taking off. 

When faced with the door to Finn's room- the one he uses solely to store his things in- Poe gulps. He knocks softly, "Finn?" There's no answer from the other side, and he begins to open the door. 

"Finn, buddy," he warns. "I'm coming in."

Poe is slapped in the face by the heat of the room. Finn must have the heat on at least 26C, yet he's still buried under a mountain of blankets. Poe walks over to the side of the bed, resisting the urge to press his lips to Finn's forehead to gauge his temperature, instead placing a hand on his shoulder. He shakes him gently, "hey, wake up."

After a moment, Finn blearily squints up at him. "Poe?" His voice is hoarse and raspy. 

Poe rests the back of his hand on Finn's forehead. "You're burning up," he murmurs, pulling the blankets back. "What's wrong."

Finn gives him this half assed look of I'm dying and you have the audacity to ask me what's wrong? before being thrown into a coughing fit. Immediately, Poe reaches down and helps him to sit up. Finn winces at the effort it takes. 

"Muscle aches," Poe asks, and he nods in reply. "Chills and a headache?" He nods again. "Alright," he whispers, and peels away several layers of blankets until only one is left. 

Finn whines and swats at him. "Go away," he grumbles, "I'm still mad at you."

"I know," he replies, but continues to move around Finn's bed, making sure he's comfortable.

"This isn't earning you any brownie points, if that's what you're going for."

Poe steps back, "I'm not doing this to get back in your good graces Finn. I'm doing it because I don't want you to sit in here and waste away because you're too damn stubborn to take care of yourself."

"Oh," Finn whispers. "Well I'm still-"

"You're still mad at me, I get it," Poe cuts him off. "But you don't plan on dumping me, do you?"

"What-" confusion winds its way onto Finn's face. "No, of course not."

"Alright then." He leans in and fixes Finn's pillows, "just let me take care of you, and when you're better we can go back to not speaking until you're ready to talk, okay?"

Finn looks up at him, and Poe can see the tiny flash of love and adoration in Finn's eyes. It makes his heart melt. "Stay here," he tells him. "I'll be back in a minute."

* * * * *

Poe balances a tray and some medicine in his hands, closing the door with his hip. "I brought soup, the kind my mom made when I was sick." He sits the tray in Finn's lap and kisses his forehead on instinct, earning a glare from his boyfriend. "Right, still mad, sorry. Won't happen again."

*very smol time skip*

Finn's resolve crumbles late that night. Poe has just finished an old issue of Hot Ships Holomag and is reaching for another when he sees Finn staring at him. His eyes are glassy but soft, looking at him with a quiet sort of intensity that leaves Poe feeling vulnerable down to his very core. 

"Everything alright," Poe asks. 

Finn continues to look at him for a moment, blinking in the soft lamplight. "Come sit with me," he manages, his voice rough.

Poe can't say no to that. He goes to sit on the edge of the bed, but Finn tugs at his arm and scoots forward, motioning weakly to the space behind him. Poe takes the hint and- not without a great effort- slides into bed behind him. They're only half laying down, half sitting on account of Finn's cough, but it's warm and familiar. Poe wraps his arms around his boyfriend's middle in a loose, noncommittal way. 

Finn sighs and sinks back into him, "I'm not mad anymore," he muses, pausing even though it seems there is more he wants to say. Poe uses this moment to press his nose into the space behind Finn's ear. "I wasn't all that mad if the first place, I just-" he sighs, turning his head ever so slightly towards Poe, "I worry." 

He presses his lips gently to Finn's temple and holds him a little tighter. "You don't have to worry about me," he tells him. "I'll always come back to you, I promise."

"I know, it's just-"

Finn coughs violently, his whole body shaking. When it's over, Poe shushes him. "We'll talk more when you're better," he whispers. They settle in. covering themselves with one thin blanket. Poe takes the extra pillow and shoves it behind his aching back.

"You've had your vacs, right," Finn asks weakly.

Poe makes an amused little huff, "yeah baby, I have. You already asked me that, remember?" He can feel Finn tense up, and he rubs soothing patterns into his side. "It's alright, I think it's cute,"

Finn must be too worn out to protest because he says nothing in response. He simply closes his eyes and lets his loll to the side, resting on Poe's chest. Within minutes he's asleep.

* * * * *

Poe wakes up to no blanket and no Finn. He bolts upright, only to find his boyfriend (and the blanket) laying on the floor at the foot of the bed. Finn stares innocently up at him. "Hi."

Poe sighs, dragging a hand over his face. "Care to explain?"

[humanauction]

The Weather Report #8

weather report 8 (30.10-06.11)

this week Baghdad is going to be rain all week. stay inside. not really! it’s going to be bright sunshine and 26C (77F) to 32C (90F). humidity is up to 31% in some places, which is positively tropical by desert standards. also if you’re popping into Baghdad and you fancy a meet-up why not head on over to GDG Baghdad! you’d be most welcome, you can check them out here. with over 1000 members and an event coming up soon, you’d be *crazy* not to drop on in on your way past!

GDG - in association with Human Auction. not really.

ASIA - AFGHANISTAN: so, Afghanistan. been a while. probably wondering why, it isn’t like the place isn’t full of hilarious news. anyway, you know Kabul? the place we bombed back to the paleolithic era over who got to keep the heroin? (if not, spoiler: we did). anyway, out of all the things that the Glorious West thought Kabul might need - and there are a few - someone, somewhere, who has never met a person who even does their own shopping, let alone anything remotely war-torn thought “why not rip-off a Mexican idea”? only we didn’t send a load of Afghanistan’s best artists - there must be *someone* left, surely? - to paint the houses. we sent a guy probably called Abdul (and before anyone gets too excited, it’s the most common name. i was surprised, i thought it would be one of various spellings for مُحَمَّد‎). anyway, Adbul or whatever isn’t very good at painting, and he has shitty paints, so instead of looking like this, which is awesome, it looks like this. everyone agreed though that it was a nice gesture for those “poor Afghan people”. and then they moved to ban whatsapp. now it’s back to “those fucking Afghans” and business as usual. Abdul’s progress is for now, unknown. mainly because we don’t care anymore.

the locals weren’t convinced, but that didn’t stop Abdul

EUROPE - BRITAIN: you know when Theresa May was facing near-certain political assassination in weather report #4? well they obviously couldn’t even organise a bumming in a barracks over at tory HQ and now Darth Smarm has shown her true Sith form. she’s busy lining-up and shooting them in their political skulls. first, she did over the Whip. the Whip! that takes some manoeuvring. Chris Pincher was replaced by Gavin “Babyface Assassin” Williamson. next day Darth Smarm took out the Defence Secretary. Sir Michael vehemently denies it, and you all know what that means... OH-HO! anyway, in particular it was over a potential knee brushing, which is not ok, but the tories are known for pig-fucking, suspenders, amyl-nitrate and wearing young boys like gloves, so… anyway, guess who got his job? it’s almost like some assassin planned it. next, Damian Green, Deputy no less - who took one to the brain over extreme porn on his commons computer. which if it were true would be sloppy at best. it isn’t though, but that won’t matter by the time anyone finds out. next up: Dan Poulter (bang) Daniel Kawczynski (bang) and Peter Crabb (and bang) - all dead in the water. the chief whip is now Julian Smith (Williamson’s deputy, of course) and *his* job has gone to Esther McVey, who lost her seat in 2015 and happened to be looking for a job anyway. which like everything else since the coughing debacle is bloody handy.

Reservoir Tories? Tory Dogs?

MIDDLE EAST - SAUDI ARABIA: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman definitely didn’t (he totally did) kill Prince Mansour bin Muqrin - coincidentally son of former Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz - and several officials in a move obviously completely removed from the arrests several hours later of 11 Princes, four ministers and “dozens” (details are hazy) of ex-ministers, including billionaire businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal this past week. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is calling it “anti-corruption” measures as he, at the head of his own investigation, removes what look suspiciously like barriers between him and complete autocratic control of the oil-rich nation, in an unprecedented definitely not consolidatory power-play. he also wants to generate funds for a sovereign wealth fund by partially privatising the state oil company, Saudi Aramco. who the buyers might be is still unclear, but chances are their name is going to be preceded by the title *Crown Prince*. the Donald is impressed though, stuck in an endless game of Jai Alai between BECAUSE TERROR and BECAUSE GUNMAN himself, it’s reassuring to see some dictators can still get the job done.

Saudi Arabia (above left) - looks nothing like ISIS (above right). unless you’re a Psychopath or a Terrorist.

POOR PEOPLE - EVERYWHERE: 350 million people don’t exist. well, not officially. according to United Nations education agency, Unesco, the poorest people everywhere are beyond the reaches of any census. and they’re all over the place. they include people who come from: remote villages, unregistered births, illegal migrants, sprawling slums, shifting & excluded populations, nomads, unwanted refugees, the homeless… literally the depths of human depravity and greed now leave way too many people outside any authority or official society. so who is responsible for people who don't even appear in national figures? and if no one is responsible for *them*, then whom are these people responsible for? Last month,UN agency, Unicef, reported “nearly zero progress" in the past decade on improving access to school in the poorest countries. and recently released Unesco figures peg the number (to the nearest million) of 264. million. children. without any access to primary or secondary school education. if you can’t go to school, is it your fault you are ignorant? mostly this kind of thing is ignored because, well, it isn’t a lot of fun. also, that’s how you control populations, especially if they have a load of cool stuff we like. rare earth minerals, diamonds, gold, drugs, that kind of thing. so, sorry kids, but we want instant access to the internet so you’re going to have to make do. but don’t go breaking laws you didn’t even know about - then you’ll exist. for as long as someone deems to punish you, then you’ll be back to not existing.

don’t like something? ignore it!

ASIA - PAKISTAN: Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif’s corruption trial was adjourned. he and his family stand accused of a range of colourful white-collar crimes relating to a string of London-based properties they aren’t officially supposed to have. They all deny any wrongdoing (there’s something the guilty never say). the charges are politically motivated, they say. despite these baseless allegations, Sharif did resigned as prime minister in July. well kind of - the Supreme Court disqualified him over undeclared income. so he didn’t really have a choice. if we are to believe Mr Sharif, ALL these MANY allegations are politically motivated. all of this comes from the 2016 panama papers, which showed 3 of Sharif’s children owned assets and offshore companies “omitted” from the family wealth statement. funds were transferred to these companies and used to buy property in Mayfair and along Park Lane - because everyone knows they’re the two most valuable Monopoly squares. these Panama Paper documents seemed to point to his daughter’ Maryam, being the owner/beneficiary. so to prove her honesty and good character she produced a document fingering her brother  but that turned out to be a fake. how did the authorities know? well, the font they used was calibri, and was released in 2007, whereas the corroborating document was dated 2006. Whoops! but even so, the Sharif’s are definitely telling the truth. odds-on they get away with it too.

Pakistan - where #1 is #1. what are you #1 at?

have a sunny week,

HA

@humanauction​

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2017-3(MAR)-45 onwards-2017-Friday onwards--several days of blog entries-

2017-3(MAR)-45 onwards-2017-Friday onwards--several days of blog entries.

Internet connectivity and speed has been so slow as to be non-existent. Even just getting something simple like radar image weather report literally takes awhile to scroll down the screen.

The official weather departmeht has been once again (as always and constant) over-ambitious in sayin that here's goimg to be rain here. They say thay're there's to be a 70% chance of rain. Hah! - We'll see what happens.....an 99.9% of teh time they're WRONG. There is no rain. And when there is rain, it's so light that it just pushes the dust on the ground around a bit then dries up again.

Friday night was the usual thing......aboriginals (especially ones who do not live there) wandering in and out of the aboriginal household and walking all along the streets as if the streets were footpaths.

Over the back somewhere is a nearby place that is also aboriginal and you can tell by the level of noise made. Think of manic children doped up on petrol (or whatever) and screaming out and yelling nonsensical and you get the idea. That goes on until darkness, and then they move-off onto the streets and other areas and it goes on and on.

It was later the turn of the local shops area to then have all that happen all about it, as they congregated all about there using the roads as footpaths.

But later that night in darkness, all become somewhat calm. I guess unmarked Police patrols are maybe making themselves more known about. But that's purely a guess.

Illgeal unlicensed motobikes again are a curse on the roads. On Saturday, I spotted one that has been tearing along the roads and riding all about. It came through a pedestrian walkway, then rode along roads, then all about the school poperty areas and beyond and about. It came back boldly along the road at the same time just as it was getting too dark since it had no lighting on it whatsoever (as if that would make it legal on the roads - Hah!), and this time it had two shitheads on it. Crazy.

During one of the many times on Saturday (25-March-2017), it made a circuit and tore through the pedestrian walkway, where a family consisting of a moother wheeling a pram with child in it, and together with a group of several small children walking all together as a sensible quiet group with them with ice-creams in their hands (it was HOT, and it was supposed to be 24C but was 6 degrees celcius hotter and was closer to 32 (90F), which was predicted (guessed) for this hellhole area. Forecasted it was supposed to be 26C (78F) but REALITY in this hellhole was closer to 32C (90F).

A hot day........some obviously illegal motorbikes were all about. And no care at all for the innocent family walking about who were just about to go through the pedestrian walkway and use it for what it was intended, a walkway for innocent PEDESTRIANS. They just simply watched the damn thing tear through there and roar past by on the road within spitting distance of them all.

So that's what pedestrian wlkaways are now are they?.....give-way zones to rampant out of control illegal motorbikes at all times, especially for mothers with baby's in prams, get outta the way! -- They innocents looked on at the speeding motorbike with disgust and resignation. The small kids probably then asked with ice crams in hand when could THEY have a motorbike to do the same. (shitheads in ghettos create more shitheads)

Up and down the streets illegal bikes were going. You could hear them day and approaching night, but at night then it was the turn of over-roaring engines of load cars mostly but still motorbikes at times.

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On Friday evening, I never got to sleep until near 1am. And I then was woken up later at 4am.

I fed Sam & Max and let them outside for their dog ablutions and went with them. Max started to bark and then Sam, at someone in the streets walking about in the darkness. -- That's what shitheads do....the moving about of shitheads from one place to another andor back again ad-nauseum was on and had been going on all in the darkness for hours.

As I write this part, it's almost midnight Saturday night. The streets 'seem' calm and quiet. But that's now always misleading. Tomorrow in Sunday I predict based on previous countless instances, that an unlicensed motorbike will come tearing along the roads. Maybe it'll go up to the shops area get some stuff, and fly back along the roads again. And as always it will use the pedestrian walkways as conduits and ways to stop Police from following them.

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On Saturday 25-March-2017, that aboriginal toddler girl child, of the aboriginal CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD was once again free and roaming on the streets.

At one point an adult female walked out of there, crossed the road, got to the street corner and just happened to turn her head back and saw that toddler just walking out by itself and onto the road as it squawked for attention. (so, please judge that for the level of care that they give to a toddler and then magnify that to ALL the many criminal children of that CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD)

And so what does she do? - She justs stands there and is agitated the brat has come out and she has to deal with it so she beckoned the child to come to her, to walk across the road to her. The toddler races along the street verge, goes straight onto the road without looking of course, and then it goes to her.

Does the kid receive admonishment? - No, the exact opposite. It's actions and attitude gets rewarded. The kid gets picked up and carried to the shops area. - And you wonder why all these kids from the CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD have no road sense at all, why they actually play ON the roads, why cars and vehicles almost run them over and then the drivers get accused for supopesdly violating the aboriginals in some way!? -- They kids are taught and allowed to be this way from being toddlers onwards, who play actually ON the road, they do that and just get worse and worse as they grow older, until they run rampant on the roads. And when they get old enough to drive vehicles....they carry that careless atitudes onwards into the lives of all other traffic users. Before the useless get killed and or kill others in road smashes.

Recently within the past few days, there was a news report of a nearby area losing power to thousands of homes because a car driven by (women?) from this area smashed straight into a light pole bringing it down on top of the car they were deliberately careening about in. They dont care. - They'll just get another car, one way or another. (Being women gives them more bargaining power to get what they want.)

It starts out with not caring about anyone or anything. By being so utterly selfish and animalistic and feral and constantly being indulged, by departments and Police (who are obliged and forced to take extremely lenient or no actions at all against any of them), all of which creates the terrible aboriginal crime that is rampant and (the highest?) in all the states of Australia.

Do YOU dear reader have a toddler in diapers who is allowed to just run out in the road, ON THE ROAD, and is rewarded when it does that? - And this is not new. This was going on this time LAST YEAR with the the same toddler and inept 'parents'. Then it was in diapers. Now it's in training pants or whatever, still shirtless and without shoes and running headlong and without a care in the world onto the roads.

But it doesn't matter. Because they are making their own 'laws' (which are not) and influencing and subventing the existing laws so that they are creating a situation whereby normal lawful behaviour just does NOT apply to any of them. If you object, then you are branded as 'racist'. They've been using that tactic more and more lately, with authorities and Police to bend them to their wills and wants.

What would happen to YOU dear reader if you allowed YOUR toddler to run around anywhere it wanted, onto roads and wherever, in danger? - What would happen to YOU dear reader if your toddler was given into the hands of young (useless and criminal) children to take care of and play on the roads that they themselves play on? - I can tell what does happen here. NOTHING HAPPENS. And so they grow up doing whatever the hell they want. And if they they start bawling, suddenly there's a swarm of attention just to shut the damn thing up, stuff it's face full of candys or whatever. And so they very quickly learn to just bawl for no reason in order to get what they want. I've seen that here for myself in the streets truly countless times.

Now, progress that into them getting older..........they NEVER EVER GO TO SCHOOL. - Oh dear, they're now not just dumb, they're STUPID. But they then hold THAT up again as allegations that they've been mistreated and that it's somebody else to blame.

I'm waiting for the inevitable bullshit of them not having to have a drivers license at all for ANYTHING. I'm sure they'll soon enough bring in some sort of bullshit scheme where by they won't need to have a license and no 'skill' or intelligence. -- It's the way things are heading here.

Progress it further into teenage and older......they become criminals doing crimes too severe and many for Police to ignore, and for authorities to cover up. (forget about all the victims...apparently victioms don't matter anymore we're constantly being told even if victims are asaulted or killed let alone robbed or property stolen or smashed)

And so this state of Western Australia has an extremly high rate of recorded crime being performed by aboriginals...and even THAT rate is constantly being under actual real-world values thanks to all the bullshit that goes on to try to keep it under-reported and out of media and public knowledge. ('averaging' is a gtreat bullshit means to make statsitics lie and state whatever anyone wants to their advantage. Polticiians are expert liars and at doing that.)

How embaressing it would be for authorities and Police if the public knew that a toddler child in diapers was allowed to roam around at will and toddle all over the roads. NOT just a single instance......but which was allowed to happen at anytime of any day. - And in addition that the 'care' of the toddler was constantly handed over to children who never go to school and who themselves are lawless.....

All that above is TRUE. - IT's what goes on here all the time. - It's a ghetto that they've made it, and is allowed to continue and prosper.

So.....we've had a car in a nearby area smash into a power pole and bring down the pole and live wires on top of it, losing power for a couple of thousand people. - I'm sure the media maestros covered a lot of that up pretty quick in the NEWS.

This area also has a lot of those from country areas who breeze-in, set up living in other 'relations' housings inflating numbers, and then they bring in even more of their friends in. It's like a goldmine for them all. - And when things get too hot and Police are after them, they get in a car and take off and go back into the far flung country areaa to hide out for awhile.

In this way you necver know who's living at exactly where, and when they are living about here, they constantly move all about in each others houses day or night.

And yet the SAEM ones live in the SAME houses for more than a year and have been the focus of interminable departmental interventions and 'help', and also Police involvements,........and yet it all means nothing. -- Welcome to the ghetto.

1 year on, they're still doing what they were doing last year, but at a reduced rate, and they're doing it over wider areas now so that it simply just 'appears' as if the high incidences of last year has decreased. (averaging can say anything)

And as I have said so many times, all the shit that they do, it emboldens other shitheads. Hence the rapidly rising numbers of illegal motorbikes and going through pedestrian walkways and elsewhere at will at any time of the day or night.

A child-in-a-pram in the way of a motorbike? - Then they could just kick it out of the way. -- Pedestrian walkways are purely for motorbikes it seems.

I'm sure the Police have tried to stop some illegal motorbikes, however literally for 4 MONTHS straight, there has NOT been a single day around here where a motorbike has not gone tearing along around ON the streets and all about school property and elswhere and most of the time it is an unlicensable motorbike. (wait until they start tearing about on the school oval in cars...)

Lately they've been wearing helmets to disguise themselves but they are just as well not likely to either. And there can be two people upon a motorbike, a motorbike even if it's manufactured to only carry one person.....

And just the other day there was 2 shitheads walking done the middle of the road, 1 of them hobbling down the middle street on the road with his foot still in a cast or whatever, . - I guess he might have been going down there with his friend so he could catch a bus around the corner in order to go to the doctors to get it cut off......and maybe that's why he wants to illegally ride about so much on the roads again to make up for lost time........I'm just guessing.

Year ago, I used to be an offroad motorcyle rider. But every motorbike I had and those of my friend, we had licenses, and licensed (for roads use) motorcycles. -- And in those not far-off years, Police policed motorbike riders FAR more stringently than they do now.

I can recall simply one evening going to the Midland library to return some library books I'd borrowed from there, when Police pulled me over to check my drivers license. It was a random check. And though I didn't have my license with me, (I'd accidently left my entire wallet at home), I was able to quote my long numerical license number and details to them, and the other license types I posses for other vehicle types (several), and they were amazed that I could remember them. -- Since computer checking was avaialable in their vehicle, they did so, and it quickly came back with all the detail which were correct. And of course they had me confirm other details, again which they were surprised to learn I could remember. I asked them for the reason for pulling me over and they said that there had been a rising incidence of people illegally riding motorbikes who just (arrogantly) illegally assume that you could just ride a motorbike without having a license. -- Fast forward to the situation now, and now road users (and illegal road users) simply just don't care at all and just do whatever the hell they want.

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But all that about me is now ancient history. It means nothing. I am nothing.

Each day I wake up and wonder why I'm still alive when my life is absolute crap.

Each day I see the shitheads and the criminals ever more rising and rampant, and getting rewarded, and prospering, and multiplying ever more.

And when I'm gone, nobody will care. It will be as if I never existed. They'll make sure of that. What you've read about in my blog will be forgotten. Innocence and truth will not matter. Nor the constant pain. Nor the despair.

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Sunday, 26-March-2017:.....it's supposed to rain today. Like a crazy mad sale, it's been predicted a week ago (as long range forecasting) that it would happen on THIS day Sunday. -- Isn't it strange how they can pin down that one single day and hold it out and yet are hopeless for others?

There's been bush burnoffs happening somewehere. Smoke has been in the air on Saturday. And despite the heat, to try to keep the smoke out, I had to close the windows of this hovel and suffer.

In the mid-morning, a cricket match is beingplayed on the school oval which has a cricket pitch in the centre of it. And in the car parks around the school are parked player and visitors vehicles which have ben a prime source of crime targets for the criminals of this area. They wander and prowl around there as they are always doing (even when there is nothing happening on the unfenced oval). Sometimes an unlicensed motorbike will tear around the place there and the Police have to deal with that to kep it covered up and dealt with but never solved. But criminals have slowly adopted a new tactic of waiting for the vehicles to thin out, then as they are leaving, motorbikes will dash across the oval. Or they wait until they are all gone and do the same. - I want all to know the extent of all these shitheads and criminals.

Last night/early this morning, I fed Sam & Max to beat the forecast rain because its always unprdictable whether it actually does rain or not. The recent thunerstorms (2 of them) were as nothing here for rainfall. And this rain was just supposed to be minor. (it ended up actually produced mroe rain onto the ground here than the two thunderstorms from before.)

The rain started spitting down in the darkness just after I let Sam & Max outside for their abutions after being fed for the day.

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Weird lights in the sky at 3am.

Outside, I happened to see a weird and strange light effect going on in the sky to the north west of here not far away. It wasn't lightning or anything natural. It was man-made. And it was at 3am in the morning.

The clouds of supposed wet weather was steadily and swiftly coming in, and that's why I was keeping an eye out. But I always keep a watch on the sky and have always done since a small boy. Fliss was always suprised at how I could tell when it would rain wherever we went. But that 'skill' has long gone since the wet weather has become so stupid and unreliable.

The strange lighting itself was cyclical and was oblique circular, the light kept catching on clouds in its cycling around not turning off, so it may have originated at a distance and was being shone onto the clouds, hence the elongated 'circles' or ovoids going around and around in a constant never changing figure-8 pattern. Not a circular pattern. -- It was bright, and at first I thought it was yet another dickhead fucking around with spotlights instead of illegal motorbikes. 15 minutes later it was still going on, just as it had been in a cyclical nature going around and around only in one large area of the sky in the north west of here.

Due to the proximity of the Perth airport, it probbly might have been some new equipment they have but why would they be projcting light into the sky clouds and having it go around in a figure-8 pattern? - Whatever was the source, I went inside and tried to get back to sleep. I'll keep an eye out for it for now on simply for curiosity. Nothing whoo-whoo or anything in the sky, just something odd.

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It's 10:13am as I write this and it's been false calm.

7 minutes later a small white car pulls up on the street, has its indictor on and it stops against the kerb next to the newly constructed house across the road from the aboriginal CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD. Nobody gets out.

And within 5 minutes, aboriginals are out and literally staring at the car. They are quite agitated at the vehicle being there. They think it might be departmentals or whatever.

A male adult aboriginal agitatedly begin pacing up and down the street verges, trying to scare off the car. A female adult woman comes out and begins walking up the road ON the road towards the shops area. (the alchohol store must be open) - The male shouts out to her and she shouts loudly back along the street.

More aborgines come out onto the roads. From one group an aboriginal toddler wearing nothing but a disposable diaper runs along ON the road to the woman walking ON the roads and joins following behind. It's largely ignored. Treated worse than a stray dog. (its how these aboriginal criminals were brought up and perpetuate everything).

As I said, false calm.......a very typical Sunday morning percolating upwards......

What's worse is that innocent normal people have accepted all this as being 'normal' because it's been allowed to go on for so long from the criminal aboriginals. IT's low level shittery in the streets.

But of course where YOU live dear reader, you won't have this going on all the time and you think all this is just fiction. It's not. None of it is.

I've long since forgotten how just not so long ago these streets would have normal people in them, normal vehicles driving along and people NOT taking over the streets, how friendly families would walk about as a group on footpaths not on roads and feel safe, perhaps walk with their friendly dogs on a leash, and all was well in the neighborhoods.....

Now it is a ghetto.

The cricket match on the school oval is a relic of a friendly age where everything WAS friendly and everyone was friendly to everyone else because the entire areas weren't full of criminals and up-and-coming-criminals......

Nowadays there are shitheds like Ben Cousins (a has-been sportsman) a rampant, maniacal drug addict of West Australia who has constantly been in the news for extreme things that are quickly deliberately covered up and forcibly forgotten. - The lives that shithead has destroyed.....and now the newest thing is the umpteenth-time tried public relations spiel that he wants to get off drugs and be a 'good' person again....that he doesn't want himself apparently.

A typical criminal role-model for all the shitheads of this area believe me, and just as much a shithead. Watch the Australian media for another round of public relations bullshit to be manufactured.

Meanwhile, complete innocents are ignored, sidelined, marginalised and suffering......and all get painted by the antics of this shitheads actions and PR......

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Around 3:00pm the innocent people gathered on and about the Koongamia school oval playing cricket, they start leaving and from the car park area. And the aboriginals start their roaming about on the streets from the CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD.

It's like a trigger event for them.

People who do not live at the aboriginal CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD start coming and going, whilst the usual overweight woman wanders the streets and collects stray aboriginals drug addicts and takes them back there again including the ones who live there.

Now at 3:30pm it's becoming more noisy outside on the streets from them roaming about. - This goes on and will intensify as it always does every Sunday like clockwork.

I'm trying to do as the many neighbours do....ignore it all....but it's impossible.

There's nobody parked around the school oval anymore. Things will only go up in scale........they're free to roam across the oval and school area without being observed......

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Ay around 5:42pm a Police vegicle (operational: GE 117) come VERY slowly into the area from te bottom of Kalara Way where it joins Clayton Street. It has come from Midland direction. It goes VERY slowly along the street, and takes a long pause slowly coming up Klara Way as it looks into the aboriginal CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD yard.

The big black mastiff dog, that wears no collar and is never ever on a leash, from the aboriginal CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD, that dog slinks out from the yard of the vacant house next door to the aboriginal CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD. The Police look at it warily.

But it's the presence of two older white youths on skateboards who they stop and talk to (without getting out of theoir vehicle) at the pedstrian walkway at the end of Kalar Road. Nothing happens. They next pull up at the rented corner household that has been the site of constant aboriginal comings and goings, including today. - Including the VERY odd acting adult male aboriginal of teh CRIMINAL HSOUEHOLD who went in there today for a short time.

Two uniformed police officers get out, a man and a woman officer, and they go and question the mother and of the two boys for about 10 minutes. About what?

Around 5:51pm, the Police vehicle drives away. Then after doing a circuit around the block by going past the Koongamia shops, the Police then heads back to the direction of Midland via Bellevue on Clayton Street.

And within moments, then a a small aboriginal boy is seen walking into that rented corner house property........

Once again.....yet another Police incident of which nobody will know about.....

But at 7:23pm, Sam & Max became distressd hearing the the sounds of slamming car doors. They thought FLiss had arrrived, but she had not. Now they are greatly upset. It was a small white vehicle parked at the rented corner residence that the Police had visited earlier. -- A lot of loud talking, not angry but inflective. Lost count the number of countless times the car doors slammed shut. The noise has also has disturbd neigborhood dogs who are all barking now. -- Around 7:30, the loud inflective talking has become unintelligble angry shoutings.

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At 7:32pm.....once more a motorbike has come roaring up to the pedestrian walkway in the cover of darkness and gone through it, then it loudly tore off into the Bellevue suburb through there.

At 7:34pm...the white sedan drives off and away.

At 7:50pm....in darkness, a VERY loud offroad motorbike (I did not get a chance to see it because it was flagrantly moving at such very high speed, but it sounded like it was one of the several illegal unlicensed offroad motorcyles that tear all about here and all around EVERY DAY. And it has no lights on it at all as far as I know. - THAT motorcycle came tearing though the pedestrian walkway at the end of Kalara Road, tore through the road intersection ON THE ROAD, went past the Koongamia shops area, turned left onto Jinda Road, went along that road, turned left onto Wangalla Road that goes past the Koongamia school, tore along at high speed all along the street, went up Stuart Street hill and was finally unheard of as it went down other roads. Into places other aboriginals and shitheads live and the strets are black with burnouts.

At 8:05pm:----that seperate loud road? motocycle is now tearing about in Bellevue beyond the pedstrian walkway and it sounds like it's using the roads and illegally the other pedestrian walkways.

So.....once again, the shitheads on illegal motrobikes tearing about has NOT been stopped by West Australian Police yet again, which has been going on for well into the 4th month straight daily. The shitheads only 'paused' for awhile today because Police had been seen in the area and the Police had gone to that corner house.

At 9:28pm....aboriginals are out wandering the dark streets and easily heard because they are being so LOUD. They have walked from the aboriginal CRIMINAL HOUSEHOLD on the roads, around the Koongamia shops area, and into and onto the roads and other areas around past the shops. -- All the dogs in the neighborhood are loudly intruder-barking at them as the aboriginals wander about. It has also upset Sam & Max.

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I'm vainly trying to wind down and get some sleep......it's impossible.

P@21:32 (9:32pm, Sunday, 26-March, 2017) -- I love you Fliss and wish to be with you. Poor dear Sam & Max keep getting greatly disturbed by all the rampant motorcycle noise and so on EVERY DAY close by, no to to mention the aboriginals roaming all about on foot in the darkness and yelling out on the dark streets in the dark of night.