For the people who think I’m dumping on Trump relentlessly, here’s an explanation that should satisfy both sides of the aisle:   For anyone who has researched the legitimate, unvarnished history of Donald Trump, no explanation is necessary to reach the conclusions I have about the man.   He is decidedly amoral, as opposed to…

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Looks like it’s going to be an antsy day for me.   I’ve done all I can do to prepare the two rooms for carpets tomorrow.   I can’t remove the final large pieces of furniture in either room without help, which I won’t be getting until tomorrow.   So I have a “day off”…

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Christmas Tree Brain won’t let me sleep at night, so I have to nap several times during the day to get through the wait to have my home upgraded…   Remember being a kid and having Christmas Tree Brain on Christmas Eve?   T’was the night before Christmas and all through the place NO ONE…

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While envisioning my upcoming Critter Corral themed room, I remembered a 4″ x 6″ box filled with animal quotes, stats and data from my API (Animal Protection Institute) days and retrieved it…   Taped to the top lid underneath was, hands down, my favorite animal quote of all time (and I have literally hundreds of…

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I’m so freaking antsy about getting a home makeover that I’ve almost completely emptied out the Jungle (living) room already.   My den is half full of living room stuff. There’s room for more, but not a whole lot more because I need to be able to get to my desk to work between now…

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Now that carpet and counter top businesses are opening again under tight regulations to keep all participants as safe as possible from COVID-19 transmission, Jackie and I have been to three different places looking at materials for our home renovation project. We were the only customers in the store in all three places, so we…

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From the moment we begin to crawl, walk and experience the world around us, we have loving parents or guardians who caution us, “No! That’s hot! That will hurt you! Don’t touch that! Don’t eat that! Don’t drink that!”   As we get a little bit older, the cautions continue: “Don’t talk to strangers! Don’t…

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This Too Shall Pass–hopefully with as little additional loss to life as possible, given the circumstances and our present pathetic democidal leadership.   (Wikipedia definition: Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder. … Rummel created the term democide for this third meaning.)   I’m so into acceptance of…

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It just never ends. Now I’m in contact with three other possible surgeons in Seattle who do transmasculine top surgeries but …   One of the surgeons apparently doesn’t take any kind of insurance. His surgeries are the least expensive (just $7500 as opposed to $15K) and he has the most experience doing them. He…

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Hmmmm.  Got a call yesterday from Phillip with SHIBA, an arm of the Washington State Insurance Commissioner’s Office, to whom I sent all of my transmasculine top surgery documentation and the latest letter from Noridian (the entity that administers the Medicare program here in Washington State and a few other western states).   Phillip called to…

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