Bunch of random things

It's been hard, recently. A lot of stress and sadness over the state of the US, not being able to find a job, my mom. Coming up on the anniversary of my aunt's death. Spring is on-and-off and it feels like we didn't have a real winter. Worried about my kids. Major paperwork needs to be done. So yeah. But a few random thoughts.

-- I do an online weights program through UW. 30 minutes twice a week. I despise weights but the instructor is great and I've stuck with it for about two years now. (If anyone wants the link, btw, or info on how to access some of the workouts on youtube, holler). Dh is doing them with me now too. Anyhow, the point of this. Goblet squats. For the longest time I thought she was saying goblin squats and I so loved that they were called that. Ah well. I know better now but still think of goblins when I do them.

-- Dh is RTO 3 days a week starting today. 😭 Major adjustment for me too. I'm dreading this. I mean, it's not like we interacted, he was pretty much heads down 9-10 hours a day with a quick break for lunch, but it was just the fact that he was there. I dunno. Very annoyed at this corporate power-play, as well as dreading how much worse this is going to make traffic in the area, sigh. It's already dreadful.

-- Eugenics is going to have to be discussed. The Epstein class knows that they don't need all of us. With AI, automation, both industrial and agricultural etc, there is not going to be need for loads of human bodies to do the work necessary to keep their money growing and fewer of us means less chance of the guillotines ever coming into play. In addition, bitcoin is self-limiting on the amounts they can accumulate so long term the fewer people for competition, the better. Hence defunding education, because stupid people are easier to control. Getting rid of vaccines. In the US defunding as much social aid as possible. Letting rural hospitals/health care atrophy, it's not like we really need the people they serve. IMO, they are starting with Africa, via all the cuts to USAID, including the most recent one. They don't view "those people" as necessary to their way of life, Africa itself has little to offer from a tech standpoint (this is not Singapour or Taiwan), except all the mineral wealth and they figure that can be extracted by robots, poorly paid miners, under the supervision of the poor genocided Boers. 🙄

-- As my mom approaches the time when she is going to need Medicaid, I'm starting to expect it to go away for memory care, though I don't know when. I expect Republicans to refuse to allow people with any kind of family at all (is children or grandchildren) to get on Medicaid, arguing that it's the beautiful family thing to do to have your parent age with you, never mind that they have to be watched as carefully as a toddler, if not more. Which will mean families will be caught in an impossible situation and some adult is going to have to quit their job to take care of an elderly relative. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong.

-- Linnea's About Me on Discord: Pink, athletic, and hyperenergetic! I love it. Accurate too.

-- camelsamba mentioned The 100 Day Project. I am going to join her: I have a knitting project that I want to do. I keep on making mistakes, LOL, and having to start over because I can't undo them without making a worse mess... So. I'll post the photos on my flickr site... when I start. I mean, I had my stiches cast on when I sat down with the project today, added 1.9 rows, and ripped everything out because the knit on the round connection was too loose. Bah. I'll try again tomorrow.