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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 50 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 75. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good Sunday morning Meese. 31 here in Kingston. Prepping for Black Music Sunday where I’ll be celebrating the late Quincy Jones.
That’s going to be a huge diary, he was truly a giant of music.
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BSKY version
It looks like you can only see your own BlueSky posts even if you are logged in. I hope they expand the capability.
You can see others but if you’ve posted/boosted a bunch of stuff it’ll take time for all you’ve done to pass on through. At least that’s my experience over there. So I check my TL before I start boosting.
Good morning. Yesterday was good — did my walk, kickboxing and had breakfast tacos with friends. Now my tea is steeping, I have tomorrow to cook so I don’t have to try to squeeze everything into today. Church started a sermon series on grieving last week, going to be a good help in getting through this time.
It’s 52 heading for 70 and sunny. Yesterday we generated just under 3 KWHs and the m-t-d at 50.5 lost ground. Too much to make up in a day this time of year but we can get close. We shall see.
We’re getting to the time of year when my hands and back ache whether or not I’m doing housework but protest a lot more when I am. Sigh. But I just finished up, am eating my oatmeal, and need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind. It’s 50 F. in cloudy, grey Ashburned this morning. Is this our 34th or 35th day without rain? I forget. Anyway, the high will be 58 F. It’s supposed to rain today, but you know what that means…
Anyway, good news! No more rehearsals, no more performances! We had a good house Friday night, and yesterday we managed to sell 15 copies of our anthology at the Bazaar. I had to be up, washed, brushed, dressed, and coherent at 8:30 in the morning. The effort nearly did me in, but an afternoon and evening of doing absolutely nothing helped me feel better.
Today’s agenda: 1 hour tearing the house apart looking for the script of the Animal Play, which Suzanne swears she gave me already; 1 hour rolling up some of three years’ worth of coins; and 1 hour reading through what my writers have written for Thursday’s meeting. I’m going to make pumpkin mini-muffins for the meeting and provide pumpkin tea if anyone wants it.
I see anotherdemocrat mentioned the diary on dk about not showing Thing’s picture. Now, one of the things I was most looking forward to was the idea that I’d NEVER have to look at that face, or hear that voice, or even hear people discussing that evil personage again. And now look.
Here’s what I’m wearing to the Revolution: a large saucepan on the head, a colander over the face so I can, like, see through the holes, and cookie sheets front and back. Got some good knives, which I will sharpen, but do not possess a gun. We did have a revolver, which Dearly acquired through his volunteer police work, but we gave the ugly-lookin’ thang to the police when we moved here six years ago.
I’ve been numb since Tuesday but now that my obligations are finished, I have time to be miserable. I will not watch the news, nor will I read any section of the newspooper except the Metro section and Style. I want to buy many, many contraceptives for my family’s future use in case that mofo bans contraception and abortion. I don’t know how I’m going to get through the next four years being this depressed. Also, I’m going to start downsizing bigly, in case we have to move to a tent behind Target. He has, after all, threatened to stop Social Security, Medicare, and ACA.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond. We still have 10 more weeks of Joe and Kamala!
This is me, also:
You may not have to be depressed for 4 years, probably just for two. If people are still allowed to vote (not a given!) we can put up some Congressional guardrails on the administration in 2026. I also sense that the worst parts of the 2025 agenda will not pass the House because there are enough Republicans who ran on “no, we are not going to do that!” that they will be terrified of their constituents reactions were they to flip flop. The House majority will be very thin and there was no mandate. The Senate, of course, is a different kettle of fish. They will likely be led by the odious Rick Snot who literally ran the NRSC on ending both Social Security and Medicare in the 2022 mid-terms. This year he didn’t say the quiet parts out loud but you know he is dusting off his plans. Are there enough institutional Republicans left in the Senate who won’t be all in on destroying everything? I guess we will find out.
Good morning, meeses! Monday which I hope is a holiday for everyone …
It is 61 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 77. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. The filling moon is visible here in the middle of the afternoon so I have not seen her at night or in the early morning recently. She will be full on the 15th.
In one way I am glad (because it does not matter) that tRump won Arizona. It should make it less likely that he will punish our state by targeting killing our economy. The recovery here is still tenuous. One thing I know for sure, based on what I have been reading about the people who voted for him here, is that they will be extremely disappointed. tRump really can’t fix the economy and is likely to make it worse. The folks who think he can magically roll back prices to pre-pandemic levels are gullible fools and I have no sympathy for them, they put a permanent blemish on their souls for nothing. Pima County voted resoundingly for Kamala Harris and we will stay Blue at the county level so I don’t have to actively despise everyone I see on the streets. It is too bad that Tucson’s input to the redistricting process turned Gabby Giffords old House seat into what looks like a permanent red seat now. Too many rural R+70 areas added to make the only other House seat in the Tucson area more blue (which was not needed). I am sad that we will likely be represented by people in the state legislature and the US House who hate me and want to kill Social Security and Medicare. At least we elected Ruben Gallego to the Senate.
I hope none of my clients are working today. It is both a Federal and State holiday so the chances are good that they won’t be. I have a couple of projects that will be be easier to finish if no one is at their desks.
See all y’all later!
In case you missed it, there was a mass exodus of people from X (which will never be Twitter again) to BlueSky which is setting itself up to be a vibrant community with moderation tools that allow you to block the bad guys and also not give power to Melon.
I am going to try two BlueSky embeds. I think you may have to be logged into BlueSky to see them, I am not sure the web site has the server horsepower to host the embeds.
First, a hopeful article about how to resist.
Second, the rude awakening that Biden to Trump voters are going to have when they rejected the Democrats who literally saved their lives and embraced the Republicans who hate them.
Jan, my “Southern” state went blue, causing M’Daughter in Massachusetts to cheer. Seventy percent of the people in the Home voted for Kamala-Walz. (Sniff.) Not only do I adore her I also really love Tim! And now we won’t get to experience them.
She will run again and the next time she will have a primary season to properly introduce herself to the voters and define herself instead of being defined. I am there for her.
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! Guess what, we had RAIN last night! It began before we went to bed and kept it up all night long. It had been 38 days since the last rain. It’s 57 F. right now, going up to 73 F. Tomorrow will be colder.
I didn’t get a single thing done that I planned, partly because I took the time to go to the gym, then I had to make lunch, followed by a trip to the grocery store so I could put Sunday dinner in the slow cooker. Then I had a marathon FaceTime call with my M’Daughter, my grandchild, who is now a “they/them,” and the grandchild’s fiancee (very pretty), son-in-law, and the chihuahuas. They kindly said they would Zoom the wedding next year or somehow arrange for me to see it, because I can’t leave Dearly.
Today: a fish lunch with the people in my hallway, a board meeting this afternoon, and mandatory reading of essays tonight.
My father was a veteran, so I put his picture on the shelf in our hallway. He was just 22 when the photo was taken, all blond curls and blue eyes, looking very soigne in his Army uniform.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and for something good to happen to Kamala and Tim!
Good morning. Slept in, will cook later & maybe go to the gym. I really wish we’d have more than 1 day at a time of seasonal weather; it’ll be too hot this afternoon for outdoor exercise. And the next 4 years will definitely not be any help for global warming.
Tuesday Meese. Trying to get centered – and find time to keep up my writing chores on DKos, continue to support Black Twitter, reactivated my Bluesky account, post on Spoutible…and deal with local issues (we had lots of smoke here from wildfires burning here upstate NY) We are under a “Red Flag (Fire Weather) Warning”
Admit I’m completely pissed off at non-voters and Trump voters who claimed to be allies – am also totally annoyed by the “wear a blue bracelet” movement being pushed by white women on TikTok – will rant about it in Black Kos today.
Please post the rant here. I am ticked at white women everywhere.
It’s 46 heading for 69 and supposed to be mostly sunny today. Yesterday we generated 8.1 KWHs and didn’t quite catch up but the m-t-d is 58.67 and it’s possible for us to catch up/be on track for 180 today. We shall see.
For the last 2 nights/early mornings the skies have been clear enough and the moon in a high enough path in the sky that moonlight shown into my bedroom from lights out until setting sometime around 2 am. Not that I’m awake all that time to see it but it was there when I got up to go to the bathroom. Very nice. Seeing the moon is always comforting.
I’ve been ignoring MSM since 2001. Nothing new for me to ignore it now. Hanging on to hope that the evil ones don’t manage to kill Social Security. There are always the evil fools who gleefully kill the goose laying the golden eggs thinking to get richer faster that way. But even the Rs have some folks who, while still evil, aren’t fools. Meanwhile, day by day, keep on going. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good afternoon, 52 and raining in Bellingham. We had a family dinner here last night, celebrating our Nov birthdays. It was fun, the food was tasty, the flowers were pretty, and good family time was enjoyed. But I got way to tired and by the end of the evening I could barely walk. The election results interfered with my plans for the week so to much work happened yesterday. I need to recover today and then make a wiser plan for Thanksgiving. I love being together in our home but it’s clear my ability to walk, cook, talk and carry has changed.
It was good to be with our grand girls and to see that their focus on school is strong and that they have a plan keep their lives on track regardless of the occupant in the White House. I’ve been really worried about how discouraging this is for my kids and grandkids. My plan is to hunker down and just get through it and hope our retirement funds survive the coming chaos. AS for the occupant…..I won’t go into a rat infested garage so I’m going to do the same with the White House!
As always, my best wishes to all.
Good morning. Walk/run done, up to 1.15 mi running. I have a reminder set to make myself log off early and go to kickboxing. Hitting things has been cathartic since last Tuesday. Back to work today, I know we’ll have lots of email & voice mails. Sigh.
It’s 47 heading for 70 and sunny today. Yesterday we generated 7.9 KWHs which was enough to bring the m-t-d to 66.6 (ahem) which is on track, barely, for 180 for the month.
Saw the moon again last night. And She shown through my bedroom window from lights out at least to/through the 1st time I got up to go to the bathroom. Nice to be seeing Her relatively regularly after so long of not seeing her at all.
Worried about my cats. There was a lot of clear barf to clean up this morning. Worried about my friends. I don’t know anybody well off enough to get through what the Rs are planning to do safely/sustainably. Worried about the folks on my needs list – and even more about the ones who’ve dropped off without warning. Sigh. Nothing I can do but boost & pray. So off to do my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Jennings Creek fire still burning in my area
Yikes. Stay masked is all I can think of. And have a bugout bag prepared, just in case. Holding you in The Light – and in my heart.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 63 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 70. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
I am still processing what the November 5th election “means” and if it means anything other than that the party in power got punished for the bad economy. It happened in our favor in 1992 and in 2008, and to some extent in 2020. This time, however, the party NOT in power is run by a dangerous autocrat and his ascension to the presidency is going to cause more than the usual “oh gawd, the Republicans are in charge again!” anguish. The big picture doesn’t make what happened less painful or less dangerous – it does mean that Democrats have a path back to power without compromising our values.
In Arizona, the State Senate and State House stayed in Republican hands but our governor Katie Hobbs has veto power and we have a Democratic Attorney General. I think they are still counting two county races and CD-06 (I haven’t checked yet). The U.S. House will be interesting because at least two Republican members have been tapped for jobs in the new administration so Pastor Mike Johnson will start with two fewer votes. Those seats can’t be filled until there is an election and one of them is in New York so the governor there can slow walk filling that vacancy.
I spent the morning on the phone with clients and organizing projects for the rest of the week. Now I need to shut everything down and run some errands.
See all y’all later!