Hey there, I posted yesterday with a mix of emotions about the whole thing. I want to let everyone know I'm good, I'm still upset that it happened but I'm not as angry. So many reached out just to let me talk it out with them, just to hear the venting of a random stranger or to offer me help, it was really overwhelming. This community is something special.
But to the good news. Jerome is still alive, and tomorrow morning we will be looking at options for fixing him up and getting him back home. I'll be heading there in the morning to speak with the vet and see what our options are and look over the x-rays. He's a strong dog, and he's alert and still as sweet as ever. I'm truly grateful for this if nothing else. He might have a few battle scars from this, but he should live. And that's what's important.
I wanted to leave this. It would be so easy to focus on the fact he was ran down for fun and hate humanity. But so many people have helped pay for his treatment, have sent me well wishes, and have talked to me about it. They have shared in my pain, encouraged me, and forgave me for a lifetime of bad decisions. So many showed kindness in my moment of pain and suffering. I want to focus on that instead of the bad, and thank everyone of you for restoring that faith in humanity.
And I'll be sure to post photos on profile tomorrow of him and throughout his recovery. Merry Christmas :)
My baby girl, Pepper, was admitted to the er yesterday night. I got home from work and noticed that she was labored breathing, shallow and rapidly. She’s an old girl, almost 13 years old. I’ve had her since she was a puppy in high school. They said it could be heart failure or some sort of respiratory problem or pulmonary embolism. She’s been with me since I was in high school and I remembered I’d always referred to her as my friend. But now that I’m older, I guess since maturing and been taking care of her since, she’s been more like my child. I never noticed this until the first covid lockdown caused me to stay home and spend time with her more that I started referring her as my baby. I just visited her an hour ago and we decided to try another night and see how it’ll go. She’s in an oxygen tank and when I saw her she got excited and started breathing rapidly. It was painful because I don’t want her to harm herself from breathing faster. I’m going back tonight to give her her small bed so she could at least be cozy.. I rarely cry but man the past two days has been just rivers.
Both Aubrey and Maturin use them, with Maturin seeming to use them more. From what I can tell they seem to be used occasionally and randomly.
It was a while ago, but I just came across a comment on songmeanings saying "Don't listen to it on acid" that reminded me of the experience. Seriously, don't do it.
I felt what I can only describe as Ian's then pychic state concentrated, and acid made me susceptible to all its intensity. I was overwhelmed. All I could mutter in my mind was - how can someone be this sad. What the actual fuck. I couldn't hold my tears and got lost in a state of crying and howling. It was just too much.
I've been a smoker for somewhere around twenty years. I've tried to quit several times. The longest I ever went was three months and that was probably fifteen years ago. I've always held certain quit dates in mind. "When my son is born." "When I turn thirty." "When I turn thirty five." "New Years, this year's." All those times have come and gone. Yesterday it just really struck me that the day doesn't matter. It doesn't have to be some significant day. Me actually quitting will make it significant.
I hope that I can really follow through this time. I need to set a better example for my son's. I don't smoke in front of them, but they're not stupid. They know why I'm going outside to the patio. I need to be here for their future. I need to be here for my wife. And not just be present, but also in as good of health as I can be. I don't want to saddle them with debt from treatments for cancer or whatever. Something that I brought on myself, you know?
Well, I guess that's it for now. We can do this folks!
Less gooo!!! Someone else post one so I can win another!!!
http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87056
The day the draft withdrawal agreement was published, I posted on Twitter what I thought was a sardonic message (https://twitter.com/RichardAENorth/status/1062805944126578696). The media, I wrote, have spent all day talking about the Brexit agreement without having any of the details. Just because the agreement has been published, that shouldn't make any difference. They might as well continue as they have before ... they've never needed details before.
I need not have bothered. A mere twenty-four hours on from the publication, the media have abandoned even their perfunctory attempts to inform their customer base of the intricacies of the agreement.
And, if I was like the 79 percent (https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/116529/news-consumption-2018.pdf) who rely wholly or mainly on the television for my news, the chances of being exposed to any detail would have been very slight indeed. Two main BBC bulletins down, and the kindest one could say of the coverage on the details was that it was superficial.
Furthermore, it is quite clear that we are going to get no candour from the prime minister about the deal who, in trotting out her familiar mantras is now openly lying.
That much was evident from her statement following the cabinet meeting. There was nothing new in it, as she told us the deal: "brings back control of our money, laws and borders; ends free movement; protects jobs, security and our union". (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pms-statement-on-brexit-14-november-2018)
Crucially, as we see non-regression clauses in the agreement, we are locked into maintaining major tranches of Union law, with no discretion afforded to the UK government. And nor is this at all academic. If we go back to pre-referendum times, one of the really big deals was the cost of EU regulation, with the much-touted Open Europe survey which claimed a £33.3 billion annual cost of the 100 "most burdensome" EU regulation (https://openeurope.org.uk/intelligence/britain-and-the-eu/top-100-eu-rules-cost-britain-33-3bn/).
Prominent in the top five was the EU climate and energy package, with a recurring cost of £3.4 billion a year, with the clear "promise" that leaving the EU would enable us to save those on those costs. Yet, as I pointed out yesterday, we are totally locked into the EU's climate change agenda, including implementing the UN Framework Conventions on Climate Change, latterly reinforc
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