Evolution through Attitude...

Update
We had to put Mom's cat to Sleep. She started vomitting Blood. Better this happened now and not while she was on her Cruise....
Must Not Kill Family!
Lots of "snippy" comments as they were Prepping to powerwash the house. Gee, appearantly they're SHOCKED that which I'd been complaining about for YRS actually Exists and somehow,it's my fault it's so bad. I'd been complaining of Algae on the North side of the house and Ant poop in the porch roof(when they replaced the old ones the nice Illegals my Newage Relations hired used somthing that attracted the Heck out of Sugar Ants to the point on Rainy days black "syrup" drips from the eaves. Makes the plants right outside the porch Happy though;>...)for many circlings of the planet around it's Sun....
If you can avoid it, don't Rent from Family. It seems like a good Idea but you end up the last on the "To Do" list(after all, family is less likely to call the local PTB's)and expected to do stuff that other tenents do not....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: aggravated

And it keeps going....
I'm beginning to think computers are Evil. After all, for the two weeks it was off nothing reportable happened in my life and now:

Mom goes to the ER for slipping with a knife, having it go through her hand(luckly, right between all the bones and tendons so no permanent damage).

Her fav cat is diagnosed with Cancer.

I get a call from the Police. Appearantly, someone is impersonating me to get Pain Killers. The pharmacy got suspisious because the other Pat was 23 yrs younger, 50# lighter and the wrong color;.....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: annoyed

Futureworld;>....
This travelling two weeks into the future sucks! My yahoogroups acct was closed for inactivity. Half of my news sites require new add on software to run their new "bells&whistles". Oh, and the font size is stuck on Lilliputian. Grumble.....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: aggravated

Hummm....
Well, the couple week computer absence(1st week Voluntary, 2nd because my bro couldn't get the virus from the SSI dep out at my house...)went easier than I thought it would. Partly since most of my communication is Botanical and it is Fall;>.
The 1st week was fro Chuck's B-day. The folks have a Timeshare and if they don't use it, they let us, so on those yrs we spend a week at a local beach resort, walking the White Sans, eating fresh seafood and soaking in the hot tub.
Since Chuck's manager is a BITCH we had to come home early and found, well a disaster. My brother and landlord's decided on siding the house and he and Dad had chopped down pretty much everything next to the house. 2/3s of the Pink Lemon tree in the backyard is gone as well. He also tried to fix the computer but couldn't and so took it back to his house to work on. Since he didn't have my passwords he created a virtual hard drive and transfered my computer into a similar model he had around(the family packrat gene is Active with him as well;>).
Some things work, others don't. For some reason about half of my lists won't send, though they recieve. That means Questing. Blaugh!
Other than that, not much. The only neat thing(other than the lovely time we had for Chuck's B-day) was discovering that I hadn't removed all the Oranges off the Blood Orange I got this Spring. I don't like to let fruit trees produce their 1st yrs pot or ground just to let them strengthen up but since this one did such a good job of hiding and it is only a month before Harvest;>.....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: accomplished

Pony Sighting;>...
There has to be a reason for all that manure;>.....
Good news is that they've reinstated my coverage. Bad news that I missed 5 days of aids meds. Bad news is that this will happen again in 6 months. And it only took a week and dealing with 1 federal and 3 state depts. It's times like this that I wish I had been born to a family on Welfare. Folks who're raised in the system automatically get all their work done for them AND the best Bennies. The rest of us are left to figure it all out for ourselves....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: cranky

WARNING! Botanidrivel;>!
Earlier this yr, I lost the last of my Senk hybrids. These plants, the work of Saintpaulia(that's African Violet to you Botanical Muggles;>)Hybridzer Dave Senk working in the 90's with the works of 70's avante-gard Hybridizer Jimmy Dates look more like something from a Sci-Fi set than your Mom(or grandmoms) African Violets. That's when I discovered that he had disappeared a couple yrs ago. In the age of the Internet, it's unusual for folks to go "poof!" unless:
They Wish to
They were made to

Know one knows....
What's an additional sadness is that I've also discovered that the nurseries that carried his Works are casualties of the Downturn. I'm in the midst of contacting friends I'd given starts to but it doesn't look good. They were a bit of Work because of their mutations so only the true freak would go to the trouble...look at me. I let mine go as well.

AS a weirdly connected point, it got me to start working with my own hybrids again. One of the handful of preliminant Gesneriad Hybridzers(the family that African Violets, Gloxinias, Achimenes an a 100 other pretties) is pushing me to Register a few of mine. When folks like Thad or Dale tell you to get off your fanny, you do;>!
So, this Am I'll be planting seeds from my last 5 Crosses. How well they do since they've been sitting unprotected for a couple of months in Florida's Mold-ridden air...
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: artistic

Bloody Tired...
In order to save money for much more important clients, Florida's Depts of Health are purging the hiv/aids roles, cutting coverage and Hoping to switch folks from living at home to dying at hospitals where the feds will pay for them.
Next week I get to ask SSI and Walgreens for info they won't give out so Florida can be "justified" in cutting coverage. Luckly, my Pain meds are covered by Medicare-D. Maybe it's for the best. I'm not a big fan of the world as it is now anyway....
Truth,
Patrick Thomas Duffy

Current Mood: depressed

One of the many things I've learned over the many decades of being "Out" is that my het male friends are , in their heart-of-hearts less afraid of being found attractive to Gay Guys than to find out that said Gays find them less Attractive than Het Gals do. It's not that they wish to change Orientations, it's simple Self Esteem. Everyone likes to be liked/admired/etc. It's NORMAL.Many Het guys will use Gays as a way to "fluff" up their self-esteem by convincing themselves that while Het females find them less than Interesting, the "Homos" are always checking them out....which is seldom, if ever the case.
There are a few areas though. After all, many women prefer "soft" men while many Gays prefer guys whose faces and bodies have "character". Probably why so many Het women "love" CSI-Miamis Rodregez or Togo while more Gays like Caruso or Linn...
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: contemplative

I Hate X-Mas!
Yes, I realize it's early but it's never to early to Bitch;>. In my family we have a reeeeaaaallly annoying mileu. You have my brother and his wife with their 6 figure income and you have my retired military parents with their "been there, bought that, so we don't need another" attitude with little old us, a nurse on DIsability and a Disabled husband working a minimum wage job. I remember one yr literally getting the present we'd given to my brother's family the previous yr. Needless to say it's a losing premise either way....
I'd thought of getting each family a tetsubin(Iron Teapot)since both drink Tea but considering the disaster of giving top quality Tea was(it doesn't come in a teabag and you don't microwave it;>....), it would be a waste of our limited resources for no gain. As I said, I HATE X-MAS!
Truth,
Pat

Current Mood: aggravated

Happy Pappa!
Made my Dad's day. 1st, I allowed him to workon my electric water heater. Personally, I was hoping we could get it replaced(it's over a decade old and not that energy efficient)but he came and replaced the old elements. He was very pleased that i'd remembered stuff he'd taught me back in my college days about routine maintenence of appliances. After all, not that many folks fluch their waterheaters at all, let alone every yr.
Also, the last storm we had blew the DVD player. Last time he'd found that the same model had simply blown it's internal fuse and he both replaced it and had left instructions how to fix it if it happened again. He was pleased as punch that his instructions worked.
When he retired from the Army he became a handiman and while I don't come withing miles of his abilities, what he was able to teach me about justthe basics usually had me as the "Go-To" guy in most appt bldings I lived in when you couldn't get the Super(or didn't wish to Pay them to do their jobs....
Truth,
Pat

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Frank Sinatra

'Law-Abiding Citizen'....
Won't see it. Why? Because Butler's character won't win.
For someone so "Law&Order", it seems a shock but after almost 5 decades of dealing with the legal system from jury duty to petty harrassment, I've learned that it isn't about Justice or even Right and Wrong...it's about Winning. With the exception of most Cops, Agents and Corrections Officers, the rest of the American(and most legal systems) is nothing more than a game they play, using US as counters. My "Virginity" was taken when I was charged with a felony because one of the two larger guys who were attacking me in my own home got hurt. Guess who lost...
I really don't see that much difference between today and the old ordael trials...it's still the better fighter that wins, not the most Right or Innocent. It's still the Richers that can afford the best "warriors" to fight for them....Peasants can just hope for a next life of higher status....
Truth,
Pat

Current Mood: cynical

Movie Recommendation...
I genererally don't recommend generic movies of a genre except went they're not. 'Pontypool', a Canadian Horror flick is of the genre started by '28 days later', the living zombie. But here it isn't a virus...it's a meme. Certain English Words are infected and anyone hearing them spoken by an Infected one 1st becomes confused, then begins hunting and killing those that aren't. A good sense of humour as well, such as the broadcast in French that explains what's going on and a partial list of infected words, which the Radio jock translates....including the end which states "don't translate into English and Speak";>.....
A nice change is that these folks don't know what's really going on for most of the movie and they are in aa radio station with all it's info-gathering sources. It was kind of nice for a change where folks completely isolated easily figure out what top scientists can't....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: awake

DONE....
Had a visit from the city PTB's. There's a group of Good Christians in my neighborhood that wish we'd GO AWAY. This yr I planted a hedge of Lemongrass(which grows waist high)to keep the rugrats from the bus stop out of my yard and keep them from smashing the plants and their products. Since now they(the Xians) can't see us while sitting in their cars, they contacted the city to have me remove ALL vegitation above a foot tall along the boundry,...as a traffic safty issue.
Next payday I'm buying Round-Up.....
Truth,
PTD

Current Mood: angry

Totally....
Well, that was an extremely UNpleasant Physically and Mentally couple of days. The Good Thing is that I Know my Place in the Universe. Now, I kind of hope the eejits are right and in a couple yrs Earth is reduced to a new asteroid belt for the good of the Universe.....
Truth,
Pat

Current Mood: awake

Grumble, Grumble.....
I know, same song, different day but I do get tired of being treated as "normal". Just because I don't look all the time like "Death warmed over in the Microwave" doesn't mean I'm Well. Let's face it. Well folks don't require Morphine to be able to walk without crying out.
There's a part of me that's so over this sort of crap that I'm tired of trying to live normally because the more I try, the worse I get treated("because, if you were really Sick you wouldn't be able to do ____").
Bloody Hell! It's not like I'm asking for brass bands or such, just NOT to be punished for NOT crawling into my deathbed...
Truth,
Patrick Thomas Duffy

Current Mood: angry
Current Music: Sigr Ros

Cultural Differences...
It's THAT time of the yr again here. The time when differences in certain ASian and the general American culture locally get stressed....Persimmon Time(There's another at New Yrs for Citrus). These fruits are considered good luck and that they were planted, grown and owned by someone else is pretty much irrelivant. Appearantly, it's only privately owned as long as you have the weaponry to keep others from taking yours.
Every yr, some folks get hit twice as their trees get stripped(my folks had their's done two days ago....). Most folks now plant these trees in their backyards and even cut down mature trees in their fronts as so not to advertise. My backyard is too shaded so mine are in front and have to depend on Sourcery for Protection. Unfortunately, ther's nothing to be done, even if you catch them. It's a very minor crime and the "Progressives" fault you for not being "supportive" of their culture...
Truth,
Pat

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Skid Row-Little Shop of Horrors

Decisions, Dicisions;>.....
Hmmmm:
To order new Garlic

To order cooking herbs

To start an Internet rumour that Swine Flu vaccine was the cause of 'Shawn of the Dead'

So many choices;>....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Music: dog & bird

Disgusted....
On one of my Heathen lists it was posted that a certain Theodish man was running for office on the Republican ticket and was made fun of by a regional Lefty rag. The sad thing? The lack of support for a fellow Heathen.
Now, I'm not Theodish and personally have a problem with a lot of it, that's why I'm NOT. Part of the beauty of Heathenry. Personally? The Republicans aren't the most Tolerant, not that the Demos are either...just show up at a local meeting and be "Out" either/both religiously or orientationally.I would have gone Indep or Liber, though both have problems as well.
One thing ALL Heathens I know is that they don't deny that the God/desses of other do not exist. Appearantly, because this Theodsman didn't do this, he's basically a traitor to Heathenry in some people's eyes. He'd alread stated his Faith in a public forum, something a heckovalot of folks HAVE NOT. Just because he didn't state, BEFORE AN ELECTION IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY that YHVH doesn't exist(something I personally don't agree with. I beleive He exists, I CHOOSE to Follow my Heathen ANcestor's God/desses, not my Christian ones...), he's somehow denying his Heathen-ishness.
I may not agree politically with the guy but having one of us with the balls to go Public in Politics is something to be proud of, not denegrated....
Truth,
Pat

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Music: Ugly Baby-Lynch

Beginning Harvest...
Well, the Akebia only produced on one vine. Think of a Pomegranite that tastes like a Pina Colada. The food mill is broken so I'm just eating them as they open, spitting the seeds like I would a Pomegranite or a Watermelon;>.
My 1st dig of the Purple Sweet Potatoes was very disappointing. only a few small tubers. Hopefully, the other clumps will be doing better. I think I've got all the Hairy Gourds picked, including one WAY past it's picking time. Think mature Zuchinni;>! I did find a single plant of my fav Hot Pepper with a single pod on it so I haven't lost my Aji Limon. More flavorful than a Habenaro but with about 50% the Heat. Easier on the average Joe. The Guava didn't bloom this yr. I'm not going to protect it. Instead, it's spot will be taken by a 'Mexicola' Avocado which can take Temps down in the upper Teens.....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Tom Jones

Poor Richers....
Richers and their "diseases" have always fastenated me. After all, how many Roman slaves got off for "The Vapours"? How many Victorian Poorhouse workers got off for "Nervous Exhaustion"? How many assembly line workers for "Emotional Distress"? Not many I bet.
That's tha dark side of our Media today. These folks are presented as role models. You're supposed to want what they want, do what they do. While that "helps the Economy" and it's Repelican masters, it also translates to their Weaknesses being transmitted. The average under 25 has less emotional strength than a Gilded Age child because at least then most of the population weren't Emotionally and Ethically Richer.
Kind of looking forward to the next big disaster because folks are now even less able than they were during 'Katrina', who were less able than those of 9-11, who were.....
Truth,
Pat

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Chris Bottii

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