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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Sci-Fi Hot Take...10 hours ago
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style2 days ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
- insert witty title here
- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
Blog Archive
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2018
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February
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- A Glorious Sunset
- 21 May 1931 - 27 Feb 2018
- Even Dying Is Hard Work
- So Do Something
- Try To Be Good To One Another
- Don't Be A Mouthpiece For Vladimir
- Saw Mom Yesterday
- Pray For My Mom
- Worry About My Mom
- Nominally Off This Week
- I'm Still Sick
- Kind Of Ill Today
- It's Not License To Be A Jerk
- Thursday
- Read It. Read The Links.
- It Wasn't.
- Can It Be...?
- What's On The TV?
- I Got Ripped Off
- Howdy!
- Well, That's Better
- Sick Today
- Surveillance? They're Drowning In It!
- Come The Revolution, I Don't Know You...
- If Digital Assistants Were Real
- So, Saturday
- In Which We Frighten Large Rodents
- Politics Isn't Junior High
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On The Front Lines
What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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6 comments:
Amen to that thought!
I try, I do so try, and am mostly successful, and not proud of when I'm not. But with rampant stupidity in all directions it is so hard.
Ah well, part of the price of aspiring to be a civilized citizen. If it were easy anyone could do it.
Except we all can't be the king. Or at least that is what I feel is going on.
Ms. X, I shall try, as I have for a long time. The leukemia occasionally makes perspective
hard to keep, but then I eventually remember I live in the first world country most likely to fix my bad Onco-genes and it's a lot easier to be nice and keep a good attitude.
While I was in-patient earlier this month for my induction chemo (not gonna lie, that sucked, especially toward the end, but my last biopsy put me in remission - I might even get an extra week off before the next round of toxic sludge!) seeing what I could say or do to amuse the staff, medical and otherwise, provided me with a wonderful distraction. I was consistently congratulated for my good attitude.
In retrospect, that seems a bit odd; I'm 42, and of the rational scientist ilk. I have a treatable cancer, the staff at UAB's heme-onc unit are amazing, and neither my oncologist or wife are into beating dead horses - if things turn south, heading to the beach with a sack full of pain meds isn't that scary compared to Gallipoli or Normandie.
At any rate, you and your mom will remain very much in my thoughts as I attempt to continue not to be complete turd to those around me. I hope things get better for y'all. I obviously don't know you, but your internet persona is that of someone I think I'd like quite a bit, and seeing others hurt is a lot harder than dealing with personal pain for me.
I try, but it also seems that a lot of people around me either aren't, or they have a very different idea about how people should be treated :(
I am in one of my periodic misanthropic loops. I am still kind to people because it's how I was raised, but I don't feel a lot of love for humanity right now.
Fillyjonk, you don't have to love 'em. Only treat them as you would have them treat you. Sometimes that means just leaving them alone.
Matthew, I have not checked the rulebook recently but I am pretty sure you get a pass for a certain amount of non-reciprocal speech and action in your situation. And I'll send positive thoughts your way, for whatever good it may do.
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