Random stuff in my boring life.

Governor Abbott is trying to make the shooting in Uvalde all about mental health. No, many people have mental health issues, but they don't go on a shooting rage. You refuse to pass gun laws to limit who can purchase a gun. You say eighteen yr olds have to be been able to buy guns for sixty years in TX. Yes, they could buy a hunting rifle. It's only been a few yrs that they could buy a AR-15. A weapon used in war should not be easy to be purchase by the general public.


You talk about making school safer by arming teachers or having armed guards on site. There was an armed guard on duty, but the shooter had more fire power and protective armor. Even the local police were not able to stop this shooter. It took a specially trained border guard with similar weapons to take this guy down.

Governor Abbott passed laws in TX that you can buy a gun without a permit and/or special training. You can open carry. You posted that TX was #2 in gun sales and that we should be ashamed to be #2. That we needed to buy more guns. Abbott is scheduled to speak at a NRA meeting in TX in a few days. Abbott is in the NRA pocket. He will never do anything to go against the NRA. They give him funds to support them. Shame on you Governor Abbott.

Saw my main doctor today. He is maybe in his late thirties or early forties. Nice guy, very athletic and divorced. He's very straightforward. After over two years I finally got covid. He was asking me what symptoms I had and how I felt now.

Then we went over my medicines. I told him I was taking a D3. He then said people shouldn't take a bunch of vitamins. That I should just get more sun. My family history has a lot of skin cancers so I avoid the sun. I asked about the Lipitor I've taken for about twenty yrs. I've been having muscle spasms and muscle pains around my knee. It's gotten so bad I limp. He wanted to send me to a specialist. I asked him to change the medicine first to see if it was side effects. He really didn't want to do that. He finally agreed to change it from 40MH to 10MG.

We spoke more about different things. Asked him about getting the second booster. Since I just had covid I wasn't sure if I should get one right away since I should have antibodies for a while. Never got an answer because he started talking about how people use COVID as an excuse to to why they don't exercise, lose weight or whatever. This is why I usually don't go into detail with him. He is one of those doctors who thinks no one needs drugs for mental health and stress. I've never requested that sort of help, but I really needed it a couple of times. Empathy isn't his thing. He is a very good doctor, but there are times he pisses me off.

Abortion. I'm old enough to remember what it was like before Roe vs Wade. Abortions were difficult for people who didn't have money or power. You might find a doctor who would do one and fudge the records to cover it up. You might go to someone who claimed they knew what they were doing, but really didn't. Lots of women died because they were desperate and trusted the wrong person. Some took drugs and hope the pregnancy would end. Some would harm themselves to cause a miscarriage. Guys would get their buddies to claim the girl had sex with more than one guy so she couldn't claim they were the father. This was before dna testing.

Politicians now claim they will protect the unborn so abortion isn't a right. They are all about protecting the unborn. They only care till the baby is born. Then unless it's a boy, they could care less. Female, gay, trans or skin tones they don't share, are not worthy. That child isn't protected. They ignore healthcare, housing, education, That kid isn't worth their time. They turn their back on that child.

Every woman has a right to her body and a right to choose. Some people shouldn't have kids. But it's a woman's right to decide that for herself. Not some stranger who won't be there for that child as it grows up.

moscow_watcher[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] has a birthday on April 16th. I pray she is safe and well. The world is a dangerous place these days. I hold you in my heart always.

I live in a very small apartment building. There are only six apartments. Four one bedroom and two with two bedrooms. One side of the building has four parking spaces and the other side has five spaces. No place to park on the street. You have assigned spaces since it is so limited. A woman moved in one of the single bed unit. She had two cars and parked in my space. I left a polite note explaining the situation. She got angry and was banging on my door. She was yelling through the door. No way was I going to open that door. I emailed the office for the apartment which is in another city. They contacted her and told her to use her one space only. A few months later she was evicted.

This weekend a guy moved into that apartment. He parked in my space. I came home and spoke to him as he was getting into the car. Today I got an email from the office saying there are not assigned spaces and there are two spaces available for each apt. How they got twelve spaces when there is only nine I don't know. I emailed the CEO and in less than ten mins there was a follow up email. Now they were stating there were assigned spaces and fines if someone used the wrong space. 🤣😇🤭

I grew up in Texas and lived through lots of strange weather. Yet the last couple of years has really been strange. I am use to 100+ summer months. I remember stories from my mom about snow being so deep that they dug tunnels in it. In my life time, snow was maybe an inch that was gone by afternoon.

The last two years have changed our winters. Last year we had a week of snow and ice with temps of below zero. Huge change. Last month, we had icy for days, but not below zero. Last Monday night we had tornados. Oklahoma and Texas got hit by over ten tornados. One was a few miles from where I live. Those storms moved east and into other states. So many homes just wiped away. Not that tornados are unusual, but so much odd weather so close together is.

I pray that everyone is safe and our government realizes that climate change is real.

Did anyone else get a message in Russian about a hashmob? I deleted the email since I had no idea what they were about. Not taking chances. The post was on my friends of friends link.

Happy birthday to dorians_kitten. I think you have moved on from LJ, but still hope you have a wonderful birthday. Blessings for you on your special day.🎂

Woman wants to do a return. Refunded an item with a receipt. No problem. Then she starts digging in her handbag looking for a different receipt to do another return. Can't seem to find it. Says that the person who helped at a different store must not have given her her receipt back. Then she asks me if I gave her back the receipt from the return I just did. I point to it laying in front of her. She moves to the side and digs in her handbag again. She finds the one she was looking for and I do that return. She goes off into the store.

A few minutes later she is back. I'm with a different person doing a return. My coworker tries to help her. She hands her a bag with clothes in it. My coworker asks if she has a receipt for this item. Woman starts saying it's in with the clothes. No receipt in the bag. She starts yelling at my coworker. Turns out it was in a different bag. Then she starts cursing about kids in the fitting room making too much noise. Says kids shouldn't be allowed in the fitting room. She must have said "f*ck" a dozen times in less than five minutes. We just ignored her and gave her her return. Why? Why do people feel they act act like that?

LJ is slowly dying it seems. I will really miss this site. It helped me during a dark time. I found a group of people here that brought much joy to my life.

I pray that everyone is safe. That this madness will end soon.
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