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And been feeling a bit under the weather lately, told myself it was the flu. Shortness of breath, thick green mucus when blowing nose, slight fever, chills, etc, so I get curious, look up the symptoms, pretty sure this is it:
Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/10203470/jn1-covid-symptoms/
Today was worse, up, feeling clubbed, back to bed, up, feeling clubbed, back to bed, up briefly, clubbed, and back into bed.
This - reading up on the variants expected, predicted, is going to get a lot worse, most people I know have had it - in the past couple of weeks, and - for something that's going around and laying us all low (and no immunity to this to be expected from the current Vaccines, too different) - it's getting surprisingly little press. Everyone, keep calm and carry on and DON'T MISS WORK ANYONE.
If I can stay awake long enough time to make some congee and head back to bed...
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This was the event of the year.
I mean, there are others, but in the summer, for the winter there's nothing that comes close.
The boy, he's brought his girlfriend down from Calgary for this, NY in Nelson, so it's important to get the party right.
The boy, doing well, wearing an admirable offensive shirt (I admire it, apparently one of mine...) and a fine vintage leather coat (as well, as it turns out, one of mine), a great watch (....you knew it was mine)...
Anyways, split up for the day, I got to rest up, clean up the apartment, it's going to be a big night. We meet up, he's done the conventional NY at a popular nightclub, now on to the private party, the "Event", I'd told him he didn't need the nightclub, comparatively a conservative crowd, but he'd wanted to hit all the bases...
Anyways, the Party, a private event, kept on the down-low, a large space booked for the party, perhaps 300 people in attendance. The theme was kink/sexy, and while I just go with "well dressed" a surprising number of young ladies brought out the old leather body harnesses...and I gotta say, there's probably more leashes here than at the Calgary SPCA....
Standing beside someone, a short couple, proper wood trolls, and then I recognize her, she's one of my "Facebook Friends" whom I add when I get drunk and recognize 3 friends in common. While Facebook friends - for the most part - don't even count as acquaintances, but this, seeing her in real life...well, never mind, I rarely run into these people in real life...
The boy, his girlfriend, they're impressed, this town parties well above it's weight, the music's good and better, everyone is friendly, there's the poly couples out searching for the third wheel, one girl showing me her "purse" filled with fucking dinosaurs, stacked 3 deep, yes, very cute, clever, I'm not a dinosaur, this Poly thing, I mean, if you don't want to fuck your girlfriend what makes you think I want to...
I make it until 3:00, the boy and his girlfriend hang on, but really, enough is enough, it's the best NY Eve Party in Town, probably for 1000 Miles, but I have to be somewhat recombobulated for the morning...
And so passes NY Eve 2023.
2024, still no snow on the ground, more than half the province under severe drought, 2024 is going to be a hell of a year...
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I mean, Elon Musk is a scammer for sure, but this is hilarious...
YouTube, frequently in the ads that pop up, I get one with Elon Musk telling me that I've been selected ... one of 45 people... he doesn't know how, specially selected.
And I know it's a scam, I mean, know, but if I didn't the fact that I've received this ad a few times would tell me...I'm being selected...again and again.
And I've never listened to it to the end, he wants to make me rich, he's just that sort of guy, at which point I'm off listening to or watching the content I came for, but I know people - I mean; how stupid do you have to be to fall for this, yet, here we are, they wouldn't be running it if they weren't making a killing...
Now, at what point does Google/YouTube start becoming responsible for the ads they run?
It's like Facebook, which, while I report any number of their ads - for adult websites, or underaged girls in lingerie asking me to like their photos - who vets these things? I mean, it's the wild west out there, and they seem to put the onus on their customers to report these things - and - who knows if they actually stop running the ads, I think they just stop showing them to the complainer, they probably make too much off of them to be picky, so run adult content, illegal content even, make the money, and hide it when people complain.
I almost feel like I'm being a poor sport about it all...
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This was a small part of E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Sandman" - I recognized it instantly.
I actually thought it was an Austrian Folktale - Krampus, after all, but no, this is all Hoffmann...
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And saw this trailer - "Civil War" - link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQxtg0V2w.
And I can't help but think we're all being groomed - Another election, less than a year away, and Trump is leading the Polls and the Democrats can't see their way to find a more charismatic leader and Biden doesn't seem to recognize or acknowledge that he's imperiling democracy by not stepping down and providing a more suitable, younger and charismatic replacement.
Anyways, that's the tack we're on and - while I find nothing particularly offensive in Biden, I find his hopes for another term devastating - as will the Democrats.
As will the Entire US of A, but a good lot of them will have voted for it, so there's no tears to be shed for them.