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Top Comments: Random Assortment of Thoughts Edition [1]

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Date: 2024-09-30  

It’s September 30th, as everyone is aware of thanks to the plethora of WE ARE LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO REPORT OUR FUNDRAISING TOTALS TOMORROW PLEASE GIVE US ALL YOUR MONEY FOR A 600% MATCH emails/texts/carrier pidgeon notes. I deleted 20 spam texts and more than 25 spam emails today. Much like those messages, my brain is scattered today. Rather than try to make it focus on one topic for tonight, I’m giving it free rein to mention everything and hope one or more of these conversation starters spark you to comment after the Tops! Let’s see…

- Like everyone, I am shocked, saddened, and horrified by the tragedy left in the wake of Hurricane Helene. While I do not have family currently affected, both Mr. Brillig and I have friends impacted severely, and we both at one time had family living in western North Carolina. His grandparents lived in Hendersonville (where we visited them decades ago) and my Aunt lived in Murfreesboro.

- I’m concerned about how this will affect November. There is no possible way things will be ‘back to normal’ in a month, but that won’t stop Republicans from stoking the fire of ‘Democrats can’t fix things elect us’. Even though they literally want to decimate the very systems and agencies whose job it is to monitor for storms and assist before, during and after.

- I spent much of today watching online sessions for a class I am taking on behalf of my dog. Simba is so anxious and afraid at the vet it makes getting him cared for difficult. I’ve never had a dog this big (just shy of 100lbs) and I realize now with our smaller dogs we just persevered and got things done because they were, well, smaller. I assume that’s the case for many pets, but with a dog as not-smol as Simba, you cannot MAKE him do anything he doesn’t want to do. So he has to be medicated even to be seen, and he even doped up to the gills is trying to hide and get away. The four month class is designed to help with vet anxiety, and the next live chat is Thursday. I am only a litttttttle bit behind!

- I’m typing this with my foot elevated and iced because somehow I seem to have done something to it and it hurts to go up or down stairs or rise up onto my toes. I have NO idea what happened, as I walked miles on Saturday with no problem. I assume it’s tendonitis and would like it gone now please.

- Wednesday marks 34 years since my father died of melanoma. He was two years younger than I am now. I wrote about my dad last year and rereading it… well, have you ever written something that clearly just NEEDED out? That diary was one of those. I love you Dad, and miss you terribly.

- We had K1 and partner over for dinner last night and it was lovely. Two weeks ago we had dinner at their place for the first time and it was so enjoyable. After decades parenting a child, it’s really cool to realize you have a totally new and wonderful relationship with your adult child.

I think that’s it for now… my brain could go on for pages and pages but I know people really want to see tonight’s Tops!!!

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