wed/20211222

Ohio – or at least this rural aspect of –  loves singing its praises when it sets a record: it adores, especially on a local level, reframing the victories of others as a victory for "the community"; allow me, then, to speak of a record set yesterday: 12,502 new COVID cases reflecting an 18% test positivity rate, an all-time pandemic high.

Go team etc etc.

This is all of which I am certain: I'm going to be the most bitter, get-off-my-lawn, fuckallyall ghost when I die here of either an autoimmune disorder run amok (plague-wrought or otherwise) or being run over on the day's run by one of the ZEROMPG throngs; I will haunt the shit out of this place and jangle my chains and make all sorts of noise so pfffbt there.

The day awaits.

tue/20211221

Those of us requiring sustenance have been sustained; kick-fetch has been played across the arctic tundra of what was once my yard but is now a crevassed and grass-devoid Kirby-playcenter. Victory, then, in these early hours with narrative head-scratching, the updating and reinforcing of TSR recording / interview processes, and further consideration of things to be considered on deck. The Morkie does NOT have a doggiedayspa appointment today, contrary to my tickler folder; the day awaits.

THE NORTHMAN (Trailer 1)

New Eggers in April; I’m in.

mon/20211220

Riding high on the success not only of telling RED NOTICE to fuck off (hated it) but of last night's culinary experiment: I now like tofu. Not going full veg, but adding some of its cuisine to my standard / default dinner menu to eat less red meat, lower shit cholesterol, better regulate overnight/fasting blood sugars, ward off inflammation, and dull the potential impact of yet-to-be-officially-but-not-unlikely rheumatoid arthritis (my familial inheritence being autoimmune disorders, it would seem; shit deal). Plus, if I can cook tasty new things that I can actually eat (unlike, say, standard fare for family gatherings), it might help bring me out of my cooking rut. Ever since the T1D diagnosis, cooking – once a love – has felt like little more than a pharmaceutical exercise for my requisite medicinal intake. Fingers crossed that this helps ameliorate that (tofu success: extra firm, seasoned with kosher salt, pepper, Italian seasoning and garlic with two eggs on top).

Started MONEY HEIST last night: if the first episode is anything to go by, I'm in. In other news, a solid writing morning, things churning, coming into being etc etc; the day awaits.

links/20211219