Patience is a virtue. And aren’t you all Virtuous! So sorry for being absent lately. I have been dealing with a patient that is testing my own virtue. Seriously though, a family member is having some health issues and I’ve been very busy juggling many “balls in the air.” Thanks for cutting me some slack on the stale site. At least you all have been busy. And I thank you for that.
Also, good luck to everyone who has a ticket for tonight’s Mega Millions lottery drawing!
Before I go, did anyone else catch the DeSantis interview on NBC last night?
If you have the patience, here it is.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
I wish you and yours peace and healing.
Thank you, Doug.
JOKE:
Donald Trump (while still President) looks out of his window on a winter morning and sees the words “Fuck Donald Trump” written in the snow.
Outraged, he demands that the FBI investigate. The report comes back a week later. The FBI Special Agent in charge explains,
“I have bad news and worse news for you, Mr. President”.
Trump demands, “What’s the bad news”?
The FBI Special Agent replies, “It’s Mike Pence’s urine”.
An outraged Trump then asks, “What’s the worse news”?
The G-man replies, “It’s Melania’s handwriting”.
Joke;
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He’s not breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls 911.
“I think my friend is dead!” he yells. “What can I do?”
The operator says, “Calm down. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”
There’s a silence, then a shot. Back on the phone, the guy says, “Okay, now what?”
Poor old Dai Evans had fallen on hard times, and had to sell off part of his farm. He advertised a large field, but the price was high.
His neighbour Bryn decided to buy the field, but wanted to know why it was so special.
“Dai bach, I’m happy to buy it, but not at that price.”
“Bryn Bach, this place holds many memories for me. You see that fencepost over in the far left corner? That’s where I met my first girlfriend. You see the post in the far right? That’s where we made love for the very first time. The fencepost in the lower right was where her mum stood and watched.”
Bryn is somewhat startled by this revelation.
“Dai bach, I can see why the field is really special, but I’m a bit shocked her mother was watching! What did she say?”
“Far as I can remember, it was just the usual “Baaaaaaaa”…
Did You Know
In the Iliad, Helen of Troy is described as being so beautiful she had a “face that launched a thousand ships”. In a nod to that, there is a humorous unit of measurement named after her. One helen is the beauty it takes to trigger the launch of a thousand ships and, if you’re looking to measure the beauty of someone more modest in appearance, you can even measure using millihelens—increments of beauty equivalent to one ship launch.
When someone says that they are going to do something, it’s only reasonable to think they will follow through and do it. It’s not expectation per se. That will get you every time- expecting something that no one knows you’re expecting and you are hoping might happen. This situation is different. Dont make the commitment if you can’t follow through. You’ll end up making the person you made the promises to to dislike you and not trust you, nor your word. It’s always better to undersell and overproduce. No one wants to endure continued disappointment. At some point they will just disembark the ride and leave your circus.
Sometimes it depends on what is asked and whether the person’s priorities make him/her have to push that request further back. It may not be their intention not to follow through, but the situations that arise on that person’s desk that dictate a greater need. Their are only so many hours in a day. That person may have a different triage day than the average person. It’s nothing personal, just his/her job. Your needs are personal to you and the people you care about. That person’s needs may be dictated by what is happening in the world around you and others. Also your concept of making “commitments” may have a different connotation. If triaging his/her commitments is a daily necessity, you have to be aware that yours may fall out of the things he/she can accomplish that day due to what that person has to do in a day of only 24 hours. If you already know that his life is a circus, then perhaps you should have been aware that your request and his/her “commitment” to that request would be subject to a triage. My suggestion is to find another source for your request and if that is the only reason for your association with that person, perhaps you should also consider that he/she is intelligent enough to test that theory him/herself.
Yes, I agree humans are indeed weird, but their brain’s capacity for abnormal(perhaps for us)super phenomena is very real and should be studied. I.e. Try to explain this:
On January 23, 1897, Zona Heaster Shue of Greenbrier County, West Virginia was found dead inside her home by a neighborhood boy. It was unclear what had caused the young woman’s death, especially because her sobbing husband Erasmus “Trout” Shue refused to stop cradling her head and got upset whenever the coroner tried to examine her body.
Shue’s cause of death was first listed as an “everlasting faint,” then switched to childbirth, even though she wasn’t actually pregnant — and with that, the case was closed. But about one month after Shue’s death, her mother Mary Jane allegedly started receiving a startling nocturnal visitor: the ghost of her daughter.
According to Mary Jane, her daughter’s spirit came to her bedside and told her that she had been murdered by her husband, all because she hadn’t cooked him what he wanted for supper.
Word of Shue’s ghost quickly spread through the small town and Mary Jane soon convinced the coroner to conduct a thorough examination of her body — and he found injuries just like the ones that the ghost had described and confirmed that she had indeed been murdered.
It’s awful when there’s no when you can turn to. You guys with families won’t get it because you’re never alone. But those of us that have had to be stronger because we can only rely on ourselves aren’t always successful in keeping up the illusion. The pain is real. the head, and the body hurt. the tears fall. They may wipe away the immediate emotion but the empty despair caused by knowing you’re not strong enough to hold yourself up this time is crushing. It’s understandable why so many want to leave even when there’s numbers just dying to arrive. How can you help yourself when you don’t have the strength? When there’s no relief in sight? When there’s nowhere to turn because when you do you only see yourself with the knowledge that you’re not being strong enough this time. You doubt that you’ll ever be strong enough again. I’m tired of this life.