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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • Perhaps the best line ever uttered in any movie. Rowdy Roddy Piper maybe a B movie actor at best, but he was meant to play that role in that movie.

    I have often wondered: Who wore a kilt best. Bruce Campbell or Rowdy Roddy Piper. Campbell was a Sharp Dressed Man in his kilt for sure. But Piper wrestled in one for years-- it was his trade mark garb.





  • That makes 2 of us. Been living with brain fog, memory loss, inability to pick out words when speaking, and now I set something down on a countertop, turn around, turn back and look and I literally can’t see the item I set there. I see everything else, even the countertop where the item is sitting. Generally I either panic or I get pissed at myself for being so stupid. And then all of a sudden, the item magically returns to view as a stare at it.

    Oh, and just for fun, breathing is still hard. And all medical testing shows my lungs are just fine and there should be problem. My pulmonologist tells me I’m one of the lucky few to be so chosen-- in jest. (I had to search “lung doctor” because I couldn’t remember the word pulmonologist just now)



  • First, thank you for your concern. You are a good person and a credit to yourself.

    I suppose mental therapy might be a path I could follow. But it’s more a concern of getting COVID yet again and I’m old and in the high risk age group. And despite being vaccinated and getting boosters as needed, there is frankly no guarantee I won’t get it again. It’s not that I shun contact and interaction with others, I certainly don’t. But minimizing contact with crowds is medically a good thing for me. And messing around in a town/city a lot is asking for trouble. I’m close enough to the end of life that I don’t need the extra help in getting there - it’s coming soon enough as is.

    I did do therapy with a Speech Therapist, it’s where I got the breathing device. They are oddly well qualified for issues like mine. But, evidently COVID can create a short circuit in the brain that physical therapy can help some but really can’t fix according to my Pulminologist and the Speech therapist. And as far as just getting plain exercise goes, I live in a very rural part of a very large forest. And between daily chores, I spend copious amounts of time in that forest foraging until the snow flies and at this time of the year hunting. In fact, if it stops misting and the fog lifts this afternoon, I will be out with a dog doing some grouse hunting chasing after supper. I don’t quit because of limitations. Quitting brings on death much faster. And I’ve seen that enough during my many years as a medic.

    I hate the changes that COVID has forced upon me. But I acknowledge it’s existence and I’m fighting it as hard as I can.


  • Short answer is No. It suffers from many of the same issues of echo chamber, bias, and bullying. Just on a somewhat smaller scale due to fewer users. And never forget - Winter is coming. There will be a time in the future the bots will notice lemmee and come for it also.

    But I suspect this is all a human thing. We are a contentious bunch at best and down right hateful at worst. We build communities only to poison and kill them in the end.



  • As someone with long COVID, I can vouch the debilitating mental effects. I was teaching math to 4th through 8th grade students when I got it. I can remember standing in a classroom talking about a lesson and just having my mind go blank in mid sentence. I couldn’t function. Not knowing what I was talking about or even where I was. Thankfully the students where very understanding and someone would finish my point I was making. I still suffer from it yet today, nearly 2 years later.

    I have respiratory issues despite every CT scan showing nothing more than a couple of small pneumonia scars form long ago. I should be able to breathe just fine with no reduction of lung capacity. It stems from a lack coordination with my diaphragm - It runs backwards when I exert myself causing shortness of breath. Another sign of probable brain injury. And despite using a therapy tool to try and fix the issue, at best it just helps a little.

    The upshot is I have pretty much stopped doing a lot of things I used to do because of the difficulties breathing and I spend a lot more time away from people due to an unreasonable fear of COVID.

    It has caused me to retire earlier than I wanted to. And my life has greatly changed - and not for the better either.