Vent away, msbelle!!

It must be weird for HRC. Not many people claim an international conspiracy against them and be proven right.

100% you know that Paul Ryan, Mitch, and all the rest of the GOP would be screaming for a new election based on Russian meddling, if it had been decided for Clinton. Yes, I am very bitter.

I hope the Isle of Wight is not too dear, Laura.

Ha! As long as I don't have to knit.

Just a little scrimping and saving should do it. Hopefully Vera, Chuck, and Dave don't have expensive tastes.

First world work from home problem, my Netflix via TiVo keeps dropping. I am slowly working through these work issues, so my entertainment botching up is a bummer.

Excuse me if we're avoiding the subject, but I just have to share. News just now is footage of +/- 2,000 students from the *four high schools* in Bellingham who walked out today and marched in protest against gun violence. Parents were in attendance, and brought younger kids, one of whom was wearing a bulletproof vest with a sign that read, "This is not a school uniform."

Out of all this fuckwittery and despair, there gleams a bright hope in the future.

Back to Natterage.

These kids are not fucking around, and they will be voting in 2020. If not 2018. I love it.

I went to the doctor this afternoon, and even though I've been feeling a little tubby, I am just at my same weight I've been 75% of my adult life! So that's reassuring.

Out of all this fuckwittery and despair, there gleams a bright hope in the future.

When I saw it on the news tonight (the students in Florida, and some students in Cincy), I just cried and cried. Because we have failed them SO badly that they have to do this themselves. It's so fucking unfair.

I sent an email to my mom with travel plan ultimatum that will either make her freak out & cry or be relieved.

I shouldn't even offer her options, but babysteps. Hopefully book last of lodging & flights tomorrow.

Good luck with all of that, sarameg.

Do not listen to the children. They are not money. [link]

National Treasure Alexandra Petri, everyone. She's so good.

I don't know if her anxiety is heightened because of memory issues, or if it's part&parcel with whatever is going on with her brain. But her coping is wildly variable & I'm trying to figure out what approaches work best, and it's trial & error. Don't want to negate her agency, but don't want to throw her into a tizzy with decisions.

I do think next time she proposes a trip, my brother & SIL& I ought to plan & present as fait accompli. Less stress on her. But she blindsided us big time with this one, and now we're scrambling to smoooth tattered ends. It WILL be easier on them, travel wise, to come here & rest before a long flight overnight. In fact, vital to mom's mental health. But coaxing out decisions & stuff, it's exhausting.(And I love my dad, but he's endless suggestions but no action.)