Since my best friend finally pissed me off enough to post the link Ukraine's official donations website as a reply to his mockery of its supporters on facebook, I thought I might as well share it here too in case there's anyone who's interested and hasn't seen it before. Donors can choose whether they give money to defense, humanitarian aid, rebuilding efforts, and I think a couple of other categories:

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Thanks Matt!

I am in full indecision paralysis as far as the stock market goes. Part of me feels like I should pull some money out. Maybe build up more of a liquid cushion. My usual approach in bad times is set it and forget it. I don’t think I looked at it once during the prior Orange Times. But that felt qualitatively different.

Same Brenda. But I’m figuring either shit goes so bad that my retirement money is just a pipe dream, or I’ve got long enough that it can bounce back. I hope.

Eagle cam! [link]

2 new bébes.

The only Americana I plan to engage in tonight.

In the same boat, Brenda. It is very challenging to keep to my plan, but my life experience tells me to hold tight. The volatility with TFG topping himself daily with the insanity is heart stopping. I still look, but I have to hang in there and not bail. As much as my portfolio has dipped, it is nothing compared to the billionaire buddies. He is going to start feeling the heat. He'll reverse the tariffs just like he reverses other gross errors. He will declare he won and take them away.

Don't look at the last month, look at the last 10 years. It's going to continue to be a roller coaster.

Oh, wow, those eagles... and babies. And the view. It's all very soothing. Thank you.

Aw, squeaky chirpy eagles

Same Brenda. But I’m figuring either shit goes so bad that my retirement money is just a pipe dream, or I’ve got long enough that it can bounce back. I hope.

Same. I'm not getting Social Security in any case (government job), and I hope I won't be retiring for at least another twenty years or so, and I tend to invest pretty conservatively, so I'm hoping everything will work out on that front.

In other annoyances, the ADHD meds shortage continues. The past several months, my doctor has had to call the pharmacy each month and find out what they happen to have in stock so that she can prescribe me that, so my dosage has been changing every thirty days. It's getting ridiculous.

I am eating all the Girl Scout Cookies* I ordered from trans Girl Scouts. *not made from real girls but sold by real girls.

::sigh::

Old-folks problem. I slept on my hand. Now it hurts enough that I want to take some ibuprofen to relieve the pain -- but my hand hurts too much to open the bottle.

Mild heat will have to do, for now.