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 Wednesday, December 7, 2022

A day that will live in infamy

In bed by 9, awake at 3:30, up at 3:50, 2? pss, no toddy.  Woke up thinking of Reservation Dogs, attitude toward religion, the underlying story of sadness, despair, and 'California dreaming'.   30 degrees out, high of 38.

The War that would affect my family so devastatingly started 81 years ago this date with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  I was 105 days old, 3 and 1/2 months.  My father was 21 years and 3 months old.  My mother was 19, still a teenager.  The war that started that day affected their lives and their marriage and their children's lives in ways they couldn't have imagined that day.  They had been married for 16 months.  Two years and two months later, he would be drafted into the Marine Corps.  Thirteen months after that he would be on a volcanic island in the Western Pacific Ocean, trying to stay alive, probably wetting and shitting his trousers for the first time since he was a baby, 24 years earlier.  There were no urinals and commodes for Americans on Iwo Jima.  When he came home in November of 1945, he had a bathroom and a head full of the sights and sounds and smells of Death. He was 25 years old.  His wife was 23.  His son was 4 and the daughter he had never seen before was 15 months old.  All of them carried emotional wounds from that war for the rest of their lives.  Only the son still lives and he recoils at the description of the war, of any war, as a "Good War."

Herschel Walker Lost as did Mehmet Oz, Blake Masters, Don Bolduc, Leora Levy, Kari Lake, Doug Mastriano, Tudor Dixon, Lee Zeldin, Tim Michaels, Mark Ronchetti, Derek Schmidt, and so on.

“We’re going to win so much that you’re going to be sick and tired. You’re going to say, ‘Please, please, Mr. President, we’re sick and tired of winning. Please let us have at least one loss. It’s no longer exciting to win.’ And I’m going to say, ‘No way, we’re going to keep winning, and I don’t care if you like it or not." Donald Trump, 2016.

The New Built-in Oven arrived but- oh, no! - couldn't be installed without some electrical work being done first, relocate the junction (?) box.  Call to Roman Electric, first service date available is next Tuesday, 8 a.m.  Meanwhile, the oven sits in only kind-of out of the way spot on dining room floor.

Local Goldfinches Set Record of minimum 12, maximum 13 chowing down on the long tube niger feeder at the same time.  Flew away with the noisy arrival of a male downy woodpecker.