The horror continues unabated.\u00a0 Thursday will be a respite, and I will use that day to try to reestablish my sanity (whatever that might be).\u00a0 We have corroded away the first inch of the First Selectman\u2019s outer scale layer.\u00a0 This will allow the boiling sulfuric acid to percolate through and diffuse into his circulatory system and act as a revivifying tonic.\u00a0 This is an especially dangerous part of the procedure.\u00a0 The effect of the tonic is to pique his appetite.\u00a0 In years past we have lost several members of the de-lousing team at this point in the procedure.<\/p>\n
Of course, he\u2019s always very sorry afterward and apologizes profusely to the surviving members of the crew and speaks very appreciatively of the dearly departed and of all their good qualities; their diligence, their team spirit, their crunchiness and full-bodied flavor.\u00a0 He never stints on praise.<\/p>\n
Because of this unfortunate tendency during this part of the procedure I find myself unconsciously moving toward the First Selectman\u2019s left side.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little-known fact that he\u2019s blind in that eye and so less likely to reflexively snap his jaws and swallow someone standing near that side of his head.<\/p>\n
In the big, beautiful world outside of Dunwich all sorts of unimportant things are going on.\u00a0 The Olympics grinds on with no detectable interest by most of the population.\u00a0 Kamala and her new running mate are making the rounds of the friendly news shows and touting their wonderfulness.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 This guy seems to have a bunch of skeletons rattling around in his closet.\u00a0 Did he refuse to serve in Iraq?\u00a0 Did he normalize pedophilia.\u00a0 This guy may be a disaster waiting to happen.\u00a0 Well it couldn\u2019t happen to a nicer gal than Kamala!<\/p>\n
The Ukrainians have opened up a new front in their war by invading Russia on the northern front to the west of the Kharkiv area.\u00a0 And some of their new F-16s have been spotted flying in the western Ukrainian skies.\u00a0 There looks to be a major event in Ukraine very soon.<\/p>\n
During a particularly slow point in the work, I was talking to a co-worker and he was talking about raising a family in the early 1980s.\u00a0 A lot of what he said rang true for me too.\u00a0 There were major financial problems like the very high mortgage rates but people went ahead with their lives taking risks and betting on their luck.\u00a0 That\u2019s how I remember it too.\u00a0 The first time I got laid off with a mortgage to cover it was pretty scary.\u00a0 But if you looked around, something would turn up even if it was only contract work.\u00a0 The difference between then and now is there is a culture that discourages optimism.\u00a0 Nothing can be done and nothing is anyone\u2019s fault.\u00a0 The default assumption is that it\u2019s society\u2019s fault and it\u2019s not worth trying.<\/p>\n
This attitude is a death sentence.\u00a0 The world is the same as it ever was.\u00a0 Effort and extending your reach beyond the minimum are rewarded.\u00a0 Regardless of recessions and inflation, striving for what you want isn\u2019t an extraordinary idea.\u00a0 It\u2019s the normal circumstance for Americans.\u00a0 This has always been the land of opportunity because it\u2019s the land of hard work that rewards the achiever.\u00a0 So let the young ones you talk to know this.\u00a0 Struggle and survive is the order of the day.\u00a0 And they come from ancestors that did just that.<\/p>\n
Now back to the vat.\u00a0 By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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