I've given up fighting unwinnable battles.

The power held by the unscrupulous, the bullies, the downright evil will not fall to any action of mine. I've spent too much of my life tilting at windmills and its getting harder and harder to get off the mat.

I am just too tired of spending my spoons with no hope of making any difference.

That's been effective against bad laws in the past but I'm not sure they are vulnerable.

This morning I had to get up at the unholy time of 4:30. I packed up my cousin and took him to the hospital. 6 hours later we were home.

The doctor said, even with toes freshly amputated, he can walk as much as he can bear.

We'll see how things look Friday at the checkup. Just praying that it goes well this week and he doesn't overdo it. He has no feeling in the foot, so no way to know if he's pressing too far, and I'm not to change the dressing.

I've been following the news (and live video) of the new volcano in Iceland. In the course of that, I've taken the chance to poke around RUV's (Iceland's State-Run Television Channel) website for other news stories. Interesting place. I don't speak or read Icelandic, but if you open the web pages in Chrome, there's usually a translate button on the right end of the Location bar (where the URL is) that will get you a somewhat-decipherable English translation. Some words are wildly wrong, but you can't have everything. (Guess!

. . .this happened.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/31/983118029/pentagon-releases-n...

I've always voted a split ticket -- voting for the candidate who I believe represents my values -- rather than voting for an R or a D. My business partners have included staunch Rs and Ds. One was an R governor, one was a D attorney general.

In case you are unaware, Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series is now available on Amazon Kindle through Doppler Press. Please consider supporting me if you enjoy my work.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright Death Spiral By Daniela A. Wolfe Things take a turn from bad to worse when Kayde and crew arrive at the orbital defense platform and they must contend with an unexpected threat.

Ok, I got a serious problem here. In the last week, I have had two different dreams where I found myself facing a handsome young man who isn't wearing a shirt.

Will everybody please join me in asking Jaci to take her girl germs back now?

I just found this so funny that I thought some of you might find this BBC news item funny as well.

Geologist beaten up by 'angriest octopus' on beach

Well. Over the weekend, I found that my cousin, who I take care of, had a sore on his toes.

He's had problems with this foot for as long as I've taken care of him, and he's lost 2 of the toes because of frostbite and diabetes.

Thankfully, he has no feeling in that foot, but it's a problem as well. He's developmentally disabled, and thinks, since his foot doesn't hurt, it's fine. He also has no comprehension of sweets being bad for him, and it's always been a problem keeping his glucose level down.

new story up: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/89447/conviction

For some strange reason, the text of Babs' New Year's Resolution 78 seems to have dropped off my page . The title pops up but the text beneath is missing.

so I got a sleep study done last night, which basically forced me to have a shower today.

Showers are my bane. but personal care in general is always a struggle.

The shower thing is a legacy of my stepfather, I suspect the other stuff is a mix of causes.

Just got to keep fighting, I guess

as they say in Niedersachsen

Dr. Rachael Levine has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as assistant secretary of Health and Human Services. She is the first openly transgender woman to hold a cabinet-level post.

Here is the link for the NPR site: https://tinyurl.com/42fva5z7

Richard Alexander and Joel Messenger are about to have an encounter with the Devil in Drag.

Yesterday I had to say goodbye to my little tuxedo princess kitty, ripping a hole from my heart. She had been with us for over twenty years, a kitten acquired from a shelter to give to my daughter when her illness unfortunately re-occurred. The poor little thing eventually became 'my' kitty, latching herself to me and needing me in her sight at all times possible, even crying out if she woke up to find I'd moved to a different room. But her advanced age finally caught up to her beyond what could be treated and we had to let her go.

or is that first?

Kissy's life is complicated but so much fun!

Now on BC, in Butterscotch 37, Princess Kissy is introduced to the ladies at the salon... and to her date!

And for a glimpse into the future, Butterscotch 40 on Patreon features Kissy telling the other girls about her adventures in middle school!

In case you are unaware, Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series is now available on Amazon Kindle. Please consider supporting me if you enjoy my work.

Sorry for another late posting, my mother fell last night and I spent the evening checking in on her and helping her out. She's banged up, but I think she should be fine.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright A Good Frisking By Daniela A. Wolfe A trip through security hits a snag and Kayde finds herself at the mercy of spaceport security agents.

I am sorry about the non-appearance of the latest chapter. I have been admitted to the local hospital for observation following chest pains. The next three chapters are written but are on my desktop machine. I will update when I can. Louise

Well, I promised to relate my experience with the Moderna vaccine, so here goes. This is better than 2 1/2 days since I was vaccinated.

Day One Vaccinated at 6:30 AM CDT. The nurse was excellent, I didn't feel a thing. This was at the local Wal-Mart so after the waiting time (15 minutes) was up I decided to do a little shopping. Got home about 10 AM. All during this time I only had a small amount of pain in my upper arm, left arm BTW.

to which my standard reply is 'klein'

I'm reading "No Half Measures" and am almost finished. It is a very good story.

I notice that if I pause reading for more than a minute or two, the page freezes. It could be my Computer. It is aging and I'm getting ready to get another one. It runs on Win 10, and we all know that I am most certainly no Geek.

I am wondering if the issue has something to do with where the story is stored?

Any ideas?

Gwen

Just a warning to those that either have or plan to get a Raleigh bike. Getting ORIGINAL replacement parts, such as a rim, can be a huge pain the rear. Sure you can get knockoffs that are pretty close to original on amazon and such. But getting something that actually looks the same as original...nope.

I sent a complaint to Raliegh.uk about this as raleigh usa is a pain in the rear.

On that note.

Raleigh detour 1 hybrid bike.

If for nothing else the seat setup on this is brilliant. I would recommend getting one just for that seat setup alone.

or maybe an eBook.

Sorry for the silence, executive dysfunction + depression makes just typing hard.

A couple of people asked what I need. A short list:

- Money. I've been unable to get work because of my mental health and I'm trying to get treatment (nobody will hire me after an interview) and I'm applying a disability pension. But the system is fighting me every step of the way and I just don't have the spoons to do that fast.

Hi there, Big Closet family.
I've finally managed to get the emotional help I need to kick the abusive asshole out of my life (I was doing the usual abused person thing of circling back to their abuser, hoping they will be better...). But as my housing was with him, I'm needing to find a place again. I'm sick and tired of depending on other people for my housing stability, so I am looking for a place for just me.

even if you never watched "the walking dead" you might have seen the image of a door with the words "Don't open. Dead inside"

well, that's how I feel right now,

or maybe its Tizwoz?

Does anyone know how to remove a story? I want to completely remove my Huntress story. I don't like it and I'm intending to completely rewrite it after I finish "In the Darkness is the Light"

It's going to be waaaay different and better because the original was just dismantling tg tropes in fiction and just... I hated it so much. I wanted to kill certain characters just because of all the crap that happened. I hated using those tropes but I just kept doing it, well now I'm fixing it.

An amnesiac woman wakes up in a hotel room and struggles with a reality that doesn't match with her conviction that she used to be a man.

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I yam exhaustipated.

My arm hurts from my wrist to my ear, and I'm so tired I am not funtioning. This is worse than the first dose which was similar.

Hopefully, I'll be better tomorrow.

Hugs to all and thanks Moderna,
Erin

I'm sitting in a parking lot right now, waiting for my daughter to get done with an appointment. I'm sitting directly across from the door, so I can see when she comes out.

A little bit ago, someone walked out with tattoos all over his face. Now if someone wants a tattoo or two, thats fine. They're an expression of ... diversity, I guess, but as you can tell, I don't have one. Were I to transition, I might do eyeliner. That's about as far as I'd go, however.

Chapter 27 will be done by sometime next week. Then it will be sent to my great editor and an even better friend. I usually don't like giving these updates about my stories. I am doing so because of that long delay I had. I wanted to let people know it is still being worked on.

The reason for this delay is a good one. I had a short story in my mind which demeaned my attention each time I went to write. So in a couple of days that story, Guilty Until Proven Innocent, will be up.

Love N Hugs
Sarah

Hey everyone,

I've had a busy few days. Between that, not sleeping much again lately, my thumb still slowing things down, and a busy weekend ahead I just don't think that I'll be able to post chapters of either I Wish or MSPD this week. So I'm going to try to get a solid night or two of sleep and rest my thumb and brain between getting things done over the next few days.

*big hugs to you all*

Amethyst

Hey everyone,

Just a few quick notes here today. First, Spell Check, book 2 of I Wish is now on Kindle so get it while it's hot:
https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/87616/spell-check-i...

There is hope!

A Native American has been appointed by President Biden to head the Department of Interior. And to make it even better the appointee is a woman, Deb Haaland, who is a member of the Laguna Pueblo. By being the Secretary of the Interior it puts her over :

well more of an adjustment really.

Pete and his girlfriend, Megan, celebrated the football team's first league victory of the season. But morning reveals a horrible, frightening discovery...

P.V. 1 - First and Goal
by Erin Halfelven

Selected for jury duty. I was laughing as I read I had been summoned for jury duty and when I had to report to the court house. Called the court clerk and explained my circumstances and told her I would be more than pleased to attend. Although I believe I have an excellent sense of fashion I would be bringing the past X number of years of medical files in my briefcase. I'm sure the judge and lawyers wouldn't be pleased.

I only just finished "The Princess Trap" and loved it so much! I returned to it to see if the Author had done more, and much to my astonishment found that Tyrone Slothrop and Wanda Cunningham had published it. Then I found out that the story had been on Kindle for a while.

Gwen

HELP! Just now I was trying to insert a picture in a PM. When I tried to preview the message, the message disappeared and when I tried to reconstruct it, all but three of my pictures have disappeared.

Is there any way to get them back? There are a lot of them that need to appear in current stories, both mine and other authors.

I am not really sure how Patreon works.
I have had a Patreon site for almost two years and I post all of my new material on it every week, sometimes in a raw state, before it goes anywhere else. I thought that is was all about sharing my art and my creative process, but I am just not getting any engagement. I get some likes but very few usable comments and no real interaction.
I think that Erin is suggesting that it is because I am not known but I really have no idea how to promote it.
I would be interested in hearing from others who have a patreon platform.

Hello out there,

As you know I've been gone for a while. Chapter 6 of Walker's Path was pretty tough to write but Chapter 7 is even harder. It's not a whimsical or fun Chapter. It's difficult to write because it's emotional.

Because it's so emotional it takes a lot out of me. Pulling emotions out of my brain is pretty taxing. It makes me face feelings that I don't want to deal with.

Walker is following a similar path. Where he doesn't want to face the truth of what happened to him. He's lucky though because he's found a support system by accident.

It's weird; these days when I do a word search, I'll find something I don't remember reading before, and then I'll realize it's one of MY stories...

(In editing my own stories, I develop a familiarity that seems to prevent me from recognizing the individual sentences, as there are alternate versions in memory, too.)

https://youtu.be/CFUwkAHHSyE