Sharon decided to thank me for getting up early in the morning to take her to the emergency dentist, which ended with her having to make an appointment for next week, and treating her and Sam to breakfast by talking about how God made me a man.

She should be grateful God made me the kind of person who will still pick her up and help her.

Cause somedays, I have to fight my anger so I don't just stop being her unpaid cab.

While reading the newspaper today I came upon an article detailing how the state of Oklahoma is now requiring teacher applicants from both New York and California who are looking to get a job teaching in Oklahoma to pass a loyalty test. The test is produced by PragerU, an Oklahoma based conservative non-profit which is becoming well known for posting ultra-conservative and religiously based teaching materials on-line.

Here is the link to the article:

An article from the Guardian citing a report that might be of interest.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/trans-people-u...

After weeks of having one of my long-distance friends and players in my D&D campaigns be missing, I've found out that she has passed from this life and into Heaven on July 11, 2025. Natalie Holman was a bright, wise and happy soul who was giving of love in all her interactions.

Obadyah D'vorah is Natalies Jewish name. She is into fairies and like to go by the name Shiran a lot when playing them. She was in the military and was a computer programmer. She is retired and she is in her late 60's with eyesight problems, rides Harley motorcycles, plays the guitar, follows several book series, has 2 cats that like biting her.

A problem has been given in physics texts for decades, and (last I checked) is still given, and the solution involves a serious conceptual error.

I have really been trying not to post anything political on this site over the past several months. As much as I sometimes need to vent and I feel that a topic may interest those who read here, I also understand that many may not feel it is appropriate. But today I can’t help but so so.

Allie heads into the Snake Pit and sacrifices her car in her first test of loyalty to the Vipers

One of my biggest struggles is having a shower. (there are reasons for that, but they aren't important right now).

But what really is frustrating is that instead of my brain saying "I'm scared of showers because of BAD THING", it tries to give me excuses to not shower - I'm too busy, too tired, too hot, too cold. or tries to distract me with a book or a website or a video or even a train of thought.

It seems that my brain is scared of admitting its scared, so I have to get through the fear of fear in order to actually face my fear.

Ah, well.