...moving the dryer to reconnect the vent to the outside. I failed to notice in the mayhem in the garage that once the washer and dryer had been put back in place they had not been reconnected. I'm not confident in my ability to move it out from where it's wedged in, to pull it out 5 ft or so to get behind to work on it and push it back in. If I had known it wasn't reconnected I would have asked the contractor to do it. I'm finding "little things" like this left to be done all around the house.

I tried to get a handyman to come out and fix some tile damage one of the contractors did earlier. No joy there. It's ridiculous how hard it is to find skilled labor. Perhaps I will have to frequent a pub nearby to find workers, but then you can't really trust that they know what they are doing. I won't do it anyway. Years ago, when we owned a small pub, it was easier, because I knew the patrons well.

If all the illegal immigrants are driven out, I'm wondering who will do the heavy work and construction work. Initial count was around 40 K homes wrecked by Milton in FL. I got a hernia preparing/sandbagging/moving out/moving back in after the 2022 storm, had it fixed later. The hernia I got later, in 2024, basically from the same cause, I'm not bothering with. However, my lifting ability is definitely impacted. I felt stronger right after the storm, moving furniture, boxes and sandbags around, although some pain. But now I'm weaker. Luckily we had help moving furniture, appliances, back in October. That's over. Can't get anyone to work now. Job's too big, Job's too small. We're too busy, etc. Now we have to do just about everything ourselves.

Later this week, we'll have to move all Ms. So's potted plants to a friend's yard. She won't let them go. I'm thinking there's a ton or more, so I'll have to rent a van. I don't know what place we'll be able to bring them to, eventually. I don't think we'll find a place, like another home, the real estate bubble is ridiculous.

I noticed I had trouble opening some jar lids recently. Then I heard some health guru saying grip strength and health were directly related. Don't know his data for that. Maybe I'm in trouble. LOL. I worry about the house, and war and peace, not my health. I think neuro damage is my greatest concern. After I hooked up the hangul keyboard, I couldn't remember where the keys were, which I used to know (lost the keyboards I used to use). When I went back to the English keyboard, I had some difficulty remembering how to touch type, which I learned long ago, to type research papers. After typing a couple of days in English, it seemed to come back.

I know I mentioned three people in the immediate neighborhood died after Milton, mostly from stress is my theory. Now I know three more of the elder neighbors with serious illnesses. Same theory on my part. The 90 year old retired pilot was doing just fine. I may post some Korea related content separately. Some interesting perspectives on the South Korean presidential campaign which is almost over.

Thanks for OT E1!

be but at least I have retained my warped sense of humor.

You don't have to understand Russian to get the message.

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— La VoLpE DeL DeZeRtO (@Erdsve) May 27, 2025

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— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) May 27, 2025

Col. Jacques Boud: The West Does Not Respect International Law

We live in completely distorted realities. The West is unable to understand the root causes of these problems—what applies to Palestine also applies to Ukraine.

In Palestine, we’re talking about the Palestinian… pic.twitter.com/Kp2pkJX65e

— pocalypsis pocalypseos (@apocalypseos) May 27, 2025

The rest of the tweet:

In Palestine, we’re talking about the Palestinian population. In Ukraine, we’re talking about ethnic Russians—people who have been oppressed by the very government that is supposed to protect them. That’s also the case with Israel. I remind you that, according to the Geneva Conventions, Israel is obligated to protect Palestinians because it is an occupying power. As such, Israel has a legal responsibility to protect the Palestinian population—but it does not. This has been acknowledged in numerous UN reports and by other international organizations.

In Ukraine, we see the same dynamic. Ethnic Russians were stripped of their rights in February 2014. That’s what triggered the rebellion. Instead of implementing the solution laid out in the Minsk Agreements, the Ukrainian government continued to fire on its own population—specifically the ethnic Russians in the Donbas region, in Donetsk and Luhansk. These people were, after all, Ukrainian citizens.

So in both cases—whether we’re talking about the government in Tel Aviv or the government in Kiev—we see governments failing in their responsibility to protect their people and instead resorting to violence. It’s the same situation.

This is exactly what prompted the Palestinian operation on October 7, 2023. And in Ukraine, it’s what prompted the Russian intervention on February 24, 2022. These are the reasons.

Of course, other factors came into play in Ukraine—such as the issue of NATO—but the core reason, and I will continue to repeat it, is this: Russia intervened in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, because the Ukrainian government was preparing an offensive against the population of Donbas. That offensive began to be planned on March 24, 2021, when President Zelensky issued a decree to reoccupy Crimea and the southern region of the country.

Period. It’s as simple as that.

And we are always caught in the same pattern. The West signs agreements, but as soon as those agreements no longer suit their political objectives or the policy of the moment, they simply discard them—as if those agreements never existed. That’s exactly what creates the problem.

We see the same issue in both Palestine and Ukraine. These conflicts were, in fact, created by the West’s failure to respect international law. Additionally, countries like Ukraine began shooting at their own population, and Israel has continuously targeted the population it is supposed to protect—something it has done since 1948. So, nothing really new there.

But the core problem—the root cause of both situations—is precisely this: the West, or those considered part of the Western world (such as Israel), do not respect international law.

It’s as simple as that.

Seems I lost the physical ability to wear a seat belt. I am short, so the strap going across my body presses again my neck and the trapezium muscle will ache for days. The longer I wear it, the longer it takes to stop hurting.
The answer to my problem is a clothes pin. I snap the belt into place, the loosen the cross body strap, fold it and pin it so that the pin stops the belt from tightening all the way. I would not fly through the windshield upon impact, and I am legally wearing a seat belt, officer.
I do not have the patience for know it all lay persons who quote legal theories to me.
I dislike new movies.
I am no longer comfortable in high heels taller than 2 inches.
e1, growing old is like discovering your new self.
Thanks for the OT, friend!

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They are a bit OCD'd.
No idea whatever they are talking about.
Now I just say, hey cool. I think I OD'd once too!
Probably not on the same page? Not worth the
trouble to google this stuff. Just another rabbit hole.

Your titles are always wonderfully descript of the content, in so few words.

I agree with your sentiments about growing old, and enjoy the humour you bring to it ...

"At least my new knees are still working, although the right one is starting to snap, crackle, and pop. But I mitigated that by turning off my hearing aids."