I haven't posted a spam scam for a while now. They are getting more sophisticated.

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Ludwigstorff Georg<georg.ludwigstorff@dorotheum.at>

Dear Recipient,

We are pleased to inform you that your company has been shortlisted for participation in our current Global Business Financing Program.

Following our preliminary review, your organization meets the eligibility criteria, and we are considering the allocation of grant funding ranging between $2,000,000 and $10,000,000, subject to final evaluation and completion of the required procedures.

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We look forward to the possibility of working together and supporting the continued growth and success of your company. email: rolf.gerling@financier.com

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Susan choosing shoes and socks

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Kimmel

Don't know why, after all the truly horrible stuff that's been done, don't know why Jimmy Kimmel's suspension pushed me over the edge.

Maybe because he is somewhat Establishment, a presumably protected rich white man. If he's a victim, then the country is truly crumbling before the loony evil greedy bullies. (Colbert? That was a slap on the wrist, giving him a year; a lot can happen in a year.)

Check my privilege? Yeah I was counting on it.

I'm close to retirement, hoping to keep my head down, wanting to continue on my nice little patch of finally-something-is-mine New Hampshire home. My yard. My garden. I need to continue working. I worry that some strange medical expense will destroy it all, all my saving and scrimping and not doing stuff (trips, theatres, restaurants, home improvements) so I could save money so I could be safe, despite layoffs, not ruined by emergencies.

I need to work, mainly for health insurance.

What drugs should I request from my shrink so that I can continue to function despite the current political situation? 

Prozac? More Prozac?

current status of social media

• Facebook is for finding a local business or for sharing pictures of your kids with faraway cousins.
• Instagram is also for sharing photos with cousins, and for making photos pretty with contrast and other editing features. And to see pretty pictures from around the world.
• Tumblr is for sharing love of different media and hobbies. 
• Threads is for weird personal stuff.
• BlueSky is for anti-Trump politics plus some disparate Twitter remnants.
• Now and then I'll log onto X to see Jonah Goldberg's dogs. 
• I hope Google doesn't delete Blogger like they did with Google Photos. My posts go back to 2006.

Berry Status - Casa Zeballos - Goffstown NH - 2025-07-11

Ate the first ripe blackberry this afternoon.

Still a few raspberries left.

Probably no more wild strawberries on the front lawn.
(On Tuesday, I gave up on them and mowed the wildly overgrown front lawn.)

The choke cherries are starting to turn red, but the birds usually get all of them.
Choke cherries aren't really worth human effort anyway.

What other word than Great?

It is ironic how the things Trump destroys are the things that made us great: science, arts, health, foreign aid, generosity, an adherance to ideals.

A Great Nation is a beacon for foreign students and scientists and intellectuals. They compete to find a place in a great and prospering nation. Citizens and foreigners learn from each other in a country open to diverse ideas and debate, in a country that promotes advancement. 

That beacon defines greatness, and has done so for millenia. The centers of greatness have shifted over the years, but we can recognize where they have been thoughout history.

I mourn our greatness. I'm angry at how it is being destroyed: by simple stupidity, not from natural disasters or war or invading barbarians.

Home-grown barbarians are destroying us--barbarians abetted by ignorance, greed, and the selfish fear of politicians who could oppose them.

I want America to be great again. I want us to Make America Great. But we can't use that slogan any more for what it ought to mean.

 

In the morass

"The graveyards are full of people who thought they were irreplaceable."1 2 

The sad truth is that many of them were.

That's not the point of the original sentiment.

The point is--

If people are remembered for their worst mistake, President Biden will be remembered for his failure to stick to one term.

During the New Hampshire primary, we were inundated with ads and emails urgently telling us that a write-in vote for Joe Biden was the only way to prevent Donald J Trump from regaining power and ruining our democracy. It didn't make logical sense at the time. In hindsight, the opposite may have been true.

Me? I've been saying since November: "Don't blame me. I voted for Dean Phillips."

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cooked a proper French omelette

...with chopped leek, chives, and garlic sprouts--greens from our garden.

In the fancy French omelette pan. (ok, it's a crepe pan, but still fancy and French.) 

The eggs were best-by March, and now it is May. They were fine. 

I'd been practicing omelette making before we all got scared from the high price of eggs and stopped eating them as cavalierly as we had done before. 

But that was no reason to stop completely. I mean, we ate fish last night that was certainly more expensive.