#SunValley & #SierraVista#NewMexico: #Lincoln County Emergency Management: A #wildfire is moving toward Sun Valley and Sierra Vista. Residents and visitors should either voluntarily evacuate now to a shelter located at Capitan Fairgrounds or a family/friend's home outside of the affected area. If choosing to remain, be ready to evacuate at a moment's notice. More information, tune into 1490 AM. Source: Village of #Ruidoso
Everyone's favourite tabloid, The Daily Telegraph, contains an article decrying the Financial Independence Retire Early philosophy1 I have a mixed relationship with the FIRE movement. It basically boils down to "spend less, save more, then you can retire once you've save 25x your annual spend". That's it. As Michael Taylor writes, some people f…
I've got about another 10 months left at my current job and after that... I don't know what I'll do. I've already moved down to 4 days a week in an effort to glide down to FIRE. Do I really want to go back up to 5 days? Could I find somewhere that would be […]
@Edent Do the sabbatical! And afterwards, find an employer that offers a 4-day workweek (or ask for it early in the interview process – worked for me). Companies and organizations are slowly warming up to the idea that the 4-day workweek is working well (especially if they want to hire good people), and that people take sabbaticals and other breaks from their burnout-prone jobs. (1/2)
I've just watched the Plainly Difficult video on the 1985 Bradford City Valley Parade fire.
I'd been at that ground about a week prior for something unrelated to football. I wasn't at the match on the day but could see the fire from the distance. The memory still upsets me almost 40 years later.
The ironic thing was that the match was the last of the season and the stadium was due to be demolished the next week
History about me that probably no one here knows and typing this will likely make me sob then go to bed.
Anyone that follows me, and pays attention, knows I'm a child of abuse.
What you might not know is that I started leaving home at 13 (1st time I remember as an extended period).
What you likely don't know is that I was alone the last semester of my senior yr of HS, at least the last semester (best of my memory). I took my mom out of an institution on a furlough to see me graduate (she was forced there bc of "terroristic threats" against my abusive father bc she said "I could kill you for everything you've done to me" and went to bed; she woke up surrounded by police), in any event, shortly after I graduated, like less than a month for sure, she was released and she took him back.
He took everything I saved.
He told me to leave. He then tried to have me arrested over a land line phone I took with me, princess pink, I hope he enjoyed that phone.
I was immediately in need of housing and work.
My sister (🕯) helped me get an apartment (I was a minor), my retail job let me pick up hours. This was the 90s ppl, the economy sucked ass in NJ.
My eldest bro started sending me the job postings from OH where he was at the time.
Eventually I said "Fuck it. I have nothing to lose, literally", despite not knowing him (he left home when I was 5, bc of abusive father, and came back 1/yr, 2/yr at best).
I took a job as a contractor at the company I'm still with at the age of 18 (guesstimate). They hired me at 19 (for sure). They've promoted me to levels and pay that PhDs have.
When I say that I have fire, I mean I have fire.
Why does this matter to me right now???
What I saved was taken from me, my self worth was stolen from me as a child. I had desires. I had knowledge. I had passion. I had potential.
I was NOT going to let anything rob my son of his potential. I needed him to have opportunities that I didn't have, in ways I didn't have. After all, my intentions have always been to break the fucking chain of abuse.
I was set on paying for his college as hard as it might be. (As a single mom, bc I couldn't help myself but to date "the abusive man" hoping I could be his salvation. Never took a dime in child support.)
But I made my son take out a 5k loan his 1st semester bc I wanted him to feel invested in his future.
He has, at every turn in his life, exceeded my expectations. **The best human I know. For real.**💜💘💜
And so today, I decided that my college graduation gift to him will be to pay off that loan, because I can, with a grimace, but can.
The master bathroom remodel can continue to wait.
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Happy graduation to my baby.
(Also, since on topic of a pos somewhere in this very long post:
🖕 I always told you I'd win, "dad". I've won. I am everything you told me I wasn't and more (🎶32 flavors and then some🎶). My only sorrow is that my mother couldn't join us this weekend, but I bet I see a single 🕊.)
Thank you to any of you that actually read all this. I see I'm in the thousands of characters 😬🤐💜✌️💜💞🌺 #IamWhatIam #DoYou #KeepOn #Fire
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Reading about the fire at the old Copenhagen stock exchange and seeing its spire collapse brings back memories of seeing Notre-Dame's spire collapse, almost exactly five years ago. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68825078
I'm not sure why FEMA thinks abled people are so fragile that ASL cannot be a regular part of all FEMA communications, but they've created a bunch of videos called "FEMA Accessible" that seem to sometimes be accessible in the sense of having an ASL interpreter and good captions, but sometimes are about emergencies for those with mobility disabilities.
In any case, here's a playlist of those videos. If you want FEMA to keep trying, give them a thumbs up and leave comments as to what you think could be improved. More engagement will help more accessible information be produced and hopefully they can improve on it.
"I Moved to Rural New Mexico to Report on the Aftermath of a Massive Wildfire. My Neighbors Were My Best Sources."
Reporter Patrick Lohmann has lived in #NewMexico for most of his life, but covering the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon #Fire required building trust in a divided community.
