Married, 3 children, 2 grandkids. Husband is a postal carrier. I like to read, go on walks. We have 3 cats. I have lived in Mississippi & Florida. Watch too much tv. Work in Environmental services at a Detroit Casino. #cats #nature #books #Democrat #Glaucoma #bloomscrolling #music
haven't found a free Mastodon client for iOS that has the features i need, has an UI i like and is reasonably bug free. even some of the paid options out there lack features. more of an annoyance than a dealbreaker, but most of them don't support custom emojis, for example. switching between multiple accounts tends to be a hassle. the official Mastodon app couldn't do it at all the last time i checked, or i'd just use that.
in much of the world, there is this idea that some magnificent figure can be elected to finally solve all these problems the country has been having.
in Scandinavia, i don't think anyone believes in that idea.
a vote is a small nudge toward some goal.
the way it works here, you don't all gather round this one saviour figure.
the attitude is more that you nudge them toward things. strategic voting. the vote is not always about who should run the country. sometimes, it's just to give the politicians a hint. "you're doing it wrong. stop that."
ideally, you don't vote for a person or a party. you vote for policies you want for your country.
i feel this has not been explained sufficiently to the rest of the world.
My wife is home from Geogia, maybe I won't eat ramen tonight. I won't say I can't cook at all but if I had a specialty, it would be hotdogs, macaroni and cheese (with Velvetta), and pork and beans - I'd slice up a tomato on the side to make it wholesome. Let's just say I don't like to cook, I wish I did, but I don't. Years ago, decades in fact, I was home with kids my wife still hadn't come home, so I made stuffed bell peppers. I mixed some rice with ground beef and onions, stuffed it in the peppers and into the oven. Who would have thought that you're supposed to cook the rice first. They weren't too bad, a bit crunchy. When my wife got home, the kids asked her if they had to eat it.
“It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.” - Deb Caletti, The Queen of Everything
So... last year during June's heatwave, when my wife and I were getting ready to leave #Texas for #Detroit, a tiny #kitten that was living under a nearby industrial trash compactor found us.
We cleaned him all up, took him to the vet and because we already have two #cat babies of our own... my wife's co-worker who had recently lost her cat baby adopted him.
My favorite times is just before dawn on the boat. It's quiet, just sounds of family sleeping and a snoring dog.
I creep into the galley, make some coffee... just a hint of sugar and the perfect splash of milk.
Then I head to the flybridge and sit waiting for the sunrise, sipping coffee, listening to a pod of dolphins somewhere in the bay surface for a breath. It's still, the water is glass.
Our daughter was born---several weeks early. Everyone's fine, but of course that means you won't see my mug on stream for a while. When I come back, you can reasonably expect even worse puns.
