Doing another journal entry early since my last one ended up being relatively short. I will be making a new tab on my website dedicated to my cat. She is incredibly lovely and deserving. I mainly want to cover the recent issue of her neutrophil counts. The bloodwork at the vet appointment has indicated for the second time that her neutrophil counts are below the acceptable level. Overall healthy and active. Acting totally normal the past year. But enough of that here. It is not an immediate problem but one I will want to solve for her long term health. The past weekend was good, I indulged in my favorite all you can eat cuisine, KBBQ and woke up the next morning with extra energy for the rock climbing gym. I had taken a small hiatus to let me muscles repair and I ended up climbing way better and harder than expected. Sunday is my favorite day of the week, ended up getting Georgios and spending the evening with Sam. He organized all my files in neocities and I love it. I had no idea how much I would be fleshing out on this website so fast so now things are way more manageable. More content to be coming :)
Wow, what a week. I would like to start off with the fact that I am typing this in VIM instead of the neocities text editor! Yippeee! Learning!There is definitely much to learn but I have most of the basics at this point. My personal week went well, I played some indoor pickleball for the first time with Kelly. Felt good to be back and get that cardio in. I got to use a new paddle I got for Christmas and it rocks. Been mildly sick and been taking it easy the past few nights. I think I've gotten 9-10 hours of sleep the past three nights. Now to the other bad shit... Another death by ICE, this time a VA ICU nurse. No one can ever tell me that what transpired was okay. It wasn't, our cities being occupied is the scariest thing that could be happening right now. I felt better after watching a few of Anderson Cooper's interviews, it is nice to see people coming together but it would be nice to be over something a lot less doomsday.
I would like to add that journaling last week helped with the incessant internal thoughts. I have for my own sanity and happiness been ignoring the world and news this week and for the forseeable future. I heard they are handing out so called "federal immunity" and my brain just shut down. Anyway! I saw a good friend from elementary school this past week. Always a pleasure the handful of times I see him throughout the year. i have started playing Umamusume, a mobile anime horse racing game. It's better than expected and has gotten me on the treadmill the few times I have played it for an extended time. Makes the walking go pretty quick. In other good news, i bought a laptop off of my friend to mess around with Linux distros (this one is currently on Fedora) and it is going well enough. Had a hiccup at install with wifi but nothing that a quick search didn't fix. I always find it funny how my brain whenever I try something new immediately yearns for the old. I laugh when I notice it.
It has been a week since Renee Good was killed in Minneapolis and it hasn't left my mind. I've thought about it everyday since. Putting aside blame around the direct situation, what have we become? I guess there were hints of it (and it has always been) but it is just so blatant with this administration. They hate anyone who stands in their way. She was not a domestic terrorist and she did not deserve to die. She was a mother, a sister, a friend. She could have been any of those to me. She could have been me. In those thirty seconds, that ICE office was her judge, jury and executioner for no apparent crime. The thought of ICE from the beginning was always extremely scary. This administration is giving incompetent idiots jobs and guns without a background check. And now federal immunity for anything they do.... I shouldn't be surprised considering January 6th was a "day of peace" and all the "patriots" were pardoned after attacking police officers. There is no accountability anymore. I am not afraid of immigrants, they are not what we need to fear.