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10 Aug 19
14:45 hrs

     A couple of shakeups this week, Dear Readers. First thing is that the Onion is no longer with us. No, she has not passed away. She is no longer residing at the Wayward Inn. Last Wednesday we loaded up the last of her stuff and transported it to her new digs. She is now in a shared three bedroom apartment and her new room is a wee bit smaller than the one she had here. Mind you she is paying less rent as well. It was an interesting experiment that we all experienced in a different manner. I think for my Lobster it was great to have another female in the house. I found her to be funny, helpful and more engaging than the Loin Fruits most of the time. And having to cook for one more vegetarian in the house was okay but the Onion did not eat eggs either so that added another layer of complexity to making meals.

     My Better Half and I will be going to watch the Crash Test Dummies tomorrow night. I've enjoyed their music for a lot of years so this will be a treat. Unfortunately,  the lead singer with the deep bass voice is no longer with the band. That's okay. The music will be just as enjoyable.

     The Jr. Loin Fruit has but one week of work left giving him about a week and a half to get his crap together for the trek south to higher education in Capital City. My Lobster and I will drag him and all of his stuff south with the Mobile Wayward Inn. This will provide us a base of operations and mobility.

     Have you seen the shot that happened in the Hugh-ess last week? Thirty plus people shot and killed at two different locations. The shooter in the Lone Star state opened up at a Walmart with an AK47. He was taken alive. He has admitted to the authorities that he was purposely targeting Latinos. The Dept of Justice will be seeking the death penalty.  In Oh-Hi-Oh the gunman was dispatched by a police officer thirty seconds after he started shooting at a nightclub. In those thirty seconds he killed nine and wounded more than a dozen. One of the victims was his own sister. This second shooting marks the 250th mass shooting in the Hugh-ess this year.

11 Aug 19
11:15 hrs

     I have mentioned it before and I'll say it again - do yourself a favour and read a newspaper!

     Print media is important as it forces you to slow down and ruminate on the written word. Too many people in our society rely on the thirty second sound bite or the two hundred and forty or so character tweet to provide them with the news of the day. Unfortunately, these snippets of information are quite often intentionally wrong causing the reader react or view the subject matter as the writer directs. This is how the Tangerine Tyrant has kept his base from straying. This is how Russia has manipulated election in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Yes, print media can also be used to misdirect the facts but it is harder to do so, in my opinion.  I feel that real journalists have quite a bit more integrity that the tweeters. Just think the Hugh-ess CIC has 63 million Twitter followers. That's a lot of people who could be considered as sheep or as having blinders on.

     My Better Half picked up a National Post for me yesterday. I like the paper and used to have a subscription for it when we lived in the middle of the country. In the paper there is a one and one half page article on how the pharmaceutical industry has discovered a means of curing - or at least alleviating - the feelings of loneliness. Can you imagine that? It seems there is s natural chemical that the human body produces when you are engaging with someone. Pharma can reproduce this chemical and if taken you lose the feelings associated with loneliness.

     Just great! Another wonder drug to make a person feel something when they don't feel something or when they want to feel something different. How about skipping the meds, putting down the hand-held device, turn off the frickin computer, grab a book, walk to a park where you can lay on the grass and turn some pages. You never know, you might just meet someone and you won't be lonely anymore.

18:15 hrs

     My Lobster and I have just finished dining at a Corner restaurant.  Nice place for people watching but the food was overpriced. In an hour or so we'll be watching the Dummies! Can't wait!

21:30 hrs

     The show was excellent. Brad hit all the right notes. Of course, the Superman song is a huge fave of mine.