If they’re pretending it’s the same book, that’s technically fraud.
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It’s an appendix.
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Being called a murderer for supporting the right to wear masks while protesting, because isis/isil also wear masks at times.
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So, the drummer in our band dropped out of the band.
I’m pissed off, but I get physical problems but I’m still…GRRRRR.
I’m going to ask around, though, and maybe the bassist and/or guitarist know someone.
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UPDATE: No rehearsal this week either, as the drummer didn’t have his kit out of the basement of the bass player’s house, and for all I know it’s still there.
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We live out of town, on a rural highway. Our driveway is less than 1/4 mile long, but it is lined with trees and shrubs.
Fucking UPS delivered some packages, in a plastic bag, tied to a fence post close to the road. It was visible from the road, but not visible from the house.
I am so ticked off right now, but I worry that complaining to the company would just put me on a shit list, so I won’t. It must be a fill in driver, because the regular person never does this, and will lift heavy boxes onto the threshold so I can slide them inside the house. Gah, but I do feel better now 
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I wonder how that’ll go when we move. Currently, the delivery people are all good and they do what the sign says and put things inside the front entryway, where they can also help themselves to snacks and drinks.
But at the new place, maybe they’ll be the “just toss it at the edge of the yard” type. And I don’t even know how I would go about changing that.
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Sooo, I dunno how we got on the subject post-rehearsal, but I found out two of my bandmates don’t comprehend how gender works and how basically almost everything we learned about it growing up is wrong by varying degrees.
They do NOT like that. To them, a man is a man cos he popped out of the womb with a penis. They don’t get transitioning, they don’t get it’s not just someone "thinking’ they are male or female, then dressing accordingly. And the worst part is, they’ve accepted the brainwashing that a trans person is going to molest a woman or a child every time one walks into a public bathroom. That really pisses me off.
And I will admit, there’s a lot I don’t comprehend myself, but I accept what I don’t understand and set it aside to work on later. But as for the bandmates, I can explain only so much - and even then, I can’t understand it for them. Who knows, maybe they don’t even want to understand? It’s work, y’know?
There’s some things about me that bother me - like the idea of transitioning from male to female is like a downgrade socially and culturally. Why would someone willingly give up all that privelige? And then I remind myself that to thine own self be true, and to deny one’s inner self, which truly belongs to no one else, is basic human dignity. And no matter how I feel about it, if it makes someone sleep better at night and just feel more comfy on this planet, who am I to say it’s wrong? (but i would not like being told i’d have to refer to myself as a “human with a womb”, mostly because it’s too damn long a term)
Oh yeah, and Confederate statues “are history and taking them down is changing history”. SIGH. siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. How do you explain it’s just an object representing a shitty lifestyle that someone chose cos they think white people are way better than black people? This from the guitarist.
The drummer was already gone when all of this went on. Still working on reading him, but you know, I don’t care. I mean I do…but whatever.
This getting more liberal as I age…it feels like all the shit I went through as a child and growing up was just prep-work for the last quarter of my life. SIGH.
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I forgot to add: The guitar player was asking me about the Washington Football team too.
It’s the liberal white people who want this, not the Native Americans, whom I pointed out didn’t have a great voice of their own.
Fuck, it’s like you’re not supposed to be an ally? The guys are so uneducated. I’m so sick of working with uneducated people who also can’t comprehend anything beyond their own little clades. Or is cliques a better word? Like, why are they so afraid of opening their minds?
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If they open their minds they might realize they’re as stupid as they fear they are.
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A lot has to do with the white-male-fear that they’re not the big shots they think they are.
I may have to tell them about my own history of sexual molestation - and only twice did it happen from male strangers (I told them about being ass-grabbed as a middle-school when I was walking to school) - so that maybe they’ll get that it’s mostly folks who know victims that do the molesting. Not to educate them, though if the lesson sticks, fine; but to say, hey, this is why I feel and think the way I do about the issue.
And then we need to do a Fantastic Four vow that we’ll only speak of music and related subjects because I’m tired of being set upon by the willing and unwilling ignorant folks out there.
SIGH.
What I want to tell them is this: Life is constantly changing, and either you go adapt and change to get along, whether you like it or not, or you go extinct like the dinosaurs. Your choice.
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What the fuck is so wrong with this world that, in order to earn money to feed themselves & pay bills, young Black ladies have to go door-to-door after dark in the freezing windy cold selling AT&T cable and internet? Hell, for ANYone to have to do that to make a pittance to earn a living? How dignified is it? Come to think of it, is there any dignity in any type of sales job? I don’t think so! Okay, rant over.
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Just pop into a Pearl Vision or Walmart with an Eye Center, etc… They fix these things for free and have all the tools.
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Today was trash & recycle pickup so the bins were on the street.
We are so tired of the f***ing selfish bastard who leaves bags of dog poop in our trash bin, or, as today, in our recycle bin. Usually we bring the bins back as soon as we notice the trucks have gone by (at different times).
I’m thinking of arranging a loud alarm that goes off when the lid is opened, that I can set up after the garbage truck has come by. Maybe with a bright light and camera to find out who’s doing it.
And a couple of M-80s.
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A pop-up robotic raccoon? Or even just a stuffed one, rigged to pop out?
I’d probably do the latter one myself, it sounds easier to actually do.
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The raccoon is a great idea!
Really, I have no plans to booby trap the bins. I thought of maybe a paper sign with “No dog poop please” on it, but I suspect it would have no effect whatsoever.
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hmm…or put something in there that will stink like the dickens and whoever opens the lid will get a huge whiff of it.
…or, stuff a garbage bag with stuff and make it look like a body. Then add the stinky smell.
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I can tell you from experience that you are 100% correct: a sign will be ignored, or the perpetrator might even get nastier in response.
Thanks for reminding me of one of the reasons I’m happy I don’t live in that home anymore!
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