Being out of a paying job again has put me on the road to a stress attack. Elevated blood pressure, headache, sickly stomach and a case of anger, have been my companions for the last few days.
And before you start giving me remedies (not to discount your caring for me and my health,) know that I’m doing everything my mental health doctor is recommending. This includes no booze and to get my ass outside for a daily walk.
She suggests that I also avoid watching the evening news on television. She knows how I end up yelling at the various talking heads and all the lies, propaganda and fake news they spew.
I add to this the viewing of videos shared on other social media platforms, including this one among many:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1266921821653385225
Talk about pissing me off. I’d be willing to die on my porch standing up against this sort of UNCONSTITUTIONAL thuggery.
These people were doing nothing unlawful on their private property and for the cops and National Guard to threaten and then fire weapons at them is beyond the pale. I don’t care if they were paint ball and they felt they had a duty to act; unconstitutional is unconstitutional.
Anyway, the attempted sharing of this video has led me to stop using Facebook. I posted it and somehow the social networking platform’s algorithm made it practically invisible on my wall.
As for the loss of my employment: the COVID-19 scare and the bankruptcy of a couple of national store chains during these state mandated closures has left the image processing plant in Reno closed for good. The place had been in operation for over 30-plus years and it’s a shame to see it shuttered. (Pun intended.)
With this, my wife has been sending me applications she finds online, for me to fill out. We had a little tiff over an application for the position of COVID-19 Contact Tracer.
She saw the ‘$17/hour’ tag on the job-site ad, and got excited, wanting me to fill out everything as fast as possible and get an interview set up. On the other hand, I didn’t want to to because I’m not even sure I believe in all the hype surrounding the ‘virus,’ and I don’t feel it would be a ‘good fit,’ since I couldn’t honestly say my heart isn’t into it.
This has, along with this ongoing and needless situation, caused me to reassess my position on a lot of the information coming from so-called ‘trustworthy’ sources. Okay, that really isn’t true – I’ve never fully trusted these sources as I’ve found many to be wanting and dishonest over the years.
And as this stuff continues, I continue to write. I am trying to use all this crap to my advantage by integrating it into various stories, something I don’t think enough writers – especially ‘horror’ genre authors – are visiting.
Further, and I swear that though I’ve been blogging for around 20-years there is always something to learn about the Internet and posting, I’ve concluded that it doesn’t matter the length of the story, it’ll only be visited by jus’ so many people. So whether 100-words or less, or a thousand words, I’m posting my stories as one and will endeavor to avoid parting them out.
(I’m posted out through June 13 already, so those will not count under this missive.)
Lastly, my frustration over the ‘lack’ of readership is gone to the wayside. I understand that don’t write about food, health and beauty, music, history or massive amounts of poetry, which are by far more popular than my faux ‘horror’ genre and other odds-and-ends — so I’m cool on it – jus’ as long and you and I keep writing.
Boy, I needed to vent…and it’s almost better than sex! NOT!
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