Just a few things can really make it easy.

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Along with painkillers, raising my bed using two stacks of two 2x4s made for very easy sleep. I honestly didn't think such a minor elevation would do anything. I also doubted stability. Still, that I ran with it at my first real opportunity should also say something. Doubting is fine, never trying is something else entirely. I don't just sit and huddle with my misery. I seek solutions, listen to advice, and take every bit of it that I can. I implement, shuffle, work with what I can, and try to simplify things. Anyone who doubts that simply hasn't been paying attention (though I give them credit for doubting!).

A good long easy sleep, from about 14:00 until 22:00, and easier than I can remember awakening, a few more pain pills, and I am hoping to do some laundry and dishes yet tonight. My mind, eased and cleared by a lack of pain, pain I had not realized existed, will offer opportunity. Like all things opportunity, my native ability to grasp that is only ever slightly better or worse. But, it does exist. Beyond taking care of a few tasks, my hope is to get back to sleep for a few hours before having to leave for my appointments. Due to my recent situation regarding sleep, I will use two alarm clocks to try and ensure I rise in time.

So much is happening in the world of news. To put it bluntly, most of it seems to be political shifts being created through exposures of what had been status quo. People are being destroyed or built up. A few are finding the tepid waters of politics past are no longer in play. Everybody is lighting fires here there and everywhere just to see the reaction. Republicans, by now, have to realize the Dems are only first, house cleaning is also coming to a roost near them. The revolt has started and it is remaining a thing within the political arena.

I am not sure if politicians, of any stripe, can't or won't change. Many of them are talking the talk but failing in the walking section that comes next. Have they sold out and simply can't buy their way free? Do they think we will simply forget, or after being betrayed often enough will merely roll like we always have? I can see that some of them are quite torn. Most of them are quite afraid. How can they keep eating their cake and having it to with such an "unreasonable" electorate? Frightened. You can only have one master, and most of them have chosen a master which has nothing to do with electing them. Even women seem to be voting against their nature, leaving blacks as the only group which continues to vote for more, harder, faster, of the same.

Who knows. I still do not know if this is all a flash in the pan. Lots of smoke, a boom, and... And what? After Dems are further annihilated, if we see Reps being tossed, we will know. Even then, it will take months of Sundays, not a few election cycles. Retraining through attrition of the political class. Some things to look for in success? Term limits. Hard, solid, unavoidable spending caps (constitutional amendment type), destruction of whole departments in the government and an end to departmental legislative power, a reduction in all tax bases as well as an extreme simplification (such as and preferably a flat tax all HAVE TO PAY), and an end and destruction of most "civil rights", quotas, and such. Of course, politicians currently seem stuck on having a difficult time cutting $350m from spending, so... don't hold your breath. But... don't give up. Not ever. This nation IS worth the fight, or... was.

I don't know. With news of a man and woman of similar age who live as mother and "baby", who live on SSI, where he drives and builds his cribs and dresses correctly when in public, I am not sure... if the nation can be saved. He says he will commit suicide if his "income" is cut? Cut it, I want pictures. As for me, at this point? Cut me, I'll just go live under a bridge or something. When a nation surrenders to suicide, it will most surely surrender to suicide bombers (or put them on SSI). Frag!