Feeling a bit better.

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Curtains open on a blustery gray day.  The thermostat, both my body's and my homes, set a bit lower.  Enough coffee and painkillers to soften the edge, the mechanical migraine being cut to size.  Thankfully this migraine was caused by muscle tension, can't do much about the other kind(s).  A bit of this, updating of Pale Moon and customizing add-ons for it.  Ad-Blocker is great, but Pale Moon has a custom setup called Adblock Latitude, which can be downloaded from their site at the link.

I'm doing everything I can to clear and clean my machine.  I keep getting pop-ups, from my "security" software, suggesting all is not good.  But the software doesn't fix anything, or offer me any way to to stop the pop-ups.  Hundreds a day, centered around, from what I can tell, just two programs.  Programs named in such a way that they could be either legitimate or viruses.  I don't have enough security-foo to know which is which.  Even if I could find the differences, finding the programs, then actually removing them, might be a bit of a trick.  Seeking help, online, is comparable to bleeding in the ocean.  You are more likely to attract sharks than lifeguards.  Not sure, these days, with the internet, if there even are such things as lifeguards.  Just... money, money, money.  If not for nothing, than worse.  Ah, but at least we have the government (breaking through the back doors, leaving them open, all for our own good, don't you know).  Bleh.  Can't wait till the brownout ends.  Though it's looking like the brownout has become permanent.  Jeb?  Really?  It's good for business though.  Crony capitalist business.  No less, or more, than now.  Just a different group of favored "capitalists" munching on public dough.  I guess you get every cent you pay, I suppose unless you pay at gunpoint, innit.

Yeah, grumpy.  Because I know they are working together against our interests.  There are a few, but even they can't be trusted very far.  Populists of one bent or another.  Is that really as good as it gets?  Maybe.  For the foreseeable future that seems to be it.  It won't be a bright, or long, future though.  Maybe they really are having to compromise to keep the guts of the thing in.  I seriously doubt it, but it is possible.  I do realize, if they let it spill, it will hurt.  And for a very long time.  For generations.  But keeping it in is just creating festering madness and it will only get worse.  I am on the side of nature.  If the patient can't survive, don't Frankenstein it.  Just let it be.  They aren't, though, trying to keep it together for us.  They are used to lattes and silk, sex at a call, doses per request.  They don't even know how to handle hard things, like real life.

I may take another dose of painkillers in a few hours, then try to figure out some things.  I still have a call to make.  I will probably watch a few more episodes before doing much.  And I suspect, if I decide to make crusts, I might just make a half dozen of them at once, refrigerating what I don't use today.  Wrapped in plastic wrap, then placed in air-tight containers, they should last a few days anyway.  I used to be really good at making pie crusts.  A bit of lard and a bit of butter.  This time, probably, just butter.  Though I may break into my coconut "lard".  I've got an unopened container in the fridge.  Crusts today, then tomorrow, if I behave and clean up, the first quiche pie or two.  Oh... but I forgot cheeses.  Gah!  Always something.

Later.