Chores.

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Such a small thing.  And yet, it takes about everything I have to do it.  Always happy to have done it.  I have figured out how to do it only every other to every third day, if I would still be doing it daily if I could.  And, I may well get back to daily chores before long.  If nothing else, just going out to see them.  Check things, for no good reason, and just... be doing something.

Sassy is well cared for, if not attended as much as could be.  Simply attention paid.  I do my best, but my best is rather anemic.  When I remember, I talk to her.  And, yes, she speaks back.  A funny girl, she is.  Sometimes she tells me it is time to feed her.  And, usually, she is right.  Though, if not, a small treat is always good.  Though, just as often, we chatter back and forth.  I do love my little lady.

I am hoping to hit dishes tonight.  It is possible.  If not, I'll get on to bed early, say 21:00 to 22:00, give or take an half hour.  If it's not happening, I'll just go on to bed.  Can I sleep?  I... don't know.  I guess I'll find out.

Oh, cream was available, and delivered, if I hadn't mentioned.  I sure miss the good stuff, when it isn't available.  And, yes, it is worth a few dollars more than store-bought... if I still think both 'public' and 'private' sellers are screwing us on the price.  Because one does, the other does.  And the one does for the same reason they screw us, now, on the price of beef.  The government is involved as well.

We aren't America anymore.  At best we are European again, of the sort where there are peasants and the ruling elite.  But... that isn't going to last.  Both are going south, fast, in a dozen ways.  On the good side, oligarchs are some of the first against the wall they refused to build.  Either by the people who realize the problem, or the new people who take over for those who used to live there.  There isn't an option.  Oddly, mostly of that is hidden in history.  I think you'd be terribly surprised how often elites are eliminated by the locals or those who the elites replaced the locals with.  It... just isn't much recorded.  Nobody wants to be 'that guy', in history.  And historians know what happens to those to tell the truth.

So be it.

I keep watching the thing in the Ukraine.  I can't believe Russia hasn't won that yet.  Is it all but a guarantee?  I was almost sure it was.  Not really on this particular Ukrainian government's side, if definitely not on Russia's side.  Two secular forces at war mean nothing to me.  Barbarians will do what they do.  Heathens will do what they do.  False Christians will do what they do.  Russia is dying.  The Ukraine and most of Europe is as well.  I guess they are trying to sort something out on the way to their own funerals.  It is the little people that concern me.  And, yes, Russia is evil that way.  So, too, is Ukraine.  They would see their people slaughtered, if they thought it would get them extra items or money from somewhere, and would leave them open to slaughter.  Secular is as it does.

Still, rather surprised it isn't over.  Some try to suggest that Russia... what... isn't really trying?  That's laughable on it's face.  Using their "B" team?  Maybe, but dubious.  Making excuses for a major nation, going to work, and having it's ass embarrassingly handed to it by a putz nation?  It's inexcusable, unless Russia really is as bad as I have always counted it.  Much like Chinese and muslim forces, made only for slaughter against a real force.  Though, as woke as the US military is, and as terrible it's leadership and the politics currently, the US military probably couldn't do much better than the Russians or Chinese.  Not even sure tech would carry them over the line.  But... is that a bad thing?  Only if the putzes in office decided to ignore those facts, and go to war as if it weren't true.  Then again, if we go to war, it will be to eliminate as many healthy young people as possible.  That... is where our secular governments are, at this point.  Evil is as evil does.

Later.