They are out there!

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I hear the vehicle pull up.  Sometimes I hear radio chatter, sometimes not.  Sometimes I can hear the footsteps.  Sometimes just thumps, as they place, drop, or toss something, move something, or else.

These days I am... less nervous.  Even... no matter who they are.

Today?  UPS delivery.  I think, hope?  Some of my first of the month order is in.  Fresh olive oil.  I have some old olive oil, but that's... on the edge.  I really should have used it.  It... was forgotten.  It was very good, too pricey, didn't want to... spend it... so lost it?  Bah!

Some other, mostly food, items.  Psyllium husk, powder I think.  Cat treats.  Peas.  Canned oyster, and I thought almond milk, but...  Ah, no, those are arriving tomorrow.  Anyway, something arrived today.  I buy canned peas, corn, oyster, etc, in bulk.  Or some bulk, for a slightly lower price.  A lot lower than grocery stores.

Three plackets at a time, usually, save for the expensive stuff.  Oysters are pretty pricey.  The trick with those if finding them not out of China.  All the good old brands, like bumble-bee and some others, are now Chinese.  I will go without before buying Chinese food items.  Though, remember, China may well do all the fishing, canning, and else, then sell it through a foreign country.  They have zero food oversight, and our FDA just takes the bribes, while forcing US fisheries out of business.  That's how that works.  Got to watch things, these days.

Bit by bit, the US is just becoming China.  Possibly worse.  At least China admits it hates it's people, foreigners, and life itself.  The US .gov and else consider themselves the good guys, much as the Nazis did.  Only, the Nazis may have had more of a point than the outgoing US admin, but more bureaucracies.  God I certainly hope Trump is even half legit, and has some capacity to fix things.  Not worried about the economy.  That... will fix itself, if given the chance, and forcing the monkeys (of every flavor) to back away from the US worker, business, and such.  We'll see.

Anyway?  Quite the rant.  Thankfully, it isn't me who is afraid, currently.  The right people to be afraid, are.  I just have some small sliver of hope that Trump is half legit, and will change some things for good.  We'll see.  Hope, I remind, is mostly for the hopeless.  Again, we will find out.  Soon enough.  If he survives to do anything at all, that is.  Hopefully he can get some real security in place, now.  Not the dei shit-for-brains that let him get shot at twice already.  Gah.

*grins*

Later.