What I think

 Make them don't make them. I have made them in the past and have failed at them, all of them. I have thought about making a few this year and what they would be but, if I did, would I just fail at them? Would it be better at some later point to decide I am going to do it and just do it? Several months ago I decided on a list of things I would do every day and I have stuck with it. The things I am thinking I want to do are bigger things then the new habits I have stuck with.  What to do, what to do?

 or lack of it. People putting up decorations at Halloween make me crazy. Totally skip Thanksgiving. And now a week before Christmas there are limited holiday things in the store and there are already sales. I kinda like the idea of after Christmas sales. I am having blah feelings about the holidays. The house is so cluttered you can not enjoy the few decorations I did put up. No family party. Haven't heard from anyone even tho I emailed about it. No one here seems to be that into things either. And it's all fine.

 Apparently the Cambridge dictionary has changed the definition of man and women to any adult who identifies as man or women. Not sure how you can just randomly decide to change a definition and an entire gender. Biologically women are born female, defined as one who can bear children.  So I guess you can wear a dress and be a women but you can not be female. The world is becoming more and more ridiculous.

 or lack of it. Customer service is pretty much non existent as is common courtesy. Recent examples; the salvation army bell ringer and his pot blocking the entry at walmart, the ticked off safeway low level manger who had to work a register and refused to put in the rewards phone number when it was typed in wrong, fred meyers lame excuses for not having prices marked correctly on shelves. They have been using the 'we don't have staff' since the pandemic started, only to find out that they only allow their staff to work 20 hours a week even if they want to work more.  There was no reason for any of this issues to take place. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to know not to stand in front of a door and then expect people to reward your bad behavior. If you have to do a job that you deem beneath you for 5 minutes, suck it up you're getting a check. Give your employees more hours, people should not have to work 2 jobs or one and still be eligible for food stamps. Th...

 I am of the live and let live generation. The philosophy being that everyone could do what they wanted as long as the didn't hurt anyone else. Such a bad idea. This led to the everyone gets a trophy generation and I am owed whatever I want no matter that it isn't mine and I didn't work for it. And now to the I don't want to be a boy anymore so I'll just be a girl. So So wrong. It is time wrong was pointed out and people are held accountable. Everyone doesn't get to do whatever they want because they are not only hurting themselves but they are hurting society.

 It just boggles the mind how people react to celeb news and how celeb reacts to news. One says something another doesn't like it, reposts the incomplete statement and then everyone is up in arms. Usually the info is not reported completely and no one bothers to find out what the first person really said. Why can't people just keep their mouths and computers shut. Someone says something you like. Ok, you don't like it, move on. People have way too much free time if they have the time to start trouble where there is no trouble. And then the first person some how feels the need to apologize for what they said. Lesson; if you are going to have to apologize for it later don't say it in the first place. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

 I have absolutely nothing to write about, but, blog was on my to do list today. I find that if I write things down there is more of a chance they will get done. So, I am writing.  Using a to do list to form habits could be driving one into a rut I supposed.  Ok this is going no where but I wrote so good on me.

 Isn't that what the government always says; just give us tax dollars and will take care of homelessness and hunger and all the things. Problem is they have no clue what to do with tax dollars they just want them. Wouldn't it be great is someone actually had a plan that would work and then said how much it would actually cost. Even a plan that costs too much would be better than give me money an it'll all go away. Portland has given itself an art tax and a homeless tax. Comes right out of your paycheck, even if you don't live in Portland. No idea what it is supposed to be for. Unless you think graffiti on a boarded up building is art. And the homeless population keeps going up so if that was that tax is for it is working. Think hard before you give the government any more money to mishandle.

 Voting is a right and a duty. One many places in the world still do not have. And so, I wonder why it has come to further divide this country. Not just along political lines but ethnic and financial ones too. Only felons and non citizens are not allowed to vote. So why is it such a problem for anyone else. Polls are open to everyone. If you truly cared you could get to one. You could ask for a mail in ballot and even scrounge up the money to pay postage if you had to. If you don't care why do you have to complain like the rest of the people are keeping you from voting. It is too far, costs too much, I have to work, excuses not reasons, and if it were important to you you would find a way.

 Not sure what the point is of political advertising. Every day we get stacks of expensive paper coved with pretty pictures and either promises that we know can't be kept or criticisms of someone's opponents. I toss them right in recycling. TV ads are even more ridiculous. You see and ad for one person criticizing his opponent and the very next commercial is that opponent criticizing the first guy.  Who cares. I would rather see the money wasted on advertising going to a food bank or a teacher. Better to put a blurb in the voter pamphlet that the tax payers already pay for. Tell us all the things you want to do and leave out all the crap about how awful the other guy is.

 How should the leader of a free country behave? He should shut his big mouth and get tax payer dollars out of other countries. He should start pumping our own oil, lower gas prices, refilling the national reserve and then sell the rest to other countries. He should follow the laws we already have. Close the borders. Stop spending more tax payer money on non americans and people who are not paying into the system, It can't really be that hard. The rules are already laid out, just follow them. And then your own country will be less disgusted with you and other countries will think you are a hero.

 In Target over the weekend a man wearing a face mask left with a cart full of products. The security guard tried to stop him. He talked to him. Did not touch him or the cart. And the guy left the store. Between the fact that OR is a pro crime state and Target can just pass the loss on to the consumer there is really no point in saying you have security. I guess it does keep someone employed but other than that there is no reason for a security person.

 Gas prices rose again at the cheap station. 60 cents from 730 am to 4 pm. The excuse; storms and refinery problems. Except, prices started going up before the hurricanes were certain. Most of the states are not suffering because of the storms and the gas being shipped out currently has already been refined so refinery problems don't fly either. So prices locally are now higher than before prices started going down and have gone up almost 2 bucks in less then a week.

 Last Monday morning I bought gas for $3.99. Thursday morning it was $4.29 and that was the cheapest increase I saw. On Friday evening the cheapest gas in our town was $4.29. Sunday am in was $5.29. Other stations were higher. The price is more than it was a couple months ago before the prices started to go down. I had just heard a report from, which ever useless government agency keeps track of this sort of thing, that gas prices had gone down a few cents each week for the past 14 weeks and that it would probably go up 5 cents and then level off, This is way more that that prediction. Now OR has always been higher than the national average, OR is just special like that. Explain. The explanation is not 'it's Putins fault. I'll wait.

 I watched a women come into the store pick up a few things and walk out, The clerk called to her but she just kept walking. I have seen people steal before but they at least tried to hid it. This one no. I later saw her with some other people so I imagine there was a lot of merchandise lost from stores today. Why is this happening? Lack of consequences. It is easier just to let people steal and pass the cost off to the law abiding people. There is no excuse. People know right from wrong. And just because they can get away with it does not make it right.

 What I don't understand is why this government does not want this country to be self sufficient. Why can't we pump our own fuel, grow what we eat and make what we need. Why does the government insist on doing business with countries who would gladly get rid of us. And, they can. Because they feed us and give us what we need. For a price. A high one. Why aren't the people of this country becoming more self reliant? Why aren't they at least growing their own food? Doing what we can to save and stretch what we have. Because we too are beholding to  country that does not care about us.

 Gas prices. I did a graph which compared prices before the new president and after. It clearly shows the new president could have had something to do with the increase. The government says it can't be responsible for gas prices going up tho apparently it can take credit when they start to come down. And another graph that compares covid cases from during the lock downs and now. Cases are higher since the lockdowns but no one seems bothered by that. if you come into this country illegally, even if the government allows it, it's still illegal and you should be sent back to where you came from. And tax payer dollars should not be used to support you. And call yourself what you what but biology and dna don't change.

 I am always joking about what I am giving up for Lent but never do. I mean what kind of sacrifice is it to give up coffee. But this year, on Ash Wed. in fact, I decided I would challenge myself to give up saying all the snarky things I say to and about other people. If I could do that it would be something. On Sunday the priest said Lent is not about giving up something but about getting back on track and getting to where you want to go. And so, this is the perfect challenge for me. FYI, I have failed multiple times already. 40 days is just way to long to be good.