“Eugene Oregon summer weather – – in brief: cloudy, foggy, overcast, no sunshine. – – Sorry, that’s the Valley of Sickness”Willamette Valley summer weather Report:”

(PICTURE TAKEN OFF WEB. ARTIST UNKNOWN)

I  was shopping in Bi-Mart, for seeds, with Mary, who was pretty new to the Valley, and she was asking me about the strange weather right now. “Isn’t there supposed to be sunshine and heat now?” She asked me. She was going to grow things in Eugene, and she was discouraged about the cloudy weather when it was almost June.

“many years ago,” I said to her, “we used to have fierce weather during the winter, snow times of rain freezing cold. But we also had very very hot sunny summers. Well, that’s not a guarantee anymore.” “What you mean?” She asked, confused.” I thought that the weather here had become very mild. You don’t have tons of rain –” “no we have a drought, which is worse,” I replied. “– And you don’t have freezing winters and snow and frozen stuff, what’s with the cloudy sky and no sunshine now?” “Well,”I explained, that’s part of the package of the new weather now. We have mild winters, but we also have no guarantees of nice hot summers anymore, full of sunshine.”

“I don’t get it,” she went on further, more and more confused. “Don’t you have tons of pollen?” “Yes,” I kept replying, “yes, we’ve got that..that is partly due to global warming, the huge increase of pollen all over the world, including here is tremendous. And this Valley has gotten a lot worse with global warming.” “So I still don’t get it!” She exclaimed. “I thought you were supposed to get very very hot summers lots of heat lots of sunshine!”

It was rather humorous,but sad to have to explain to a new person, that the changes in the weather to make the Valley much milder during the winter, had also transformed the SUMMER WEATHER also. “It’s like this,” I went on, “we now get very foggy cloudy overcast days, even as much as a whole lot during the summer. – – Whether there’s supposed to be hot weather and sunshine. For some reason, it also transformed the summer, as well as the other times, and we can’t rely on having nice hot summers anymore. We’re as bad as Alaska a lot of the time – – NO SUNSHINE.”

“I still don’t get it and I’m getting it worse and worse,” she protested,  she was clearly really anxious and angry about it. Apparently the guidebooks and  introductions to Eugene and the Valley, had told that it was a wonderland of gardening. Ha ha. Well, it wasn’t exactly a wonderland of GARDENING, it was a wonderland of “illusions about gardening.” “I’m sorry,” I tried to explain in a nice way.” You should have come here and rented a place for a while to see what the weather was like. It is very cloudy and foggy and overcast a lot of the time even months out of the summer. I’m sorry, maybe they should apologize to you.”I really didn’t know what to say to her anymore.

“maybe you should wait and not garden this summer, and see if you like it first.” I said. “If you can’t put up with the long days of clouds, damp and overcast skies, during the summer, gardening here might not be for you. Or, you might get a greenhouse and grow lights. Lots of people have to do that. At least, the greenhouse. When I came back here, I was astonished at how the summers had changed, and my squash in my backyard, was waiting for hot July, to finally make all the damp and moisture and cold go away. Instead, one July it was so cold and damp and overcast, it rotted everything in my garden and I gave up on it. I just could not guarantee even a hot July anymore for gardening.”

“it’s just the VALLEY. The weather has definitely changed okay, but somebody should’ve warned you about all the damp cold overcast and cloudy skies and days, even for weeks during the summer. Bummer summer. Maybe you should go to the coast and just have a good time and forget about stupid gardening for now.” Now she was really upset. “COLD wet and damp and cloudy JULY? You’re kidding!” She replied.

“Sorry, maybe it’ll get better later, but we just don’t have those nice hot long summers, and Indian summers here anymore.I’m not crazy about it myself,” I continued.”  I mean, my family used to have a whole big orchard back there, it blasted with fruit during the summer, but we had old Oregon weather. This is NEW Oregon weather.I can’t garden like that anymore, and I’ve tried. I gave up on it.

“You might have to go to a nursery, especially  one on the coast, and try to get information on gardening for coastal damp weather. Well, I don’t know what to do about the sunshine. Maybe you really really need sunshine! I know I do. But yes, they still try and garden on the coast, when it’s very damp and overcast, I guess they can do it. They have a gardening store way out there.I know that in Salem, my friends can garden okay they get sunshine and hot weather. Just not here anymore.” I didn’t want to completely discourage her, she had already moved here.

“But I heard that you have a drought here,” she continued. “How can you have a drought, and not get enough rain and yet you have cold overcast cloudy foggy days of no sunshine? That doesn’t make any sense. If you have a drought don’t you have to have lots of hot weather and sunshine?” “I guess not,” I said sadly.” Maybe in California but I guess not here. That’s the Valley! It’s not the San Fernando Valley. It’s not the Death Valley.it’s not the Valley of Kings. It’s the valley of sickness(that’s what the Indians named it.). Maybe we should go to an expert, a real weather expert and get explained to us. But I haven’t found one yet willing to do that.”

in short, my new friend Mary was very discouraged, but look at it this way. I never promised her a rose garden.somebody else did that.

(Sandraminadotty, celebrating her new brief and short blog entries. It beats editing, which I’m really bad at. And I’m also very bad at making my blog entries brief. The one going to celebrate this one, and have lots of food I shouldn’t have, to make up for all the calories I’m  expending,trying to keep warm now. and it’s almost June? Ouch! Turn on the heat! Fire up the radiator!)  🙂

“DO I WANT TO BUY FRUITS AND VEGIES, OR DO I WANT TO BUY A NEW CAR?: WHY TRUMP WILL BECOME PRESIDENT–IN EUGENE, OREGON”

(UNKNOWN ARTISTS, COPIEDo off web)

(Cannot Write the Rest Now, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 Will Not Work)

“why do you think TRUmp will become president?” Carol asked me as we went futilely through Safeway, and the organic produce was still too expensive by: “why do you think?” I said that Caroline, “all us white people  including Oregon cannot find any food anymore, especially fresh food or anything else. So yeah, I think tRUMP will become president    out of desperation.”

“Latinos and Mexican get  food stamps, tons of them, we saw it. so, yes, angry white people will vote in TRUMP. AND TECHNOLOGY and science will not save us. we’re going to have FOOD WARS, and CLASS WARS, andI will have to go back to stealing food, and getting caught by cops police again.”

“this fucking dragon won’t work, i can’t type this blog,that’\s it,.technology is OVER. IT HAS FAILED. WHITE PEOPLE can’t buy food unless they are RICH; SENIORS ON SOC. SEC. ARE NOT RICH.” “SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?” “pROBABLY JOIN THEM WHEN ALL THE POOR INVADE sAFEWAY, AND STEAL FOOD,AND SET IT ON FIRE BEFORE THE COPS COME.”  “THEY don’t like cops here any way.” “That will get worse.”

“all the produce everywhere is rotten, or costs a fortune.organic.”  “They’ll put you in jail.” “Let em, it costs them money. i’ll sue em like that dead guy’s relatives did, when they let him die.” “why don’t you raise food?”  “have you seen me try it?”  “Yeah, it all died, or never grew.” “all the trees are dead or dying.”  “the WEATHER kills it all!”

I’M IN PAIN, I CAN’T BUY ANY FOOD, AND IT COSTS A FORTUNE. DRAGON DOES NOT WORK. NO BLOG. TRUMP WILL BE ELECTED. LATINOS GET HELP, WE CITIZENS DON’T’; SCREW ZUCKERBERG!!! FACEBOOK DOESN’T EVEN WORK!!~!”

GOD, WE NEED DRUGS, WHERE ARE DRUG DEALERS WHEN YOU NEED THEM?? I’M IN TOO MUCH PAIN, I CAN’T TYPE, AND I CANT GET FRUIT OR FOOD. SCREW IT. “

YOU FEEL VERY SUICIDAL?? GO AHEAD AND DO IT.(NO NO, CALL UP SUICIDE HOTLINE, GET IT PUT OFF, OK??)

THE END—-this blog will no longer be written–(OK, OK, I AM JUST IN PAIN SENIOR-GRUMPY; HOO-RAY FOR THE NRA!!   “i’LL BE BACK!!” SOMEHOW.         

 

“LIVING IN MASS TRAFFIC–24 HRS. A DAY,–POLLUTED-SMOG-EUGENE, OR—IN SOCIETY OF ALL JUNK”

(UNKNOWN ARTIST OF OREGON)

Here comes another wonderful day, living with junk.

I’m not talking about old junk I’m talking about new junk. The junk you have to use if you live in this civilized society every single day. And it’s even worse if you work with them and it’s your job.

it’s too far to the stupid hardware store to buy round up or crossbow blackberry weedkiller. So I try to order it ONLINE. Big mistake.

in the interest of not spraying our atmosphere and Eugene Oregon, with any more smog and carbon monoxide  gas and oil. You can smell it all the time. – – And having a car that is hideously expensive, also poisons everything  people use them constantly  in Eugene.

Eugene is “Car City”.

so ordering some blackberry weedkiller online is a special present to the atmosphere. Less gasoline. I hasten my little computer Internet connection, and gets screwed up, every time by Mozilla Firefox browser. it freezes the screen. I can’t do anything everything is frozen on the screen.– –

– –here begins the morning of another society living with junk. Yes, the new junk. Having a little coffee, which is badly made with the grounds of the bottom, because once I broke the glass pitcher,, the whole coffee machine does not work anymore. And, as a special in addition and bonus, you can’t just buy the glass pitcher for the Mr. coffee maker; you have to buy a whole new Mr. coffee maker.

(I am amazed, in fact that might newly installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking number 11.5 program is actually working and I can dictate this. The computer repair guy said it DID NOT WORK. I reinstalled it myself. So much for computer repair man. It’s the only thing that’s really working today. I should call them up or send them a note of appreciation, before it starts to degrade,, and not be able to receive the updates, because that system is so screwed up you have to leave your computer on all the time just to get the updates for Dragon.

So the system degrades and doesn’t work anymore.  But at least, it is working right now.

– –but the Mozilla Firefox browser has frozen the whole screen. In desperation, I go to the computer itself, hold down and press the off button. It doesn’t go off. It won’t go off . (000-0000 this is the translation of dragons”Oh-Oh”) still not very human.

okay now the disaster that begins; everything will not turn it off and the screen is frozen, nothing works. So I do the disastrous disgusting computer just drawing action; I pull out the power plug.OH, HELL! SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT !

of course it comes back on with more power but it wants to load in safe mode, and by stupid keyboard is broken,, and the up arrow does not work to go into safe mode.) And I’m not a developer so , can’t use the keys, or special words like enchantments.

I am just a senior, computer user, not one of the wonderful developers. I take it that they would know what to do with stupid Mozilla Firefox which is now an evil browser. EVIL EVIL EVIL!

EVIL AS WITCHCRAFT! Witches! WITCHES WITCHES  WITCHES! (Here I have trouble with the Dragon because it doesn’t know how to say “WITCHES”. So I go crazy trying to get it to spell WITCHES! Oh here we go again! Much junk in the morning! (You have to speak perfectly.

(Pretend you are a robot)a WITCH (paste) ROBOT!!!

so just this morning I have destroyed my computer again by turning it all off and clobbering it with the feedback when it comes back on. Naughty naughty! – – And it doesn’t come back in safe mode. Oh boy.all this has happened in a very short space of time.

I am really getting into this pretending I speak like a robot. Well, IMA robot; I am programmed to operate in a society filled with junk. I also break down, my elbows and arms are in great pain, from over computer use and fibromyalgia. Unfortunately, they cannot fix me. I am not R2-D2..

I am probably part of the junk.

so once it comes back on her work, I go to Sears online, to get round up, and their software to buy, as a fleeting nonmember, does not work. Typical website, software doesn’t work to buy something. I get a hold of the phone number, 800, from the stupid chat Box. Some guy in Venezuela or the Philippines or India comes online, and can’t speak English. Sears! You’re not patriotic you dummies! Oregon needs those jobs!

I promised myself to make this blog entry short. But, the simple act of buying something online, and handling the menacing Mozilla Firefox monster, crucifying my computer, and it’s giving me a migraine again.at least the Dragon works kind of, but I have to spell for it.

don’t you wish for a lot of HEXEN ?DAS HEXEN, YAH! Das hexen und Pilsner? HENRY ADAMS? YAH, ACH DA LIEBER!!

fursluginer (forsluginer?) fursluginer SEARS!!!  Fursluginer JUNK! ACH, DAS YIDISHA please!!

why isn’t there more Yiddish in the Pacific Northwest? I can’t even spell “furslurginer” anymore. Neither can the computer!

Maybe the  YIDDISH would scare away all the junk!! like the Yiddish Jewish ghost Golum? (spelling?)

this is the end of my blog entry; I have accomplished my goal for the morning, I have a massive headache due to stress. – – And mess and junk.

(Sandraminadotty, ouch, stress headache, and  other computer aches and pains–we seniors inevitably put up with. (Where is the Bi – Mart Acetaminophen extra strength 500 mg. each, Tylenol – extra strength – pain reliever – non-aspirin?)

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“I’M NOT GETTING OUT OF THIS ALIVE, TIME TO ADMIT IT; IN EUGENE, OREGON”

(unknown artist)

so I am pulling hoses around the back of the house, and my heart beats faster and faster and so does my breathing, and I can’t breathe, and I’m getting dizzy. I’m in bad shape,I’m old, and I don’t get enough exercise. And I also have a heart murmur. So this is a bad sign. Not being able to breathe getting dizzy having your heart pump too fast.

when I tell Carolyn later, she says “you have to start getting some exercise, or you’ll be face down and I’ll be going to your funeral.” It’s true, and that’s how all my relatives die; bad hearts right around this age. My sister was very very overweight, and she finally had a stroke (even though she’s alive, she had just about the best medical care of the world.

(I don’t expect to get that medical care.)

My dad had numerous times when his heart stopped, and they had to call 911 to get it started, when he was out gardening around this age. He finally died from a stroke or heart attack. Both my grandfathers died right when I was born, from heart attacks. Boy, if there is anything I am set up for, right now, it’s a nice big fat heart attack or a stroke!. Look at my great ancestry and all my stupid symptoms, and my extreme lack of exercise. Wonderful.

and look at my wonderful attitude towards life; you’re right, it’s pretty shitty. I suppose that if you had a pretty good life, your attitude is better. But I don’t know which came first; I didn’t expect it to be bad. but then again, I didn’t expect to have a horrible family life originally, to set that up also. That was pretty much a lot of the nonfunctioning, clinical depression, inability to have a good time that I had, and it wasn’t my fault.

I certainly inherited a lot of this bad stuff from the beginning, from my family. So I would have to say the notion that “the sins of the fathers are inherited by the children” tends to be true. From the beginning, you are hit with it. And it has a lot to do with how well you do in life right from the beginning.

 all my life, I’ve tried to “get better from all the depression, and all the abuse, and keep hoping that I somehow get healed up enough, somewhat towards the end.” And now I realize, that’s never going to happen. Life doesn’t wait for you to get better, it just suckers you in. It doesn’t matter how hard you try, how much work you do, you’re never going to have enough time before you get clobbered at the end.

I wish I could say that if you’re extra intelligent, and very talented, it’ll be different. Nope. Already had all that, it didn’t make a shit of difference.it’s not that I made all the wrong choices. Which I did anyway, I keep thinking I should’ve gone into business, and got the business degree just to make money.

But, as it was, everybody lies to you about how your hopes and dreams and ambitions will be met, and that’s all it is, lies.nobody ever warns you quite HOW BAD it will be.  If you knew that, you probably would  get out ahead of time. And nobody tells  you all the extreme failures that everybody goes through.and nobody tells you that clinical depression  and PTSD, don’t get well, even at the end.

In fact, nobody ever seems to tell you any of the truth about the way the world is!

so why is that? WHY did nobody tell you the truth about the way the world really is? The reason for that is, everybody lies about the way it is every single day, and the way things really go, and they’re going to lie about it all through the future.

because, my dear, all of society and all mankind hate the truth.so what they do is they lie about the way the world really is every single day of the week.

and you also probably lie to yourself, and tell yourself that everything will be okay.  it’ll work out.

so let this be a present to all of you young people who were graduating from something, to go either into college or out into the world or what ever. You’ve probably already been lied to so many fucking time, that you don’t know what the real truth about everything is anymore.!

so let’s go down a short list, and find out a few things that are true. For one thing, it is really a very hard world. For everybody. Maybe you’re out of it if you’re super rich, maybe a little.or maybe a lot! So that’s another truism.

you can’t do anything without money and support. You just cannot.maybe a long time ago in the United States it was possible to start with almost nothing, but it’s just about impossible now. You could be extremely unscrupulous, to the point of being a professional assassin.(see above: “without money and support you can’t do anything”.)often, to be successful, people have had to be extremely unscrupulous, even ruthless. So don’t count that out.(SEE: Madonna)

here’s another one; if your family is extremely bad, abusive, or even outright crazy and insane, it’ll be so hard for you to manage in the world, that you may as well know it now. How you begin in life is very important.

here is another one; no matter how you plan in the beginning, how everything is going to go, life is going to screw with it anyway.you don’t have all the control over the world. You don’t have hardly any control.people try to lie to you about how much control you have over life, but let me tell you, I planned. A lot of people I know planned. I can tell you it doesn’t always work.

BE FLEXIBLE.

“great expectations” is out.

at the end of your life, you’ll look back, and decide that you made all the wrong decisions – – maybe.I know I did; I was sure I was going to succeed, cause I was so intelligent,did so well in school, and was so talented. I should have taken Business Administration instead. but hey, that’s still no guarantee. look at the god dam business world! (SEE: “might have to be ruthless.”)

yes, the worst deception of all, is deceiving yourself. Lying to yourself.

what things did I do right that were in my control? I didn’t have any kids. It turned out all for the best.some people are not meant to have kids. I also didn’t get married to any of the people I was engaged to. I was correct, they would have been disasters.I left Oregon, to go work somewhere else for many years. Good thing I did it. I’m not sorry.

what are some of the mistakes I made? Some of those are above. Maybe I struggled too hard, it wasn’t like I had a choice. (SEE: “not having too much choice”) when I was young I probably counted on romance and romantic love too much. In the end it didn’t matter. It wasn’t one of the important things in life.

also, during my whole lifetime, I explored religions, and tried to figure out all the big questions in life, including what are we here for? That was a large mistake. It doesn’t matter why we’re here.it doesn’t matter what God really is or what the secret of life is. Go study some physics and quantum physics instead. It’s a lot more satisfying.

stop trying to be so personally successful.stop with the egotistical stuff.You either will or you won’t, but doing lots of huge amounts of efforts toward it, often do not pay off. And usually they are not the most important things anyway.now I consider trees a lot more important.I also consider people a lot more important, and especially friends.

stop being so hard on yourself.you are harder on yourself than anyone else is, and it often just hurts you.

BE KIND to people and animals.KINDNESS TOWARDS OTHERS IS VERY IMPORTANT.be kind to yourself.

learn to take care of yourself, as well as you can write from the beginning. Even if you can’t do it very well, keep trying to learn how to do it better.no matter how much you learn, it still helps.

learn to enjoy the nice things of life and this planet. If you like to watch cartoons, watch cartoons. If you like to watch funny stuff, watch plenty of funny stuff. if even something silly gives you enjoyment, like, for example, I like to collect EMOTICONS. Usually animated ones.I like to put them on all my e-mail and even this stupid blog. I think they’re darling! But then, I also think SpongeBob SquarePants is darling! Ha ha.

Don’t worry about the next world.of course, you will somewhat, because you don’t know about it mostly, but it is much better if you just accept life and death the way it is. In fact, ACCEPTING life and everything the way it is, and not trying to change it or fight it, is a much better way to handle life.take it from an expert, who didn’t want to accept anything the way it was, specially not myself, it is much much better if you just accept it.

stop fighting the world and people the way they are, because they’re going to stay that way. They’re not going to change because you want them to.this also includes, trying to save the world from global warming, or the next ice age whichever one it is. It’s already going full tilt, it’s not going to stop. And what you do with your personal garbage is not going to make any difference. If you want to do it go ahead but don’t expect to save the world.

if you are a woman, go ahead and swear as much as you want. Don’t let anybody stop you. Don’t let anybody tell you it’s not nice or it’s not feminine. Or, you should not express yourself in anger or frustration. You will be much worse off if you never express it!I have never had a man tell me to stop swearing or that it was bad for me to swear.since they are often the sex that is the expert at it, consider that.

Some people were not meant to have kids; if you figured out, that’s you, don’t have them; don’t be bullied into it.Let your many cousins and relatives do it.there ARE enough people as it is.

do not let anyone tell you “why are you trying to learn that? Or do that? You’re not going to use it.”yes, that is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard, if you enjoy learning more impractical things you’re never going to do, so be it. Education is great.in my case, that includes a lot of Shakespeare,watching it, reading it, and studying it in classes, and I never regretted it.

–and I guess the last one is, enjoy life as much as you can. You’re not going to be here very long.so if you are trudging along, working like crazy, neglecting enjoyment, always planning for the future, or being so serious and determined you never think about enjoying life, you better do it NOW. Have the ice cream. Have the chocolate! Start while you’re young.

Soon, there will be no more ice cream or chocolate. You will seriously regret not having it.

AND if you never appreciated at least SOME of life, or were grateful for the few nice things, do it now.It helps the pain later on.I have become aware that at least SOME HAPPINESS, if even very little, is a  choice you make.You can choose to have at least SOME JOY.–it doesn’t mean you will be happy all the time, or your life will change. BUT you can choose to have some.

I refuse to lie to anyone young; getting old is HELL. “60 is not the new 30.” that is BS. All it is, is falling apart, gradually, and hurting worse physically. If you were very active, your body won’t do it anymore, often.Sometimes even mentally and emotionally it hurts. I’m not exaggerating and I refuse to lie. Science can do only so much, and our insurance will pay for a lot less.—which is why I have to do as much, medically, for my heart now, BEFORE I have the heart attack.

And the even worse part about old age, is all your friends die, and YOUR ERA DIES.Those 60’s and 70’s are gone, when you were young, and nothing good like that music, hair, fashion, art, and attitude will ever come again. We who lived during those times, consider ourselves very lucky to have had them.

OK, THE WAR WAS BAD; THE POLITICS WAS BAD. you can’t have everything. Hey, the Beatles and all that great music will never come again!! A lot of we women, girls, didn’t appreciate all the “sexual revolution,” and the pressure to have sex so casually. But women’s Lib did a lot for we women’s escape from “living only for other people, and not for ourselves.” I still thank God for it.

And I am not trying to tell others what to do, I just want to help. Please don’t take it as preaching. Its up to you. Take good care of yourself physically, while you’re still young, it makes a difference when you get old and cruddy. I did do that. I miss my bicycle a lot.

(Sandraminadotty, old and hurting elbows and back, crap!!!  and how everything is MADE LIKE JUNK!! HAH HAH!! 🙂

          

“MY PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT DOES NOT SHOW UP; EFFICIENCY, IN EUGENE, OREGON, 2016”

(PORTRAIT OF LANE COUNTY GOVT. ,REALISM-STYLE)

 I happen to know that nobody is reading my blog. However, it still hurts, when one day Carolyn comes in and says, “nobody is reading your blog, I asked them. They said you are too negative, about Eugene and Lane County, and all you do is complain.” “Well, I do respect their opinion of the local news.” I answered, on the computer. “And they’re very accurate, we people who are stuck here do tend to complain, especially when we are natives of Oregon.”

“I guess I should have explained that  a lot of we seniors and older people, all got fired from our jobs, and we’re the new unemployed. Which means, we have to get out of every nice urban city we worked in, and go live in the Okefenokee swamps again.” I replied. “In other words,” replied Carolyn, “sour grapes..” “That’s a nice polite way to say it”, I replied.

“this has happened to just about everybody who is older,” I continued, “most of us got fired.they hired new young people  and got rid of us old goats who actually know how to run everything. But that also explains the state of the nation doesn’t it? I mean, as to who’s running it.” I paused..

“For example,” I continued, “I never got my voter’s ballot from Lane County voters registration, even though I got the pamphlet. I called them up, they said, “can you come down right now downtown, and vote now, in person?” And I had reply, “no, I have necessary things I have to do, I can’t just drop everything, go away downtown, fight the traffic, and find a place to vote.they said that I am registered, they don’t know why I never got my ballot.” “I wonder how many people have the same problem or if it’s just you?” Mused Carolyn.

“I called up several pump companies, for an estimate of my well pump, they want $85 just for a visit..” I continued sourly.”” Like I am going to happily jump for the chance to get overcharged for an estimate.” “Well, it is a time of year everybody wants their pumps  fixed or look at,and they’re going to make you suck it up.” “There are a few pump companies,”” I replied,”I’m going to see if anybody has a free estimate.” I continued complaining; “that’s what I don’t like about Eugene and Lane county, it’s still like a little berg, everybody’s socks it to you, and there ain’t any competition very much.”

“maybe that is just the way the United States runs now, most of the trades people don’t know what they’re doing, or don’t have to do their job, or it’s so darn corrupt, service is the last thing you ever get out of them. The computer guys can’t fix your computer, and charge you, the bug guy wrongfully charges you a lot for termites you don’t have.

“Let’s see what else? Gardening people that come over to chop up all the blackberries, and in the process, steal your nice expensive hedge clipper. – – And you don’t notice until a long time later. Oh yes, and Lane County voter registration does not send you your voter ballot in the mail,  and you are supposed to just hop up, go downtown, and vote in person just to please them.– – drop all your work you’re doing and don’t complain!– – especially since this is a very close and controversial primary race, and it’s important to you!

“SCREW IT.nothing in the United States federal government is important anymore. WE are important, and nobody cares about us voters and taxpayers accept ourselves.” (Getting more bitter and caustic by the moment. You want me to lighten up? You lighten up! go set yourself on fire! This is my blog and I’ll complain if I want to!)”

“okay, let’s talk about how much it sucks to get older, have everything HURT and not work anymore, and not get anybody to hire you because you are too old. You know after my sister got fired years ago, she looked for years for a job and just couldn’t get one. TOO OLD, lady!she had to give up and go on Social Security eventually.”

“You forgot this one,” complained Carolyn. “Old guys that you meet, professionally, and they see that you’re living alone, you’re an old lady, and they try to romance you to get money out of you. Well, maybe that goes on all over the United States when you get old.” “Yes,” I said,”isn’t getting older wonderful? All these wonderful new things that happen!” (Are you getting nice and bitter and sour yet? NO? Just hang on we can make it a lot more sour grapes.)

“I did notice a great difference in food and vegetables and fruit, since I moved back here, away from California. tthe produce here sucks to Hell! I couldn’t get any grapes at all, that were not sour. They don’t make real watermelon anymore. What else? Well, in California we had the best food, produce and fruit, and here every time I go to a stupid supermarket it sucks to hell. I suppose I’m supposed to go to the Farmer’s market and get charged an arm and a leg, and half of my brain.I did check up online, and all they have is strawberries and lots of vegetables there. Every time I go to WinCo, some of their fruit is bad again.” continuing with ranting and raving and  B.S.

“do you really notice that much difference in produce and food?” Asked Carolyn. “Yes, I do, you have to be very wealthy here to get really good food. It wasn’t always that way back in California. I forgot that the farmers here never could farm very well, they wore out the soil, and didn’t know what to do to it to fix it. So I pretty much am dieting successfully,  because I hate the food and don’t want to eat any of it!” “I thought you looked a little bit skinnier!” Said Carolyn. “Yes, it actually comes from losing my appetite .” I finished.

“plus, in Eugene and in this county absolutely everything is EXPENSIVE as hell. If you just want to take one dinky little class, it costs a lot.. If you’re a senior,  then you go to the senior center,, especially the biggest one, they’re going to charge you money just to go to a senior center! That’s a new one on me.  Okay, let’s talk about GENTRIFICATION: you go to city data, forum, and you complain about the gentrification of Oregon, all the wealthier people moving here and causing the cost of living to go up so the people who live here can’t afford it.and Citi data tells you, you are being a troll!.“

“Well,” replied Carolyn, “you’re right about that.” “Yes, and I guess this age has what’s known as “class warfare.” All the much poorer people are all competing for the same services that the wealthier are getting. So guess who gets it?no middle class anymore, right? Can you believe, most of us used to be middle class? I can’t even believe that anymore. Did we ever used to be semi-middle class?I would settle for semi-.”

“Yes,” respectfully replied Caroline. “I have to say, I don’t really care for the “new  wealthy,” and all their arrogance about being “sustainable, organic, GREEN, carbon footprint responsible, and the only people on the face of the earth who really appreciate it.” “You mean, you don’t like how snotty and snobby that is?” I asked grinning.

“No, replied Caroline getting hostile. “I don’t exactly like it at all!so now you know why I don’t like the little piss- offs! Like, being GREEN makes them the absolute fucking superior people of the planet! I mean, I don’t go around acting like that! If I did, I’d hate my guts!” –CHUCKLES GLEEFULY.

“that’s okay,” I replied to Carolyn. “I’ve read that other people who come here, get disgusted with them also.it’s not just you.””and,” I continued “how arrogant the new left is and the new liberals! They are the only ones who know what is right, and they will kill you off in the process, so you have to put up with their method.what I mean is, there is only ONE METHOD, and it’s theirs. And if you want your own, they’ll screw you.

“Now, do I go around acting like that? No I do not, they’re supposed to be plenty of opinions and plenty of right ways. But all we have now, is ONE LIBERAL ORDINATION, and nothing else.NO COMPETITION ALLOWED.one-size-fits-all, and it’s always their size. Absolutely DISGUSTING.”  “So much for a free country, eh?”.   “R.I.P. UNITED STATES.”

(ARE WE FINISHED complaining enough? Yes, we are temporarily,SANDRAMINADOTTY!!!)  🙂 

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“EVERYONE IS MOVING TO OREGON, IT’S NOW L.A.!!–AS THE “VALLEY OF SICKNESS” GLOMS ONTO EVERY OTHER RESIDENT IN THE U.S.A.!!!–IN EUGENE, OR”

(ART WORK BY EUGENE SVENGOOLIE FAN)

“”Will this be a short or long episode on your blog?” Asked Carolyn.she was hot already, and it was only May–time. It was 86°, and I started thinking, that I would have to start watering my big trees, all around the side of the house or they were going to die this summer – – ALREADY!

“it’s going to be very short,” I replied, looking through the phone book for hardware stores and lots of hose; the type that connected  a long way, to get around the side of the house, from the well house. At least I still had a well,that probably still worked. I only tested it a couple of years ago. So, I was ready to start buying hoses and start using the well, and its pump, and delay all the death of my trees..

I decided to stay away from Jerry’s hardware, because they had sold me that large toilet that was crumbling into little pieces.who on earth makes a porcelain toilet, that starts to break off in pieces? Forget Jerry! Forget his hardware!

I started to figure out just how much it was going to cost me, for hose and connectors, and some help doing this. But it was worth it, forget the blackberry bushes, this was more of an emergency! I don’t want all my trees to get FRIED this summer.

“also, I have been hearing,” continued Carolyn, helping herself to cold water. “– That tons and tons of people are moving to Oregon in Eugene, from all over the United States; the whole state is going to get SQUASHED. It’s already got Los Angeles traffic!”

“it’s already got Los Angeles smog also,” I was very annoyed at the idea. “Why does everybody want to rush into one state, until there are millions of people from everywhere else, and they are just as miserable as they were in their original state!? By the time they’re through with Oregon, it’ll look exactly like downtown Los Angeles.”

“we’ve already got the migration of Los Angeles gangs, Los Angeles dope dealers, crime, smog and pollution, and massive amounts of cars and vehicles. You know what I’ve read? States that get like this, get so immovable, nobody could get anywhere,, or travel anywhere! In fact, that’s what happened to Detroit, all the businesses moved away because nobody could go out shopping, or get any place. In other words, it imploded!” I continued.

“I didn’t know that,” said Carolyn. “So is that what we have to expect when this gets so bad no one can move?””let me try to remember, “I continued looking in the catalog of garden supplies. “I seem to remember that in that type of situation, it gets so congested, nobody can get anywhere and the first thing they do is desert all those areas, and go OUT.

“After a certain amount of time, people start to move away.” I continued – “but it takes a long time of misery, before a lot of people realize they want to get out of the congestion and smothering population.for some reason,  people don’t move one at a time very much, they seem to move in huge DROVES, like cattle being herded. After all we are a herd species. – And once the herd starts to move away, then they do the same thing they did before. LEAVE.

“But I don’t know,you know that’s hard to predict..” I kept looking at garden furniture. Why would I need garden furniture? “I think it has to reach a state of such misery and disgust, that it’s pretty much unlivable. ” “I guess you could say that’s exactly what’s happening now. Where would you go to if you had to move?”,

“I really have thought about that a lot,  and I decided I would go someplace that other people hated, and very few people live there. Kind of like North Dakota or South Dakota, or Nebraska, or someplace with terrible winters – so awful that people didn’t ever move there in huge masses, unless they were Eskimos. And they didn’t care.”

suddenly, I was moved by a brilliant idea. “I’ve got it I’ve got it!” I exclaimed. I know exactly where I will go if I get crowded out of this stupid area!

“MICHIGAN! MICHIGAN! SISS – boom–BAH! that is, if I can sell this stupid acreage to a bunch of Californians who are absolutely desperate to move here. MICHIGAN! The state of Michigan is practically EMPTY  because there’s no work there at all except for Maytag washing machine company. Something like that, one of those big fat Corporations!and Michigan has terrible weather!really awful winters!” I finished up.

“Don’t you have that friend in Michigan, in St. Joseph?” Asked Carolyn.”yes”, I replied, happily. “I should go and visit her and really look at Michigan as a place to actually live – –  because everybody is LEAVING MICHIGAN,, instead of going there. ” “And you say the weather is terrible?” Questioned Carolyn further.

“Yes, but I really don’t know how the prices of places to live  are there. You would think that a lot of the prices would go down, since everybody’s left the state.I do know that they still have food growing there, which is good and they still have plenty of water. They just don’t have any employment.”

“I sure would miss you,” said Carolyn, slobbering. “It would be terrible. You’re a native Oregonian and you’d leave the state forever?””I think we should probably go together,” I remarked.” We could get a little house together, and go and see my friend may be too. The only thing is there’s going to be lots of disadvantages also, of things that they don’t have in Michigan, that they have here in Oregon. ” “I can think of one thing right away,,” said Carolyn, snarling.. “Lots of hippies and lots of poor and lots of homeless – didn’t your friends say, it’s really hard on poor people there?”

“I’m having an epiphany,” I continued. “Now that you’ve started that question, I think we should somehow investigate Michigan, what they’ve got there and what they don’t, and I think there are little towns still.” “We don’t have to go there right away,” continued Carolyn warming to the idea.  “We can look online and find out lots of stuff about it before hand.”

“I think Michigan would have one advantage,” I mused.. “What’s that,?” Asked Carolyn. “Well, it’s probably not as dumb as GERMANY has been lately. They let in tons and tons of unscreened foreign aliens, and now they have lots of rape gangs, burglars, criminals roaming everywhere, and Europe isn’t safe to vacation in .”

“Michigan is starting to look really good.”

“there are real disadvantages that Michigan has,” I continued, remembering. “There are a lot more black dangerous ghettos.. I know that my friend lives right next to one. They don’t have that stuff in Oregon, which is probably why everybody’s rushing here. One of the main reasons!

“HEY, NO DIVERSITY IN OREGON! It’s all white bread! Ha ha!” Carolyn started laughing. “Yeah,” she said,” I don’t know how we’d handle that. Did you say that lots of people left CALIFORNIA, and came out here for the same reason?””you betcha! Hell, all those Californians left because La Raza and masses of illegal aliens  kept Swarming into California! But we have to remember it’s a completely different culture than it is here. I’m not sure we’d like it.”

“I definitely like the idea of living in a very empty state,” continued Carolyn. “I think you’ve really got something there.” “It’s a very severe idea,” I said pondering. We would really have to go there, and do a lot of investigating on it. For example, what are their firearm laws like?” “are you sure you can leave your place, and not have a broken heart?” Continued Carolyn.

“Well,” I replied”yes, I’m not sure. But look at all these dumb Californians they all decided to move here bring all their wealth,  and raise all the prices of everything, so people who are working poor can’t live here anymore.! Why would I want to keep living in that?”

We decided to really investigate it, prices of little houses, all the different communities, traffic, prices of everything, and start to talk to my friend in Michigan about whether or not it was a good idea.at the very least, we could stop living in gentrified Oregon, which was starting to turn into gentrified Oregon/Los Angeles/Las Vegas/San Fernando Valley.

And there were advantages about having horrible weather;  Michigan would discourage other people from moving there.  There really were good things about lots of snow, freezing cold, and being miserable a lot of the winter.– and having dangerous  miserable black ghettos that were always on the edge of explosion.

the fact is, living in very popular beautiful comfortable states, was not such a great advantage after all. Mainly, you got all the slackers from other areas, who saw a beautiful state (like Oregon)  and really thought it was a good idea to MOVE a large part of the United States there, and wreck it completely.– – which is exactly what they were doing.

(Sandraminadotty, considering a move out of Oregon to Michigan, because the  weather is so miserable, it is EMPTY.  🙂  )

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