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Or did I imagine it?

Green is my favorite color but emeralds are not on my list of favorite gems.

I don't like inclusions. Heat is the only treatment that doesn't bother me much. I guess it doesn't bother me for tanzanite I'd be ok with it for sapphire depending on the quality of the material and the jewelry being made. I'm thinking about good quality material and fair quality jewelry.

There are many other green gems.

But that's just me.

@wtg You win the internet today. Grave shopping. We just looked. We didn't buy anything. Lol.

I just got home and checked. It's not expected to be serious here.

Many people got rained dumped on them in Honduras and the same phenomenon that happened in North Carolina happened to them. Water totals double (and more) when a hurricane hits a mountainous region. There's the rain from the storm and then the next thing that happens is it flows downwards from the mountains.

Well, it turns out Milton did slight damage to my roof. Integrity (metal) not compromised, no leaks. FEMA (wrongly) denied our application because of an internal mix up. I understand this has happened to many people.

And, I guess there's a new hurricane and/or storm that's going to hit the west coast of Florida. I don't know. I haven't looked at meteorology sites since yesterday afternoon.

It had me at hello.

BTW, he forgot to mention Arab American voters and young voters. Lol.

Did you know Harris underperformed Biden in every county in the United States?

Ouch.

@AdagioM

We own a mobile home together in a well established, very nice, and very well managed mobile home park. Our mobile home is estimated to be worth over $200,000 by Zillow, and even though I think this figure is ridiculous, we bought it five years ago and prices have gone into the stratosphere since the pandemic.

The title is recorded in such a way that we'd both have to agree to a sale or one of us could sue the other, the asset would be held by the court, then sold off with the proceeds being divided between us according to terms decided by the court, in a process that would take a year.

I have no interest in either option.

It's true that his behavior often amounts to what my indomitable late sister once described as a kind of metaphorical predation.

It's just he lacks the intellect that would be required to overcome my instinct for survival and ability to defend myself. He has never been able to beat me in a fight.

The best example of this dynamic is he put my name on the title conjoined with "or." Maybe a year later he just announced that he wanted me to leave meaning move out. I asked him if I could stay. He said yes. He did the same thing a few months later. I ignored him. He did it a third time and I took his name off the title. He, his mother, and his sister panicked. I told him I'd add his name to the title conjoined with "and" and that he would pay the fees involved. That is exactly what happened.

He can do whatever he wants but I will remain adamant about not giving up what I have achieved after the instability and humiliation of being "just a renter" as they used to derisively say in Hawaii, especially given the astronomical cost of rent in this state.

We don't own the land so we.have to pay a pretty much nominal monthly rent. A 2 bedroom apartment would rent for twice the price.

He was the love of my life but became extremely narcissistic, arrogant, and entitled after loosing his last job in Hawaii and then spending the night screaming and crying.

He was still loving then but over a period of weeks he withdrew into his thoughts and feelings to a pathological degree.

The worst part of it is he's much too intelligent to not know that these drugs are weakening his body and shortening his life.

Yes, Ax.

It's not the fact that Harris had trouble communicating. It's the fact that she froze like a deer in the headlights whenever she didn't have a teleprompter or whenever her teleprompter malfunctioned.

It's true that Trump is surrounding himself with a group of very unpleasant people.

The issue of concern for my generation was the first Iraq war. It seems that such concerns never end.

It seems looking back on it now even though it was such a short time ago that Trump won on the day that Harris was elevated. Her one talent was to read a speech in public and she couldn't even do that without outbursts of inappropriate laughter.

Biden didn't govern well during his term and ended it with a trainwreck.

Lol!

They literally handed the delegates to her in a backroom deal. She didn't "win" any of them. They could have had an open convention.

I've had enough of being lectured about democracy by Democrats.

How did what happen? How did Trump get elected?

Are we going to make this another four years of perseverating about Trump making twelve years in total of being apoplectic about a man who happened to be legitimately elected twice?

It's time for the Democratic Party to consider its "democracy is on the ballot" rhetoric and accept the fact that Trump is the legitimately elected President-elect.

They need to STFU about having a monopoly on democracy and consider whether they want their party to be about something other than slavishly serving the globe's oligarchs.

He didn't steal the election from Kamala Harris, so again, they need to STFU about having anything like ownership rights to democracy.

Either stand for something better than genocide or just STFU.

I'm talking street drugs, crystal methamphetamine, and crack cocaine.

What if this someone's family knew something was up, but had no life experience that would allow them to even take a wild guess as to the substances involved?

What if you couldn't tell the family because you would be betraying the confidence of someone you had lived with for a long time?

Nobody likes the bearer of bad news and it would almost certainly blowback on you personally if you told them.

You'd probably be accused of upsetting them on purpose and/ or commiting a betrayl and being malicious.

How do you have an intervention when the person involved wouldn't be remotely interested and when you couldn't get support from even one ally?

The friends are enablers down to a person.

What if this person was spending a lot of money on this habit instead of paying bills and taking care of their health issues?

What if this person didn't care what you thought about these addictions and adamantly refused to take advice from you?

I'm thinking prayer might be a possible answer.

The situation might feel bleak because one might feel powerless and alone.

Any words of wisdom or psychological encouragement would be most welcome.

I learned tonight that this might be the first year four hurricanes will have made landfall in Florida. I'm thinking this means the first time since 1848. This is beyond tiresome at this point.

Another hurricane is set to hit Florida. FEMA hasn't finished processing our application for the damage Milton caused. This has been the worst hurricane season for the Tampa area in my lifetime.

Dewey, your sermon has gone over my head, sadly.

I labored for five hours in the sun today. Physical labor has never been what I do best but I was laser focused on completing my project (gardening) and making it as perfect as it could be.

I have a vise grip headache at the moment.

I've never had any doubt that you are very good at what you do and I pray that those who needed comfort found it.

I've been living in a Florida town that is Evangelical Christian almost to a person for five years.

It's been culture shock and upsetting in ways I'd rather not talk about except to say it's something else for imperfect mortal humans to presume to sit in judgement regarding one's existence and to feel free to label one as-- "evil."

I'll reread your sermon when I feel better and thank you for posting it.

by being disengaged. This short video references a parallel situation long before Diana's passing and not well known today.

Link to video

Yes, it was exactly that way.

I know, right?

I lived in Polynesia for almost 20 years and it's only slightly less mysterious to me now than when I moved there.

I know a lot of the history. I had a lot of interesting experiences. I have a lot of impressions. I have a lot of memories.

Yet in retrospect even with the very warm welcome I received I can't say I didn't feel like a foreigner.

Link to video

He's talking about sexual abuse.
He might also be talking about physical abuse. I don't know.

He mentions native Hawaiians.

There was a school system set up by a Hawaiian princess with a large trust fund. She was married to Mr. Bishop. He was a member of one of the original missionary families and large land holders.

The scandal was so bad (and this wasn't a long time ago-- I was living there) that (sorry to say) people ended up mysteriously dead.

I have no idea what a formal federal apology would mean to the people affected. I couldn't guess.

Two aspects of this confuse me.

The first is the fact that the school system (it certainly still exists) is something I anyway associated with the State. The federal government might well have a role in it. I'm not aware it, though.

The second is that many native Hawaiians do not recognize the federal government. This might sound strange but it's the truth.

This group of Hawaiians insist that they are living as subjects of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

I met some of these Hawaiians.

Every Island is actually small. You meet all kinds of people.

The same is true for me regarding the other groups. I lack the perspective to know how this formal apology will be received.