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1. about 1 hour ago on Breaking Cat News

   Happy Birthday!!

2. about 13 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   We haven’t had a tree in years because of cats. But this cartoon has reminded me of another reason I’m just as happy to not have a tree – Hubby has totally different ideas of when the tree comes down than I do. He’d take it down as soon as the Christmas football game was over. I want it up at least through Epiphany, and I used to get weepy when it finally had to come down. Well, if you don’t put it up, you don’t have to deal with it coming down.

3. about 13 hours ago on Francis

   I think theater, particularly small town community theater, (especially in a rural traditionally conservative area) is the one place that people who don’t fit in with the run-of-the-mill crowd can find an outlet, acceptance, and like-minded people. It’s not just LGBTQ people who can feel out of place in sparsely populated areas. Just having a college degree in this neck of the woods can put you out of step with the general populace (According to the US Census, 34% of the people in my state have a bachelor’s degree or higher, in the county I’ve lived in for the last half century or so, just 20% have a bachelor’s degree or higher.) Community theater seems to be where a large percentage of the people with degrees congregate. We’re all oddballs there, so we really don’t care if anyone is “different” for whatever reason

   It just occurred to me that the theater may be where I’ve met most of the LGBTQ people I know because it’s actually the place where I’ve met nearly everyone I know. Theater and church are my main social outlets. Most (maybe all, I’ll have to think really hard about) of my close friends, I met through church or theater, or through other people I met at church or theater. I didn’t grow up here, I have no family here, I’ve rarely had a job with co-workers to get to know. (the one lady I met when I worked at K Mart in the late ‘70s that I still see now and then is married to the older brother of one of my theater friends – I told you it was a small town). So I guess it’s no wonder that most of the LGBTQ people I know, I met through the theater, I don’t met people any place else.

4. 1 day ago on Francis

   Nearly all of the LGBTQ people I know, I’ve met through our local theater group, it’s a pretty safe place for everyone to be themselves.

5. 1 day ago on Francis

   There are two Episcopalian churches in my area. The one is town seems to be where the Old Money folks (the ones that aren’t Catholic or Lutheran) go, I don’t own the right clothes to go there. The other is about 12 miles away in the next town. I went to a funeral there once, it was a very Catholic service. Probably the only place you might find a gay clergy person would be a guest officiant at one the LCA churches. One of the 3 Methodist churches in the area had a female minister for a while. Other than that, it’s pretty standard issue straight male (usually married for the Protestants) clergy around here.

6. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   We will be having our traditional pizza with ice cream for dessert.

   Just got off a Google Meet call with number one son who is making pizza for his family. He’s doing homemade crust, I bought ready made, shelf stable crusts. The toppings are all everyone’s favorites (everyone gets their own pizza).

   When the boys were little, I realized it was silly to make a fancy dinner for kids more interested in presents, so we had frozen pizza (the expensive kind for Christmas). Now that they are both in their 30s, they still want pizza for Christmas.

7. 2 days ago on Francis

   Well said.

   I was raised “semi-Baptist” by a mother who played cards and believed in evolution (hence the ‘semi’ part). I was taught from an early age to question everything. It took me a long time to find a religious organization I was comfortable with. It seemed those I shared social beliefs with were hardly more than Sunday Social Societies. And those who took faith as seriously as I did had some really regressive ideas about ‘proper behavior.’ The Congregational Church (NACCC, not the UCC variety – UCC is too ‘High Church’ for me and has too much ‘upper management’). The particular church I went to for many years had a lot of socially conservative people and a lot of Sunday Social people, but we all got along, and rarely were there disputes because the Congregational Way is all about personal faith, not doctrine. I stopped going during the Pandemic, and when it was ok to gather in small rooms with lots of people again, I found that the makeup of the church had changed, gotten more conservative (and no one ever wore a mask, even if they were sneezing and sniffling). It’s a half hour drive to get there, I had to get up too early on Sunday morning to get there on time, and I’m not as young as I used to be, so it just isn’t worth the effort. I’ve been looking for some place closer because I miss the fellowship. Many of my friends are part of a Unitarian Universalist gathering, and they invited me to come to their meetings, but they are not what I’m looking. Most of the rest of my friends who aren’t Catholics or Lutherans go to the Presbyterian church. They have a new minister there that several of my closest friends say I’d like. Presbyterians have always seem way too high church for me, and there’s a lot of upper management, but maybe I’ll give them a try.

8. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   It’s a lenovo ThinkPad. I think it’s running on Windows 10. Other than that, I can’t tell you anything about it.

   I feel like my Dad felt looking at the engine of any car made after 1990. I don’t understand any of this any more.

   The laptop I had before this one had a handy function key to turn the track pad on or off. Sometimes when the cats would walk across the keyboard, they’d turn the touchpad back on. I keep hoping they will accidentally turn off this touchpad.

9. 3 days ago on Francis

   I sure wish people would stop judging all Christians by the actions of those who so obviously missed Jesus’s message.

10. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Thanks, Denny. I tried your suggestion and the instructions don’t make much sense to me. Especially the instruction that said ‘check your laptop’s user’s guide’ To the best of my knowledge, my ‘pre-owned’ laptop did not come with a user’s guide.

    I watched a video, but it starts out telling me to type something or other into the search box. I have no idea where this search box is, it’s not on my laptop where the video is showing it.

    I think I’ll just live with it as is (changing the sensitivity DID help some) until my son the programmer is home for a visit sometime this summer. He’s a pretty good hardware guy as well as a master software guy.

    Actually, some days I think my best bet with all the irritating things this laptop does, is to wait until it stops working like my last laptop did (I blame two 13 pound cats), and this time have someone other than my husband (like either of the two computer savvy sons) order a new laptop.