HEADS IN THE LONGHOUSE RAFTERS

The algorythm is incredibly rude! Three advertisements for assisted dementia care while I was doomscrolling. And this after I've igonored every single damned paid alertment about the breakfast food that seniors eat which is slowly making them gaga! Which have become more blatant over the past few weeks. It's sugar. Sugar is making you crazy, turning your kids into monsters, and changing your grandparents into ichor-oozing green slugs lamenting that Archie Bunker was right about everything.

So you need to change things.
Cheer up, help is at hand.
The other hand.

A few weeks of dribbling into their oatmeal, plus mushroom coffee instead of energy drinks, and they'll be right as rain. Plus shiny little blue pills ask your doctor about this may cause rashes, hallucinations, and serious psychotic episodes, but sixty percent of home-bound seniors report significant improvement after four months. Not significantly linked to bowel cancer and bladder infections. And please don't read the fine print. That's why it's so small. Fifteen pages of it. We don't want you to read it. Besides, there are many difficult words there. Operators are standing by to reassure you and suggest funding options.
Have you considered a second mortgage?

I blame Trump for all of this. Trump has brought physical deterioration among the elderly and their fading rational capabilities to the forefront of the national discourse, alerting us all to the societal dangers senile batshit dingbats present. That's not to even mention the adult diapers which most people living in Middle America will need eventually because of their crappy diet, too damned much sugar, snake oil church suppers, Texas, and shiny little blue pills rotting their guts from the brain downwards.


I'm reaching full retirement age in three months.
Why are you asking about that?

While reading about pre-bronze age China (Shang era) I ran across the word 戎 (Mandarin: rong. Cantonese: 'yung') meaning "Western barbarians", "bellicose", "aggressive foreigners". Of whom there seemed to be an awful lot in Chinatown today. Many of them are overweight, rather dull looking, and tattooed. Or all of that. Plus they dress funny and talk too much.


In its ancient script form the character shows a halberd on the right with what could and probably should be interpreted as a severed head dangling from the horizontal part.

太行山 TAIHANG RANGE

The area to the north of the Central Plains (中原 'jung yuen') was a rather wild place during antiquity. Sometimes it still is. Quite unlike the settled south.


Got home around tea time after lunch, pipe smoke, shopping.
Peaches for the Indonesian Chinese neighbor.
Kiwis for my apartment mate.
Bon bons for me.


Away from the yowling savages.



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