But it shouldn’t surprise me. Queensbury, NY is a community some 30 miles north of where I live. It is a community which is fairly agrarian, but also has a fair amount of old paper mills. It has become somewhat more cosmopolitan over the past decade as people move north from New York’s Capital/Saratoga Region where I live, but it is still a pretty red part of New York State.

Can We (as in the human society) learn from history? Are We able — or willing — see how current events are eerily similar to events that happened over 250-260 years ago? Can We see the parallels of what happens in the present with what happened in the past, and crucially how the outcome of the past parallel could be a pretty good predictor for our own short term future?

Like many of us who suffer from gender dysphoria, I have had more than my fair share of suicidal thoughts over the years. Hell, I spent a good deal of my time in service to my country inadvertently placing myself in harm’s way, subconsciously seeking my own death.

Big Brother strikes again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-webpage-january-6-a...

Trump’s administration officially rewrites history.

MC is a married cross-dresser. The wife tolerates the cross-dressing and works for a company that has other been bought by a British company or they recently hired a female British CEO. The CEO throws a company party in the style of the British fancy dress parties with a turn-about theme. wife tells MC his dream is about to come true that she would go someplace with him dressed.

After cleaning up the kitchen from dinner this evening, I sat down to read while my spouse watched the end of the Philadelphia/Buffalo football game. My oldest son and his wife were at the game; my son is a Philly fan while his wife is a Buffalo fan, so both of them were excited to be at the game - especially in light of the fact that it was the last regular season game at the Buffalo stadium as they move into their new stadium before the start of the next season. Buffalo is a five hour drive from our home, so they are spending the night and coming home tomorrow.

That's a phrase borrowed from the 70s. Feeling crunchy mean you are or should be embarrassed. There's a checker at my local Safeway whose quite efficient and personable. When I first went through their check stand with my groceries, I thought they were male Goth. Dark clothes, heavy eye makeup and dark nail polish. I've know a few Goth and I thought it strange because the personality was more outgoing and upbeat than any other Goth I'd known.

Yep, its finally here, the Chrimbo Zone!

Yep, today, in this part of the world, it has been the shortest daylight of the year, as we pass the Winter Solstice

As many, if not most, Gaby Bond fans know, the Ahr valley was devastated by a flash flood in July 2021. Especially upstream from Dernau, via Rech, Mayshoß, Altenahr to Ahrbrück and beyond, the train tracks were completely destroyed and washed away.

is upon us which means the full on Winterfest is a mere 10 days away!

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My latest offering features an interactive Table of Contents. The body of the story is preceded by a column of jump-links that allows the reader to jump to a particular chapter. I've pretty much decided that on longer works (in my mind that means >20K words) that rather than posting as a serial I'll provide this kind of means for the reader to read part of the story, leave and come back later and be able to jump to where they left off.

and hello to the Advent season!

or hot water!

which is essentially the German equivalent of Rememberence Day here in the UK.

Sorry, folks, stuff you know.

at the end of an emotional week.

yep, it's the UK's annual firework to celebrate a failure!

for yours truly and the Gabfen!

and other small birds on my feeders!

I realised as i lay in bed @ midnight that i hadn't done my usual Wednesday post, i was a bit befuddled yesterday but i think i'm back with it today!

or bap or breadcake!

I know that the Bigcloset it was having some Technical difficulties over the weekend, Ddos attacks? Now when the first home you visit the website you get the message am I a robot prompt and have to click the button to proceed. The problem is Older computers and tablets that don't have up-to-date browsers simply want to be able to visit this site anymore. As for me, I prefer the Internet Explorer as it works better with my text reader so I can enjoy this website.