1) The Downward Spiral Plummet of Western Civilization

This is all terribly stressful and distracting, but let's not dwell on that here, since there's fuck-all any of us can do about it other than hang on and wonder what will be left after the noise finally stops. :/

2) Family Medical Stuff

Parents are getting old. Old People Stuff is happening. That's all I want to say about that.

3) Do I Really Need All These Organs?

Here's the big one: a week from next Tuesday, I'm scheduled to undergo a sleeve gastrectomy procedure. This has actually been in the works for literally years, but it's been repeatedly complicated by long lead times, referral expirations, the retirement of the first surgeon my case was assigned to before anything could be accomplished, and the complete shutdown of one of the associated supporting medical practices Because COVID, Allegedly. It's been a tangled, uncertain mess, which is one of the reasons why I haven't mentioned it before, as far as I can remember.

But, well, I'm in the pipe now. I'm on day five of the 14-day pre-op liquid diet, and am low-key hoping to come out on the wrong side of a zombie apocalypse so I have a solid reason to kill strangers and eat them.

Anyway, all this is very preoccupying, so... yeah.

(Also, my main laptop has been broken since February and the manufacturers are presently on their fifth attempt to repair it, having tried to dodge the last three tries on the grounds that it went out of warranty in March. Which is also pissing me off, but in the grand scheme of things it's not really significant enough to rate being called reason 4.)

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