Seventy

[old_cutter_john]

About five weeks ago, when it became clear that Donald Trump will be elected president next Monday, a lot of my friends freaked.  I didn't see it on Facebook, because I was already gone, but I got more phone calls than is usual for an autistic geezer like me, and I read some blog posts, and I'm aware that folks fear what's coming and despair of

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[anais_pf]

Happy birthday!

Where on earth are you storing the shrouds and pine boxes?

[old_cutter_john]

Thanks!

It's a futures contract: The proprietors of the cemetery are obliged to deliver them when they're needed. The plots, on the other hand, are specific.

[anais_pf]

I'm somewhat relieved to learn you're not storing the pine boxes in the spare bedroom or whatever.

[mallorys_camera]

Happy birthday. Seventy is a significant one.

I'm somewhat more displeased that Trump won than I would have been had Clinton won, but neither outcome was a particularly desirable one from my perspective. :-)

You probably don't watch films or TV very often, but if you did, I would highly recommend checking out The Man in the High Castle, the TV presentation, which turns out to be a rather profound meditation on the nature of God's missions. :-)

[old_cutter_john]

Thanks!

[old_cutter_john]

Thanks! And my sentiments exactly!

I've told the folks around me that if I freeze to death, I want to be cremated, à là Sam McGee. Hard to tell whether they believe me, and harder still to guess what they'd do.

Getting back

[gohei]

I just started using LJ again for musings.

Re: Getting back

[old_cutter_john]

Wow! Heap!

[froganon]

just dropping in.
good to read ya.

i haven't been here or much of anywhere in a bit.

planning is good.