Hieronyma…..no, my computer didn’t crash either. But it was triggered to restart without my permission. Since it happened twice, I’m wondering WHY it did that? At least I didn’t lose what you did. Hope you’ve caught up. 🙁
A tip about putting valuables/money in the drawer with one’s undies…. You’d think it’s sacred, right? Nope. After a burglary, I was told it’s one of the first places thieves look. They did at my house….and I should have told my friends here… cuz she lost stuff from that hiding place too. 🙁 Guess it’s a common at the front door key under the flower pot.
I’ve been trying for the past couple days [ too wiped out yesterday to post] to use a tip I ran across somewhere on the Net. Using boxes [kleenex, soda cases, or other boxes] to form a small version of the rotating storage for [commercial] canned goods. Use them on shelves. Feed cans in a hole you cut in the top and they dispense from a hole you cut in the bottom of other side. Not sure I’m convinced yet. But I’m super annoyed that they now make cans that do not firmly stack on top of each other. Jury still out on that project. Kleenex boxes seem to be too flimsy.
On pondering… blessing/curse? Personally I LIKE pondering a lot…but those around me? Sometimes they roll their eyes. 😉 {shrug} As for expecting non-logical behavior…I worked for years at a state-run hospital for mental health issues ….LONG ago. Fortunately this institution HAD modernized out of the horror that some such institutions had been in earlier decades. But I’ve seen pretty much all the extreme behaviors and thot patterns [or thot jumping]. I don’t think there is any ‘spanner’ like severe mental health issues. Really wrecks folks. I think in my case, I would have to get myself into a mindset that I used when I worked there. Some of these people were very dear to me and some functioned way better than others. And some were sharp enough to ‘game’ the system. Of course.
I also worked in some depressed urban areas for much of my career. There is quite a lot of different thot patterns going on there….compared to my rural childhood. Or where I am now, also rural – sparse population density. I think I would have to travel back to these situations from long ago and watch for the signs I knew then.
Frankly, I like being a sort of ‘hermit on mountain’ so I DON’T have to ponder this stuff. Yet if Stuff Hits Fan, no area is immune. And some of our WILD WEST mountain folks are …. LOL ….wild to begin with. I was more than a little shocked when a situation developed rather quickly in front of me once, years ago up here. I certainly have the skills to have diffused that before it developed. But…..my brain stalled. HUH? I’d handle 6 of those type of situations in a single work shift….”back in the day”. And there I stood…..stuck in that stupid Normalcy Bias, I think. THIS….does not happen here! This is a man I know and he’s going OFF… This makes NO sense…. blah, blah…
And THAT’S the sort of disconnect I fear. I run scenarios in my head A LOT! Trying to fight Normalcy Bias [Google it if you’re not familiar with the term!] ….and yet, I’m not sure why it would take me that long to ‘get up to speed’. I can snap into EVAC-mode in a minute or two…load for a wildfire quite quickly. My brain and body has done this numerous times. But a violent situation begins….and I freeze? Aaaugh! I feel like a skill has be excised from my brain. 🙁
OldMtWoman …pondering