Warped Gratitude Blog

  Today I am thankful that I have a dog and a camera system.  I'm just saddened that I let the batteries die in my camera after I broke my ankle so I didn't get a picture of the perp.  I came home Thursday, went out into the garage, and noticed a chair under the garage door opener with several feet of wire around the chair.  I initially thought they were pulled off of the walls.  I don't remember having wires on the wall but to be honest, I don't pay attention.  My tools were all over the place.  Baskets were moved.  No one can get into the house.  I still brace my doors with metal rods.  I learned my lesson after I caught Mike's sister breaking into the house.  Still....someone managed to get into the garage.  Sigh... Today I'm babysitting.  The young adults living here took the kiddo out to walk the dog.  I left to pick up the kiddo's favorite pizza.  When I came back, there were several feet of thick wire threaded through the top of the garage door.  Damn

  Today I am not sure what I'm thankful for.  I took my aunt out to lunch today.  I guess I can be thankful for that.  There was a homeless guy trying to sleep in a corner by a defunct restaurant that shut down in the early days of the pandemic.  Dumb politicians don't understand that the Covid meddling in business destroyed out economy and skyrocketed the numbers of our homeless population.  Enough rant for now... The sleeping man was African American.  He appeared to be in his early twenties.  All he had was a pillow and the clothes on his back - a dirty t-shirt and shorts. While waiting for the food, I bought a bottle of water, went outside and slipped it next to the man with a $10 bill under it.  I didn't have more dough with me.  The man was breathing.  He's alive.  He didn't smell of alcohol.  I didn't wake him up.  I left and went back inside the restaurant.  One man approached me to tell me that what I did made his day.  Later, another man approached me

Today I am thankful that I learned to fight and that I'm creative about how I go about it.  Did you know that you can be arrested in Denver for talking to a homeless person?  Yeah -  If a cop asks you to stop talking and move away from the homeless peep in a public area, they'll arrest you for what I call 'contempt of cop.'  Denver was conducting an illegal homeless sweep....again.   Hey - Denver!  Remember that tax hike you passed to help the homeless last November.  This is what your overlords decided to do with the dough - buy more garbage trucks!  YOU PAID FOR THAT!  I have an office in Denver.  I'm paying for that, too.   Know this - you can and will be arrested for failing to obey an invalid command from a police officer.  They'll call it valid.  Constitutionally, it is invalid.  It's obvious, the overlords at the City and County of Denver want to be sued.  I'm serious.  Sad, huh.  I must talk to fifteen homeless peeps a day in The City and County

  Today I am thankful for being a child of the 80's  (or maybe I should type adult child of the 80's).  So.... I think many of us are all to familiar with the Brittany Spears saga and the financial abuse she has suffered at the hands of her father who has taken over as her conservator.  This man dictates Britany's life, right down to the color she can paint her kitchen.  He also uses her financial stability as his personal piggy bank.  Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare | The New Yorker There are countless tales of conservator abuse.  I had a dear friend whose brother was a political activist.  An opposing political camp applied for conservatorship over his estate claiming him crazy.  He killed himself rather than lose his freedom.  I'm no stranger to the abuses of conservatorship.  I've spent many years training to spot it -and- I've developed relationships with people working in the regulatory agencies preventing those abuses.  As someone who specializ