Neanderpundit

I don’t want for much, but I get what I need when I need it. So I’m difficult to purchase anything for, and those around me despir of ever purchasing anything of value to me- whcih is fine, I don’t need people doing for me anyway.

But sometimes someone will do something and get it so right, that I am astonished, and I am so rarely surprised by anything it is a rare treat.

So it was with some excitement that I cut the strapping tape on the box, and tunneled through the packing tape to find this:
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What is it? What could it be? A heavyish case covered in velvet? why, it could be anything, even a deed to a bowling alley!
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In a moment, thursday night, when i was feeling mentally and physically like the dogs breakfast, a good friend sends me a care package of sorts that makes me grin.

Too busy to even take a picture but soon enough i will share.

The value of good friends is inestimable.

and then I cam home to a late night semi emergency car repair, which would have been FAR easier if the manual I have for the car actually showed the correct wiring diagram!!

Bastards.

I have not commented on the government shutdown because my patience is at it’s end. I am deliberately ignoring the whole affair lest my better angels lose the battle they have been having for a very long time now.

I have an overdeveloped sense of justice, and I do not posess what others would refer to as a conscience. There is little between who and what I am now and what most would consider a monster. Only an herculean force of will and ignoring the petulant games of assholes is keeping me on the straight and narrow at present.