Nec Hoc Nec Ilud

* "Convoy of Chinese military trucks seen moving towards North Korea border in late December:" http://www.dailynk.com/english/m/read.php?num=14923&cataId=nk01500

* "US suspends security assistance to Pakistan:" http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/04/politics/us-suspends-security-assistance-to-pakistan/index.html

* "Nikki Haley: U.S. to withhold funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees until they join peace process:" https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.832685

* "Trump tweets criticism of 'brutal and corrupt' Iran regime:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/donald-trump-iran-tweet/index.html

* "Trump taunts Iran, insults Pakistan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-taunts-iran-insults-pakistan-1128169027846

* "US IDs hijacked to fake Trump policy support:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-identities-hijacked-to-fake-support-for-trump-policies-1128124483978

* "The White House’s 'deep state' obsession:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-white-house-s-deep-state-obsession-1128043587798

* "Trump weakens safeguards created after Deepwater Horizon crisis:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-weakens-safeguards-created-after-deepwater-horizon-crisis

* "Trump aims to open nearly all federal waters to offshore drilling in biggest lease sale ever:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/trump-aims-to-open-arctic-pacific-and-atlantic-to-offshore-drilling-in-ambitious-new-plan.html

* I don't think this is going to happen and I have serious concerns about the discourse, but I feel like it's a good idea to keep track of what's happening in this arena. "Washington's growing obsession: The 25th Amendment:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/03/trump-25th-amendment-mental-health-322625

* "Key House conservatives say it's time for Sessions to go:" http://thehill.com/homenews/house/367403-meadows-jordan-say-time-for-sessions-to-go

* "Sen. Feinstein says Trump's social-media guru "may have corresponded with Russian nationals":" http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/sen-feinstein-says-trumps-social-media-guru-may-have-corresponded-with-russian-nationals/

* "Rosenstein, McCabe meet with Ryan on Nunes:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rosenstein-mccabe-meet-with-ryan-on-nunes-russia-investigation-1128929347589

* "Rep. Castro: I've heard about crimes in secret testimony:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-castro-i-ve-heard-about-crimes-by-the-administration-in-secret-testimony-1128878147861

* "Dossier didn't trigger Trump Russia probe:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/dossier-didn-t-trigger-trump-russia-probe-gop-pretends-otherwise-1128118339641

* "Manafort sues to pull plug on Mueller:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/weak-manafort-lawsuit-to-pull-plug-on-mueller-could-backfire-1128932419658

* "Blumenthal: Make Trump Jr testimony public:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/blumenthal-make-trump-jr-fusion-gps-testimony-transcript-public-1128944195579

* "Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials:" https://www.axios.com/how-michael-wolff-did-it-2522360813.html

* "Trump legal team blasts explosive Michael Wolff book in cease-and-desist letter:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-attorney-sends-letter-author-book-demanding-cease/story?id=52134956

* "Trump attorney sends Bannon cease and desist letter over 'disparaging' comments:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-attorney-sends-bannon-cease-desist-letter-disparaging/story?id=52128555

* "White House's Sanders: Breitbart should 'consider' parting ways with Bannon:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/04/trump-steve-bannon-breitbart-324028

* "White House Bans Staff From Using Personal Mobile Phones at Work:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-04/a-new-ban-at-the-white-house-staff-s-personal-mobile-phones

* "Anthony Scaramucci Is Telling Pals That Donald Trump Wants Him Back:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/anthony-scaramucci-is-telling-pals-that-donald-trump-wants-him-back

* "Trump admin abruptly ends AIDS council:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-ends-aids-council-without-warning-or-explanation-1128143427655

* "Hatch announces retirement, Romney likely to run:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/02/hatch-announces-retirement-320133

* Well, fuck. "Virginia just determined control of its state house by picking a name out of a bowl:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/19/16797572/virginia-house-delegates-drawing-bowl

* No really, money does solve problems, so please stop telling me it won’t, rich people.: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/169333080597/no-really-money-does-solve-problems-so-please

* "U.N. Investigator On Extreme Poverty Issues A Grim Report — On The U.S.:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/12/21/572043850/u-n-investigator-on-extreme-poverty-issues-a-grim-report-on-the-u-s

"The persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power.”

* And he's an Antivaxxer. "“Raw water”: The latest dangerous “natural health” fad:" https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/raw-water-latest-dangerous-natural-health-fad/

* So the point of me going out yesterday was I was out of one thing and down to one pill of another thing. Also, I kind of needed bananas, which cut down on that whole body spasm situation I had going on last night. (I was able to make a magic smoothie today, so there shouldn't be a repeat tonight). At bed time, I dumped out the back pack with my meds and library stuff on my bed. I'd just kicked Tavy off for unnecessary roughness, so it was just me and Livia. She was thinking of flitting, but I mesmerized her with the pharmacy bag (she was too shy to play with it, but had a great time watching/listening to me try to entice her), a good game of jingle stick without Tavy, and some dental treats which she adores. She is still shy with me at times, but making progress and it is a rare thing to get one on one play time. So I'm sorting and stowing periodically with one hand, and playing with Livia with the other.

When I paid at the pharmacy, I had five prescriptions. When I went to bed, I had four, but I didn't notice this, what with being exhausted and Livia and all. I take the last pill from the bottle and casually toss it away, secure in my belief that I had a whole new bottle. I switched the pillows into sleeping configuration, read for a bit, put out the light. Tavy had settled amoungst my legs and Livia was playing with something on the bed, but I'd have to dislodge Tavy to check and anyway, it sounded like maybe she had one of the balls on one of the small flattened pharmacy bags they like to have in their mesting box. I like to toss whatever of their toys are around on floor in he bedroom into the mesting box, because Tavy likes digging in there and discovering them. If one has a cat as high energy, intelligent, and easily bored as Tavy, one learns to set up things like the busy box, the busy bag, and the mesting box to entertain him while one sleeps, and now their are two little hellions to keep entertained. They'd flatted the sides of the busy box and I haven't gotten around to fixing it, so a roll thump, rattle roll sound was only mildly ominous as it sounded rather like the ball or whatever had rolled on or in or next to the kitten ring toy on that side of the bed and maybe she was playing with both? So I made a note to check in the morning and went to sleep.

5-6 hours later, I wake up, realize I really ought to take another dose if I want any hope of going back to sleep given the whole still sick situation. Can't find the bottle. Get up, turn on light, search properly. No bottle. Search area around the bed meds shelf. No bottle. Run mental image of my emptied pack, realize that the other four items from the pharmacy bag were big square boxes, but the bottle wasn't amoung them. Get up, turn on lights, search back pack and environs plus anywhere else I could reasonably have put or dropped it. Fuckfuckfuck. Thoroughly awake, I phone the pharmacy and leave a message asking them to check if I left it on the counter or if it might have rolled. Could it have fallen out in the car in the brief time it took to open the back pack and put the bag in it? It couldn't be stolen, even though it was the one thing in their someone who wasn't another serious lung patient would steal, as I was super careful to lock the car doors for errands because I didn't want a backpack full of library books and meds to get stolen. There is now no chance of sleep what with the adrenaline and the mystery and the infection symptoms worsening, so I read a couple of chapters of 15th Century land disputes and how they played into and were effected by Lancasterian/Yorkist tensions. (I reached the first battle of the War of the Roses, though they don't know it's going to be a War yet). I finished Rupert Everrett's witty, charmingly written book about death, the vanished years, which had been partially brushed aside for the crusades, had as it was to only read small chuncks every day instead of swallowing it whole. I did morning meds. I pet Tavy and watched Kiki's Delivery Service, which I had seen only the once with Skye right after Princess Mononoke came out.

I was in the bathroom, stealing myself for the terrible chore of getting dressed, when I look over and see it: the missing pill bottle. Livia likes to play with toys that roll in the bathroom as it's got a big empty space to chase things around in there, and indeed, I'd just been rolling things for her to chase in their the night before. How I didn't literally step on the bottle at any time during the night, I don't know. That rattling about? Her stealing the bottle from where it must have rolled under the big leg prop pillow.

What a clever, clever girl. She's actually Tavy length now and noticeably heavier than when she arrived, though still kitten shaped and deceptively small looking when she's rolled in a ball or hunched sitting upright. It's when she's stretched on her side, or walking, or standing on hind legs next to him that one really notices her length. he's still got adult weight and muscle on her, but the way she's eating she's still growing fast. 5 months old.

* So health wise, I'm still feeling ick and not sleeping properly, but there is an upward trend. This is a more functional degree of sick. I am going gently while I can, though I did change a tank and start on the hook Project. See, one of the Gothmas prezzies this year was a whole collection of assorted wall hooks. I did do a little emergency hook mounting so as to better anchor big Halloween tree, but a lot of the places that really need hooks are hard to work with at the best of times and are even harder during the September to January 2nd Gothmas season, what with all the things in that side of the room that are fragile and/or in the way. I have this whole plan for replacing flimsier mountings and adding mountings in areas that can use them either for aesthetics or Halloween tree safety. I managed to get one hook in, but had to give up halfway through the second because of spoon shortage, but I have until next September to finish the project. how to tell you are an adult: Excited about finally having enough hooks on your mantle and walls to attach all the things.

Anyway, I am doing my best to catch up on things I missed while being too sick to even, while at the same time trying to cope with the ongoing news firehouse. I haven't forgotten archaeological updates, but they have been back burnered until I am less queasy and prone to needing to lie down suddenly. My apologies to the handful of you who like archaeology news as much as I do.

* "Why The Queen Isn't The Real Villain In Snow White:" http://www.cracked.com/video_20176_why-queen-isnt-real-villain-in-snow-white.html

* Star Trek, The Animated Series:

- 1.7: The Infinate Vulcan. Okay, the mobile purple poisonous plant puffs are cute. Why is Sulu touching random plants they haven't scanned properly for safety yet? How often have Enterprise crew been drugged, injured, or killed by dangerous alien plants? Do they learn nothing from experience? Shouldn't there be safety protocols? The locals rescue Sulu. Apparently humanoids infected them with disease but also gave them an antidote and made himself their leader, but only after most of them died and they've been rendered unable to reproduce. Okay, I really like the tentacle dragons. The locals steal Spock. Of, course. For the giant clone human from the Eugenics War to use to "create a Master Race." Of course. Because Spock is "the finest the Master has ever found." It's a Spock's Brain type scenario only with a clone army. It is weird that Kirk's choke technique works on plants. They are killing poor innocent plants with weed killer. So the plan to use the Spock army to impose peace. Kirk points out that the federation already does this. Spock says that his clones won't impose a version of peace that violates the Vulcan infinite diversity precept. The giant Spock clone uses a mind meld to save original Spock. The two giant clones will stay to do science. They sure pack a lot in half an hour. Sulu just called himself "inscrutable." I... wow. Just wow. Holy things that don'r age well, Batman.

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what

* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/

* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com