Ramblings

It’s FRIDAY! You may’ve noticed this already, especially if you’re a weekday 9-5er. I’m not BUT I have physical therapy Monday through Thursday. While I still need to do my rehab workout today, at least I can take it a bit easier.

This week’s rehab milestone? For the most part I’m no longer wearing my leg brace to get around the house. Yes, this is a wee cottage and I’m certainly not on my feet all day. Still, that I can walk around (up and down steps even!) without the damn support clamp on my shin is a big fucking deal.

My immediate goal is to take a brace-less seawall stroll tomorrow, before the cold and snow returns on Sunday.
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Words for the Day 

Fiat
    noun
a formal authorization or proposition; a decree.

If the right-wing christian god exists—which seems desperately unlikely—he is an absolute, vile despot, who declares right and wrong by arbitrary fiat.

So then, a Fiat is NOT just a ridiculously adorable car. Huh.

Purulent
    adjective
containing, consisting of, or being pus.

The entire fascist republican party is no more than a steaming pool of smelly purulent discharge.

Purulence
    noun
the quality or state of being purulent also : pus 

Cancun Cruz, Marjorie Traitorous Swine Greene, Gym Jordan and Lying-sack-of-rat-feces Boebert, to name but a few, are nothing but human shaped ambulatory, fabulating piles of purulence.

Laisser-aller
[ le-sey-a-ley ]
    noun
unchecked freedom or ease; unrestraint; looseness.
a direct borrowing from French, in which the phrase means “to allow to go.”

The anti-vax plague rats who, with their entitled, reckless laisser aller are exacerbating and prolonging the pandemic.

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When it’s safe for me to travel again, one of the first things I want to do is travel to obscure parts of Canada. Nunavut fer instance.

The 25 separate communities of Nunavut are not connected to each other by highway or by railroad, nor are they connected by road or rail to any other Canadian cities further south. (source)

I guess this means we fly in. OK.

Why go there?

• Polar bears, grizzlies, Arctic wolves and caribou— oh my!
• Art and more of it.
• Mount Thor—the name alone attracts me.
• Quttinirpaaq National Park 
• Queen Maud Gulf (Ahiak) Migratory Bird Sanctuary

Also, I'd like to see a glacier or two before they're gone. 

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Lastly,  take a trip over to John Scalzi's site and check out his beautiful tribute to his recently deceased cat Zeus. Zeus was, I'm certain, a distant relative to our dear Coco. Also, one of our visitor cats, also a Tux, is named Zeus. No doubt another cousin.

Go. Read.

No, I'm not crying—you are!