The “blood sun” that’s visible in the early part of the day due to the wildfires, which are now the largest in California’s history, is a bit spooky. Firefighters from New Zealand and Australia have come over to help fight it. I can sometimes smell faint traces of smoke when I’m outside. It’s a damn good thing we didn’t move to Redding! When considering places upon coming down from Oregon, Redding was one of the places we considered.

Tom’s appointment yesterday turned out to be a waste of $30 because he was told they don’t have a hearing aid for his type of distortion. And they couldn’t tell him this before because…???

So I guess it’s back to the ENT to be rendered deaf in that ear. They inject some chemical into the nerve. He would rather not hear at all in that ear than for there to be so much annoying distortion and ringing. He still wonders if there’s something else wrong that they may have missed, something with the nerve.

I wouldn’t mind a little deafness myself with what’s about to go down here in the park. My God, I am so fucking sick of all the daytime noise here! Today, as well as Monday and Tuesday, they’re going to be grinding and repaving parts of nearby roads. It’s just one thing after another and it totally gets old. It will only be a matter of days too, before the next project. This is easily the noisiest place I’ve ever lived. Not even the nights are always quiet when you’ve got so many planes running around up there. I’m just dumbfounded by all the noise being in an adult community of all places. I lived in Phoenix for 6 years and only once did they do roadwork there. But this is the 4th or 5th time in the 5 years we’ve been here. Plus there’s still the daily landscaping that should be only once a week like most places, and there have also been more home renovations/services in the 5 years I’ve been here than in all the places I’ve lived in combined. I won’t get into how many loud vehicles I have to deal with as well. Sure, I’ve got headphones I could throw on but I shouldn’t have to live that way, especially in a place like this. I really thought retirement communities were quiet and maybe some of them are. Just not this one. Probably still have another half a decade to go before he retires, but we’re both definitely looking forward to that day and moving to a warmer climate somewhere. Quiet is hard to get these days so I’ll settle for warmer and cheaper.

Decided to pull my stuff off of Amazon and hang that endeavor up because it’s just not worth working so hard for so little. The only way to make serious money as an author is to be either famous or infamous. Well, I’m never going to be either one of those and I don’t want to be either. Will definitely keep doing it for fun, though, and share some stories on various sites.

The only recent dream I remember is suddenly discovering that I was super flexible. Despite so much going on here, the new sleeping earbuds have allowed me to sleep better overall which means I’m remembering fewer dreams. But yeah, I was showing someone how I could squat really low and do the scissor splits, LOL. But I could only do the splits if I pressed my body against the leg that was extended in front of me.

I’m totally excited for my first DIY dollhouse kit which will be here tomorrow, along with a miniature family of horses and paints. They’re like the miniature animals I collect only you paint them yourself. There are two adult horses and a colt.

We went to Safeway yesterday and today we ordered groceries online. Their prices are outrageous!

As we were on our way back yesterday some cock nearly sideswiped us and I was reminded once again just how angry and disgusted I am with society in general. Tom feels the way I do although he doesn’t hate certain groups in the way I do or anything like that. He feels that most people are just dumb, annoying and highly incompetent no matter who/what they are. True, but I still think some tend to be worse, just like the pit bull tends to be more aggressive than the poodle.

So many things are wrong in the world. So many things neither of us can comprehend as to why people don’t see it nor do something about it. Florida declined to do the right thing by banning loud car stereos because it’s considered “freedom of expression.”

What the fuck is wrong with people? Really, just what the fuck is wrong with them?! So people who are woken up at 3 in the morning are supposed to just laugh, roll over and tell themselves that’s just people expressing themselves? It’s okay to piss people off as long as you express yourself through music and not with certain words?

Seriously, why are these things still legal? Why are dogs treated better than people as to date there is no assisted suicide in all states for the terminally ill? Why aren’t women paid as much as men? Why don’t the cops keep a database of all license numbers and have a device set up to disable any vehicles they wish to stop rather than endanger innocent bystanders on high-speed chases? Why aren’t these simple, obvious things in existence? And why do we have so many sick, twisted, unfair and totally wrong things in existence that shouldn’t be?

When Tom was agreeing that the pigs should have such a thing as disabling cars, he said, “Don’t freak out, but the power company could turn our AC off.”

Apparently, if there’s a heatwave or something they can cycle everyone’s AC off for about 15 minutes at a time so it would only go up about a degree in here, and they would even have to pay us. I can sort of see why they might do this but I’m not sure I like the idea because it makes me feel controlled and like a kid all over again with others deciding how I use my own things and when.