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So right now I'm sitting in my living room, kind of exhausted, looking at a green chair that used to sit in my Grandmother's living room. This weekend was eventful, and I'm tired.
Crysta and I went down to Milwaukee so we could spend father's day with my parents (along with some other family members). We went to the Brewer's game on Sunday, and like any game of baseball, it was a good time. I've never been a huge sports person, but I love watching a good live baseball game.
Honestly it was an amazing day.
Before I left town on Saturday though, I swung by the local No Kings protest here in Eau Claire, and then spent a chunk of time at the local Pride celebration. I tend to be a bit of a shut in these days, so with all the awful stuff in the news it was nice to remind myself that there are good people in the world willing to stand up for what's right and for each other.
My grandmother passed away not that long ago, and one thing I had my parent set aside for me was a chair. I realize that it looks a bit more gold in the photo, but trust me when I say it's green in real life. This morning I loaded it into my pickup and drove it across the state and got it into my living room. I loved this chair as a kid, and importantly... it swivels. And when I was growing up adults would always yell at me not to spin the chair. Well guess what, it's my chair now.
And no one can stop me from spinning.
I dunno -- it was just a lot of stuff in a short amount of time. We also went out to dinner after the baseball game yesterday, but I think I'll give my full opinion on that later this week in a different blog post. Because we went to a restaurant none of us had been to before, and uh... I have thoughts.
That was vague. I'm being vague. You're just going to have to be okay with that.
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Please don’t end your decade-long series with a mass shooting.
I try to avoid spoilers in my responses — but I can promise you 100% that there will be no in-strip mass shooting.
It’s just on my mind a lot these days.
A horrible possibility… statistically not a very likely one, but no less horrible for it.
Sadly, not as statistically unlikely as anyone would like.
Was running some numbers…. each year your chances of being injured by a gun are roughly 1 in 3704… or a 0.027% chance. Which on the one hand seems a small chance. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure i know over 3700 people. Not well, but know them. Meaning there’s a pretty decent chance, every year, someone I know will get shot. Maybe not killed, but injured by a gun.
Though things get skewed in that a lot of people I know aren’t in the US, so they’re almost certainly safer. 675 times safer if they happen to be in Japan.