Hello readers,
Those that are left, forlornly checking this site in the hope that a new post will appear.
My apologies for the lack of blogging.
A while back, I hit that crisis point where I no longer believed my opinion was better than anyone else's. That certainly made it difficult, but not impossible to blog.
A few months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine and stole Crimea. That has created a rift between Andrei and I that has widened into a chasm. While I still like and respect him, his opinions on this matter cause me a great deal of pain, and so I avoid the conversations. Therefore, what I would like to discuss is weighed against the angst it might create, and so blogging has limped to a crawl.
Added to all that, I've been coping with anemia, which I didn't know I had. Kind of makes sense, though. No wonder I have no energy for two weeks out of every four.
Also, my son has been having issues with Year 12 Mathematics. I used to be very good at Maths, but I've forgotten a lot. So, in order to help him, I have been putting what energy I do have into studying. I'm doing well with it all, I'm steam rolling along through Saxon's Algebra 1 course (up to Lesson 78 today), and Algebra is becoming more and more familiar. Even graphs don't look so alien any more and I can rip through conversions from miles to centimeters using all the various equivalences that I never even knew with ease. There are 5280 feet in a mile and 2.54 cm in an inch. If you know that, you can do a lot. I'm still way behind, but at the rate I'm going, I'll be finished Algebra 2 by the end of the year, which will get me very close to where I need to be.
Anyway, blogging, after all these years is grinding to a halt. I can't even dredge up what is left to say anything about the upcoming election, except, that even though National is bad, Labour and associated lunatics would be even worse.
Who knows, maybe this post will break the drought.