Hey Man, Can You Score Me Some Diabetic Test Strips?

Here is a testament to our ever increasing percentage of the American population succumbing to diabetes.  It is predicted that the number of cases of diabetes and related renal failure will remain top drivers of health costs over the next decade.

Our diets of crappy food and sedentary lifestyles are only feeding this epidemic (no pun intended).  Pretty soon people will be selling off healthy kidneys to the highest bidder (I'm sure that's happening already).  

It's happening.  Health care, due to it's prohibitive costs, is being demoted to back ally deals by people even more unscrupulous than those in the so-called legitimate portion of the industry.  Just wait for the drive by gang shootings involving an organ donor and medical supplies. 

Drug dealers have found a new niche. 

Naked and Farting in MY CHAIR

......I don't know how else to describe this one, folks.  It's football season here in the USA.  That means that any human with football fever goes wild like the Starbucks opening day of the Pumpkin Spice Latte. 

Total pandemonium.  What does this have to do with a naked guy farting in MY CHAIR????  Lemme 'splain.....

Once upon a time there was a group of guys from Marin County who all grew up together.  No, stating that they grew up insinuates that they matured.  They have not.  For whatever reason, about this time each year they congregate at my house for the 'fantasy football' league picks or whatever that means.

I cook an incredible meal and disappear. The meal is for the guys.  All of the guys in this fantasy football league have been banished from hosting the fantasy football draft for whatever reasons at their homes.  Nobody wants the trouble and mess.  So it happens here.  One woman who now refuses to host made the guys  piss in a five gallon bucket instead of using the toilet.  That's gross.  How can you banish your guests to using a bucket as opposed to a functioning toilet?  I don't want to obsess too much on that one.  YUCK!!!!!

Now, which brings me to naked guys farting in my chair.

It has been incredibly hot here in Sonoma County.  Tonight was the football draft.  I did my part by preparing all the food and whatnot and then disappearing downtown to entertain myself..  After being gone for more than I thought necessary I returned home.  Upon entering the front door there was my kids' PE teacher from junior high school in MY CHAIR unabashedly shirtless with the fan blowing on him.  Oh, yes....... gastronomical sound effects followed.   He then thought it funny to dance in his underwear in the window.  Tom Cruse he is NOT. 

Can I move way from here????

Everybody thought this hilarious.  I did not.  Underwear Man then sat down in MY CHAIR with the fan still blowing on him.  Gas emissions followed....with the fanfare (no pun intended) of the fan.

Published Nationwide

Believe it or not, Quiet Rage has been published nationwide via a credible, well-known news outlet.  I do more than sit here at the computer spewing random rants about nothing.  To tell you the truth, I had forgotten that I submitted the piece until I saw it in print as I had written it about 1.5 years ago.  Of course, I had to use a pen name as being somewhat faceless is part of my technique.  I did not write the piece for ego gratification nor recognition. I guess some editors somewhere are thinking I have something to say that's worth publishing.  And no, it's not about any stupid riots. 

On another note, more and more synchronicity keeps happening in my life.  It's even freaking ME out and I'm somewhat used to it.  I wish I could explain or control it, but I can't.  Non-believers will be non-believers and there is nothing I can say to convince them otherwise.  It's more than mere coincidences as that's how the non-believers explain it away.  They have never felt the thrust of energy that bolts through the body when a "truth" hits you.  They have never felt the "sinking gut" when intuition decides to pay an unannounced visit. 

...and no, I can't control it.  It does not perform on demand like a circus monkey.  It appears and disappears and is sometimes inconclusive.  I can't wrap it up and put it in a box; therefore, it does not exist to most people. 

Solar Eclipse

Tomorrow is the solar eclipse here in North America.  I know of people who are flocking to areas where the total eclipse will be visible.  We have not had a solar eclipse here for a long time.  I do remember the one that was in 1978-79 or so.  This was before the internet age and I remember watching the event through a pin hole projector.  The world paused to take it all in. 

For freaks like myself, while not going through extremes in the celebration of this rare event and then oversharing it on social media, will pause with like-minded people with quiet contemplation, appreciation, and awe of nature with our own rituals that have personal meaning.  The people who truly have respect for this phenomenon will think it sacrilege to cheapen it with social media postings.   

Tomorrow the sun, moon, and earth will align.  The planets are *really* aligning, my friends.  This will create a laser beam of psychic energy to charge us up.  From my observations of humans, we really need it.  Let's appreciate it and open yourself up to it. 

Travel Boredom - Why Bother?

Traveling has now pretty much lost all appeal.  The entire point of traveling was to experience life of another country, or culture.  Go to any city anymore and they are all the same and have the same Italian restaurants (albeit with a different name) coffee shops, art galleries, bars, etc.  They all have the same "ethnic" neighborhoods:  Chinatown, Italian, Indian, German, Thai, Polish, Mars.

All this diversity has created boredom.