I want to give everyone a bit of a heads up as to my status and especially what has been happening in terms of family and personal issues...As many are aware, my mother who is now 88 years old is NOT in good shape at all.. Just last week she caught a case of Jaundice which was due to a gall bladder infection... That has cleared up (finally) and the fear that the Jaundice was being caused by her Liver and/or her other vital organs shutting down has passed.....BUT there is another more critical issue that has been going on for quite some time, and that is the fact she has NOT been eating properly at all and it has been severe aggravation for myself and the rest of my family in terms of trying to get her to keep her strength up.... She seems to not care at all, and both myself and my brother have concluded that she has given up on life and is now in her last days..... I therefore have spent a lot of time over these last few weeks visiting her and trying to get her to have the want to live a bit longer....That has been the primary reason why articles here have been a bit "sporadic" at times, and that trend will probably continue for the next while with my constantly being MIA to spend time with my mother...I am also in dire need of some rest and relaxation.. I am approaching the time that I will be pulling the plug at work and going into retirement.... I am actually looking forward to leaving my present occupation and taking my retirement for the fact that the last few years on my job have been so abysmal, as the corporation that I work for has been doing the usual laying off of so many employees and demanding that I and others do "more with less"... Profits and not giving a crap about the people who have been keeping the company functioning properly seems to be the rule of the day, and it has taken a bit of a toll on my health and mindset....I will not be giving up this blog at all, and after I do retire I will probably be increasing my writings here for I find that writing what is on my mind has been my way of unloading a lot of stress, and getting a lot of what I think and see is happening in our sick world off of my mind....This is of course Canadian Thanksgiving weekend up here in the formerly free nation called 'Canada' and yes, as a Canadian I do have a lot to be thankful for... In spite of the stupidity of the present Trudeau government in figuring out new ways to shoot themselves in the head, this nation is still out there on the world stage and has a lot to be proud of.....I will of course be taking a lot of time tomorrow in preparing my usual annual Thanksgiving feast... And yes, I do cook and yes my family enjoys my cooking tremendously!.... Someone once said that I was a better cook than my better half, which of course pissed her off a lot.. But she has gotten used to my flair in the kitchen and does "assist" me at times...BUT spending a lot of time in the kitchen from morning until tomorrow evening does mean that tomorrow's 'rant' may be delayed a bit... I will do my best in sitting down and typing it out when I have a few breaks tomorrow, and hopefully it will be as good as previous rants where I aim to please as well as annoy a lot of readers.....Thanks, everyone, and again happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian readers...More to comeNYS
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