(07-08-2023, 09:33 PM)Freija Wrote:
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. That's me in the back rank of that group shot of the 114th Keyboard Kommando Battalion. I still have my issue keyboard. It used to hang on the wall over the fireplace mantle, but now it sits collecting dust out in the building next to a box of Pet Rocks ™ and an old medal from the government of Kuwait nestled in a little blue box.
I don't think that posting negative or concerning things is necessarily a bad thing, to keep folks abreast of situations, but there is no damned doubt at all that too often, the "spin" applied to the raw story is pretty cringe. Just tell me what is going on, don't try to tell me how to think about it - I can figure out my feels all by myself, like any 4 year old can do.
When I read those spin-fests, sometimes I reply with some counter-spin, and sometimes I just walk outside and look around, and breathe a sigh of relief that I can't see ANY of it going on within 70 miles of me. Other times, I CAN see it going on nearby, and just shake my head and think "well that one needs a house dropped on him!" Most of the time, it's the former - there ain't any of it going on for at least 70 miles in any direction of here. That makes me wonder just how prevalent it really is, and why the push to spin it up.
Then I spend a little time trying to weed the garden... and plot and plan on how to drop that house.
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