Creature of the New Page

Here are his playing cards, that have Every Disease.

"Hey, what's that Japanese anime studio that has nice stories that mainstream media likes? Oh wait, Studio Ghibli." like the act of looking at me refreshed his memory.

Or

"Hey who's the actor who plays Shelby in Peaky Blinders?" I have no fucking idea, I know LITERALLY ONE actor in that, so I confidently answer "Cillian Murphy." That was who he was thinking of.

I had a serious family emergency with a relative that is supposed to be close to me but is not. It's bad. But I can't do shit because I'm estranged from that chunk of my family (they are slur-screaming Conservatives). My mother told me shit that happened and my heart hurts for what they must be going through, but I can do literally nothing.

Imagine my shock when I check my bank account (as I always do on the 1st of a new month) to find my internet bill is twice the price I've been paying.

35 minutes later I find this on their site after waiting on hold:

Yea, that lightly greyed out small type:

They did not warn me it was about to increase. This is fucking SHADY AS SHIT. I did not appreciate being blindsided like this.

So I am $40 short for my automated bills now. Here's hoping nothing else randomly increases, because now I gotta find $40 by Tuesday morning.

I go through periods of time, between 5 months up to 2 years, where I can't really hear all that well. Doctors look inside my ears, tell me they can't see anything (or, "I see some white dust" [I have eczema]) and then shrug emoji at me and send me home. Meanwhile I can't hear for shit.

This latest, I THINK it was about January of 2025 that I stopped being able to hear very well. Nothing worked. I plugged my nose and popped my ears, but they'd go right back. Didn't bother with doctor, nothing ever got done and all I have going on is the itchiest earholes on planet Earth and no help.

Tonight, I was craving some cookies, but had none, so I wandered into the kitchen to see what I had. Put away clean dishes, and it hurt my ears when they clunked against each other. Ow. Wtf. Take the dog for a walk a bit ago and I can hear the trees! I hear traffic I haven't been able to hear in forever, far far away. I hear this low drone hum like a plane is about to flyover, but no plane. Oh yea, that's electricity. I haven't heard that in AWHILE. I hear the wind in the trees, and the sound of my dog's feet on the grass.