What's on your Thursday Menu?

Happy Friday-Eve Gang.

I walked into a mess in the scale house well really the computers. For whatever reason this company is always doing some sort of computer update and apparently last night they did an entire system update on every Win Waste computer, and they are all screwed up. Scale one computer no matter what mouse we connect to it or how many times we reboot it the mouse just jumps all over the screen. Then scale two computer will not ready either the inbound or outbound scale so I have to manually enter the weights in. I called IT and of course no one there can help, and it has to be escalated. Today is going to be a long miserable day if they don't get them fixed.

I'm not going to do a QOTD instead I would like to take a moment to remember those who lost their lives on 9/11 and how that tragic event changed this country forever. I remember working in Cranston, RI at an adolescent treatment facility. The staff had the morning news on as usual waiting for the kids to get up and finish getting ready for the day. When the first plane hit, we all thought it was a malfunction of the plane and just a tragic accident and then when the second one hit, we knew it was a planned attack. We kept the kids in their rooms so they would see it. I had a co-worker whose brother and SIL worked at the Pentagon, and it took her all day to get ahold of them. The brave passengers who overtook the plane that crashed in PA saved so many more lives that day. I don't think anyone will ever forget that day.

I also want address the shooting of Charlie Kirk and the Colorado school shooting that happened yesterday. I don't care what your political stance is or who you like or dislike in the Government taking someone's life because you don't agree with their views or opinions is NOT OK. I've seen some of his blogs and while I didn't agree with some of the stuff he said and talked about I sure as hell wouldn't go shoot him for it. I understand that he was a Trump supporter, but that still does not give anyone the right to take another persons life. This is the same for the student who killed two of their classmates. While I don't know the entire story on that maybe the kid was being bullied or maybe the kid didn't like the other two for some other reason or maybe the kid wanted to be "famous" it still does not give them the right to take a life. I don't know what is going on in this country anymore and I fear it will continue to be divided even after Trump is out of office if he makes his full term.

Food is up in the air because honestly I could care less about eating and just wish people would open their eyes and realize instead of letting the Government divide us we need to come together as a whole. We need to put our differences aside and be kind to everyone. I know I've said I dislike the human race and it is because of the hateful and tragic things like above, but every day I'm still friendly, helpful, and respectful of others regardless of who they are.

I wish you all a safe and healthy day. Remember to take care of yourself.

Good morning everyone.

not a lot happening today. My mom needs something from Walmart. Other than that I am hoping to get some stuff around the house done.

no luck in finding momma a home yet. Rescues don't answer emails apparently...so I'll be calling some today. I hate using the phone.

i was 20 when that happened. I remember seeing the second plane hit live in tv. I couldn't believe it and said they were just replaying what had happened. It quickly became apparent that it was a second plane. I think our country had/haa a collective case of PTSD.

as for Charlie Kirk. Both sides need to wake up and grow up. We don't know yet who did this or why so I will not label either party for it. Violence like this is undeniably unacceptable. Do I think the dude was a bad guy? Yeah but no one...no one deserves this. That's something his kids and wife will have to live with for the rest of their lifetime. I do hold blame for rhetoric speakers and those that stoke fear. Remember the politicians in Minnesota there was not much outrage then...it has become acceptable to be ok with violence. Like those celebrating yesterday's events. It is all unacceptable. It breaks my spirit and soul to see people killed over such stupid things. In the end we are all humans. We love or love someone. There is no respect out there for anyone, anywhere for some people. I am scared not only for the foundation of our country...the very fabric of it but for the entire world. I hope people wake up but the nastiness like Jesse waters said and the folks saying he got what he deserved...well it's never going to end I fear.

food is off kilter today. Had a chimichanga for breakfast.

A week before 911 my husband went to Cleveland Clinic for some test because he was having problems with urinating. At almost the same time we saw the second plane hit, the phone rang with the news that he had cancer of the kidney and they wanted to operate to remove it. It was an emotional day. One lady at the clinic had a son at the pentagon. Everyone there was trying to keep her from watching the news.

My cousin was a stewardess and scheduled to fly on the plane that went down at Shanksville. Her schedule was changed that morning. When the terrorists took over the plane it was right over where we were living. When they tried to turn the plane it dropped a lot and made a lot of noise. Many people went outside to see what was happening. They watched it drop lower, then turn and fly towards Pennsylvania.

I was doing disaster recovery for the stock market. They had just set up an office in a building close to the trade center. Someone had decided to save money by not doing backups during the two week move. They asked me to go and help them. Because there were no planes and my husband was depressed over the news from the cancer doctor, I said no. They removed the kidney and he lived until 2009. When the cancer came back, it was everywhere.

I'm coming back to read some of the posts from that week. Because I'd just had sinus surgery I stayed away from news stories and any YT videos discussing all those events. If I started watching, I'd be crying nonstop. Despite being an old softie the last 10 years have made me pessimistic and I don't foresee our country getting back to being a safe place anytime soon if ever. All we can do is to be good people in our own little parts of this world and practice the golden rule even if nobody around us does.

On 9/11 I was at my job as an early morning shelf stocker at Fairchild AFB's BX. The eerie thing was early in the morning we always had the big bank of display tvs playing national news so we saw the coverage in real time. And literally one week prior we all had to take terrorism training and were told to begin driving to work a different route from our usual because of credible terrorism threats. That day the whole base went into lock-down right away. We all figured we'd be sleeping either in the store that night or if they let us out maybe at the Fairchild Inn if they had room. One of my younger coworkers really flipped out but we all banded together to calm her down. Off and on throughout the day all of us cried multiple times and there were lots of supportive hugs shared. But by late afternoon they eased up and the people who lived on base were allowed to return to their homes and by dinner time we were allowed to leave the base for our homes.

The attack on the towers was so hard on my family because our daughter's then fian****now husband) is a fireman and he'd have been one of the ones to head straight into danger. Once they started doing the charity stair climbs in memory of those firemen lost he has participated frequently. September 11 is always a very somber day.