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  • Taking the Good with the Bad

    Today has been mostly good. I’m well loved and well fed. The technology that my life depends on remains intact. The refrigerator works, so does the house fan, and the internet. I was able to rip some CDs onto my computer. I haven’t had to change a light bulb. I still got screamed at a…

    Mark

    July 30, 2025
    witness
    attacked, broke, fed, gratitude, loved, struggle, technology
  • Easy Chair

    I’m sitting in my easy chair trying to think of something interesting to write about my day and finding very little that you don’t already know. We been under a heat advisory. Yay, the weather. Ben and I walked to the convenience store. He refused to let the clerk put his chocolate in a bag,…

    Mark

    July 29, 2025
    Uncategorized
    Ben, cats, chocolate, convenience store, easy chair, exciting, heat advisory
  • Tomorrow

    We are just beginning to teach Ben the concept of waiting for tomorrow. Stephanie doesn’t want to reward his demands. I am more worried that the demands are for instant gratification. We had to tell him for hours that electricians don’t work at night and that he would have to wait until the next day…

    Mark

    July 28, 2025
    collaboration, rant, witness
    Ben, blood, delayed, gratification, instant, Stephanie, tomorrow
  • The “i” in Christ

    Someone farther back than anyone has done my genealogy literally took on the name of Christ for the family. That decision many centuries ago has a pernicious effect on me. I am certainly a Crist but that doesn’t make me a Christian. The “i” in Christ gives me delusions of grandeur. I am the Mark…

    Mark

    July 27, 2025
    rant, witness
    “i”, agency, Christian, delusions of grandeur, illusion, Jesus Christ, Mark of Christ
  • Torn Up

    “Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine.” -How Firm a Foundation I hope that all the battering that life is doing to me really will work out for my own good. The week is almost over and hopefully the new one will be better. As I say often: The struggle is real and…

    Mark

    July 26, 2025
    witness
    cross, gold, gratitude, necessary, real, refine, struggle
  • Simpler Time

    I’m sitting on a lawn chair in front of the house. It rained a little this morning. Ben and I walked to the convenience store but we only got a few sprinkles. He’s been just as ornery today as he has been since the breaker failed. That was days ago. The weather is pleasant. It…

    Mark

    July 26, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    Ben, convenience store, lawn chair, ornery, Portland, simpler time, weather
  • Dumping Soda

    Ben came home from respite dysregulated. He was not done at the park and requested it multiple times in the past few hours. He sat in the car to protest that we are not taking him anywhere. He requested a bath and got one. He has requested the Soda Fairy and gotten that. Sadly he…

    Mark

    July 25, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    Ben, carpet, dysregulated, medication, NO, soda, words have power
  • Electrician

    All the lights are back on. It took four or five hours for the electrician to fix most of it. The main breaker was expired, the thermal photo rated it at 180 degrees Fahrenheit, so it had to be replaced. That is a temporary fix. Replacing it with a new one will take a whole…

    Mark

    July 24, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    basement, Ben, breakers, electrician, landlady, mom, solution
  • Broken Breaker

    Tonight as he often does Ben requested a light bulb. Stephanie changed the one that dysregulated him but it did not turn back on. As I examined the situation I noticed that several other lights were out. I went down and one of the breakers in our electrical box had tripped. I switched it back…

    Mark

    July 23, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    Ben, breaker, broken, dysregulated, electrical box, light bulbs, Stephanie
  • Too Many Video Games?

    I am a first generation commercial gamer. I played the Atari when it came out at seven. By twelve I had branched out to Dungeons & Dragons. A few years later I worked all summer to afford a Commodore 64, a disk drive, a cassette recorder, and enough games to keep me out of any…

    Mark

    July 22, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    computers, Dungeons & Dragons, faithfully married, jobs, productive, Stephanie, video games
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