Yes, folks, I just spent several days disconnectd from the internet and without a phone, basically with no connection to the outside world. I'm not sure what friends who tried to contact me might have found. A busy signal? A message that my email account was unavailable? My son was away all day at work and only came home late in the evening. Maybe some people thought I had died? If so, please try again,as I am not dead yet. Humans have lived for thoudands of years without the internet but now we absolutely depend on it for the weather forecast, daily news, and basic human connection.
While I was home alone with both phone and internet down, I read a lot of popular magazines left for free at the public library entrance. I often read them in the car waiting with the dog, while my son goes into the grocery store while I wait in the car. Sometimes I go inside the store to shop there myself, but mostly my son does the shopping, as he is much faster and knows what I like. These magazines kept me occupied while the internet was down, They are an echo chamber expressing the ethos of our times; only the New Yorker has articles in depth.
When I went outside while spending days home alone, I observed a mother wild rabbit moving her babies from a nest in our yard to a new more secluded nest, located across the road in nearby woods. When I came close, she ran away. There seemed to be 3 babies.
Donald Trump seems to have been more wide awake lately, Is that good or bad? It's certainly been hard to predict what he will do or say next. He keeps the whole world anxious, guessing how his actions and decisions could impact us all. Public opinion, voter opinion, any opinion other than his own doesn't really matter to him one little bit. He is mercurial, unpredictable, perhaps unsure himself what he might decide to do next. He had called Netanyahu, apparently cussed him out. That had happened just before I went off-line.
President Donald Trump cursed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a roughly 15-minute phone call on Monday, multiple sources familiar with the call told ABC News, with the president angered by Israel's escalation in Lebanon and its potential to imperil the administration's ongoing negotiations with Iran. Trump accused Netanyahu of being ungrateful and called him "crazy," sources familiar with the call said. At one point during the tense call, Trump asked Netanyahu, "What the f--- are you doing?"
Axios first reported on the expletive-filled call. News emerged on Monday that Iran was threatening to call off talks over Israeli conduct in Lebanon. Whew!
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Nor has Trump abandoned the idea of annexing Canada, never mind what Canadians themselves might want. Maybe Alberta separatists would actually like the idea. (My late father was born in Alberta.)
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