Lamentations 2023

Wailing Wall

Lamenting at the wailing wall, a new pastime! Well, that’s not true. Personal lamentations at the wailing wall have spanned for decades. A brief evening outing was made to the ABC Store in lieu of the International Marketplace. A small, expensive can of Guinness® stout was procured to aid in the subsequent evening lamentations in the mausoleum at the “old folks home” in Waikiki.

First up, the Visible+ cellphone plan has really ramped up the inner miser. A concerted effort has been made to insure that daily data usage does not exceed one gigabyte in order to insure that the 50 GB of allocated prioritized data is not exceeded before the month expiry. How stupid is that? After the 50 GB is consumed, then data is deprioritized just like the basic plan, the plan that evidently was sufficient for several years.

In addition to the aforementioned stupidity, a concerted effort has been made to view all of the daily acceptable Web content using various free wireless networks earlier in the day. Thus, later in the evening, there is nothing to peruse on the Net except the acceptable news sites for updates. Even alternative streaming media is no longer viewed to curb data usage. Then, there has been some consideration of reverting to the old Visible basic plan. Why waste an additional $10 per month? Yeah, the whole situation is a “clown show.”

Next up, the new “super-duper corona” plan-demic is “just around the corner.” Apparently, face mask mandates are popping up at various universities in empire. The Fascists are attempting to ease in all of the mandates and, perhaps, throw in a few “lockdowns” for good measure. A quick check of Steve Kirsch’s Substack “blog” has confirmed the latter. The rank-and-file peons here in Hawai’i are already one step ahead in general stupidity. More and more of the fools are donning face masks by the day. For interested parties, the entire “super-duper corona” fiasco in Hawai’i was chronicled in Notes.

There are many other concerns, too numerous to delineate upon in Notes. However, the common theme appears to be death, or the short time remaining before death. Currently, the last of the “good years” are coming to a close and the “twilight years” will be at the forefront. Peers of the same age (68 years) and older do not look good. They are all out of shape, fat, flabby, with skeletal deformations and asymmetric posture … some of them can barely walk. And, these are gym members!

The predominant concern is to stretch out the “good years” as long as possible. Thus, the gym regimen has been strictly maintained. The secondary concern is still the miserly ways. The life savings needs to be depleted. When is that going to “sink in”?