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Basically, there is this video of a story on YouTube from a UK news outlet where a man live life as if in the 1940s, fashion, appliances, etc. There are people who do this with other eras too. He does make a practical exception: a modern fridge I think. I'm going to consider it until the end of the year and not jump in all at once to not be rash.

1. I have to have a smartphone for work. No way around that. One person who does a hybrid version suggests in a post that you delete all but the necessary apps. If you have to have social media, keep it to a necessity. I have to have Facebook in case my phone has a problem I can get in contact with my mom so she doesn't worry about me because of my epilepsy. I'm 40m, but mom's always worry. I'm prone to life threatening seizures anyway, so that is a must exception. Also, nees it for public transportation. Before, times were posted at all stops with a map and pamphlets for free for each route.

SOLUTION: only as needed.

2. Getting an old computer from the 90s and Windows 95 can easily be done, but Google Docs makes it very easy for writing when if comes to the groups I'm in. We use Docs because you can easily share the story. We use Zoom. I'm not sure if Zoom can be installed on Windows 95 or a 90s computer. Since I want to make writing a career or at least a second income, it can be called work.

SOLUTION: per needed only

3. Do video cassette, DVD, CD. No need for the modern way. Analog TV same thing.

4. Fashion is a grey area: style can be done well enough, but I'm not getting a bowl cut. I do the Caesar cut anyway, which goes back to ancient Rome, so that's definitely last millennium. No hipster cuts or beards basically. The style I will work up to

5. Furniture is costly. That's an over time thing.

Anyway, this is just a possibility. Thought about it because my present novel is set at the end of the 90s, 1999. A theme is transition. Is a coming of age, so transition into childhood onto teenage, coincided with a great change: a new decade, a new century, and of course a new millennium. That and a friend and I were talking about the 90s. Regardless, a change in lifestyle like this isn't going to dissolve a person's problems or bring them some paradise. Life will still be life, but for me who grew up in the 90s, they were an age where we played outside and were not costantly buried in a phone. Video games, but riding bikes, playing football in the yard, shooting water guns, etc.

I'm American, so people who have to deal with the US way of healthcare and have experience in its little sham for this question.

So, I didn't see the letter that my state (Illinois) Medicare benefits would stop at the end of May. Didn't renew. got it, just didn't see it. I called today, but by the time I talked to them, it was 4:50..guy says they are closing in ten minutes, so I'll have to call back tomorrow. I think the way it works is if you call and they answer at 4:50 after 45 minutes on hold, they do the process. I mean, if I call Capital One to talk about an issue, we talk until it gets resolved. Of course, Capital One is great, so I've never had any problems. I did AT&T call center. We had to do the call if it came in right before the shift was up, even if resolving the issue took an hour. I think he was just lazy. I could tell by the way he said it. I'm going to try to talk to them while at work tomorrow, but say I have 2 weeks of two of my med left. Please point me to some options if there are some.

Oh, and if anything state or city specific I'm in Chicago, Illinois

So, it's this upscale retirement community. I saw a bank statement on the trash by chance where the person had 3 million in it. Yeah. Great people in general.

So, the other day, my two coworkers and I got called to remove two chairs from an apartment since the couple had bought new ones.

Here is the shitty part. They had a sign in the break room saying employees could have them for free. They KNEW they had bedbugs most likely. It's why they were getting new chairs. It is POSSIBLE it's a coincidence that they didn't know. It's the knowing and GIVING THEM AWAY that's shitty. One coworker's mom was going to take one, but we saw the bedbug. We carried these things against our clothing to move them! We all said we were going to wash our clothes as soon as we get home.

I'm not a housekeeper thank God...but a couple weeks ago I got called in there to make the bed, because the housekeeper didn't show up and they aren't physically able to do it because of medical reasons.

Our manager, who is boss of us and housekeeping is such a company simp sycophant. Whatever is asked, she says will do. She will volunteer to have us do things there is no need for us to do. I get a manager has to do what they're told. But, when you volunteer us to do things that aren't needed just to look good.

if we or a housekeeper told her, it wouldn't be a "can't help because what am I going to do because the office won't care" I get that. Hands are tied. No. She was talking to her snitch worker one day. I heard them talking about cockroaches and trying to figure out which worker is bringing them in... because it has to be a worker, right, simp, and not one of the precious residents...then I could tell they realized the possible legal issues that could come from that idea. Nope, a worker must be bringing the pests in. It's so clear she's a sycophant. I get when hands are tied, but this lady would not even put in a report about the apartment, if say a housekeeper said she saw it. Not out of fear for retaliation. Get that. No, because a housekeeper must have brought them or some other employee.

I'm hoping this big I saw in my bathroom isn't a bedbug. It kind of looks like one, but not quite? I'm finally getting the cockroaches under control. I'd rather have roaches than bedbugs.

So, trad Catholic looking east. Fatima never sat right with me and I never had any devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. In Catholicism, there is often this "pray for poor sinners". The prayers don't really focus on the sins of the person themselves, but the "world" or others. The Orthodox way is so much more therapeutic, making you realize your vices and correct them. The prayers also make you focus on the sins as a whole, not individual acts, but lust or backbiting or gossip or bitterness. It's very legal in the Western spirituality, and you get hung up on the sins, instead of the root of it. It's the way the prayers are framed in the West. The biggest thing that irks me is the prayers for the sinners of the world, "poor sinners", etc. Sure you look at your own sins, but then it's all about simply going to confession and being absolved like you're being pardoned by a judge. Confession is giving forgiveness, but....

In short, I'm tired of this constant "poor sinners" "the sins of the world". There seems only a superficial view of one's own sinfulness, especially since Fatima, where the world is doomed, unless the Pope does certain things. And why does this third secret need to be kept secret...the obsession over Fatima and consecrating Russia. It's like the Catholic version of the Rapture. Yes, I am aware Catholicism rejects the Rapture as heresy.

When I have looked at my sins in Catholicism, it's always been this judicial, rather than medical view. Even when the Orthodox prayer reminds you of all the horrible sins you have committed, there is a spirit of mercy in there that makes you get up and improve. You don't get that in Western spirituality.