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My mom is in her 70s and can't walk as far as she used to. She does not need any assistive devices like a wheelchair, cane, or walker, but she can't walk long distances without stopping to rest on a bench every so often. She wants to take Amtrak from Central CA to go visit a relative out in the LA area, but she claims it's too far to walk to the terminal or wherever the busses are (Amtrak has busses that go from Union Station to Bakersfield, and then the train from Bakersfield to the Central Valley). Are there benches throughout the station that she can stop and rest at in case she gets tired? Or can she get a ticket on her app and be dropped off right at the dropoff/pickup point where the busses are?

I've often wondered if there was any logic behind the Eagles lineup on the stage. Did they just do it based on where Don and Glenn wanted everybody, or did it go from left to right, with the high singers on the left, to the person singing the low parts on the right? Randy/Timothy were always on the right, Glenn in the middle (and he always sang in the middle when not singing lead), and Joe/Felder alternating the right? Or Glenn and Henley (when not being his drum kit) in the middle because they were the leads, and then going from time in the band from there? Did they ever speak about this?

I grew up in a conservative christian home and considered myself to be a conservative christian for many years. I started to deconvert after I left home to go to college. Politics was the first thing to change, and I slowly started to become more liberal over the years, while the rest of my family stayed conservative to varying degrees.

My dad was the most conservative of them all, with black-and-white thinking, believing that all liberals and nonbelievers were evil. I was a closeted agnostic (to him) until he passed last year. My mom and sister knew I was liberal and they don't have a problem with it, but my sister still very much supports Trump, and my mom is teetering on the edge. She's conservative in some ways and liberal in others. But unlike my sister, she does not support Trump and thinks he's an idiot and is often complaining about him. At the same time, we live in a blue state, and she is against some of the things our governor is doing, and she started complaining about him all the time, too.

Since Trump has been making cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, states have been making cuts in those programs, too, cutting a vital program my sister needs to get paid to care for her disabled child. My mom and sister are both blaming our governor for cutting those programs. I'm not happy aspects of those programs are being cut, but it's Trump's fault, not our governor's. But they're both claiming that he should make cuts to other parts of the program, like support for undocumented immigrants, so in their eyes, it's our governor's fault my sister is losing support from this program, not Trump's. So I'm worried that my mom is going to start supporting Trump again, as she did at one time.

Anyway, I'm my mom's caregiver by default, as I don't have kids. I hate it. I want to leave, and I'm trying to plot my way out. I have massive caretaker fatigue, but all of these talks about politics certainly doesn't help. And it seems they're starting to push religion on me, which they never did before. One of the main reasons for my deconversion was that God never talked to me, and I never saw "God's work" for myself. So lately, my mom and sister have been vaguely pointing out various miracles, "works of God," and I just roll my eyes. I don't want to hear it anymore. They don't prattle on and on about it, but still, it's annoying. They are never going to change my mind. I am getting soooooo tired of being there, with the constant talk about politics and the occasional God talk. It's really starting to wear on me. But if I say anything, I will be the "intolerant" one.

I don't need advice or anything. I just wanted to vent about it, as I figured you all would understand.

Do any of you know of any good Cinco de Mayo specials nearby? I know the chain restaurants are doing stuff, but I was thinking more of the independently owned places and not places like Chili's or BJ's.