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Not since the early 70s.

Your early 70s or the 1970s?

I'm using my new ceramic heater now and it's great. I also have my electric blanket. It's good too. I like staying warm when it's cold.

The weather is beautiful here right now. Heat and air turned off. Low humidity. Now and November is the time to visit Florida.

I can't hear without my hearing aids anymore. I don't put them in often because I don't want to hear what anyone is saying.

Just nod and smile like me.

Addendum:

I can't get batteries or the other air vent part it needs from the VA because I haven't been going to my health check ups. I have a family doctor for that.

Just nod and smile like me.

that's exactly what I do and it seems to make people happy. Who knew getting along was simply a matter of becoming deaf.

Going down to 40° tonight I might as well be in Siberia.

I knew my limitations right out of the box. I bought a tiny house, paid it off and drove a used car. I didn’t want to be forced to become a slave to debt or expenses. It worked like a charm, so simple, so virtuous. But what totally derailed my carefully formulated prescription for freedom and enlightenment was Joe Biden and my wife working seemingly in concert to once again quash my humble dreams.

Really. I’m not kidding. I’m still clinging to this vision of attaining some kind of spiritual clarity or transcendent peace just because I deserve it for enduring whatever it is I think I’ve endured when I’m laying awake conjuring up reasons to feel sorry for myself. Salvation through suffering is the recurrent theme of Western moral drama. The good news is you get to sin your ass off and then make it look like redemption when you just become too much of a burn out to carry on. So I’m obsessed with shedding my material concerns and living a simple monastic life free of distraction or disturbance. Winning the lottery would really facilitate the process.