Random Thoughts With Coffee Kicking In
Posted By Kathleen David on August 19, 2021
I have been up for a while and am on my second cup of coffee. The brain fog has cleared so I feel awake.
Yesterday I was at one of the local watering holes where a friend of mine bartends. CNN was up on one of the TV and the news from Afghanistan was being reported.
At the bar were a group of Vets that, apparently, meet for lunch once a week. In the group was one gentleman who served several tours in Afghanistan eighteen years ago and another gentleman who was last there in 2019.
They were talking about what they saw when they were there.
The whole bar got involved in the conversation.
Those that had been there said they felt they were fighting a lost cause.
One called it a sandy Vietnam.
And that is 18 years apart and three presidents in between.
They did as they were told. They lost comrades along the way.
They were happy we were out but were concerned for those who helped them that have been left behind.
It was a lost cause from the get go built on lies and bad intel.
I am even more scared for those Afghans who did step up and try to keep their country from falling into the hands of the Taliban and all the women and young girls in the country as the Taliban enforces Sharia law as they see it.
I am very glad that Caroline has graduated out of the public school system. Also that New York is being rational about masks and safety of their students.
I worry for others I know who are having to deal with the insanity of no masks and high rates of COVID. Those parents have some hard decisions to make.
I have started the DragonCon Puppet Building Marathon. I will have puppets for sale at Peter’s table including a John Constantine.
This morning I have a list of things I need to do and want to do.
Errands are in there somewhere.
Caroline and I will continue working on her costume for DragonCon. Once we get the pattern done, it will move much faster. This is the hard part.
My brain has moved to what I need to do for DragonCon and what we need to take with us.
It will be different since Caroline is not traveling with us.
It looks like it is going to rain today. It has been very humid.
We are also looking at a hurricane wandering by this weekend. The path is indeterminant at this point.
I have work next week then I took sometime off to get things done around the house.
I am grateful for getting things done in a timely fashion.
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