The introvert is kickin’ it hard

Long day today, and well needed seeing how the other days have been halves,,,   Dunno ’bout y’all, but the pinch is very real on this end of the keyboard.  I’m making it, but only because I established my offgrid situation prior.   I have the ‘social obligations’ of car insurance and registration, and a phone bill, but the rest is really just debts I accrued over time.  If not for those things, I could probably go months without work and not be bad off: not necessarily comfortable, but not bad off.

BUT, that pinch is making me jumpy about things financial.  And when I start getting jumpy, my introvert kicks in and all I want to do at the end of the day is go home, close the door behind me and leave the world behind for a bit.  NO visitors, hell, I don’t even want to deal with the four-feets for a spell.  And they are usually quite good about sensing it and leaving me some space, at least until Grizz can ‘see’ the bottom of the foodbowl, and well, that’s just NOT acceptable,,,

And I am keeping my fingers on the pulse of the world at large,,,   Sarah’s post today about things provided me all sorts of fodder for writing, but dammit, I just don’t want to deal with pointing out the fallacies of ‘our democracy’ (which ISN’T one) or how the whole universal suffrage is a cancer that is eating this country from the inside out.   Its definitely a night of “Been there, Said that”: and I really don’t want to go down that route when I really just wanna climb into a hole and pull it in after me.

I’ll give you a little more perspective on why I am feeling this way, and amazingly it has to do with those silly dating apps.   Had a drop dead gorgeous woman tag me pretty quickly and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how this burned out curmudgeon would have attracted such a prize.   (and my suspicions that ‘she’ was actually a bot were rampant.  She isn’t, but follow along.). Two days, kept seeing the tag and finally bit the bullet and reached out with messages. 

She lives in Ukraine.

Now, two and two make four, despite the math handicap that the left is notorious for, and I figured it out.   I have seen it before: Many Europeans, and many third world countries, think EVERY American is Mucho Muy Rico,,,  This lady is looking for a hook-up that will help her escape an active war-zone, and well, every American is rich, right???,,,, And I just happened to be the one that the algorithm dropped into her feed at that moment.    (income is NOT one of the points ‘advertised’ on this app, but maybe seeing me in several different kayaks in different pictures, possibly made that assumption.  That, and if I have enough leisure time to pursue fun stuff, I MUST be rich,,,)

I wish her luck in her efforts, but I ain’t it,,,  Even as much as I would like to think my ‘good looks and charming demeanor’ were the attractant, I’m also a realist; I know better.     That sort of relationship is doomed from the word go; as soon as she is in safe harbors and realizes that freedom is a choice, not a status symbol.

   And to think, her troubles were ultimately instigated by the FRAUD poking a bear in an insane desire to start WWIII for ‘reasons’,,,   

It always comes back to the same point, the point I have made many many a time here: GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM.

Time for a little escapism on my part, one that I enjoy reading no matter how many times I do, and one that Francis linked to  recently and I will link to directly here again. Maybe my internet friend will read this, and find something she can use in her future, wherever it may end up.