Friday - Where Did It Go?

Not much happened today and it is over and all I can think of is where did the time go?

I worked on the blog a little this morning. I started my taxes. 

About 11, I went out to the grocery and I got back here around 1 pm, or so it seems. I went down to McClure's for RC Cola. And then stayed in.

I called CC. She was coughing up blood. Later, I told her to stay home rather than coming up here.

I called FSSA about my medical insurance and rescheduled an interview.

I worked on "Road Tripping." That took up my afternoon and evening. 

Oh, I took a nap.

Now I ma here and calling a night. Too much email to knock off tonight.

Some reading from this morning:

 Short reviews from The Brisbane Times: Unnerving short stories, an Irish romcom and a journey into the past

Unnerving flash fiction from Fictive Dreams: School Got Out Early Today by Roberta Beary. I do think much of horror novels, I think horror works better in short stories.

News from The Guardian, I have not heard elsewhere: Germany and China clash over west’s supply of weapons to Ukraine

The deputy Chinese envoy to the UN, Dai Bing, insisted the west was worsening the situation by arming Ukraine, saying: “Adding fuel to the fire will only exacerbate tensions”.

His remarks provoked Baerbock into a powerful rebuttal rejecting his claim that the west was indulging in military spending at the expense of other priorities more important to ordinary people.

She asked: “Why on earth would we do that?”, adding: “We did not want this war. We did not choose this war.” She said her government “would much rather focus every bit of our energy and money in fixing our schools, in fighting the climate crisis and strengthening social justice”, adding: “The truth is that if Russia stops fighting, the war will end, If Ukraine stops this fighting, Ukraine ends.”

She said the suffering, including “abduction, rape and torture”, would continue every day, and that the world’s gaping wounds, caused by hunger, inflation and energy shortages, would not end.

Every country, she argued, had a duty to send a clear signal that the war was coming to an end. Addressing the 30 to 40 countries likely to abstain from the resolution, including China, India and South Africa, she noted: “Today each of us has to make a decision to stand in isolation with the oppressor or stand together for peace.”

She said there was a peace plan for Ukraine, and it was called the UN charter with its principles of sovereign equality, territorial integrity and the non-use of force.

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