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  • Many things

    What makes you nervous?

    I have high functioning anxiety so it can be triggered by numerous things. The worst one is flying(no, it’s not take off/landing.) I encountered an air pocket when I flew in the 1990s that caused us to drop several thousand feet in a matter of seconds. Anyway, long story short I hate flying now.

    Interviews & impromptu work related questions. Makes me nervous. I’m good at interviews but it still makes me uncertain.

    Tunnels make me nervous especially if there’s traffic backed up in the tunnel. There was a Norwegian movie that was an action movie about a tunnel, nope I didn’t see it.

    Crowds, either on transit or at an event. Doesn’t sit well with me. Maybe it’s since COVID that I’ve become more accurately aware of them in transit. Not a fan.

    What makes you nervous?

  • Why I don’t use identifiers

    I’ve been writing on this platform since 2007. One of the earliest things I learned was not using identifiers. But using generic descriptions for people, places & things.

    I recently was threatened over this blog for using a generic identifier. Everything from psych evals to calling of the police. Why you may ask?

    Right now I can’t answer that but simply say that I did nothing wrong.

    What is an identifier you may ask, an address, a physical description of someone or a place. By simply using a generic term I did nothing wrong.

    Identifiers are no, no within the blogging community. If you use someone’s name & where they live. Yes, you could get into trouble. But when that’s not used there’s no issue.

    If you want to put someone in your blog make sure that what you’ve written is factual & a description of their behavior can stand up in the court of law. Not something that can be Googled but an actual description of them.

    If someone threatens you remind them that you didn’t use any identifiers & you should be fine. Till next time, happy reading & blogging.

  • Sideways

    It appears that things are sideways in the world. With the war in Iran, inflation & economic downturn. The world is on a precipice & we may not recover.

    Global stability is no longer there as the US is acting as a bully. Taking Venezuela wasn’t enough-now the Strait of Hormuz is closed because Iran is retaliating against the world by holding oil & gas ships as hostages.

    No. We’re on a precipice & the only way things are going down. There’s no upward momentum to shift what is happening.

    Maybe sanctions but they hardly work as countries have become adept at working around them.

    The next 6 months are critical to the globe. A scary place to be for all.