Rally Week, ya, we still have Covid-19 to deal with but-

      And day shift Kill worked so I spent my Saturday reminding myself that I could cope with whatever and whoever.  But I am home, up in my studio, and have a lot that I want to get done before heading down to St. Louis for the rally.

     I'm staying at an Airbnb that I stayed at earlier this summer when I took the Liberty down for service, it's an easy walk to Diana's Bakery, in a very nice vintage/historic house and that's already paid for, my gas funds and play funds are out of savings and what Ben owes me.  He will be doing a prepaid Visa card for me to use.  That will be a very new experience for me but safer for me financially.

     And yes, we are still wearing masks, yes, we will have them at the rally, in fact, that's the theme this year and I have some fabric that is very MartiGraw masks looking and have cut masks from that but still need to do the sewing.  And I need a new tool roll as I don't yet have 1 in the LXV which is what I will be riding this year.

     It's starting to get cooler now, down to 42 this morning, but I haven't yet brought the potted plants inside and that will be done before I head down to St. Louis. I have a list that is growing for what all I need to do before heading down to the rally, including some repair work on the LXV.

     Politics is either interesting or just downright scary, Trump is still lying most or all the time, Bill Barr is looking more like the general at the New Dictatorship and Biden is doing his best to show all of us that we still do have some adults left in the government that do know and like our constitution.  I never had any desire to be living in such an absolute 'this has to be fiction' reality but that's what we have here in the USA.  

     My life has had a lot of ups and downs, I wasn't raised to be independent, I wasn't taught good life skills, I was terribly stupid about a lot of things, like Job Service, factories have jobs that make a good living.  I made a lot of mistakes and poor choices but learned from them.  I didn't have the best parenting skills but I didn't grow up with really great parentings examples to learn from or to help build that foundation.  But I was raised with good work skills, with a lot of other 'stuff' that has helped me fix my mistakes, learn to research first, but most of all, I learned to Not trust, and that I was more capable than I was taught to believe.  

     So, at 64, I do like myself and how I am living my life.  I know my flaws and I know which ones I am willing to work to change and which I think will just be how I am, at least for now.