My friend had just gotten back from Florida, saw him Friday, expected to see him at work on Sunday, but he had left just before I got there. We knew each other for about 6 months.
My outside cat (who also squats with me) expected me back Monday, but I stayed at the the hotel another day to avoid the rain, which has a nasty tendency of dripping onto my squalid bedding and making noise while I'm trying to sleep. She ran away from the pride/outside cats soon after I had her fixed, but somehow showed up 4 years after that. I've known her since she was born.
I feel that if I had gotten to see Tom before he left early, I could've pulled him away from waiting tables and helping in the kitchen, called an ambulance for him. Same with my poor cat, who has tried to be my friend through some difficult shit, which also made her life difficult, especially the 'pandemic', when I only rice to feed her in the latter half of 2020.
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The evil people who shut down our global societies should be brought to account. Mainly because their bank accounts grew, while whole swaths of businesses and families were isolated, shut down, made sick by poverty and died of non-COVID illnesses/hunger/isolation.
After COVID scam, we thought "Well, can't get worse?", but it did, because the whole situation was engineered that way: domino effect of a common social shock, reinforced by: laws, the corporate run media, but most especially, the asshole who thought up this scam to consolidate their power even further.
If you live in a major city, get out and make friends elsewhere (like I should've done straight away).
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I'm sad and angry that the people in power want more power, at the expense of the rest of the world. I'm also sorry for speaking more than listening on Newgrounds, just want to make people feel like they are not alone is this increasingly sickened and saddened world of social engineering.
deadspread83
I'm sorry to hear that man.
VicariousE
Thank you, it's turning into one of those weeks with many red letter dates.
Hope you're well old bean, wish I wasn't so busy staying sane, I'm sure I've missed more than a few years of your writings and art :(