Re: Karma (redux)

In article <VyTfS.18270$n%[email protected]>, "Doc Hammerslack" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've learned to be less superstitious about karma -- which, given
> the events of a couple of weeks ago, tooks some real
> soul-searching to accomplish.
>
> Quote from another article I posted elsewhere about two
> weeks ago:
>
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> BTW, there is a troll in another newsgroup that continues to
> say that he wishes California would burn.  This, because he
> disagrees with (and apparently envies) our politics, our
> economics, our technology...
>
> When he, in Colorado, was finally threatened by a wildfire,
> I told him that a) I didn't want Colorado to burn, but that b)
> I hoped he would "die in a fire".
>
> Since then, I've had the worst week of "bad karma" of my life.
> My wife and I apparently contracted Covid-19 on the way home
> from our cruise, which means we are missing a gathering today
> that I'd been looking forward to for a couple of months.  We
> might also miss seeing AC/DC on Wednesday.
>
> But that's not the worst of it.
>
> A couple of days ago, my favorite cat, Julie, died suddenly;
> whether by stroke, aneurysm, or cardiac issue we don't know.
> She just let out a moaning sound and collapsed.
>
> It was probably something stress-related, since she had just
> interacted with Kazumi, one of our other cats -- she hissed
> at him to warn him to stay out of "her" room (my office).
>
> Julie and I were very close.  She would perch on my shoulder
> and watch while I used the computer.  She was a "foster failure",
> where we had taken her off a friend's hands because the friend
> couldn't handle having another cat anymore.
>
> Couldn't pet her when we first got her, as the previous
> environment was not very loving, I'm afraid...but over the
> years, she had learned to trust us, and I think she was
> the sweetest inky in Santa Rosa.
>
> (She was with us when we evacuated for the Glass fire, a fire
> that I haven't even mentioned yet.)
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>
> [concluding unscientific postscript redacted]
>

Sounds like the spanking you took from me really set your melancholic
state of mind. Poor Crayon.

-- 
Tom Mix