Re: Karma (redux)

Skeeter <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] says...
>> 
>> "Doc Hammerslack" <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:VyTfS.18270 $n%[email protected]:
>> 
>> > 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]
>> > 
>> 
>> Sorry, crockie.  Animals are better than humans. 
> 
> He says to his date every night.
> 

Oh I didn't know your mom was an animal.