Re: Karma (redux)

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
says...
> 
> 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.

Must be a gopher cus shes been in the dirt for years.

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