Re: Karma (redux)

In article <[email protected]>, Brennus <[email protected]> wrote:

> "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.

Hey Fat boy! stfu. No one here give a fuck about you.

-- 
Tom Mix