Not Friday Five, but Thursday Four:

[capri0mni]

1) I acknowledge that I've neglected this space for my Tumblr (aegipan-omnicorn); I'm sorry.

2) Tomorrow is the start of NaNoWriMo -- I still have not settled on what to write, yet.

3) I accidentally ran into the door of our fridge, this week, and broke the bottom hinge. So we have a new refrigerator (delivered yesterday), but it's like 1/8th of an inch (or less) too wide for the space it was meant to go into. I was going to spend yesterday thinking about what to write for NaNoWriMo, but instead, I spent all my energy trying to find someone who can come out and trim down that much from one end of our kitchen countertop. (most places will only do it if you go for a whole kitchen remodeling job. Ended up calling a general handyman, and have an appointment for a week from Yesterday.

4) Yesterday, while scrolling through the comments of a video, I accidentally clicked on the name of a commentator, and discovered someone who's just started their YouTube Channel this week. Their first proper video (not their channel trailer) is full-documentary length. And is excellent: Stolen Anarchy: Playing Indian & The Roots of Collectivism: All about how Marx, and Engels, and Mary Wollstoncraft, et al. appropriated their political philosophies from the Haudonoshone Confederacy and the Lenni-Lenape. Highly recommended.

Comments

[davidgillon]

Hope it was only the fridge that was broken, and not you! And sod's law on the fit. My washing machine is so tight a fit for the space designed for it I had to cut wine bottle corks in half vertically and hammer them between the washer and the radiator that shares the space, because a washer wedged against a radiator = the whole house shaking.

Found out recently my mum's local council has a council handyman who will come out and do basic stuff for elderly and disabled folk. He fitted a grab-handle and an extra bannister for her. Incredibly useful service that more places should have.

[capri0mni]

Yup -- just the fridge. The thing is: the door could no longer close, so the fridge could no longer keep things cold. So it had to go.

That's great about your mom's council.

We don't really have anything like council housing around here... Just fend for yourself, individualistic Capitalism.

[davidgillon]

It's not just council housing, and not means-tested! If we'd wanted anything other than a round bannister rail she'd have had to buy that herself, and she did have to pay for an external key safe she had fitted, but the fitting was done free. The health worker who provided the details explained the theory when she called to check on my mother after she'd been in hospital. It's far cheaper to check what people need to keep them safe at home and to do this kind of low level accessibility work than to have people being hospitalised or forced into care even for brief periods, so they're actually saving money by doing this even if they don't charge for the service.

[capri0mni]

Remember, David -- this is the U. S. of A.. Our Far-Right are full-on Nazis. Our Center Right are Nationalist Conservatives. Our Centrists are your Center Right. Our Center Left are Free-Market Social Libertarians. And our "Far Left" (Right now, that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren) are about a millimeter to the left of your Center.