Still Keepin' My Head Down

Well, I've been pretty good about not listening to news or reading news sites. As I expected, some big chunks find their ways to me. Dumb Trump wants Dr. Oz to head Medicaid/Medicare. Now that might affect me, since I'm over 65. But, as always, the question is: what can I do about it? My wife's company has good insurance for us both. If that changes, my employer offers excellent options. So we'll see. Even if Oz and Dumb Trump do something destructive that affects me, I don't see how knowing what they're doing helps me much.

Closer to home, I do want to help people less fortunate. On the strength of an online friend's endorsement, I gave $25 to a person I don't know, who got fired after coming out as trans. Was going to give another $25 to a different person in trouble for the same reason, but they only took money via PayPal and PayPal is just too problematic. That second $25 will go to someone else.

Been doing some streaming. Having fun with that. Learned a bit about tensors and rotation and moments of inertia. They tried to teach me some of it in the late '70s, when I was a student of physics. But, well, that wasn't the time. It's relevant to my work with Unity, so I'm learning it now, almost 50 years later. Fortunately, the laws of physics don't change much in half a century. Not Newton's laws, anyway.

Still bummed about my son. Feels like he erased me, or himself from my family, or something like that. He called me a few days back, and asked how I felt about everything since the election. It was a short call. He texted us some silly thing about his contact lenses. His mother answered. I didn't. I don't feel quite like I have a son anymore. F____ U____ is a good guy. The world will be better with him in it than it would have been without him. But I don't feel like we're really family now. My wife is still a Miller, but she has said once or twice that she actually thinks she should not have changed her name. I could have understood it at the time and I told her so then. I don't know if she'll change it back. She might. Whether she does or not, though, I guess this is the end of the Miller name as a lineage. By itself, that doesn't bother me. But my son erased it. That does bother me.

Takes the edge off Dumb Trump being president, though, a bit.

Will continue to keep my head down. That's working better for me than I actually thought it would.