Hmm.
Hey, Kid.
Hey, Folks.
I hope this finds you well, as always!
The other day was 9/11/2026.
A hyper-emotional and extremely sentimental day for many of us Americans.
I have no personal losses connected to the day outside of the fact that I am American, but it still hits home for me quite deeply.
What a day.
I was all of maybe 12 years old, and I had missed school that day due to my mother and father having a custody battle over me. I was required to be in the courtroom sometimes, and I guess that day was one of those required days.
I remember my mother telling me that court was canceled due to "Some sorta' plane hittin' a buildin' or somethin'"
But I had no idea what was goin on, or where it was taking place.
I had yet to see the national news, and watching it locally at that age just made me feel as if it were happening here in my own hometown.
What a fright that was!
I thought the courthouse had been attacked, and I was quite confused as to why that would be happening. Of course I was very wrong.
I remember thinking as a kid that I was going to be recruited for war.
That I would be chosen along with my friends to go overseas and support the war effort in some important role or another.
I specifically remember talking to one of my friends on the school bus about wanting to be either a tank operator or a fighter pilot, lol.
Boy, was I a kid?
Lol.
We had no idea how serious it was, and how the world would change around us from that point in time...
We had no idea how bad the attack was, and how bad it would get after both of the towers collapsed...
We had no idea how many hundreds of civilians and emergency personnel had lost their lives...
We had no idea.
Life in the United States of America changed that day for everyone on so many levels that we could never have imagined, and we are still reeling from those changes 25 years later.
That was as close to a war zone as any of us would ever be, and as horrible a sight that most of us would ever see again.
We live with and carry that.
I hope that none of you or your children, or your children's children ever have to experience such horrible things.
I know that several parts of the world are actively at war right now, and I hate that not only you all, but the world at large.
What is the death and destruction good for?
What does it accomplish?
It seems like the historical thing is to have a bunch of bitchy, old, detached, emotionally devoid men send thousands of young men to their deaths just to end up inevitably changing or rewriting whatever the law or disagreement was over anyway...
Like, come on, humanity...
Can we not just get this shit right?
Bah...
Me?
I have been doing pretty decently, Kid.
Still no you, obviously, but I am alive to complain about that, so yeah?
I have an amazing significant other; my job is going as well as it could be at the moment, and we will be moving in with each other soon to make both our lives that much better and simpler.
All in time and one step at a time.
I hope that all of you have been doing just as well, and if not?
I hope that changes for you.
Love those around you, and what you DO have.
I've realized more and more with time that no matter how bad off we are, there is always someone worse off.
I do my best to be humble and happy with everything that I do and don't have.
What is meant for me will be mine; what is not, never was.
I will leave you all with that and let you get to what you get to what you really came for, lol.
I love and appreciate all of you, seriously.
You keep me coming back to post more and more.
Thank you for 159,502 K views in English, and an additional 107,431 K views in Spanish!
You all mean more to me than you know, and I will do my best to keep my books free digitally for you for as long as I draw breath.
See you back here soon, yeah?
Enjoy!
(Clambers into the cockpit of my fancy little time skipper and sets the clock for 2022... Not the best year, I tell ya!)
*SPLOOP!*
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June 19th, 2022.
6:23 pm.
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Dear you.
Another year come and gone
Without You.
It's getting old,
But such is life.
I will wait.
For you.
I won't write a lot today, yeah?
I hope you understand.
-Dad
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*SPLURP!*
(Another successful trip! But I need to figure out the weird noises that time slipping causes..."
Hmm.
- I didn't feel so good emotionally that day.
2022 had been a really long, hard, tedious year for me.
I had left the woman who I had figured was the love of my life, you know?
I had moved into a little studio apartment and started my entire life over.
I sold my car to make ends meet.
I started cutting off anyone and everyone who didn't have my best interests in mind.
I had yet to cut my ex off, and that was becoming as toxic as a decaying tooth.
It took me just over two years to fully detach myself from her after I had left.
Two years.
Two years of her coming around, texting, calling, trying to hang out and go do things, trying to sleep with me, trying to have me do things for her.
Two years.
Milhouse from The Simpsons TV show said it best:
"You don't want to be with me, and you don't want anyone else to have me... How miserable must I be before you are happy!?"
She was selfish as shit, and I was foolishly following along even after she had blatantly shown me she didn't and would never give a fuck about how I felt or what I needed.
Don't do that, Kid.
Folks.
Don't let life slip by while chasing what is not for you.
I had to let myself fall to my lowest of lows before I learned that lesson, and I don't want you all to do the same.
Especially YOU, Kid, if you exist...
A part of me still has hope that someone out there had you and just never told me...
Hmm.
I will leave you all at that, and I hope to see you back here soon enough!
I will be moving come the end of the month, so I may be a bit busier than normal for a while, but I will make time for you all; I promise you that!
I love and appreciate all of you, and I will see you here soon, yeah?
Safe travels out there, Kid.
You as well, Folks.
And as always;
Stay safe.
Stay healthy.
Stay vigilant.
-Bluu.