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Insomniacs' Late Night Venthole [1]

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Date: 2023-08-07

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Hiya everybody, how was your weekend?

I spent a couple of days at a ski lodge where my friend E is a member, near Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada. We three were the only people in the big old cabin. It's beautiful up there, and I thought we were having a peaceful time among friends, til early this morning when our host E. unexpectedly spewed out a bunch of anger and judginess at the other two which were me and another friend, T. I mean, all three of us have been friends for decades. T is going through a months-long nightmare with her husband of 25 years, B, who just finished cancer treatment, is bipolar and off his meds, drinking like a fiend, delusional, and basically out of his fucking gourd. All this came on in the last year or so. T had to file for divorce and get a restraining order. And E has been fighting cancer and her daughter is about to have surgery, so E of course is stressed out -- which I was underestimating obviously -- and feels threatened by the manic, out of control B with whom she has been friends for more than 40 years. And she was blaming T who is nearly out of her mind with stress and worry. And E was mad at me for, um, not sure. She was out of her mind. It was a giant shitshow. T and I did our chores and got the hell out of Dodge at 7am as ordered. In the car on the way home from the mountains, me driving, T got calls from a cop and a doctor in the Santa Cruz area town where E lives, where B had shown up two days before (scaring E's husband and pissing off E), all drunk and manic, misplaced his car, and ended up getting checked out in a local hospital where he seemed lucid and okay this morning by the time he saw the doctor. So of course they will let him go. The nightmare continues.

Home again, this afternoon I went to the beach with D.D., her doggie, and her boyfriend. It was warm and soothing to be out there, and D.D. was sweet and loving to me. I was pretty upset at getting yelled at that way, and pissed off at the way E treated T, but I calmed down. It's sad; I feel sorry that E felt so unhappy and stressed out, but I don't trust her anymore. I do not enjoy this kind of drama. Everybody is suffering so much trauma.

I don't know if I should post all the above, but why not vent among insomniacs?

Back to work tomorrow.

Fun game, Giants-Angels right now! 2-2, 7th inning. J.D. Davis just hit a beautiful solo home run for the G's. The crowd at Angel Stadium is loud! aaaand dang now the Angels are ahead 3-2. Damn it Joc Pederson just got robbed of a home run, caught at the wall.

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