To start on a positive note: My dad, who is now living for
about a year and a half in an retirement home has made big
recovery steps recently and is now contemplating how he could
move back in with the rest of the family. I would never have
thought that a dude at 85 with heart problems and a badly
healed broken leg decides 'Nah, it sucks to be so frail...
better make improvements'. Surprisingly he even started to
make improvements in his walking abilities, which is even more
surprising taking into account that the doctors who treated
him said that he will never be able to walk more than a few
steps again. Sigh,
Currently i am driving my mom nearly every other day to some
form of doctor, either the dentist (she finally decided to
get a partial tooth prothesis), the general practicioner to
get her blood pressure in order and the orthopedist to get
her carpal tunnel syndrome fixed. It's weird, both my parents
let everything regarding their finances and their general
organisation go to ruins just to make the decision to get
everything right now.
Sigh, i really hope this is moving further into the right
direction... would be cool to have the family back together
in one place.
Junior is was finaly a day without fever after being sick
since last week, but in the night he still had pain (perhaps
muscular?) which luckily could be remedied with 125mg Paracetamol.
I really hope that he will get rid of this bug soon... when
he is well over the day he is completely bored out because he
misses the Kindergarten and counters that with wreaking havoc
and being being extremely tired thereafter.
A strange thing i notice around me is that more and more people
seem to be getting aware that /something/ is not right. People
are noticing that public services that have gone worse over
the last couple of years on an accelerating rate and that the
police, who has normaly a "not that bad" reputation here in
germany, has turned more aggressive, more violent even toward
the average (as in: without being minority / poor) person and
has gained a somewhat mean streak. Also, political resignation
or turning towards extremists seem now more common than ever.
Today a coworker was sitting in my office complaining that
his bank has now replaced the (already shitty) callcenter with
an "AI" chatbot and telling me that he thought that this shift
towards machines mimicing human interaction somehow feels...
sick, somehow wrong.
In general there seems to be a feeling of "things are wrong"
in the population, some people i speak with are looking forward
to a "big bang that shakes things up", others are hoping for
things turning back to normal again... but nobody seems to
look at the current state of the world and says: "Yup, we are
heading into the right direction".
