<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Sithy Things]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://aggiesprite.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[LC Aggie Sith]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://aggiesprite.wordpress.com/author/aggiesprite/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Finding My Happy Place For&nbsp;Today]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, I have to find it without the aid of candy or wine. I already vented my spleen over at Uncivil Peasants (NSFW), and feel the need for happy thoughts because if I don&#8217;t, I may just vent something else, like a carburetor.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s not just politics that make me want to force choke the milk carton. It&#8217;s also the lack of empathy I witness everywhere. I witness the disparaging remarks of a &#8220;pacifist&#8221; towards a soldier and wonder what happened to civility. I watch commercials showing disrespectful children sassing their parents and wonder what happened to manners (don&#8217;t get me started on the teen eating out of the cereal box and drinking out of the milk carton). I see History repeating itself while lamenting how we don&#8217;t learn from it. There is a quiz going around social media that asks &#8220;How smart are you?&#8221;. I saw it pop up on my social-site-with-faces page and saw all who took it got &#8220;PhD&#8221; level. ALL OF THEM. But it was our friend <strong>SoCal</strong> who pointed out the obvious: every question was something he learned back in elementary school. And yet that qualified one as PhD level? Is that how far education has fallen?</p>
<p>I picked a heck of a time to quit eating sweets. I guess yoga will have to suffice until Easter. Ok, maybe not yoga but perhaps thinking about yoga. I have my limits, and so do my tendons 😀</p>
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