So I received via Postcrossing from sallymo. Hats off to her for managing to create homemade cards that are probably are not thrown in a rubbish bin by all the people who write "NO HOMEMADE CARDS" in their profiles.
I hear your concerns and they are important to me. I am going to escalate these concerns up the chain of command in order for them to fall on the appropriate deaf ears.
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Interlude
So I received via Postcrossing from sallymo. Hats off to her for managing to create homemade cards that are probably are not thrown in a rubbish bin by all the people who write "NO HOMEMADE CARDS" in their profiles.
Postcard #202: Morning in America
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01/21/21 - Portland OR. It's Fuckin raining. 44 F
Well after an armed insurrection attempt five dead people, a final tally of 400k covid deaths could we finally have a new president. Republicans want to find Unity...now. I am so god damned sick of being the ones who have to capitulate when outraged which is the problem nothing really outrages them. Nothing tangible. "Rights" "Religion." We have to always move on when something tragic happens. "What could have been done?" "This was a single, lone event." No. I am done. I want people held [accountable] for their actions. How we could not collectively called Q-Anon fucking assholes. We could not collectively call white supremacists fucking dirtbag shitheads. I want to ask how we got here...but we have always been here. -TM
Sent via Postcrossing to anicka22. Probably one of my favorite profiles so far. Completely blank. The only way it could have been better would have been for them to have written one word in the profile so that it would appear that they did not simply overlook it. I got this postcard in Spain. I've had it for several years and from the looks of it someone else had it before me on display.
I was obviously angry here. I really suck at first draft postcarding. I left out words. I left out grammar and punctuation. I was a lazy bastard for this card and it shows.
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Postcard #201: Special Delivery
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Portland, OR,
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44 It's friggen raining
but at least it's not snowing
I pulled up to the house pretty much the same time as my wife did. I pulled to give her room to pull her car into the driveway. Looking towards the road I saw a plastic white garbage bag. The sort I have in my own kitchen with red drawstrings. I parked my car and walked to the mailbox. Junk mail flyers. (But I did get one postcrossing card!) I figured I could use the junkmail to go and pick up the trash. As I got closer I noticed the bag was nearly empty... but there was something in the bag. Black. It stuck to the inside of bag and it carried enough mass that the wind did not move it. I picked it up. It was soft, wet. And started to move it to my garbage cans, my left hand like a tight pincer holding the bag within the protective burger king coupons as I crossed the yard. I smelled something foul. A smell known all too well from life... and work, I almost did want to recognize it. Once I admitted that I know the smell I knew it would make me gag. I then thought about how it does not make me gag at work when my patients... poop... shit Tom. It's Human feces. Human SHIT You ARE HOLDING HUMAN SHIT! I started to gag and wretch. I still smell it every time I have to burp the garbage can. Honestly, I smell it even when I look at the can. - TM
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Sent via Postcrossing to Drey01. Did not give me a whole lot of guidance no homemade or Ad cards. I really would like to send an ad card to the first person to ever put that in a profile. I wonder if I could write to Postcrossing and ask them to look at their records to see when the first time "NO AD CARD" was placed in someone's profile.
I am pretty late getting these up. They are already arriving at their sites. And I already have another interlude post coming.