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After 47 days, Minnie is no longer wearing a cone. I took her to the vet this morning, and the vet pronounced the eye healed.

Not only is this great for Minnie, it’s a lot less work for me. Because Minnie would not eat when she wore the cone, I had to take the cone off her for meals and and supervise her while she ate to be sure she didn’t scratch at her eye. I was also giving her treatments in her eye three times a day — an eyedrop, wait five minutes, then a dab of saline ointment. I had to take the cone off her and supervise her for that too. Now she just needs ointment in her eye once a day, for three weeks — easy.

Minnie celebrated her freedom by licking and gnawing at herself in parts she could not reach when she was wearing the cone.

There are at least two other Mitch Wagners with some visibility on the Internet.

One is a well-known CrossFitter who often posts shirtless photos and videos, which nobody wants me to do.

The other is a prominent retired San Diego attorney. I just learned, to my surprise, that we share a middle initial as well as a name and a city.

Someone on Facebook called a friend an “obnoxious boomer.” As a fellow boomer, I’m prepared to stand in support of him. Give me a minute, though. My hips get stiff when I’ve been sitting.

If you don’t have enough frustration in your life and need to swear more, I highly recommend connecting a Roku Streambar to a 16-year-old Samsung TV that already has a nine-year-old TiVo Bolt attached.

I struggled to get audio to work when using the TiVo and finally had to resort to unplugging the Roku, like a caveman.

All CMSes are bad, except the one you’re currently using, which is worse.

– Jason Snell, in a throwaway comment in a blog post about Markdown. I LOLed. I’ve been living that reality for 30 years.

I lost interest in the new iPad mini after reading this review, by David Pierce at the Verge and Marques Brownlee’s similar review on YouTube,.

For $1,200, I want a 120 Hz display. I don’t even know if I’d notice the difference, but I don’t want to compromise for that kind of money. Instead, I’ll just stick with my 6th gen iPad mini, even though it only has 64 GB memory and that means I can’t get my photos on it.

64 GB? What on Earth was I thinking when I bought that?

Finished reading: The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake 📚 I didn’t love it it but I liked it. I will probably try another sometime.

Nobody should talk to me today because I do not share in the general jubilation over election results. We’ve been here before. Obama 2008. Biden 2020. This is a big step, but it’s just the first step. Will the Democrats have the backbone to make the structural change that America requires?

In response to my earlier post, I’m now seeing comments from people who actually liked Gilligan’s Island. Nobody’s speaking up to defend the Brady Bunch though.

The media blackout of the new rape allegation against Trump

Judd Legum at Popular Information:: In the latest accusation, Beatrice Keul, a Swiss model, “said Trump grabbed her from behind ‘and forcibly raped her… tearing her dress and causing bleeding and bruising on multiple parts of her body.’"” An Oct.26 report by Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee includes detailed accounts of sexual assault involving 11 women. Five accused Trump of rape and sexual assault, including two who were minors at the time.

In 2023, Trump was found liable by a jury for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll in 1996. “In 2005, Trump was also recorded bragging about sexually assaulting women. ‘I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,’ Trump told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. ‘Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.’”

Most of the media is downplaying or ignoring the report and its new allegations.

People need to be reminded that Trump has raped children and women numerous times.