(Post number 80.) I feel wilted today. For the last few weeks my right eyebrow has had an increasingly painful spot which I thought was just a zit that would fade away. Then it got worse and hurts - especially all around the orbit and sometimes on the adjacent orbit. I looked at some pics of it and thought that my eyebrow would be a really inconvenient place to have a basal cell carcinoma. They would have to remove these and I would have David Bowie Eyebrows. Instead I want to have Kevin Carr eyebrows. He has the best, which he is required to keep up for professional reasons. Mine tend to grow long but curl right into my eyeballs. So I have been trying to train them to go sideways. No such luck. While pushing these where they don’t want to go I guess I irritated a few eyebrow hair follicle ducts which plugged up with eyebrow hair follicle duct fluid, which then got infected. I am now taking Doxycycline. And shaving my eyebrows eventually. I’ll find some nice shades of makeup - green on one side and this faded blossom on the other.
No Fossils For Me. I was hoping to go do some paleo work out west this week. Yesterday we had a big storm which made the day weird. Today I was faded from lack of sleep and achey eyebrows. And busy, busy, busy though with what I cannot remember. I did come up with a description of the operatic style I am composing in though. This will be in the next post.
The Taxman Cometh. All the way from New Mexico. Apparently under a different name Ouida Ann Burns Cockrell, I own a grassy knoll somewhere near Route 66 in Quay County in New Mexico. This was the first I ever heard of it. Unfortunately I stopped paying taxes in 2018 and they are going to auction it off in June unless I pay the $189.50 owed. I managed to get ahold of them and apparently they are sending this letter to every Casey Burns in current existence, hoping to find the right one. We did find an Ouida Ann Burns who passed away in 2018. So you can call me Mx. Ouida Ann (Weed-a Anne). Note - Ouida Ann is a They.
I offered to pay this, if it would indeed give me title there. Nancy and I would go there when the rains begin here in early September and return to Kingston when they stop in late August. They considered this scenario and will get back to me if they can’t locate Ouida Ane. Note: this is not the first time I have been called a delinquent.
Best. Junk. Mail. Ever.
I did change names today. I am no longer @caseyburns69 on TikTok. That sounded like the name of a porn star with those last 2 numbers added on in that fashion. I have now changed it to something that celebrates my heritage as the apparent original Rajneeshee (although I wasn’t - they just thought I was) in Central Oregon. I posted a cool video of a Western Teenager there as my first post. Search for @rajneesheewithoutborders on TikTok. Note that I had to use the singular for Rajneeshee. I ran out of characters.
Sometime over the weekend I might post quite a few things on TikTok - including a rant about how we are about to see an avoidable explosion in Covid infections. BA2.12.1 has broken immunity so it is as if we are back at 2020. Currently our infection rate is higher than the Delta peak. Politics and Economics relaxed everything despite the objections of the scientists and now we will see the result of too much complacency. In the past week I have had 6 family members and about 10 different friends - all of who are vaxxed and boosted and wear masks usually etc. sick with it. Its like the State of Jefferson (SW Oregon) when we came north in July after foolishly visiting friends in California - we had all tested and were vaccinated so we thought we were dome and nobody got sick. The patrons - all unmasked and sitting elbow to elbow in the poorly ventilated Mom’s Kitchen in North Bend - glared at us in the door. We turned around and went elsewhere. Three or four weeks later the State of Jefferson was the Top Global Hot Spot for the Delta Covid wave. That was when the National Guard set up field hospitals in Roseburg.
Thus I am a bit freaked out about concerts, Irish Pipers Gatherings, conferences, shopping at the market, schools, etc. right now. The entire country will experience what the State of Jefforson experienced. June will be tough and may set the stage for another lost summer, given hat there are 2 more variantson their way and here already. Now we also have Monkey Pox. Wear your mask and be safe!!!
I am heading to bed and will write another post tomorrow. Good Night Everyone!