Updates on Conciege position and LGBTQIA cancellation tactics

 

Sc/een.e from a Balcony 2-20-25 7:30am

We've got a bit of snow again. Thinking back over the weeks, it's actually been a rather mild winter. I don't remember one big event. Oh well, it is what it is.

Update on the Concierge position 

Well, I was originally supposed to start last Friday, but when I inquired about the time they wanted me to arrive, I was informed the results of the pre-employment drug screen had not been received yet. In the meantime, I was instructed to connect with the medial service to review the results, which ultimately became available. As it turns out, the results were reviewed and reported to the employer and I was flagged to start tomorrow : Friday at 3pm. So there you have it! I have my first training day tomorrow. 

Wednesday Funday

Yesterday was different .... in a good way! Amanda had texted me the other day asking about visiting with a friend, Ari, who was interested in exploring their growing interest in the Harp. They came and had a wonderful time checking out the instruments and having a gabfest. 

The selfie we took to document the moment turned out great. 

L - R: Moi, Amanda, Ari

At one moment we decided to sing some songs ... but get thi: we couldn't come up with an idea of what to sing, so we just decided to go with the good ol' "Push Can turn and Shove", one of the princes from the RonSongs catalogue: songs mostly written by your truly while I was 19 - 23. 

Ari grabbed a video of the moment:

We definitely gave it our best shot .... *cough* ... at any rate, it's always a transporting moment when Amanda lifts her voice in song.                                      

 

Listen to "Push Can Turn and Shove"

©  Ron Schulz    

Well, here we are again my friend,

same secluded table, same unhappy ending

Where do we go from here?

Should I just forget your name;

tell myself that it is all in the game, forget where we've come from, 

and how we got where we are?

Your individuality

compares with nothing short of insecurity

I know for I've been there before

The loveless little lies you tell

I realize now that I didn't know you well

Perhaps it was the novelty 

that made me see what I saw in you

   Or could it have been the way I feel

   A macrame of simple words and strong ideals

   Oh how was I to know that

    you would steal away the very heart of me

Now that we've nothing to conceal

And everything has been revealed

for the sake of my soul, now can't you be real

A lost and lonely lovers' tears

A fast escape from all my fears

Now I'm looking to find you again

You say you'll never marry though

the need for something safe and so secure will show

that you're not immune to the sadness that loneliness can bring

And in a couple years from now

these carefree time will take a bow 

And you'll find yourself

Alone like a book on a shelf

   Could it have been the way I feel

   A macrame of simple words and strong ideals 

   Oh how was I to know that

   you would steal away the very heart of me

And just like push can turn and shove

These tables could be turned on you someday my love

Imagine yourself left lost and so all alone

New Blog Subject: Tracking cancellation of LGBTQIA designation

I recently found this vlog channel on Youtube "Gay USA" on the Free Speech channel. It's important for my purposes to document the decline in support for non-heteronormative manners of being human. 

List of topics discussed: 

The National Park Service erases trans and queer people from their Stonewall National Monument website. We fight back.

Demonstrations against the Trump/Musk dictatorship from coast to coast on President’s Day

Kennedy Center under Trump cancels LGBTQ events. Protests ensue.

Trump Ed. Dept. hates women in sports—not just trans women.

The gruesome murder of trans man Sam Nordquist, 24, in upstate NY. Five arrested.

The killer of trans performer Lorena Xtravaganza in 2012 was apprehended.

Openly gay Imam Muhsin Hendricks assassinated.

ACT UP stalwart Gerri Wells has died.