Kevin Happy Fri-yay, everyone! Also, Happy Summer Solstice! It’s hard to believe we’re halfway through the year, and also that another week’s come and gone. This can only mean one thing: weekend time’s upon us once again, so it’s time to talk weekend plans. Now that baseball season is back, this is on the list of stuff to do. I ended up catching the first games of the season on the radio, but I like it that way better.
In other news, my birthday came and went, and I saw a doctor for the first time in a long while. My old injury came up, and they prescribed a muscle relaxer that’s made my life hell from one dose, and I spent the week thereafter reaping the consequences of it. I couldn’t function on it, and it didn’t do jack shyt to help anyways, except make everything even worse.
No more. I’m drawing that line. I’m done. Fuck this trash forever. I’ll just go back to what I’ve been doing since the accident and live w/ it, if this is how it’s gonna be for me. I’ve at least found a way to function somewhat normally that way.
Tax season’s come and gone, and I’m glad it’s over. It turned out I owe taxes this year, which I knocked off the list quick. I think it may be time for me to find another job, if this is what the price of admission is gonna be for me. One thing’s for sure, this can’t continue, since this was how it was last year.
Something’s gotta give.
It’s gonna be super hot in my neck of the woods, and since the pool I go to is closed for awhile, I’ll be going to a different one in the meantime.
Anyways, nuff about me. How bout you, readers? What’re your weekend plans? Good, bad, both, neither, it’s cool w/ me. I’d still love to hear all about it, so drop it all like it’s hawt, and let’s get this party started!
To ring in the weekend, I got us some links to talk about, share, what have ya.
I’d love to try this recipe for strawberry danish sometime. Good to know that strawberry preserves or jelly won’t work so great for this, since that’s what I planned on doing at first.
This recipe for matar ka nimona looks like fun to make, too.
Also came across this recipe for tiramisu that doesn’t involve coffee and alcohol. I don’t drink, and also suspect I may either be allergic or have an intolerance to alcohol. Also hate coffee, so I don’t have it in the house anyway.
Although Efecan’s passing isn’t surprising, it’s still tragic on so many levels. The saddest thing of all is that it never had to be this way, and he was only 24 years old to boot. Dude. He had his whole fuckin life ahead of him. Rest in peace, Efecan.
A whole website dedicated to retro/vintage TV. I’ve been listening to the 90s TV lately.
Ways to use up old pillowcases. Now that I got my mom’s old sewing machine fixed, I think I know what I’ll be doing.
How Europe commemorated the 80th anniversary of V-E Day a little over a month ago.
As a heads-up, this link contains details involving crimes against women and children, as well as murder. If anyone out there’s ever gone into rabbit holes about unidentified remains, you probably came across the case of Peaches Doe. Her remains were found in 1997, but her daughter’s remains wouldn’t be found until 2011. We’ve finally found out who she is: none other than Tanya Jackson, and her daughter Tatiana Dykes. Tanya served in the U.S. Army from 1993 to 1995, and was a recently separated Veteran at the time of her disappearance, working in a doctor’s office as a med aide. Rest in peace, Tanya and Tatiana. We’re gonna find out what happened to you, and we’re gonna hold the bastards who did it responsible.
Some cool old pics from about 100 years ago.
Last, but never least, a signal boost for a missing child. The last confirmed sighting of 17-year-old Kimberlin Stodghill of Cleveland, OH was on December 11th 2024. No other info is listed in the poster.
Even though it’s a sad statement, the odds of a child returning home safe diminish the longer they’re missing. However, it’s important to remember that this is the overall trend, and that there are always outliers. There’s always hope. This is why I’m highlighting long-term missing cases, and this time, I’m gonna talk about Alma Violet Root. Alma, who went by her middle name Violet, went missing at the age of 14 years old on January 1st, 1980, from her hometown of Sacramento, CA. According to the poster, she may have been traveling w/ a male companion, and she also had a little blue heart tattoo on her chest. I’m seriously hoping that tattoo was fake, since anyone who’d agree to do a tattoo on someone who isn’t of legal age is beyond sus. Violet was a month away from her 15th birthday, and according to this page about her disappearance, she, alongside her older sister Laura, was a survivor of abuse at the hands of her dad. Both Laura and Violet had histories as runaways in order to get away from him, and they had an older sister who had moved away by the time of Violet’s disappearance. Laura and Violet were sent to foster care, and they were split up into different homes. They kept in touch, and soon, they reunited and went to live w/ their grandma in California just before her disappearance. On New Years Day in 1980, the adult man Violet was involved w/ came to get her from her grandma’s house. I won’t be naming him, nor will I call the dynamic between them a “relationship,” as he was clearly preying on a vulnerable child, and that her involvement w/ him wasn’t a level playing field. He says she wanted to go to her aunt’s house in Rio Linda, and he dropped her off there before he went to work at McClellan AFB. When he returned, she was gone. It’s also worth noting that Violet’s family states that she doesn’t have an aunt in Rio Linda, and that the adult man preying on Violet went on to become a registered secks offender. The fandom page on Violet also mentions an interaction between her sister Laura and the adult man, where he told her that she’d never find her sister. This happened after her disappearance, and I wonder if he knew more about Violet’s disappearance than what he let on.
This year, Violet turned 60 years old. She has family members who are still alive, and they deserve answers. Let’s kick off the summer on a high note, and see what we can do to get Kimberlin and Violet home safe to those who love em, pronto!
