Just realized that I've started to check DU in

[beveeheart]

the middle of the night when I have to get up to pee (I'm 81 yrs old). Definitely didn't need to do that during the Biden years, check DU, that is. Kinda like the poster who asks is he dead yet.

[mgardener]

1. I am checking too.

He scares me!

[LiberalLoner]

2. Me too

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. Me, too.

[woodsprite]

3. I got you beat by 20 yrs and do exactly the same.

DU is my ‘night light’. Due to a kidney stent, that’s about every 2 hrs. 😂

[William Seger]

4. I've been doing that, then not getting back to bed

... while waiting for the "Is he dead yet?" post.

[elocs]

5. I also, but I've had a 2 hour bladder alarm for 50 years now.

In my middle 20s I complained to my doctor about having to pee so often. He did all the tests and somberly came to me and said, "I'm sorry to tell you that you have TB". "TB???" "Yes", he said, "Tiny Bladder". And I've had that diagnosis reconfirmed twice over the decades. Fortunately I easily go right back to sleep at night except when I decide to check DU which fortunately is usually in the early morning than the middle of the night.
Sadly, the news these days is not encouraging.

[beveeheart]

15. Every 2 hours?

I thought every 3 hours was bad. I go to sleep around midnight, wake up close to 3am, and then again around 6am . Never get more than 6 hours of sleep. Sometimes manage to get an hour or so nap mid-afternoon 😴. Sure do miss when I was younger and could sleep the whole night through. When I'm with friends and we're all complaining/comparing
our various health issues, someone will always remind us that the Big Sleep is not that far off.

[elocs]

19. Yep, every 2 hours...eerily, like clockwork but after 50 years of it, I'm used to it.

I normally can go right back to sleep unless I get up and get online.

[Old Crank]

6. I try to stay off media when I get up for that.

I have enough angst over the state of the union that interupts my sleep to get even more wound up.

[Pototan]

8. You may catch some of my posts

I'm retired in the Philippines, so 2:00 PM here is 1:00 AM (EST) on the same day.

I usually sit by the pool for an hour or so during the hottest time of the day thinking of a post and then write it when I come back into the house.

[Magoo48]

9. I figure if he does something stupid, it'll be just as stupid in the morning. I need a little downtime.

Empathy with my fellow 2-hour bladders out there.

[chicago guy]

10. Morning question

My wife is up most mornings before me. I walk from the bedroom and when I start to pour a cup of coffee I ask is he dead yet. This is the beginning of the 5th year asking the same question is he dead, am I a bad person, I really never recall wishing death on anyone before. Well it does not have to be death just let him be GONE

[GusBob]

11. Doom scrolling look it up

It’s an addiction

We are getting played

Try and find some happiness

[RVN VET71]

13. The mottor of the defunct Scanlon's magazine: "You trust your mother, but you cut the cards," comes to mind

So, trust your heart and enjoy life, but keep a cynical eye out for the bastards trying to cheat you out of it.

[beveeheart]

14. Never heard that saying before.

[RVN VET71]

24. Scanlon's was a muck raking magazine in the late 60's early 70's

It was put out of business, literally, by the printer's union in America which was enraged at its reporting on terrorist bombings in the U.S.. The mag printed a map that showed domestic bombings that took place in a short period of time (about 2 years) across the lower 48. I don't know the political leanings of that union, but I strongly suspect that it supported Richard Nixon -- even after the bombing of Cambodia, the Watergate break-in and other of his criminal actions had been exposed.

But I digress. Scanlon's took as its motto the "Trust your mother . . ." apothegm. Some 20 years after the fascist printers refused to print Scanlon's any longer, Sidney Zion, one of Scanlon's editors in its 1970-1971 run, wrote a book titled "Trust Your Mother But cut the Cards."

But the earliest coinage came in 1900, when Finley Peter Dunne published a book -- that preceded Scanlon's use of the term by 70 years -- in which his fictitious character, bartender Martin Dooley is quoted saying "Trust everybody, but cut the cards." (Dunne wrote a humorous and politically satirical column for the Chicago Daily News in the early decades of the 20th century.)

Sorry for getting all Cliff Claven on you, but I thought the story curiously interesting. (I just looked up the magazine's history on the intertubes and found that you can buy the complete run of Scanlon's, all 18 issues for the low, low price of $5,000!)

[nocoincidences]

27. My father warned me when I began joining adult card games....

Your mother is not your mother when she is playing cards, don't trust her!

[RVN VET71]

29. A wide man, your father!

[Alice B.]

12. First thing in the morning... last thing before I go to bed. Spot checks during the day.

[beveeheart]

16. Me too.

[Alice B.]

22. I keep looking here for something positive "to end on" before bed... or before I get off the internet at any time of day

Which usually becomes an unproductive, un-ending cycle.

[milestogo]

17. Me too.

[Solly Mack]

18. Me, too. Breaking news.

[Unwind Your Mind]

20. The latest breaking news column

Fills up in 4-5 hours now. I find myself clicking into the forum and sorting by start time much more often lately to make sure I haven’t missed anything. That’s not normal

[Maru Kitteh]

21. I've been doing the same. Is he dead? Do we need to run?

Those are the two running questions I keep.

[RandomNumbers]

23. Similar but different issue

I *desperately* need to focus on some personal issues in my life currently ... but I am constantly checking the news -- like if I was checking weather reporting ahead of an expected hurricane, only this has been going on for weeks now and who knows how long it will continue.

I know it is terrible for my health and I manage to stop myself sometimes, reminding myself that I'm not one of the ones they're after (unless they are reading my Facebook posts, or reading here, which the latter at least seems unlikely). Then I feel like a shit for being privileged to be able to say that.

I don't know if I will live through this reign of terror. (and yet, I am not - yet at least - even on the target list)

Anyway it has occurred to me on multiple occasions, that I really NEEDED Harris to win, for the sake of my mental health, and frankly even wanting to continue living. I mean, if these shits keep this up for 4 years - or even just 2 - what is going to be left that is worth saving? (I am an Earth/nature buff. It is horrific what they have in mind. A concrete paradise, I guess.)

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

25. I was just about to post this myself, but was too busy

checking the "Latest." Again. Both hoping to see a fatal lightning strike on the golf course was on the right side of history and to learn that some muthafuckin' legal justice has occurred in support of our democracy.

I used to try to convince my husband not to take his phone into the bathroom at all because he always ended up being in there far longer than biologically necessary. He's a FB addict.

Now, it's hard to force myself to leave the phone & the political news alone for more than an hour. This is messing with my emotional well being and with my ability to accomplish many necessary chores, which in turn messes with my emotional well being...
😱

[Ocelot II]

26. Me, too.

I have one of those fitness watches, which I wear all the time, that buzzes when it gets a news alert from my phone. That way I will know right away if that particular event happens, but I check anyhow.

[Permanut]

28. I'm checking more often, too see what's next..

And there's ALWAYS something next.