On June 25th, 2021 was the start of an uncomfortable year. It started in the master bedroom, and then eventually, the whole house was "infected." Everyone in the family of four is losing sleep because this so-called bug is giving us itches. Someone said that it will pass, but it's not- I do not know what is going on, but every something lands lands on our skin, we itch, and it is unbearable sometimes. 5 other people I know have the same problem and I am at wit's end because up until now, I don't know what this is. This thing is invisible, we went to see vector control agencies and they have not helped us; also went to doctors online to hopefully get answers, but no luck. I have been using Permethrin, an ultrasound contraption, and I've been showering everyday twice. It is very frustrating that sting it keeps itching despite we've been smoking the house, spraying with alcohol, using incense, and many other method, but nothing is done. Is there anyone else with this problem? I live in the Bay Area in Alameda County. We have no pets, and we have air purifiers and scrubbers, but they don't help. Can someone identify what is going on here if you live in the Bay Area, or anywhere in California that has these weird "bugs"?
How random life can be...
Random thoughts from an educated accountant that is going through life as a job searcher, a furry and a family caretaker. It can be bollocks, but it can be educational. NO TROLLS & NO EXTREMISTS, PLEASE.
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Scammer List- keep tuning back for more...
" If you are going on Skype, you will have to look out for a screenname that is a pretender and will try to scam you out of house and home- he once was trying to be HR of CNO Financial Groups (There is no "S") which does not exist, and I was victim to his trickery and lies. He robbed $5000 from me. Now he's an Intuit representative when I wrote this blog. Watch carefully for his screenname. He may change it, but if he has not, look for this: "live:hr.robertholmes1994" on Skype. But whatever you do, NEVER use gift cards to believe that you will work remotely. Look for suspicious checks that come from a FedEX or UPS envelope and also, I recommend to not use online billpay-go to the bank to see if the check is a valid one.
There is another scammer that you will have to look out for: ashleybeckley@mediacombb.net
Now if you are a furry/anthromorphic fan and you ever go to FurAffinity, do be careful-you will see a scammer on there whose e-mail is: Rinarin.fox@gmail.com (It is "FoxyKit") on FA.
Scammers like these should be tracked and put to jail as soon as possible if you are able to get as much info as you can about the user!!
Saturday, January 23, 2021
We get to finally breathe better
Thursday, January 7, 2021
An infamous Epiphany...
Monday, December 21, 2020
Belly fur, reptilian/amphibian bellies and bird bellies
I have a few acceptable hypotheses:
From what I learned in physiology and genetics, places tend to get darker when exposed to the sun a lot more than usual. For four-legged creatures, they almost always have their backs toward the sun and whereby have defensive mechanisms to defend itself from skin damage- in the skin, there is keratin (in some species) and melanin to shield harmful UV rays away from the skin. The mammalian fur being made is done under the influence of this and is darker. The scales for the reptiles, some fish and amphibians would copy this behavior. The animal's integument (skin, nails, fur, scales) will cause its protection from the sun, wind and tempaerature- to put the body into homeostasis. Of course, the rare exception are those that want to trap hear in the belly area in such cold areas-an example 8s the cute red panda.
The belly is a different color in most cases because of the suns rays not reaching them. Terrestrial animals and birds are more prone to lie down on their bellies; in the case of birds, you will see the belly of the smaller ones profoundly because of a larger surface area by percentage since their legs are smaller and their belly is rounder than the larger ones.
Sunday, December 20, 2020
History- We're repeating it now thanks to COVID!
It can come to show that me going to 4 universities may not be a waste of time- After seeing CNN's Special Report- Pandemic: How a Virus Changed the World in 1918, I have discovered a lot of things not covered about the Spanish flu in the classes I took. I was a bio major, and I could not understand that COVID was covered very lightly. Chabot College, Universities of Wisconsin-Madison, Kentucky and San Jose State did not cover it! It has been touched very lightly in Hayward High School as Woodrow Wilson possibly caught it and was the stemming of the rise of the Nazis, but if he were healthy, then World War 2 wouldn't have came to fruition.
Ugh, what we are doing now is a repeat of what is going on back in 1918. I will bet that whoever has been protesting against the masks back then are descendants of those who are protesting them now. We can't let germs really change history nor affect the future of the world. Though it is good that pollution has dipped a good 15% now that many places are putting in stay-at-home restrictions, the tough reality is that we can't really progress either. It is a double-edged sword though, as environmentalists can have ways to make factories, cars and even farming be less polluting. Is it that our ignorance and downplay of the Spanish flu in the past and more emphasis on winning the war and setting a treaty in ending it be at all good in some way? One can say ignorance is bliss-well, blissful for nature as there is less activity, but controversially, some deaths in the world to make nature have some chance to get better.
Teachers have some limitations to teaching, and it would be on our own after we're educated to see what is important to our lives. Humans will learn better if something drastic were to occur, and since COVID is here, I would say that we could blame some historians and publishers for not including microbiological events that would change history. It is all about human-human relations in history they stress, but they should also include something from biology as well-certainly, deaths in a war are not just from killing and injury, but also illness-even if one is whole.
I can give blame to the places of higher education that they were not focusing on germ warfare enough-whether or not one will go to STEM or be a historian, one will have to learn a bit of biological history as well that has gone through the years-it is not just The Black Death (bubonic plague) we have to learn, it is the Spanish flu pandemic we should also see. Now, many years from now, there will be another pandemic, and it should be clear that in humankind when there are 3 instances of pandemic, scientists, medicine personnel, historians, anthropologists, psychiatrists and sociologists should look in these events deeply so that they should be ready to act and have everyone get ready to handle another pandemic and treat it seriously so that the health and the country's(ies') economies will not suffer.