{"id":32083,"date":"2025-01-07T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=32083"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:04:38","slug":"is-your-muffin-buttered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/is-your-muffin-buttered\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your muffin buttered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to blog. Then I stopped that to have a more professional-looking puzzle site with lots of authors. My brain didn&#8217;t stop having the thoughts I would have blogged. They got put elsewhere or shot off into the void.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely use social media, and almost never now, particularly as the truth is up for consensus decree. I wonder if the world can look not round in those cool RayBans.<\/p>\n<p>But still, I hear there are some doggies that are looking to make the world better through e-fishin&#8217;-c. Here are some ideas if a doggie comes up to you:<\/p>\n<p>1. Make mental health care available across state lines without conditions or at least allow for &#8220;vacations&#8221;. Seriously, if I travel out of state A, I cannot speak to my therapist or psychiatrist from state A unless they are licensed in the state B that I am now physically present in. I&#8217;ll accept that I shouldn&#8217;t have the right to purchase firearms because I&#8217;ve been hospitalized for being bipolar if you&#8217;ll accept that my relationships with my doctors and therapists are the most important in my wellness circle and your laws are in the way of my best care and living a normal 21st century life.<\/p>\n<p>2. Stop sending credit card account requests to my dead mother. It&#8217;s been 7 years, she is not looking for a higher credit limit at the moment, and it just frustrates my dad. She stopped voting over 8 years ago, and maybe that should matter in who gets the credit opportunities from the bank. I&#8217;d raise a request about junk calls too, but the people who set up the companies that make junk calls probably died years ago and it is all AI now. RIP MJ.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, just wanted to share some pleasant thoughts to the 3 people who still read this space. I am doing fine, have refilled my prescriptions with my doctor in one of the two states I go to while preparing for alternate care if I&#8217;m not in the first state I live in as much in 2025. In other words, still vertical when I shouldn&#8217;t be, and reacting to a song on repeat with great lines about college earning &#8220;the big D&#8221; and &#8220;would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?&#8221;. I should be horizontal now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to blog. Then I stopped that to have a more professional-looking puzzle site with lots of authors. My brain didn&#8217;t stop having the thoughts I would have blogged. 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