A few hiccups’ and we are off ploding slowly down the lane in the winter sunshine and as usual chaos reigns in world affairs. The usual aches and pains kick off which is of course no surprise.
It’s tiring though at a very tiring time of year. I ordered some new glasses as my prescription has changed very slightly but managed to mess it up. Fortunately the online checking system caught the error. I had put a plus instead of minus sign next to one figure, but all is well now we hope. I was able to correct the error via an online advisor. I will find out in a week or so if all is well.. amazingly a day later they have arrived and are fine.
And here is this week’s musical offering 🎶
I have been thinking I should get more into video to help promote my music, a few little experiments with AI have been fun but I think I need a green screen and have now ordered one. It was not expensive so a low risk experiment really. A friend has one and uses it to great advantage so that might be the way to go to make things a bit more interesting.
I have got into a dreadful mood today for no particular reason at all. Winter crap kicking in I suppose to be honest. Its always a fight this time of year for me. I just need to avoid getting a little unhinged from too much of my own company which seems to be the problem at the time of writing. I have just finished a recording. It might be complete crap. Who knows? I have let it loose upon the unsuspecting world to do its worst.
Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, was killed when an ICE agent shot into her vehicle during an encounter Wednesday morning.
The shooting took place on a snow-lined street where an ICE vehicle had gotten stuck, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. A “mob of agitators that were harassing them,” blocked them in and attempted to impede their efforts, Noem said.
One of those vehicles was being driven by the victim, who proceeded to “weaponize her vehicle” in an attempt to run over an officer before he opened fire, Noem said.
While Noem defended the agent’s actions, state and local officials strongly disputed claims that the shooting – which was caught on video – was done in self-defense.
The shooting has spiked already-heightened tensions in Minneapolis, where around 2,000 federal agents were deployed this week as part of the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown. The deployment came on the heels of accusations of welfare fraud in the Somali immigrant community raised by a conservative content creator on YouTube.
Good lived in the Twin Cities with her partner, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported citing her mother, Donna Ganger.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” Ganger told the newspaper. “She was extremely compassionate.”
“She’s taken care of people all her life,” Ganger added. “She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
Good was a mother to a 6-year-old child whose father died in 2023, according to the Star Tribune. “There’s nobody else in his life,” the child’s grandfather told the newspaper.
Good spent most of her life in Colorado and briefly moved to Kansas to live with her parents for a time after her husband – a military veteran – died, her father Tim Ganger told The Washington Post.
“She had a good life, but a hard life,” Tim Ganger told the Post. “She was a wonderful person.”
Speaking to CNN affiliate KMGH, Good’s uncle Robert Ganger, said news of his niece’s passing was especially difficult for the family since Good’s older sister was celebrating her birthday on Wednesday.
Born in Colorado, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, was a mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota, according to the Associated Press.
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for friends.