Tallahassee Area Mensa
Welcome to the home page of Tallahassee Area Mensa!
Tallahassee Area Mensa a local chapter of the High IQ Society, American Mensa. The Tallahassee
area serves Florida from the Apalachicola River east through Taylor County including part of
Madison County and even a bit of Dixie County. Our area is also the only area in all of Florida,
Region 10 of American Mensa, to include a portion of Georgia. For a full view of the area we
cover, visit our map.
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Robin's Roost - rest your feathers!
Welcome to January and 2025! This year, not for the first time, I wished that the holidays happened after the holidays were over so I would have time to enjoy them. Not sure how that would be accomplished, but it would make for a less frenzied time!
Our year has already been busy, our central heat stopped working so for several days we were relying on space heaters. My repair guy made it out today and he got things working again, just in time for a serious cold snap! Something is very wrong with my right foot and the pain is astonishing. I will see the podiatrist tomorrow afternoon to find out if I have gotten a fracture. We moved forward with our plan to get more storage and horizontal space in the kitchen. We bought 2 new cabinets and a beautiful butcher block top and have spent several days getting things moved around, the cabinets installed, stained, and finished. It looks beautiful! Not surprisingly the chaos of the changes in the kitchen have spilled over into other rooms as well, so the house is in a state of upheaval. I took the tree down and put all of the Christmas stuff away to try and reduce the chaos, but the chaos won't really get settled until the final work is done on the cabinets and things can get put away. I'm looking forward to the extra workspace.
In early December we drove up to Knoxville to meet my sister (who drove down from Ohio) to adopt a dog she was fostering. This brings our little pack back to our preferred 3 pups. And fortunately, they are all different ages, so we likely won't have to endure losing them all one after another. The new addition is 2.5 years old, spayed female, chihuahua/poodle mix. She is SMART and very active. She wears the other two out, which amuses me because they both wore out the older dogs when they came in as youngsters. She is fitting in well and is proving to be a lovely addition to the family. She is very snuggly and affectionate and will happily spend her time on whatever lap is available.
New Year's Eve we were kept awake by the next-door neighbor shooting off fireworks into the wee hours of the morning. This was a first, I've never known them to do that before. My dogs didn't like it, but they didn't lose their minds as some dogs do, and we were eventually able to sleep. I was surprised by the vitriol that I saw on the NextDoor app about fireworks in different areas of town. One person was upset because their neighbor was shooting the fireworks over her house, and she was concerned about them catching her house on fire. Others were upset because they had to get up early for work and couldn't sleep. Others were upset because they are veterans and it triggers their PTSD. What surprised me were the responses to these people who were expressing their frustration and concern. There was very little compassion or empathy, a lot of name calling, and a lot of really nasty responses to them. I don't understand why people would respond to total strangers with such animosity and in some cases cruelty. You don't have to agree with someone, but why join into the discussion for the sole purpose of being hateful? I don't get it.
This year is an election year for our group and it is not too soon to start thinking about if you would like to volunteer to hold an office. We have a wonderful slate of officers, Doug, Ike, and I have been keeping things running for several years now. But if anyone out there would be interested in taking on a more formal role in the running of the group, let us know and we can talk about it.
Hope to see you at Osaka and I hope 2025 brings each of you all good things.
Robin
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