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First post of 2021
Jan. 4th, 2021 10:28 pmThe first few days of the new year haven't been too bad. I started watching The Crown and The Right Stuff and had various pleasant online interactions with friends. I always get a little wistful when taking the Christmas decorations down and putting them away, but that happens every year.
On Saturday I had a "wild encounter" with actual friends -- a rare thing during this pandemic. The boy toy and I were on our way home from an excursion up to Westminster, Md., just to have a change of scenery. On the way home I was driving us down U.S. Route 1 instead of the highway, and I happened to see a red Prius C that reminded me of Patches' car. Then I saw the Kingdom of Atlantia sticker and realized, "Oh, that is her car!" I started beeping and waving to her and Maugorn and Elena/Rose, and finally I was able to exchange a few words with her at a red light, until the signal turned green again.
Yesterday the big news about Trump's criminal phone call broke in the afternoon. No, I haven't listened to the entire audio file; I can't stand to listen to the orange cheeto's whining for that long. The best summation of the whole thing came from Dan Rather on Twitter:
The audio of Trump with the Georgia secretary of state. Wow. It’s like telling the Nixon tapes to “hold my beer.”
(Second place probably goes to Carl Bernstein, who called the current snafu "worse than Watergate." Third place goes to whoever pointed out that it's hard to write laws that cover every instance of bad faith.)
I never thought I'd see the day when conservative columnist George F. Will would call a bunch of Republican senators the "most dangerous domestic enemies" of the Constitution. But, hey, Will says he is not a Republican anymore.
And what will happen tomorrow?
Over and out...
On Saturday I had a "wild encounter" with actual friends -- a rare thing during this pandemic. The boy toy and I were on our way home from an excursion up to Westminster, Md., just to have a change of scenery. On the way home I was driving us down U.S. Route 1 instead of the highway, and I happened to see a red Prius C that reminded me of Patches' car. Then I saw the Kingdom of Atlantia sticker and realized, "Oh, that is her car!" I started beeping and waving to her and Maugorn and Elena/Rose, and finally I was able to exchange a few words with her at a red light, until the signal turned green again.
Yesterday the big news about Trump's criminal phone call broke in the afternoon. No, I haven't listened to the entire audio file; I can't stand to listen to the orange cheeto's whining for that long. The best summation of the whole thing came from Dan Rather on Twitter:
The audio of Trump with the Georgia secretary of state. Wow. It’s like telling the Nixon tapes to “hold my beer.”
(Second place probably goes to Carl Bernstein, who called the current snafu "worse than Watergate." Third place goes to whoever pointed out that it's hard to write laws that cover every instance of bad faith.)
I never thought I'd see the day when conservative columnist George F. Will would call a bunch of Republican senators the "most dangerous domestic enemies" of the Constitution. But, hey, Will says he is not a Republican anymore.
And what will happen tomorrow?
Over and out...
