I haven’t sent my family any cards, I haven’t bought my nieces and nephew anything, and I know I’m just being spiteful about it. I keep trying to psych myself up to get the energy to put something in the mail, but it isn’t happening.

FWIW, that doesn’t sound particularly spiteful to me. You’ve hit your damn limit and the milk of human kindness isn’t exactly rushing through your veins at the moment.

Yay awesome doc. And right there with the rest of you. I am so glad it’s the weekend, and then a short week and then a week off!

I’m very sleepy. But have a craving for steak frites so trying to figure out the best place to get them (my first two thoughts are both closed, sad! The third is only offering weird full meals. But I think I found a place. If I have the energy to go get takeout)

Msbelle you’re awesome and already seriously tempted me with a ModCloth dress I have zero need for. But so pretty!

It’s supposed to rain all weekend, which sucks. Especially with the dog still on a bathroom strike when it comes to the yard. Ugh.

My condolences David and sj.

Pix, that has to be hard.

If I didn’t have Petunia, I seriously think I might be dead now. Not kidding. Being single and isolated is crap, although I get that being not single and isolated with the same people is also probably crap. Again, I should be fine- I have a job, I am not so close with my family, but I am not fine. I was offered the chance to go to work and I have been taking it occasionally and those days are my best days.

But we are locking down a bit again, so I don’t know how long it will last.

We have all been asked if we are willing to take the vaccine, and I might have a new project building a sign up for employees to get the vaccine. And those things energize me because ai feel like I am helping.

I'm going to bed an hour early this next week and see if it helps me to start getting up earlier.

I just looked at a Target order I was supposed to get LAST week. I ordered 11/29. Delivery was supposed to be 12/11. It has been sitting in a VA USPS facility for 5 days. DeJoy really f'd them up.

DeJoy, COVID, an increase in holiday mail order due to changed shopping patterns (more online shopping/shipping gifts to people instead of taking them with on a visit, etc.), FedEx and UPS saying, “Sorry, we’re full” to several of their clients (due to COVID and the aforementioned shopping changes) who then turned to the USPS—it’s a perfect storm.

And for once all my cards and all my gifts made it in the mail on time! Who will ever know?

Fed Ex has been shorting is on trailers all year and it’s gotten worse lately. We don’t ship USPS much but volume in general is unbelievable and every phase in the process has delays at this point fir all carriers.

Not to minimize DeJoy’s fuckery, which has been considerable.

Aw, brenda, it’s like an O Henry story.

DeJoy really f'd them up.

They pulled out SO many sorting machines.

I paid $60 for dinner but it was delicious. And now I’m playing zoom trivia and getting drunk. Good times.

I know there are far bigger problems in the world. But if I could get a little health~ma for Amyth’s cat, Javier, please, that would be appreciated. He’s having some GI track issues that are necessitating a trip to the vet, and I’m hoping they’re not symptomatic of anything major. Could be he just needs different food. That would be ideal. And not unlikely. On the other hand, 2020.