My primary concern with Russia is that Putin is going to decide he needs to make a lesson of Ukraine so that any other former Russian territory, as he defines it, who doesn't bow down will know what to expect.

It seems more likely that the oligarchs and military leaders would turn on Putin than the general population that are more likely to only see very filtered media. It is certainly terrifying to think what Putin will do if he feels backed into a corner. The world is a scary place.

Wild card element #3 is that Russia is threatening to use nuclear power, and if cornered Putin will certainly be willing to fire off a nuclear warhead shell in some lesser populated part of Ukraine as a show of force.

If we're lucky its lesser populated. Russia just tramped an army through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on its way to Kyiv. Putin doesn't seem overly concerned with who else he iradiates.

Feeling pretty dark on this point.

In the office. It simultaneously feels like I never left and is completely weird and alien. I'm already tired just from sitting in a different kind of chair for a couple of hours and my keyboard arrangement is all strange. But being around people is much more ok than I expected, so that's nice.

Between my normal work, dealing with the roofers, and the surveyors, I am pulling stuff out of cabinets and taking pictures to inventory what is in what bin so when I want something I can find it without opening 50 bins. SIL is on her way to pack.

Zoom calls from the cubicle are pretty bad. That's all I have to say about that.

I'd like noise-canceling headphones that block out news.

So, news-canceling headphones, then.

That sounds like a goldmine

Unfortunately, just because we don't hear the news doesn't mean that it's not happening. if only ....