And it's one of those stupid Windows ones that says "15 minutes remaining...sixty-three years remaning...2 seconds remaining.............15 minutes remaining."

Oh god, it so is

Jim Jordan just spoke and rambled on incoherently about cancel culture and the space race.

.are you camping in a tent in your backyard?

Hahahah no. I have a patio tent thing outside, like people put up for farmers markets or sports sidelines? Because it rains so much here but usually is more sprinkles rather than pouring. But the last tent broke in a storm and I just put the new one up a week or two ago.

2021 is definitely one of those installations that keeps changing how much time is left!! Maybe that’s related to why all week I keep thinking it’s a day later than it is.

I am near a major road and several hospitals and a fire station, so I hear a lot of sirens. There seemed like a lot but I didn’t really notice until my ex roommate texted to say “I heard there was a big fire near you, all ok?” At which point I looked out my window and realized I could see where all those sirens had ended up! (Kitty corner down the block, an abandoned house, no danger here, but I laugh that I didn’t look out the window and notice until she texted!)

Oh, wow, meara! Glad you aren't in danger. That is pretty funny that it took a text to look out your window!

meara, one time we had snow here in San Antonio right outside my window and I didn't realize until I turned on the TV and the local news had a Snow Special on.

Matt Gaetz is a garbage human.

are you camping in a tent in your backyard?

Hahahah no. I have a patio tent thing outside, like people put up for farmers markets or sports sidelines? Because it rains so much here but usually is more sprinkles rather than pouring. But the last tent broke in a storm and I just put the new one up a week or two ago.

Ah, got it!

I just got home from work (at the bakery I have no time to check any news, and rarely even my phone for texts), just like last Wednesday ... so I'm a little reluctant to turn on the TV.

Hugs to all who need/would like them, and yay to good news. That's pretty much all I got. Between work and managing Sara (who will be lucky if she graduates this spring, at this point) and managing my parents wants/needs, I've got shit-all left most days. But at least it's sunny today. It's been so relentlessly gray for more than a week, I was going a little nuts.

Got my pre-travel COVID test. no lines, straight in basically.

Now home and getting in comfy clothes for the rest of the day of plowing through emails and writing up step by step directions for everything I do.

I'm in a meeting that could not have been an email but that I don't need to be in. And yet I can't leave.