We just got back from our trip to New Mexico. We only effectively had four days and that absolutely was not enough time to visit everyone that I wanted to, or to do all of the things that I wanted to. I relished the time I did get to spend there however!

This trip also served as the initial test run of the new Ford Fusion that Sirocco got. It's a ( Read more... )

I have been fully vaccinated for a month and that has brought with it a qualm of sorts. See I'd thought we'd be doing the mask thing at least three-quarters the way into 2021. In addition to giving people a chance to catch up, I'd thought there may be a collective effort to continue mask wearing to decrease the speed at which the virus mutates ( Read more... )

So June 2020 is a very different world than March 2020. I'd been feeling very hopeful as my favorite democratic socialist seemed to be running away with a presidential nomination. I was on the cusp of paying off my credit card debt for the first time in 7 years, I'd just refinanced my house, and was looking forward to finally saving substantial ( Read more... )

BRAINDUMP ( Read more... )

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So I think we've made a pretty big decision recently, my significant other and myself. Plans and talks have been initiated-- we're going to escape move out of the Land of Entrapment within a year and a half. This consideration has not come lightly.

At first when I met the love of my dreams, he ( Read more... )