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luscious_purple | Holy moley, it's been a while!

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Here's what I posted to Dreamwidth last night:

https://luscious-purple.dreamwidth.org/280088.html

The subject line will make more sense once you read the entry.

My goodness, once again we have an Executive Branch with people who know what they are doing. Of course, the previous crew left SUCH a mess.

I'm getting really eager to get a covid-19 vaccine, even though I am not yet eligible for one. I've managed to avoid the coronavirus for THIS long and don't want to catch it at the tail end of the pandemic. ( Read more... )

I had a short-article deadline of noon today. I got that puppy done with plenty of time to spare. No way was I going to miss the festivities!

Over breakfast I saw He Who Must Not Be Named Here Again give his "farewell speech." One last chance to spew the Big Lie. With a soundtrack ranging from "Gloria" to "YMCA" to "My Way." Could he have gotten any ( Read more... )

So ... what have I been doing with the rest of my life, the part that isn't constantly doomscrolling about politics?

(Doomscrolling ... another word that has entered the language in the past year or so.)

The boy toy and I are still in good health. Although neither of us has been tested for covid-19, I don't think we have it. Certainly we have had no ( Read more... )

Since millions of words have been written elsewhere about the attempted coup (insurrection, riot, domestic terrorism incident, etc.) of January 6, I won't bother repeating them. You know the story. Last Wednesday, the 13th, was the 24th anniversary of my mother's funeral, and I am quite sure she would have been amazed that a president who in her ( Read more... )

I already figured that things would be tense on Capitol Hill this afternoon because of all the planned objections to the certification of the electoral votes, which should have taken no more than half an hour. But Despicable Trump rallied his storm troops at Lafayette Park and they subsequently forced their way into the Capitol and let loose the ( Read more... )

The 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 ( Read more... )

Hoo boy. It's been a week.

The election went down as predicted in some ways and not as predicted in other ways. There was indeed a "red mirage" as the initial count reflected the in-person vote count and then the totals inched toward the blue region as the mail-in ballots were tallied. So scary and worrisome.

Finally, yesterday, we who are on the ( Read more... )