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I’m on the last day of my Christmas extended weekend so I thought I would try to recap the happenings for the 2020 version of the holiday.  Our Christmas Eve was on the quiet side.  We had a nice visit from Katie and DJ for a few hours but the lack of a traditional family get together was something I found myself missing.  Instead I spent a good portion of the day just working on a bunch of small tasks.

I was first to arise Christmas morning.  I headed outside first thing to say hi to the hens and give them a few extra snacks as their Christmas treat as I cleaned the coop.  I then walked up front with the intent of turning on all the blow up decorations since it was Christmas.  I found stuff blown all over the place from the wind associated with the cold front that was blowing in.  I put the stuff back and tried blowing them up but shut it down shortly thereafter, it was just too windy.

By the time I came back inside Cindy was up and doing some prep for the food she was preparing.  We probably didn’t actually start present opening until after 8AM which is way late by 1999 standards but pretty normal in present day old man reality.  Usually I put codes on Cindy’s presents that help me prioritize and sort the opening process as of course you want to save the best presents for last.  This year everything was code free.  Although there were still a lot of presents, there wasn’t one ore two BIG ones so I was ok going codeless, especially since Cindy finds my coding practice annoying for some reason.

Cindy seemed to like what I got her, a number of the items were to help with some of her issues with pain, like vibrating gloves, hand heat pad, electric acupuncture/tens device and a few other items.  I got cool stuff too like a cordless angle grinder, a cool WoW book, clothes, and gadgets.  After opening the first round of clean up commenced as we had equal if not more presents for Katie and DJ when they arrived.

I got most of my family calls done in the morning.  I was happy to hear that my niece and nephew were very excited for the 3D printer I got them.  They wasted no time getting it set up.  During my call to Todd I found out they gave my other niece the dream Christmas gift of a car.

The real fun started when DJ and the kids came over.  DJ didn’t quite get the concept of opening presents yet, he preferred to sit on the unopened boxes while we opened up the presents for him more or less.  He of course got lots of cool toys but his favorite oddly enough seemed to be an electric toothbrush that he carried around with him the rest of the morning.  They headed out  a little after noon with plans to come back later to enjoy the ridiculous amount of food Cindy had prepared.

I actually made a Dunkin Donuts run in the morning, I read online they were open.  I was bummed when I pulled up to our normal location and saw they were closed.  However I didn’t give up and headed to the next closest DD a few miles away which was actually open.  I was grateful that their staff was in there on Christmas morning, grateful enough that I threw a $20 bill in the tip can.

During the afternoon I had more time to get stuff sorted out.  It went well enough that I had some time to mess around more with the mixed reality testing I have been doing with the Quest 2.  I had my green screen set up in the great room which surely looked silly.  The output is getting better but still not close to where I want it.

When the kids came back close to 5 we dug into the food in earnest.  It’s one of those love/hate relationships.  You love eating the food but hate how you feel afterward.  I can’t wait to get back to some cleaner eating.  It had been quite chilly all day with temps barely reaching 60 degrees.  I did not realize that Katie and Daniel still wanted to ride wheels, I thought it would be way too cold for them.  However they said they were down for it so I certainly wasn’t going to be the party pooper.  I threw on a few layers of clothing and rode my Sherman to the school where I met them.

By the time we started the temps had dropped into the mid-50s.  It was cold, very cold.  Despite all three of us being chilled to the bone we rode almost the entire Waterways development, taking in the dozens of Christmas displays.  It was fun to say we did it, despite the conditions.

Later Cindy and I sat down to watch Wonder Woman 1984 which was being released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max.  We both were looking forward to the movie, we liked the first Wonder Woman movie and expected the same this time.  The movie started out ok but I felt it got real dumb, real quick as time went on.  All of a sudden Wonder Woman had all of these Superman level powers that I had no knowledge of.  The plot was just weak and the villlian(s) silly IMO.  Sadly I can only give it a B.  It was just another example of DC super hero movies being the ugly stepchild of Marvel films.

Saturday was again quite chilly.  We picked up Sadie for a quick weekend visit while running errands.  I spent most of the day just working on small tasks with a lot of them being in the hobby room.  I had a couple printers to work on, stands to build and just some general clean up.  I’m sure I did more than that but any other details are escaping me at this time.

Yesterday I felt the post Christmas letdown in full force.  It was combined with an impending full moon and a dreadful Eagles loss to the Cowboys to make for a bad mood filled day.  My big project for the day was adding RGB lights to my Sherman.  It was a relatively easy project which adds a lot of visual flair to the wheel.

So earlier in the day I received a “present” I bought for myself.  It was an impulse buy, a 3D scanner.  In theory it allows you to scan small objects and create 3D models out of them which you can print.  This was an expensive impulse buy of over $700 which I felt somewhat guilty about.  I hoped once I set it up and saw how well it worked the guilt would melt away as I thought I may be able to use it in my 3D store to create items that would be difficult otherwise.  The set up of the scanner was easy and my test scan of the included rubber duck went ok.  However as I tried to scan other objects I was not impressed at all.

Every object I tried was messy and unusable.  There all sorts of issues when scanning, the object can’t be too big, too shiny, and the room lighting is very touchy.  I tried about a half a dozen scans  with no acceptable results.  Obviously this only worsened the guilt I had about spending that much money on something that under performs.  I decided to relieve the guilt by boxing up the scanner and returning it.  Luckily Amazon makes it pretty easy to reverse impulse buys.  This experience added to the bad mood that was already in full swing.

That Eagles game was terrible, for many reasons.  Despite playing lousy this season they still had a chance to make the playoffs if they beat the Cowboys and the Redskins, as long as the Redskins lost yesterday, which they did.  They had everything lined up, all they had to do was win their game.  The team started out strong, jumping out to a 14-3 lead.  However suddenly the wheels came off and they got blown out by a final score of 37-17.  It was embarrassing.

The Cowboys had the WORST defense in the NFL, allowing 30 points per game on average.  After those two quick scores the Eagles were just bungling idiots, not making plays and committing penalties left and right.  The defense was atrocious.  It seems for the last 5 years we have said that the Eagles secondary is terrible and for some reason they just can’t fix it.  They got absolutely taken apart by Andy Dalton. It was a very hard game to watch.

I just felt terrible not just because of what was happening on the field but also what was happening off the field.  To see the franchise QB holding a clipboard while trying to be a cheerleader is just depressing.  Jalen Hurts did not impress nearly as much yesterday so that may further muddy the water in regards to who the future Eagles QB is.  I feel bad for Doug Pederson, I really like the guy but man he has seemed frustrated this year.  I hope they keep Doug around. And WTF happened to Zach Ertz? He is like a ghost in the offense now, I don’t get it.

The injuries this team had this year is off the charts, I think many teams have had similar issues, likely due to the impact of covid on normal off season/ pre-season practice and training.  However the Eagles clearly were banking on some players with a long history of injury, I think that was the fatal flaw with this team.  Jason Peters, Deshaun Jackson, Lane Johnson, Alshon Jeffrey, and more are old by NFL standards and unable to be counted on, yet they did.

So do I think Carson deserves to be the QB?  Well I can’t give you a strong answer either way.  He at times has played very well but the one damning thing about him, his bottom line win-loss record is not great.  He is basically a .500 QB.  They flashed a stat that since he was in the league his record is something like 35-33, not impressive for sure.  Do I think a QB like Hurts has a chance for a long and productive career in the NFL?  Probably not, running QB’s like him have a lifespan closer to a running back than normal QB’s, just ask Cam Newton about that. It was a sad way to end the Eagles season, even though they have one game remaining.  Everyone is focused on what happens next as what they have now is clearly not working.

Today I plan to cruise around the house doing whatever I feel like attending to.  It works for me.

Today marks my last work day prior to a nice fat five day Christmas weekend.  I’m looking forward to it for both normal holiday enjoyment and an opportunity to get stuff done as well.  I have no less than four printers sitting in the hobby room that are currently in need of repair and three EUC projects I have ready to roll.  I also have Cindy’s old pc waiting to have some additional hardware installed so I can make it my Quest 2 streaming system.  When you add in whatever stuff I get to play with from Christmas, I will have an action packed 5 days for sure.

I have seen a number of people talking about a very real problem our country is going to be facing now that the election is over, how to deprogram Trump cult members.  Now to be clear just because you voted for Trump does not mean you are one of his cultists.  You are a member of that group if you still have Trump election signs in your yard, posters of Sydney Powell on your wall, and find yourself waking up in the middle of the night screaming “RELEASE THE KRAKEN!”  If you still are participating in the charade lead by the Grand Puppeteer himself, President Big League, there is a pretty good chance you can count yourself in as a cultist.  So the question is, how does society manage to rehabilitate you?

No speech is going to get the job done, only actions.  The non-cult members of society need to press forward with greater good principals that ideally result in better living conditions for all.  It will not happen easily or quickly and for some cult members, there will truly be no hope as they will wear their MAGA hats to their graves. The brainwashing that has occurred is not something new in human history.  TV preachers have demonstrated it’s power for decades as they cultivate fear and money from their blind congregation.  This is just the first time a US president has been able to utilize those same tactics in an effective manner on the general populace, hopefully it is also the last.

So Congress passed a bloated 5500 page plus Covid relief bill.  The main headline that gets blasted out to the public is $600 direct payment checks!  It’s pretty crazy that out of a bill that is longer than an encyclopedia, they are able to summarize it in one sentence.  Well of course that is what works in today’s society, catchy headlines, memes, and one sentence explanations that play favor with ADD ridden, dumbed down Americans.

Let’s first deal with the “highlight”, the $600 to people making less than 75k.  It is a pittance that is unlikely to make much difference in anyone’s life that has been derailed by covid.  When you compare the covid support the US government has provided compared to other modern nations it is unreal.  Just north of the border qualified Canadians have been getting $2000 A MONTH since the pandemic started.  Many EU countries have offered similar levels of support for their population. So for the US, the richest country in the world and the biggest covid bungling as well to offer a total of $1800 in direct support over the course of 9 months is a joke.

So once you get past the anger over the lump sum numbers you can start getting really pissed off when you look at the details of the relief package.  In much the same format as the initial “stimulus”  the bill is filled with pork belly political favors for countless corporations/countries that have absolutely no benefit to Americans.  My favorite is a new exemption for corporate executives allowing them to fully deduct their meal expenses. The 5500 pages is filled with similar nonsense.

Now if you know anything about modern day congressional legislation you know this practice is commonplace.  They constantly throw these riders onto bills that have no connection to the original intent.  They are quite simply paying off obligations congress has to the lobbyist army that truly controls American politics.  If you ever have a chance to look at the details of this stimulus bill or any other legislation passed by congress I guarantee you will get very angry, very quickly.  It’s a broken system that has no chance of ever being fixed as long as the people that benefit from it’s corruption are the same ones responsible for changing the system.

I hope you and your family have a great Christmas holiday.  I’ll try to drop an entry in here before next week but no promises can be made.  Unlike congress I prefer to under promise and over deliver.

You may recall last week that I had an incident where I made a smart ass video in response to someone that made negative commentary on my stands on FB.  I don’t mind criticism, I didn’t appreciate that instead of telling me of any issue he had so I could address it he thought it best to just throw it out on social media.  My video of me standing on one of my stands clearly demonstrated that they are able to withstand high amounts of weight applied in a vertical manner.

However I have always been aware that the stands are much less tolerant of horizontal forces being applied to them, for example if someone isn’t careful and doesn’t get the wheel in over the pedal hangers, allowing it to fall in between supports like a wood splitting wedge.  I had this very scenario happen to me when I was shooting one of my videos this weekend. I was doing stuff exerting side pressure on a stand, causing one of the side supports to snap at the section above the bolt holes.  If a stand breaks, that is normally where it will happen.

So despite my sarcastic reaction to the criticism last week, I decided to address it. The top picture is the new version and the bottom is what I have been using.  I tweaked the model to add much more material around that vulnerable lower section which should make it considerably more resistant to breaking.  It adds a bit to the print time but not in a major fashion.  I did my first test print of the model overnight and it turned out well.  I actually sort of prefer the new design, it balances out the visual better.  I plan to swap over to this design exclusively but I have 12-15 of the old style I need to unload first.

The last few days before Christmas are actually my favorite time of the holiday season.  The anticipation is at it’s paramount level and I have several days off to look forward to ahead of me.  Although of course I still like receiving gifts the vast majority of my enjoyment for many years has come from giving gifts to my loved ones.  With DJ getting older and more aware of what’s what it should only add to that enjoyment.

The forecast for Christmas Day is going to be a first for me in Florida.  It is supposed to be legit cold here with highs not getting out of the 50’s during the day.  It’s the closest thing to a White Christmas I have ever had since moving to a tropical climate.

I had good weekend, the last one prior to this year’s Christmas holiday.  I did miss the 3 days off that I treated myself to the last couple weekends.  On Saturday I decided to get on the tractor to mow the yard.  Overall the growth was minimal but it was looking a little shaggy and I wanted things to both look nice for Christmas and also for me to not have to mow Christmas weekend.

So I have documented my battles with palm rats on our property for a long time.  I have tried numerous things to get them to move on like putting all the food away at night, using minty spray that they don’t like, various sonic repellers, and a few other things, all of which have proven ineffective.  I have not chosen to go the lethal route of using glue traps, poison, or spring loaded traps because despite the great annoyance and destruction they cause me, I hate killing other living creatures.

The only success I have had is using baited live traps.  In total I have probably caught at least 10 this way.  After I catch them we go on a short car ride where I release them into a remote wooded area.  Lately even that hasn’t been working well as the palm rats seem to have realized going into one of these traps is a one way ticket.  Not only do they hang out around the chicken area, they also like the large shed.

I actually ran power to the shed just so I could run sonic repellers in there.  I could hardly believe it when the other day I saw that one of the rats had started gnawing away at the insulation of the extension cord.  I’m not sure if it was smart enough to realize the cord was what was supplying power to the sonic devices but at this point I don’t rule it out.

I recently added a new tool to the arsenal an ultra-repeller.  Not only does it emit high frequency sounds that annoy rodents, it also has strobing LED lights AND prerecorded predator sounds that it plays on a cycle.  Unfortunately the predator sounds were scaring the chickens too so I turned those off.

We bought a metal trashcan that we use in the coop to hold all the food items as metal is immune to their gnawing little teeth.  Well somehow the rats have been able to do quick hit and run missions during the day.  They jump down inside the can and have gotten into some of the treats we have in bags. What is head scratching is how exactly they get out from the bottom of the metal trash can.  You would think the walls are far too slippery for them to climb out so palm rats must have incredible vertical leap abilities. I did manage to catch one of them in the large shed Saturday night.  I was wondering if perhaps I need to paint the trap just so it looks different.  This conflict has no foreseeable end in sight.

Saturday night Cindy and I saw “The Art of Racing in the Rain”.  By the title you wouldn’t know it but it is a dog story movie, something I would never consider watching in a theater because of the probable emotional reaction I will have to it.  This movie was no different.  Despite the tears it invoked and the rather depressing overall plot I thought it was really well done an A flick for me.

On Sunday Katie and DJ came over for a good chunk of the day which is always fun.  I also did a pedal upgrade on the Veteran Sherman followed by a test ride to Walgreens to pick up some business cards we made for Cindy’s new plant decor gig.  The ride was fast, stable, and fun.  I really do love my new wheel.

The Eagles had another late afternoon game, this time against the Cardinals.  Like most Eagles fans I was anxious to see if Jalen Hurts strong performance in his first start last week was a fluke or  the real deal.  Well despite losing the game, I think it is looking more and more like the latter.  The injuries on the Eagles roster are absolutely ridiculous.  On Sunday they were missing three of their starters in the secondary.  I had never heard of most of the guys that were out there playing.  The end result was the Arizona QB putting up huge numbers, throwing for over 400 yards.

However despite the defense rolling over and the Eagles being down 16-0 early, Hurts was almost able to force a tie at the end of the game.  He threw for three TD’s and ran for another.  The biggest and clearest difference is even with a rag tag offensive line Hurts is able to make plays on his own by either scrambling out of trouble or running with the ball.  Wentz just does not have that ability to take over a game himself.

Despite seeming good natured and supportive on the sidelines I knew how this must be killing Carson Wentz who just last year was seen as the QB of this team for the next 10 years.  I recall expressing doubt about Carson’s ability to perform under pressure last season and he promptly had a string of games to close out the season where he did just that, brought the team back in must win games to get into the playoffs.  I thought it meant great things for this year to see him finally play that way.

So when he struggled so badly this year it was frustrating to watch.  Repeatedly he would make bad decisions, make poor throws, turn the ball over and just hold on to it too damn long, taking tons of sacks.  He definitely has had reasons outside of his control, the injuries on the team this year are ridiculous with the two top wide receivers being gone, the offensive line being decimated, and his number one guy Zac Ertz going down as well.  Carson has faced a lot of obstacles to success this year, that can’t be denied.

However this is the NFL and winning is all that ultimately matters, not excuses.  Hurts has shown that even with a battered roster he can make plays.  If the team was healthy and had their starters in place maybe Wentz would have never struggled as he has.   We will never know but at this point if Hurts continues to impress there is a good chance that the Carson Wentz era in Philly is done, if they can find some way to unload his MASSIVE contract extension.

I get to enjoy a quick three day work week followed by a nice five day break, I can’t wait.

It’s hard to imagine that we are only a week out from Christmas already.  Last night on the way home I picked up what should be my last gifts but I have a hard time not grabbing a few more things right up until Christmas Eve.  Last night I threw together a quick video of our ride in Victoria Park Wednesday night which I captured on my Iphone.

This weekend unfortunately is the conventional 2 day variety for me although I did take the following Monday off to extend my Christmas holiday.  We don’t have big plans for the weekend, instead I envision something similar to last weekend where numerous smaller tasks and activities will fill up the 48 hours.

After a normal day of work I headed home for what was a very fun evening celebration.  Cindy was excited to show me the cake she made for me.  She used mom’s chocolate cake recipe but with an amazing addition, a Sherman EUC and gator on top. She did a great job at capturing the detail of both the wheel and the gator.  It’s the effort that Cindy puts into these type of pop up projects that really reflect  the loving person she is.  I appreciate how much she does to make my life special.

After eating a quick dinner we headed to Victoria Park with Katie, DJ and Daniel, we were doing another PEV Xmas ride for my birthday.  We thought that going on a Wednesday evening would be less traffic clogged than if we tried to go closer to the big day itself.  It wasn’t horribly congested but there were still certain streets that were a solid wall of cars.

This was the first year we took DJ with.  Our set up of Cindy pushing him in the stroller while she rides the Minipro works pretty well although DJ got a little squirmy from time to time.  We didn’t ride real long but that was ok, I still had fun regardless and Cindy said she was open to just the two of us coming back to ride again.

By the time I closed my eyes late last night I felt grateful to have people in my life that care about me enough to make my birthday, which is something I really don’t look forward to, fun and memorable anyway.

I have one more pit stop to make for my 2020 Xmas buying spree and then I should be completely done, hopefully.

I totally forgot to mention Sunday’s Eagles game, the first NFL start for Jalen Hurts as Carson Wentz carried a clipboard.  They were playing the Saints, one of the best teams in the NFC so I already assumed the Eagles were going to get beat down, no matter who the QB was.  Instead the Eagles defense came up big while Jalen Hurts and his ability to avoid pressure gave the Saints trouble all game.  At one point the Eagles were up 17-0.  The Saints came back towards the end but the Birds held on for one of the biggest upset wins of the week.

This scenario was Wentz’s worst nightmare. Now Pederson has no choice but to start Hurts again.  If he continues to win there is a real possibility that Carson becomes expendable in Philly which seemed like an impossibility at the beginning of the season.  Without a doubt the huge amount of injuries on the offense negatively impacted Carson but the fact is with that same rag tag offensive line Hurts did not get sacked a single time.  He made quick decisions and ran for over 100 yards.  I don’t care how we win, and Wentz has not equaled winning for awhile now.

So now that the countless legal challenges have failed and the electoral college has made it official Mitch McConnell crawled out from under a rock and officially recognized Joe Biden as the next president.  Big Don on queue immediately attacked Mitch, just as he has anyone that has not been willing to participate in Trumps role playing game where he actually won the election.  The scale of lunacy just keeps expanding daily as the country is forced to endure the antics of a tantruming man-child that has no parent around to give them the spanking they so deserve.  No worries Don, that big smack on the ass hopefully will be coming shortly after you vacate the White House.

Trump continues to farm dollars from his rabid supporters.  All he has to do is say that he won a few hundred more times and they will happily continue to donate dollars to the biggest conman of my adult life.  I feel badly for them and truly hope that somehow they manage to find their way back from the black slime covered well of hate, lies, brain washing, and self promotion that has been the foundation of the Trump presidency.  He has truly damaged the core of our country for generations to come.

So our governor, one of those hardcore Trump supporters, has steadfastly refused to reexamine some restrictions based on the covid 19 numbers rapidly escalating everywhere.    When the pandemic first started he seemed more willing to act based on data. That willingness has evaporated as he is too fearful of angering the Trump voters in the state.  When you look around our area you see very casual adherence to what is now well established precautions to minimize spread of covid.  You see social events popping up more and more regularly with mask usage and distancing haphazardly applied or ignored altogether.  My favorite are the people that wear a mask but do so with it under their nose, like that actually accomplishes anything.

Now I am not a crazed zealot when it comes to covid fear.  I mask up indoors in situations where I am around others for prolonged periods of time but I don’t do it while walking outside.  I make efforts to keep my distance from others but don’t freak out if someone enters my 6 foot bubble. But I still find myself getting very frustrated with people that say “I’m not worried about getting sick so I don’t wear a mask”  How we could be going on 9 months of this shit and have people that don’t actually understand what wearing a mask is about is amazing. It doesn’t prevent you from getting sick, it reduces your ability to get others sick.  We do live in Trump times where ignorance is touted and repeated ad nauseum so I guess I really should not be that surprised. Half measures and token efforts are the reason our country is the world leader in covid failure.

Today is my birthday. 53 years on the planet, I doubt that I have 53 more remaining.

I had a very enjoyable three day weekend overall even though I found ways to load it with more chores than originally planned.  On Saturday it was pretty normal fare, doing chores and running errands in the morning.  During the afternoon I got around to assembling my new printer, the Creality CR6SE.  I ordered this printer via a Kickstarter campaign at the beginning of June and it just now showed up last week.  The long wait ensured I will never order a printer that way again.

The assembly of the printer was very straightforward and took less than an hour, even with me filming the process.  I have had it going non-stop since Friday on stand parts and it has performed flawlessly so far.

On Saturday night Cindy and I watched Papillon, a movie based on a true life story of a French penal colony in the 30’s and 40’s.  It depicted the journey of a couple main characters and their attempts to escape the horrid conditions.  It wasn’t the type of movie I would normally seek out but I found it interesting all the same.  For a human being to survive such torment is amazing. B+

On Sunday I got out for my longest single segment EUC ride ever on my new Veteran Sherman, 47.5 miles.  The ride was not supposed to be that long.  I added almost 15 miles to the trip after doubling back to find the seat that blew off the wheel.  I did eventually find it thankfully.  The wheel is amazing, most of the time I was cruising close to 30MPH and even after riding that far I still had over 30% of my battery remaining.

On Sunday I also decided to get on the tractor and mow the back of the property for hopefully the last time in a few months thanks to dry season.  As I was circling the yard I kept observing the weeds/high grass around the fence line, ditch , and under the solar panels.  I decided to give myself another unplanned task on Monday of weed whacking all of that, which took more than an hour and a half.

On Monday I did a few other things in the 3D hobby room as well as digging into Cindy’s old computer, which was my computer, two computers ago.  I hooked it up to the big TV and reloaded it from scratch to hopefully serve as part of my virtual reality capture set up in the future.  It’s hardware was less than needed for this task.  I threw a video card I pulled from another system in there and I have some memory and a USB 3.0 board coming as well.  The total plan is still being formulated in my mind but I am hoping to do stuff like this, just in a much cleaner manner.

I only have a few gift cards to purchase yet for my Xmas shopping and I should be good to go.  As usual a lot of dollars were spent but I budget for the expense throughout the year so it is less impactful to my bottom line.

Since the election has been over I have been trying to do my best to focus on the opportunity for brighter times ahead sans King Big League and all of idiocy that his presidential dumpster fire tenure has created.  However I still find myself getting sucked back into the pathetic and downright disgusting manipulation he continues to inflict on his brainwashed base.  All of the failed election lawsuits have been nothing more than a smoke screen which has been utilized to wring every last penny possible from Trump lovers in a very Scientology-esque manner.  As long as the narrative is “there is still a chance Trump can win” the dollars keep getting deposited into his “election defense fund” which he can use for whatever the F he wants to use it for.

The thing that also disturbs me today, perhaps even more than it has for the last four years is just how many of my ex-classmates have gotten swept away by this tidal wave of psychological manipulation, hypocrisy, and fraud.  Not a single one of these people have been able to free themselves from the ironclad grip of Trumpism where wrong is right, hate is love, bullying is cool, and greed is good.  The only cure I have found for myself is to release these people from my virtual circle of existence in social media.  Seeing the end results of what Trump has done to them serves no useful purpose in my life, it only incites depression and sadness.  I either drop them completely or just block seeing anything they do.

Well today I discovered I missed one of these individuals and saw he responded to this ridiculous post made by someone with access to Trumps social media.

  Now that the Biden Administration will be a scandal plagued mess for years to come, it is much easier for the Supreme Court of the United States to follow the Constitution and do what everybody knows has to be done. They must show great Courage & Wisdom. Save the USA!!!

This is the same stuff he has been posting for weeks to extend the big lie which continues to make his wallet fatter and fatter.

So anyway this person chose to respond and did so in a manner that made it seem like he thought Big Don would actually read his response out of the more than 200,000 that already did.  It went as follows.

Sir, if the election results are not corrected, and biden assumes the office of President of the United States, could you spearhead an independent watchdog group to oust corruption from our great country?

The hypocrisy, the lunacy, the insanity of not only this person but anyone that insists on playing this charade is representative of just how broken our society is after four years of being ruled by the closest thing to a dictator that our country has ever seen.  The man has done permanent damage to the minds of so many Americans I just don’t see how recovery and healing can ever be achieved.

Getting Trump out was step one but the real end game is winning those two remaining Senate races in Georgia so we can finally remove Mitch McConnell, who is one of the most bought and paid for politicians of my lifetime, out of a position of power.  He has single handedly been holding up the new Covid package because he refuses to move on any bill that does not include a clause to give corporations legal covid immunity so employees are unable to sue an employer if they are knowingly put into risky situations.  Mitch does what he is paid to do by his corporate puppet masters.  He does so in plain sight with no apologies, and we allow him to do so.

It seems that in recent months I have been staying up later and later which is the opposite direction the bell curve normally goes as you descend into old age.  Once again last night I found myself not closing my eyes till around midnight.   With the alarm clock going off daily at 5:55 AM that is not allowing for an optimal amount of sleep.  I historically have been a 7-8 hour kind of guy.  I just find that doing work for the 3D store, playing WoW/Quest games or other random projects just keep pushing me deep into the evening.

This weekend I again have a number of smaller tasks to keep me hopping.  I’d like to get Christmas shopping wrapped up, pun intended, besides a few very minor things I can do right up until Christmas Eve.  Next week is my birthday which is something not worthy of celebration in the mind of someone like me that has despised the reality of aging ever since his late 20’s.