♫ 2020, 24 Hours To Go… ♫ I should probably be sedated.

As I try to do most years, I break down the year in the form of significant digits. It’s an interesting way of remembering things throughout the year, and I kind of have fun playing around with it. 2020, of course, is 2020, and an exception to most normal things, given this once-in-a-century pandemic. This […]

At the absolute eleventh hour, after a whole big holiday temper tantrum, he finally signed the damned thing, so the government keeps running, and I can relax, at least about that, for a little while. My topical song sold a couple of copies while it remained topical, and it remains out there for your amusement, […]

So, after a couple of “kick the can” extensions, that $900 billion relief package, tied to the omnibus “fund the government” bill, got through both houses of Congress and landed on the President’s desk yesterday. Nobody really liked it; it’s totally insufficient, but that’s what they say compromise looks like, and it would carry us […]

Today is my last scheduled day of work for 2020. I’ve tied up everything I need to apart from one email response from one individual, who’s reply need only consist of “thumbs up*” for me to close the book on this particular item and feel like I’m keeping the project on track. Also, my body […]

Bureaucratic Talking Shutdown Blues (2020) by Chuck Parker So, if you’ve been reading the headlines, you know we’re running up against the end of another continuing resolution to carry the Federal government over the debt ceiling, and if they don’t get something sorted by Friday midnight, a whole bunch of public servants get furloughed….again. I […]

Today inaugurates my last working week of 2020. Thursday afternoon after logging off for the year(!), I shall do the usual run to the pet store to buy cat food, and (assuming further restrictions are not imposed in the meantime and there’s a free table for me to sit down) then visit the Kroger bar […]

Long day yesterday, longer day today, complicated by a bad reaction to dinner last night. Also, head’s clogged up, and I feel numb, like I’m encased in bubble wrap, except without the cool David Gilmour lead guitar lines behind me. As such, I present the following:

It’s Monday in early December, 2020; and the state of the world is decidedly “meh.” As usual. ‘Rona cases are concerningly on the rise, in part because of the colder temperatures, the holidays (we’re about two weeks out from Thanksgiving, after all), and people all over the place still politicizing this thing, denying it, and […]

After I finished work on Friday afternoon, I took a quick drive over to my favored local park to get a little outside time. As my ankle’s still healing up, I wasn’t planning anything particularly strenuous, just a little amble along the marsh and a sit on the bench overlooking the river junction for a […]