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10/08/25

_{**Everything in bold is still (now) true**}

Despite the world being a dumpster fire even more so than usual, there are still some things in my life that are going well and that I appreciate very much.

I love my job, I am blessed and lucky to have found it, and even more so that I’ve fit in so well with the other employees and volunteers.

The above is still true.

It’s been a very long time since I’ve updated this page, almost a year, and honestly, not much has changed except the world has gotten crazier, worse, and harder to live in because half the people in this country are dumbasses who voted for Trump.

I don’t care anymore whether I alienate or lose readers and friends. If you voted for Trump, you voted in support of making ten year old girls give birth to their step-father’s rape baby. If you voted for Trump, you voted for a convicted felon and sexual abuser. If you voted for Trump, there is a fundamental difference between us that I cannot get over, accept, or excuse.

Goodbye, Trumplovers.

This world is going to hell in a hand basket.

Have some of your brown friends disappeared? Have you been furloughed because you thought you had a cushy government job? Can you afford gas and groceries as well as all of your other bills?

The Federal government is officially shut down and congress needs five democrats to “cross the aisle” and vote for the shit budget and legislation the republicans are trying to push through.

I said to Bobby this morning, I don’t think it’s going to happen that way. I think Trump is going to just use his tyrannical quasi-powers to say “So it shall be,” and force it through.

Seriously, I really think we have to start considering that we’re not even a full year into his second administration, and I’m afraid he’ll be in power not for three more years, but until he is dead. And then one of his homely, sad sons will step up. Or Elon Musk.

Things are hard with Elise right now. Really hard.

I hope that she is getting enough out of the program she is in, but I need to be more proactive about knowing what’s going on, and I need to be more positive about everything in general.

I am still not writing what I want to be writing.

I am not writing a book, or even experimenting with something that could turn into long-term fiction.

And as much as I love my job, I know that I need to be making a whole lot more money than what my yearly raises might get me.

All of this to say – Things aren’t great right now, but they’re not the worst they’ve ever been.

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