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([personal profile] tracker7 Jan. 26th, 2026 05:12 pm)
Last week, we were all watching the weather forecast. A monster of a winter storm was predicted, snow in the 12-18 inch range. On Thursday, employer announced that offices would be closed today and tomorrow - Monday and Tuesday. Us outpatient providers were expected to work from home or use PTO, and I think my entire team opted for the former. Praise dog for online training courses and calls to clients and the like. Anyway, the storm was kind of a fizzle, with snowfall in my part of the city coming to about eight inches. Still enough to keep me inside and to cause plenty of chaos.

It didn't cause me any real drama. I'd already blown off the weekend con, and frankly I didn't miss it at all. Spent Friday evening with The Friend From Work and that was a delight. Read some on Saturday and Sunday, looked over Mage 20 because I'm going to try a session of that at SYR after the Super Bowl. Rather good weekend, really, for me.

ICE murdered another person in Minnesota. An ICU nurse, legal and registered gun owner who was carrying at a demonstration. He got between ICE thugs and a woman they had pepper-sprayed, and ... well, they straight-up killed him. There is finally some pushback happening, and while it's too late for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, I'll take it. And will hope for more and do what little I can.

In lighter news, the Super Bowl is set. I'm not too excited about a Patriots-Seahawks match, but such is football. There's drama around non-game stuff, of course. Bad Bunny, who I honestly don't know from Adam, is the halftime performer, and because he's Puerto Rican and therefore not their kind of American, TFP are all up in arms. To further wind 'em up, Green Day is performing before the game. I never had a lot of room for Green Day, but I'll almost certainly have their show on while I'm cooking and otherwise prepping for the game.

WFH was nice today. I'm going to dig out my car tomorrow afternoon and make one FtF visit if I feel safe doing so. I still don't think that I'd like a compete WFH job, but a couple of days a week not facing the commuter crawl is appealing.
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([personal profile] tracker7 Jan. 19th, 2026 07:21 pm)
Bought a new phone Friday, an iPhone 16. Very nice pocket computer. Didn't mean it to happen that way, but it was a day shy of the 17th anniversary of my first smartphone purchase, an iPhone 3G that was an utterly badass little machine. The 16 is plenty slick, that's for sure, but, well, I liked the SE's size better and the 4S's form even better that that, but everybody else likes the 6"+ screens, so that's where we are.

In other news, old man yells at clouds.

Today was good. Slept in again, decided that I was going to take it easy again, did so. Repeated my Saturday - read, listened to a few episodes of Cold War Conversations, watched some stuff on Netflix.

I hope that, when I review this in years to come, I can sigh and be relieved that things didn't get worse. That stupid orange bastard is making noise about invading a NATO ally's territory. US Army troops have been activated and look to be deploying to Minnesota, where ICE has murdered a woman and is generally behaving like an occupying force. There's so much more, and so little pushback against it. I don't see any kind of resolution with things as they stand right now, and if I'm being honest, I think we're going to see more violence and a lot of economic and political damage. I'm waiting for it to happen, because that's what it'll take, and even with that blessed event, more damage that can be repaired in my lifetime has been done.
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([personal profile] tracker7 Jan. 18th, 2026 08:30 pm)
This has been a good weekend. Had dinner with a guy I know from a Discord group on Friday. Australian on a lengthy visit to the States. Good times.

Didn't get out of pajamas yesterday. It was cold and I had no demands on my time and I just stayed comfortable and read and played some PS4 stuff. Watched football. Slept late, stayed in bed later, and it felt good.

A little more active today. Grocery run in the morning. Completed the GT7 daily workout. Listened to a lot of Stuff You Should Know. Watched part of the Texans-Patriots game at Roosters. Read more. Picked up some accessories for the new phone. Reveled in the knowledge that I don't have to go to work tomorrow. Priced a shotgun.
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