Been gone for a while.
But...good news! Both Alison and I recovered from COVID and are doing well. Alison's case was milder than mine. Mine was a little more intense...had a day where I was foggy and mostly slept, with a slight fever, and another day where I was worried because my cough deepened. But...thanks to vaccines, proper care, prayer (thank you, Grace Episcopal!), and in my case Paxlovid, we're doing well. Alison and I have some residual cough and congestion, but it is getting lighter daily.
I am grateful that Benjamin did not test positive. He is back at school for his last semester.
I am most grateful that Alison's Mom, Rose, did not get it. She exhibited no symptoms at all. We were worried because she was with us at the Christmas Eve service, which appeared to be Event Central for the COVID spread.
Even our cat pictured above, in my favorite reading chair, along with my Supergirl throw pillow, was ill for a couple of days, not eating and throwing up a little, not wanting to move much. But she is completely back to normal now! She'll be 16 in May and is rarely ill. So we were pleased when she started perking back up.
SPORTS!
I was disappointed that Michigan narrowly lost to TCU but ecstatic at the whooping Georgia put on them. Local Blackshear lad, Quarterback Stetson Bennett IV, was brilliant. Will he make it as a professional quarterback? Who knows? Who knows if he even wants to? But they can't take this from him - one of only a handful of NCAA quarterbacks to lead his team to back-to-back championships!
Each game has to be taken individually. Is the SEC the only conference that counts? I hope not. OSU came within a missed field goal of beating Georgia. And who won a decisive victory against OSU in the regular season? That's right - MICHIGAN!!!
POLITICS!
Good lord. What a shameful disgrace the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is. To win the Speakership, McCarthy had to sell his soul to his party's darkest and most extreme elements.
Most of this will make a disgusting show as the Republican House passes one stupid and destructive bill after another. Then, they will have nonsensical REVENGE committees that will be a lava flow of misinformation and bull hockey.
All of this just makes for extra stupid theater. The one place they are dangerous is forcing government shutdowns over funding and the debt ceiling, with the goal being to slash money from social security and medicare. You would think that would upset some people, but in today's divided media environment, who knows?
TV and Movies!
I just finished the series 1899, the new series from the creators of the excellent German series Dark. It was one of the best things I've seen in YEARS. If you want to know what it's like, read some of the stories that I've written. The imagination in this show is just churning out in buckets!
And, of course, Netflix has already canceled this, so it's a one-and-done. Nevertheless, it's still worth seeing. This series gets one season, and Manifest receives at least four???
We did not get out to see movies during our Christmas COVID break. We managed to see Black Adam, which was a'right, but nothing stood out to me. The new Discovery owners of HBO Max are like Netflix times ten in their horrible swath of canceling projects - Batgirl, Wonder Woman 3, the new Superman movie - all canceled by these worthless clowns. Their new owner is a Trump-endorsing billionaire. Spoiler alert- as part of this atrocity, he controls CNN and DC Comics. Clinton News Network, my ass!
Finally!
As a final note for today's post, I will NOT post these to my Facebook page this month. I want to see how low I can go.
Until next time,
T. M. Strait
