The sun has set on another gorgeous winter day. The ice rink out my front window is packed with skaters, as it has been all winter long. Jay just returned from a few hours of ice fishing. We'll be having dinner soon and it will be delicious.
I haven't posted anything in the last two months. It's not that I have nothing to say it's that I'm not sure there is any good in saying it.
For the sake of posterity I will have my say for several reasons; so I remember what I thought and can look back at it all and laugh; so I can look back on it and say 'I told you so!'; because I fear the time is rapidly coming when saying anything will be a luxury; because people won't like it.
Freedom of speech is worthless if it doesn't protect us from saying things some of us won't like.
But the writing of it will be an unpleasant afternoon for me, as I don't really like to dwell on this nonsense and it is nonsense in the grand scheme of things. I like just living my life, which is going absolutely swimmingly right now. Business is booming, Jay is doing well, the weather has been lovely and I, personally, have nothing to complain about. If I were myopic or completely self centered, I'd keep the world shut down forever. With every stitcher in the entire world stuck and home with nothing else to do, I've got more orders than ever in my career and the last six months have been more profitable than ever before.
But I hate it.
I'd rather make the same amount of money I did before the shut downs and never have to wear a filthy, stupid piece of paper over my mouth at the grocery store again.
The last few months have taught me some lessons about humanity I never wanted to learn.
But Jay's home now, so I'm not going down that rabbit hole today.
I won't be posting these on Facebook after this. Facebook sucks. You want to pick my brain, you've got to come looking for it. All six of you!