Life is too short to drink bad wine.

It's like we are on some demented funride that's no fun at all. Biden has a chance again, Trump is blustering about legal action and calling his devout followers to what basically amounts to civil war. How is this man not in jail?

On a personal note, Mom has been painting the chair, bookshelf, and spray painting the bed sted while I'm working. The oil paint will take till mid next week to cure but I may be able to move into the bedroom again on the weekend unless the smell is too bad. The chaos that had spilt out on the stairs and landing is once again tamed so things aren't nearly so unmoored as they were.

Poor Toaster still has a challenge getting in the cat door, she just doesn't quite have the critical mass yet and she hasn't figured out how to apply what bodyweight she has to get the damn door open.

And the last unconnected titbit is that I've discovered that acorn squash tastes pretty ok, gonna have to find some more recipes.

What an utter disaster of a year, this week will I believe see the end of the reign of the most destructive and morally decrepit President the US has ever seen come to an end, well it will at least be the beginning of the end. But it's really only the start of a very long road. The extreme religious right in the States has been transforming the paradigm of the nation for decades. They've made socialism a dirty word, right has become left, there's a fictitious massacre of the innocence, and immigrants are the new untouchables. For a nation founded on equality and opportunity, for all a place that was the shining goal for so many over the last century that was no mean feat. What is left is a country torn by civil strife, armed to the teeth, a country that never fails to point out its own greatness like an ageing alcoholic footballer whose golden days are far far behind him.

I don't actually believe that it's possible to turn this around to bring the US back to its former glory, a glory that let's not forget wasn't so glorious for the native tribes nor the African slaves and their descendants. Can they become a nation that takes care of its people that's willing to be a member of the family of nations rather than its pater familias? I don't know, it would be a very very hard row to hoe and the nation is deeply divided. My bet, unfortunately, is that it's over and from here on it's going to be a long slow descent punctuated by swings between Democrat and Republican, lets hope that at least there's not another 45.