And not a moment too soon – not loving the pitch black upon waking up. Bring on the longer days. (Though Weather Underground tells me tomorrow will only have an additional 1 second of daylight. At least it’s going in the right direction.)

Republicans are acting like Scrooge on Christmas day, even though the bill is shit and not nearly enough. Seriously, never seen a group of people more in need of a visit from a dead colleague and three spirits.

What they’ve done is better than nothing, but highlights yet again that they do NOT understand or really care about what is going on in their own country. Angry does not even begin to describe how I feel about all this. Incandescent with rage may be closer.

We need to flip the Senate and D’s need to just go to town on progressive policies in 2021. Fuck these half-measures.

Half days on tap this week at work – would have preferred full days off, but at least I’m not looking at losing leave, and given that my to-do list just got totally jacked in the past week, some work must be done. Still, at least I can jet off at lunchtime, which isn’t nothing.

Alrighty – time to go do the thing so I can not do the thing this afternoon.

You – go eat some Christmas cookies for breakfast – you’ve earned it this year.