Bingo!

 And a fine, happy Monday morning to all you!  From what I'm hearing, quiet Christmas's seemed to again be the norm this year.  Sometimes, I think the media hypes the holidays too much.  But a lot of it also has to do with 'keeping up with the Jones's.'  Many people feel they need to have bragging rights about their holiday dinner, and they need to back up those bragging rights with pictures on Facebook, and Instagram, and Twitter (or whatever social media platform they're on).  Personally, I could really care less if you jammed 40 people into your house just to create a photo op.  I really do think if every time we saw one of these pictures we'd comment "Jesus, that's big fuckin' crowd,' people might stop posting them.

I had one of my memory dreams last night except this one was different.  I went back to Lebanon Valley College, though I didn't go back in time.  The English Department was, and still is, housed in what used to be an private residence.  However, everything was current.  Every professor I ran into had been a fellow English major, except they had all aged and I had to match their names with their older faces.  It was a fun dream.  LVC is one of the top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges on the Eastern Seaboard.  You can see some of the old private homes housing, the English Dept.  and the Foreign Language Dept. This is where I went to school.

And I had to guffaw yesterday when someone on Twitter posted, "Candace Owens ending Trump's political career was not on my Bingo Card for 2021."  Her saying "he is old, born before TV," is a freaking hoot.  Alex Jones is calling him a Dirty Liar.  I can only wonder about the Evangelicals who believe he was sent by God.  I mean do they think Trump is speaking for God when he says they should get vaccinated?  Holy Shit!  My money says that's not on their Bingo Card.

Heading into the New Year

 So, we're heading into a New Year.  Four days and counting... 3 if you no longer count today.  For the first time in 4 years, I'm excited.  

Yesterday was odd at the store.  Around 2:30 PM, all the customers started to go home.  By 4:30 PM there were like... oh, maybe 8 in the store.  Associates walked, and talked among themselves.  Normally, we see this in January and February.  Don't get me wrong, the people who were there spent a lot of Christmas money.  Maybe, as the Covid cases continue to increase in Central PA, people are beginning to realize this is more than just a serious problem.

One thing I have noticed, the Idiot Jerk's Tweet storms are no longer being given the massive coverage they once were - this is what happens when you're a loser.  That alone must be galling him for here to Hell and... well, I'd say back, but I'm fairly certain he's going to stay in Hell once he gets there.  Yesterday, it seems he did rage a tiny inferno, dwarfed into nearly non-existence by the bombing in Nashville.  I don't know where I saw it, perhaps the AP, but the Idiot Jerk seems to have call the Supreme Court "ignorant and incompetent," and they were not his only target.  Not surprisingly, he didn't sign the relief bill... in case you didn't know, this is his way of saying "fuck you, America."  This turd is getting flushed, even if we have to call Roto-Rooter to get him completely out of our plumbing.

And finally, a long, long time ago I graduated from Lebanon Valley College, a small liberal arts college, with a degree in English Literature.  Lebanon Valley used to be one of the 10 best small liberal arts colleges in the northeast, so I got a fairly decent education.  In my senior year all I did was read and discuss literature in every class.  One of those classes was Women in Literature.  That class stands out simply because of one book that I found so amazing - Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway."  This morning an article about "Mrs. Dalloway" in the NYT.  The book is about one day in the life of woman who's going to have a dinner party, and the consciousness of a war veteran named Septimius, whom she never meets while he's alive.  I found the book fascinating.