I just posted two sad posts in a row which means that now it would be time for... [drumroll] Yep, another sad post. Which is totally not what I've ever been about with the blogging but apparently it's the conduit that got me to start writing again this time, so I'm going with it. And really, this one isn't sad; I'm just being dramatic. The nephew in the navy is sad. The waitress who probably found a better job? Even that is not really sad, just mildly inconvenient. But this is at least sad enough to change life as I've come to know it over the last 3 months, so that makes it at least somewhat significant on the sadness scale. I had to drain the pool last weekend. First time ever doing so, given that this was the first summer ever where I actually had a pool. Lordy, I feel entitled just typing that. An actual pool. Like the Beverly Hillbillies, except my pond was not cement, it was inflated rubber or whatever it's ma...
The Village People are hardly appropriate as a title for this post, but there it is. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you summarize the topic you're about to write, and it's always going to be song lyrics with me. Fifteen years of frickin' blogging (give or take a handful of extremely extended sabbaticals) and it's always goddam song titles. I'll just put this out there, in the interest of full disclosure. I've been sad. It's been going on for months, but not more than a year. It was, in fact, something that seems to have started the day after the 2016 election. Because that shit seriously shook my world down to it's foundation, and literally everything changed. Some of it overnight, some more of it in January, some of it still, more of it to come. It can never be understated how seriously, seriously fucked up all of that was. IS. All these months later and I still cannot process. I'm hardly alone in my suffe...