I think it’s time we address the elephant in the room: Evangelical Christians are destroying the United States.

I’d like to share a quote. It goes as such:

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

Every single person who entertained the notion that:

• Coronavirus is a hoax
• Shutting down the economy was unnecessary
• “Everyone was going to get it anyways”
• Entire medical establishments were lying about the severity
• Deaths were misattributed or outright unrelated

You people are literally the cancer killing human society on a global scale. You should be ashamed of yourselves, but something tells me that shame isn’t in your vocabulary. Disgusting.

It’s almost the weekend, goddammit! WOO! Just today and tomorrow and it’s two days of unabated freedom. WOO! Most importantly, muh baybay also has the weekend off. YUSSSSSSS.

I think I need to get myself going on my hobbies again. Every time I have a moment outside of work to do something of substance I find myself vegetating over a TV show or some brainless youtube videos. In the past I would spend considerable amounts of this free time learning something new about computers or electronics. I haven’t done much of that since overhauling this blog to conform to Hugo. I did grab a Raspberry Pi 4 and set it up, but I did a very minimal job of it, and there’s really quite a bit left to go. I’m actually thinking about getting a second Pi 4 to continue on with, as the Pi 4 I’m on currently is acting as a print server. Kinda can’t live without a print server. I’d like to get a 8GB Pi 4 and a 4-6TB external drive and make myself a large storage server. A place to offload stuff to that’s not incredibly important, possibly isn’t backed up in the cloud. I dunno. We’ll see, I guess.

I’m thankful for my kids. They’re awesome little people and I love them. I’m thankful for my family. I’ve both been blessed with family members I’m blood related to as well as dragging people into my inner circle. I’m grateful for Amber, because she’s wonderful and amazing and literally the best. I’m grateful for my career. It has taken me down some really interesting roads in life. I get to be a professional geek. There are a lot of reasons that I’ve been grateful over the holidays, and I don’t take things for granted. I just felt like I had to share these things as they’re the things I’m thinking about.

It feels really weird to be back in the office. I’ve been working from home for a couple weeks now and I can’t say I’m used to the structured corporate feel anymore. It was kind of a shock to come back to. I am, however, finally able to make some progress on the projects I’ve been assigned. It’s not really possible to install automation equipment that weighs more than two cars in a two bedroom apartment, so I haven’t been as productive as I’d prefer.

I just ran across Trumbo (2015) on Netflix and I have to say; It’s a pretty damn good film. It’s also strange to me how little things have changed since then. It’s insane to me that not only is McCarthyism emblazoned permanently in historical record, but the fact that we haven’t learned shit from it is duly noted. It’s really unfortunate.

Another damned good one is Don Verdean (2015). I think both of those films cover different aspects of confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance that still wreak havoc on society to this very day.

Things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

• The people in our lives who make us feel things no one else can.
• The sigh of relief coming from D.C. with Biden taking office.
• A Coronavirus vaccine is on the way.
• Happy and healthy kids.
• The promise of open borders and traveling once the virus subsides.
• A future borne from hard work and maximum effort.

I think I could go on more, but I’ll just leave this here for now.