You're stuck in the middle of all irrelevance

[beanside]

Seems like I had two nights of glorious sleep, and now I'm back to sleeping for shit. I woke up at 2, and never quite got back to sleep.

On the plus side nearly 80% of Americans say Biden won the White House.

On the less plus side, Trump's team continues to deny the results and move forward with what I'd tentatively call a coup. Hopefully, they're too stupid to make it stick, but I have an anxious about it. The worst thing is that he has 70 days to get his shit ready, and Biden can't do dick until Jan 20. The US system is fucked up. I know that's supposed to be so we'll be ready for the peaceful transition, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

In the meantime, Covid is surging, and we're being hung out to dry. Even MD is only reducing our restaurant capacity. Now it's 50%. We should be closing back down, and getting a good two week reset, especially with Thanksgiving coming up. I know that would be hard on businesses, and some who made it through the first shutdown might not be able to handle a second, but we're at over 5% postivity rate again. (Which I know is nothing compared to South Dakota and Utah, but for MD, it's not a good trend.)

Sorry, I'm kind of doom and gloom today. I'll be better tomorrow, I promise.

Comments

[conuly]

It's less that Team Trump is stupid and more that they're unprepared. They could've gotten together the money and the crack legal team in advance of this outcome, but that would've involved admitting that Trump would probably lose, and he's not somebody who could honestly admit that possibility, nor countenance people who will.

[beanside]

I just hope it's over soon, really. Their legal teams are getting kicked repeatedly, so I can't imagine they still think they're going to win this.

[dine]

your anxious is definitely shared! let's hope they continue to be incompetent, and that Biden's team can somehow begin doing what they can on that end toward a transition, so they're not completely unprepared when we get to 20 January.

it's ok to be gloomy; this world, with covid and US politics being so awful, isn't a fun shiny happy place just now

[beanside]

It was just a dreary slog of a day, but I still don't always think I have the right to be unhappy about things, because I'm doing pretty well overall.

[dine]

just because others may have it 'worse' (by whatever metric you're using) doesn't mean you can't be unhappy sometimes about whatever is going on - or not going on - in your own life. it's ok to be sad/dissatisfied/glum even if you're not starving in a cardboard box in an alley