Same Procedure as Last Year?

I'm a relentless pragmatist who tries to be optimistic but I gotta tell you, as if you didn't know, this year sucked. Perhaps you are happy because your dog is finally getting enough cheese (that was pretty obscure, all things considered) so hurray for you but as for the rest of us, Annus Horribilis.

I got fooled. I thought the worst thing that could happen this year was Donald Trumpster Fire being returned to the White House. It turns out. it's having Elmo Muskrat as the unofficial forty-seventh president of the United States. 

As far as I'm concerned, 2024 was not the beginning of the end, it was the end.

This is as close as I can get to putting some sort of lipstick on this pig of a year. 
-bill kenny

Waited All Year for this Night

Not just me, I'm sure, but this has been a difficult couple of years for so many of us. 

I remember, sort of, last New Year's Eve, hoping the then-just-deployed vaccines for COVID-19 would prove successful enough to be shared among all of us, never dreaming that so many would choose, for reasons I will never understand or comprehend, to believe innuendo and jibber-jabber from podcastholes and elsewhere and decide to NOT get vaccinated. 

Leaving us, here on the threshold of the new year to be in pretty much the same place we were as last year ended. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. <Sigh>

See you next year, with a heart full of hope for something better, not bitter.
-bill kenny