This flashback is kinda relevant; same day of the week, even, I think.
Nov. 2, 2015, midnight
*It’s the first Monday of the month. Please rank the level of sucktitude on a scale of 1 to 100, then describe your plans for the day.*
The answer, of course, is eight.
Why so low?
- THE ROYALS WON THE WORLD SERIES
- What’s making my life at miserable at work isn’t here. So, there’s that.
I am very tired, as that game didn’t finish until almost 2am. yawn
Am I surprised by all this? Certainly. I didn’t think it was possible, in this world of uncapped salaries, for
a small-market team like Kansas City to put together a competetitive team.
They did.
Would the story have been different if they’d been playing in the AL East? Maybe. It’s very difficult to compete with NYC, Boston money.
Otherwise, I don’t have a lot to say today.
I’m refamiliarizing myself with “The FAR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Acquisition_Regulation) even though it seems as none of the higher-ups give a fuck about it.
I’m going to do what’s right, not what’s expident. If you want to fire me because of that, please bring it.
I’m sure some folks in the trial law field will enjoy having me as a client…..
sigh
So there’s that.
Heh. This kind of encapsulates a couple of different things that led me to the attitude I had in yesterday’s entry.
Che’s Neighbor Willis isn’t the sort of optimism I’m aiming for, either.
Willie is a good representation of exactly what people think actually happened, and that that fictionalized past is going to return.
Regardless of what your history teacher might be pumping out, things weren’t that bad in the US.
Nobody is trying to create or recreate that fictionalized dystopia.
Where did those bad things happen? In Socialist countries. No, I’m nto talking about Denmark. I’m talking about East Germany. I’m talking about Czechoslovakia. I’m talking about Peronist Argentina. I’m talking about Allende’s Chile.
But, again, there’s clarity for me. You’re going to do what you do. I’m just not going to interact with you if you’re cheerleading things I view as negative.
Is it a bit hypocritical for me to focus so much on things like 20th century Communism similar to the way “The Left” focus on things like Colonialism? You could make that argument, certainly. But it’s still pretty fresh in my mind. I saw the glorious effects of Socialism first-hand in 1993. You noticed when you were crossing from Austria into Hungary. You saw the overall grubbiness of Eastern Europe after The Wall came down.
That stuff is still fresh. So, too, are relics from the Party of Slavery/The Klan/Segregation/The Palmer Raids/Forced Steriliation/Massive Resistance/Lee-Jackson-King Day. Socialism’s real legacy isn’t ancient history, even if it wasn’t taught in government schools. It’s a bit like how The Holocaust wasn’t taught to this Tajik in his Soviet Schools.
And I really ought to wrap this up. Time to recycle the prompt…
Please rank the level of sucktitude on a scale of 1 to 100, then describe your plans for the day.
Um. Probably at about a 20 on the sucktitude meter. I’m honestly not feeling great today. I really need to do a better job of gauging what I’m capable of. That said, it’s still amazement at how much better I feel now than I would have just a few years ago. I would have been completely useless, and scared to death about embarassing myself. Not going to go too deeply into detail; that’s for later, but I don’t know if I could have done what I did just three years ago.
As for today, I really don’t know, yet. I have a thumbnail sketch, but circumstances will dictate. And I’ll probably be able to deal with those circumstances. I don’t really have firm plans or a fixed schedule. That’s okay; I’m retired.