Well, it’s above freezing now, so hopefully a lot of the remaining ice will sublimate off, and I can go back to exercising as I’d like.
Going to be a bit odd with my wife the return-to-office of the Federal workforce. I don’t think it’s going to affect me directly, but there’s going to be some changes.
The DEI EO might actually help people like me get back to potentially working on the General Schedule? Possibly.
A lot of discussion about what Musk is doing with DOGE, but I’m really looking at it at this point as one of few ways to actually shrink the Federal workforce.
Someone who’s on the DEI staff — is there anything else he/she can do in Federal service?
Well, work at the TSA, perhaps.
Somehow I think a gender studies major might be able to do this.
But there’s not a lot else.
Yes, there’ll be a segment who’ll finally just retire, but I think there’s still many of them who’ve got debt that makes that impossible. Even with an inflation-adjusted pension, paying a the three mortgages would be tough.
Any sort of self-deprivation is unthinkable. That the buying-power of pretty much every single world currency is dropping is a part of it. Why is the Federal government spending more on interest on the debt today than it spends on the military?
Yes, I know, NeoHippies, it’s all about the Military-Industrial Complex. And President Biden harkened back to that in his farewell admonition.
Okay. Whatever. Let me know who you ware so I can ignore you for the rest of my life.
Cannot say enough about how brave saying that sort of stuff is at the WEF.
Dry January ends soon. I did have one drink watching inaugural festivities, but have been good otherwise.
Emphatic “meh.”