So, I started in on this while I was waiting in the airport;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is year sixteen of me writing every month in November. I started that only a few weeks after Sarah and I married Navy-style. (So at the courthouse in Norfolk, but not because I was going on cruise, and she was knocked-up…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think I’m settling, finally, into disability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This condition is horrible, and I wouldn’t wish on the person in the world I dislike most, but it’s still not the horrible sentence it was when I started writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things. Get. Better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I’m really wondering if I can, maybe, try to bring some of that perspective into this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Credit goes, of course to things like Cato’s Doomsayer, Reason Magazine, Michael Malice, and Kmele Foster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You really have to work hard to make things that bad. Even with the horrid orange blob in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, as I write and post this from inside the airplane<\/strong><\/em>, I hope someone reads this and is a little less-pessimistic about things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good things can happen this month; if you’ll let them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had to re-edit once I got off the plane; Intertubes quit working, and we were about to land. Go figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, on the generally-positive side of so many things at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI probably is going to make most lives better. Chill the fuck out, and do something that focuses your attention on something other than what’s going to set you off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, yeah, turn off MSNBC^H^HOW. Turn off Instagram reels and TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What I’m going to write so far…. For the empty ones, if you have suggestions, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I started in on this while I was waiting in the airport; This is year sixteen of me writing every month in November. I started that only a few weeks after Sarah and I married Navy-style. (So at the courthouse in Norfolk, but not because I was going on cruise, and she was knocked-up…) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7333,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions\/7333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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We’re probably not going to die of whatever disease came in on RFKJ’s car roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nov 1 \u2014 November again, writing since 2010
Nov 2 \u2014 Royals\u2019 2015 World Series win; second draft: dimming your personality to fit in
Nov 3 \u2014 Election Day, linked back to 2020
Nov 4 \u2014 2016 flashback: someone recently lost
Nov 5 \u2014 just the single word \u201cFree-wriet-ish\u201d so far, no topic yet
Nov 6 \u2014 2010 flashback: feeling old, drinking, weight loss
Nov 7 \u2014 Bucket list, still not having one (2013 flashback)
Nov 8 \u2014 Defining safety, and where you feel it most
Nov 9 \u2014 Election flashback to 2004
Nov 10 \u2014 2002 flashback: advertisers have lost it
Nov 11 \u2014 Archived 2005 entry: first day at your first job outside radio
Nov 12 \u2014 Faith essay; second draft: travel plans for the next few months
Nov 13 \u2014 Travel recap
Nov 14 \u2014 COVID flashback to 2020
Nov 15 \u2014 Halftime: life without internet and social media
Nov 16 \u2014 This year\u2019s flu shot
Nov 17 \u2014 Signs and synchronicities lately
Nov 18 \u2014 Plans for the rest of the year
Nov 19 \u2014 Signs and synchronicities, same opening as Nov 17
Nov 20 \u2014 Childhood dream job (2016 flashback)
Nov 21 \u2014 What you\u2019re most proud of this year
Nov 22 \u2014 Thanksgiving plans
Nov 23 \u2014 empty
Nov 24 \u2014 1999 flashback: moving as an Army kid
Nov 25 \u2014 Christmas shopping
Nov 26 \u2014 Thanksgiving
Nov 27 \u2014 Black Friday
Nov 28 \u2014 empty
Nov 29 \u2014 Football this year
Nov 30 \u2014 Month wrap-up: organizations you\u2019re giving to<\/p>\n\n\n\n