277 there's no place like no place for the holidays







Before I met Deb, I'd pretty much gotten out of the winter holiday game. But she loves it, and yesterday, it was time to shop.

That wasn't so easy. There's nothing like having to do something unusual to open your eyes fresh.

Omfg the city has been devastated by this situation. Years of rents getting jacked as high as they can go, plus now a year of very limited income, has put basically every shop without deep pockets out of business.

Hopefully the other side of this is going to be cool as hell. Will there be years of vacancies? Or will we see something like they were considering before the lockdown, a requirement that landlords lease out ground floor retail after a certain vacancy period, or get penalized?

Something is going to happen, that's for sure. I don't think we can have an empty streetscape forever.

Taking it like a man. Boy, some people are pretty freaked out by the government distributing a rapidly-developed, no-long-term-testing shot to end this "hoax."

To which I say, get over yourselves. How well do you think you would function without the rest of society? Ok, right? You'd be gone in days. So, suck it up and get with the program. It's not like they're trying to put a tracking device in your pocket that records everything you say or even look at.

So we're in the thick of the third wave, and then...

What? A new strain popped off in England. 

This makes sense. This is a seasonal virus. The flu mutates every year, that's why you have to get a new shot every year.

So far, they don't know if the current vaccines will be effective against it.

The above from my former neighbor with whom I spent a good chunk of W43 arguing over politics. He's come a long way, baby.

Want to know where the ichthys/pisces fish came from?


At top, a comic. Thinking it could use a second page, of more positive stuff.


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