292 yes, he said that

Last spring, I started a "Coronavirus Lockdown Journal" because, quite frankly, I've never been through anything like this. It's confusing as hell. And scary. And trying to figure out what the fuck is going on seemed like an ok use of my time, as well as a fairly good sanity preserver.

One the one hand, we had this pandemic we were all scrambling to figure out. On the other hand, we had this wannabe dictator who was going to use every opportunely to enrich himself.

And frankly, I'm sick of giving fuckface any air whatsoever. And so is everyone else. Including the state government in Georgia. 

While I'm pretty liberal in the views I espouse, I'm moderately conservative in a lot of my personal behavior and beliefs. One thing I believe, for instance, is that it's a bad precedent to jail people for political reasons.

But dude, seriously, you have gone too far.

I listened to the call. Like the rest of dear leader's presidency, it sounds like he's calling into Howard Stern. Or Rush Limbaugh. Just another quack on the line with a bunch of bullshit.

But he's the president of the United States, so people are still being respectful.

We shouldn't be. He hasn't shown us, or the office, any respect. 

I guess I have to go back to ignoring him. Sorry for wasting your time. It's just noise.

Most bosses I've had, at some point, we've had this conversation. (At least in SMB, when you get into larger management structures, delusions of grandeur become institutionalized.) To be fair, this is really just an old man doing what he's always done: trying to leverage a big lie to get himself into a situation.

Sorry for even touching that bullshit. I'm sure you're going to be reading all about it for the next couple weeks. 

My brother is still down in Colombia. Because the drug war prevented outsiders from exploring the jungles, there's lots of newly discovered ancient stuff down there.

Nice. Gotta love these holy rollers. They proceeded to do exactly that, for four hundred years.

File under: wrong costume

If you can still find a place in your heart for dark humor, this is, well...

I haven't really included anything about all of the electric motorcycles that are coming out. (Harley has one, for instance.) Because I feel like they're bloated and overbuilt, and for me, the action is in lightweight, high-efficiency designs that may provide people with a lower-impact transportation option.

This qualifies as an electric motorcycle, but I like that it's coming from the opposite direction: it looks more like a bike.

Don't worry, though, it will still break your back if you juice it without reading the manual.

File under: 50% more transmission equals exponential spread

On the plus side, once we actually get around to distributing the vaccine, and the most vulnerable people have been protected, maybe things will loosen up a bit for the rest of us?

Although the next three months are going to be rough.

Or four months. I don't know. I guess we'll find out.

At top, made a "dutch baby" for breakfast. 

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