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Perhaps I’ve shared this here in this exact way before. I don’t know. That can be the problem with using the emotional side of my mind. My logic remembers the patterns, makes me a good lawyer....

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Today… brought interesting insight into things (from multiple sides)...... I was thinking today about some of the cases flooding my desk. And I realized that… yeah. As much as it absolutely suc...

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I will be responding to notes and other things throughout the day but wanted to do a quick update here. (1) Our office is opening back up and going “life as normal” starting Tuesday. I mean… wh...

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See… this is exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about. As I was perusing Tinder… an attractive 43 year old put as her profile “I am a nerd in a Tabletop and Anime sense. My 7 year old son is ...

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The weather has been… interesting lately. Like… every day it looks like it is going to rain. Sunday, it looked very much like rain, so I didn’t take Nala for a walk. She hates the rain and if ...

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Here’s something that strikes me as… particularly interesting, perhaps even telling… about some of the conspiratorial scuttlebutt surrounding COVID and Vaccines. One of the big conspiracies, pa...

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I reserve the right to be sad. I know I say this often. I know that I have lost readers as COVID makes every damned entry for all of us a case of “second verse same as the first, a little bit l...

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Had to go into the office today. With the entire country now opening up (despite the fact that Iowa has had more cases in 16 days than we did in two months), our courts are trying to determine h...

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The title is nonsense. Hectoring means “talking in a bullying way” and a hectare is a unit of measurement for land. If you’re talking in a bullying way to a unit of measurement for land… or if ...

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I don’t know if this is a contradiction or simply the acceptance that different actions require different skill sets; but I am starting to wonder if I have all of the skill sets I need. Particula...

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I decided to be in the office today because I figured there was a lot to do. I was… gosh, I wish English had a word for “you’re not wrong but you’re also not right.” Because… there is a lot to ...

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The last of the events of my year has been cancelled. Officially. I knew it was coming and therefore only grieve the announcement. In my heart, I knew it was not to be. But beware: Those prot...

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Before I continue, there is something I want to say briefly. I DO plan on responding to notes! I have my last two entries (the 5/6, 5/7 entries) open and will respond soon. I just… I don’t kno...

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A few quick things: (1) I had an entry I was working on that I’d rather like to finish and expect that I shall; but it is not conditioned upon such frivolities as temporal proximity. For example...

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Anyone who has experienced Depression knows there is physical pain that comes with that. Anyone who experiences chronic pain knows there is depression in that. They are two little buddies that ...

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So… originally, I thought this entry was going to be a Twitter Sized entry. You know… maybe a paragraph long… tops? Well… as I signed in… it dawned on me that I can’t limit myself to that expec...

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In 2005, I decided to have a theme song. did the trick nicely. These last 24 hours the song has been playing a lot in my head. I am assuming it is my subconcious mind trying to give me a pick...

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I’m… not doing that great today. Or yesterday. So, I’m not doing that great these last few days. Aside from yesterday being a Juvenile Court day (so filled with kids who are abusing physically...

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I’ve been working on something in my head recently. I don’t want to follow the path of everyone else and keep talking about the Virus and the Virus’ effect on things. Largely because (in my sta...

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I should be upstairs cleaning my kitchen. It is a mess. Three parts cooking a helluva lot more and Two parts working a lot more equals giant kitchen mess. But… I’m ever so slightly enraged. F...

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It is acceptable to mourn what is lost; even if what is lost is in pursuit of something greater, better, or smarter. If someone had to cancel a trip they were looking forward to and instead stay...

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I honestly have nothing new to write really. More “the world is crazy and I’m enraged” I suppose. Despite 1,000 new confirmed COVID cases over the weekend? Despite over 300 new confirmed COVID c...

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Again… OTHER THAN adamantly encouraging people to STAY HOME if possible (and telling those Conspiracy Theorists to SHUT YOUR FUCKING GOB)… I am not one to demand/mandate that a State should or sh...

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Obviously, this is nothing new. But still part of where I am. I’m not suicidal, I’m not sad, I’m not even really depressed per se. I’m fatigued. I’m existentially fatigued. I’m of a mood whe...

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So far my least favorite thing about working from home and everything going on is the emotional labor. You see, at the end of the day my job is about fixing what other people or circumstances ha...

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