Finished my Christmas shopping today — I had to be done today — though one or two ordered items won’t be here until next week.
It rained fairly heavily last night and the residue set in today; supposedly not raining, according to iPhone Weather, but still overcast and drizzling just enough to trigger the wipers regularly. I’m always amazed — pet peeve alert — by how many drivers don’t understand they should turn on headlights in such conditions so that other drivers can see them, lest their cars go unseen in the gray fog; it’s not about their being able to see better through the rain. (My car has a setting that turns on the lights automatically in dim conditions.)
After cardiac therapy stopped in Montclair Village for my last round of Christmas Shopping. Found some things on my list, not all. So it is.
One more thing: in yesterday’s mail came not one not two but three “Christmas cards” consisting of postcard sized photo collages of various family members. Including some family members who had seemed to cut me off, back at the beginning of the pandemic. Nice to see such lovely families.
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Links from today: how the Fox News audience’s hostility towards Anthony Fauci shows its insecurity, and resentment of those who know things; how Joe Manchin’s lack of imagination betrays a similar hostility toward change and making things better.
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Union Square; Going for the Kill; the Need for a Villain
Perhaps from time to time I’ll move the “endpiece” discussion to the *top* of the post. So: Today we visited Union Square in San Francisco, on this the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. (Which means the shortest proportion of daylight to darkness of any day in the year — not a day that is literally shorter than 24 hours. I suspect there are people who don’t understand this.)
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