End of Year Stuff
Oh, okay, so what to say here.
First off there's this dynamic tension - phlogging or blogging are fun
but I less and less want any random bot or AI to suck up my content for their
own purposes. So do I remain silent? Or find some way to phlog that nobody
will find or read (which is essentially remaining silent)?

News-wise, I'm at ten weeks until retirement. I may have to jink it around a
bit. But do I dare say that and risk one of my coworkers finding out before I
want them to? I like my coworkers but I have long since learned not to trust
the companies that employ us. Maybe I'll delete this.

What other news? Well, my best friend Keith is dying. Again, who do I want to
read this? Not Keith, that's for sure. And anyone who knows about cranial 
glioblastomas knows the situation. But neither do I need to dangle this in
front of his loved ones. But yeah. 

Good news, marrying this amazing woman on Thursday. Joy and I went out once
in 1980 and she was always 'the one that got away.' We reconnected by luck
in 2018, and now we're getting married. I've told everyone important in my
life, but haven't told my ex-wife. It's not really her business, she's welcome
to go get married herself, but the part of me with post-divorce PTSD is very
afraid of what she might say or do in response. I'm not proud of admitting that
I'm still afraid of my ex-wife's reaction but there ARE reasons why she's 
my ex-wife.

And then... Portugal. I've been keeping VERY quiet about us moving to 
Portugal, because along with not trusting companies with my employment, I
don't trust this administration with my life. I don't want them to suddenly
decide that people retiring to other countries should be put in detainment
in Panama. I'm very anxious that we're not going to get out in time, but I
can only go as quickly as the bureaucracy allows. I HOPE I'm paranoid and
overreacting, but we're already engaging in light ethnic cleansing and 
disappearing people to gulags, so it doesn't really feel like I'm wrong.
I see these people posting "In 2028 we'll set things right" and I'm, like, 
have you studied history child? Even if we go through the ritual of an 
election, don't expect it to be fair. I don't even know what "fair" means
after the last election, in which the media was entirely on the side of
the GOP. Is it fair that everyone got to vote the way they wanted, but what
they wanted was carefully manufactured by the entire mainstream media?

Sigh.

I dunno, maybe I will wait til I'm in Portugal to post this and then just backdate it to today...