Taos is off.

Too much is happening in San Antonio for me to make the trip. I'm staying the full 10 days. My niece is coming down, instead, and we'll do Christmas in Taos another year.

I still feel like shit but not as bad as the day before. I don't know what this crap is, but it's hanging onto me like it's an obsessive lover.

Enough of that and enough of the whining. I'm too prone to the latter. I'm surprised I don't walk around wringing my hands at everything that I see and hear.

I like to think I'm not stupid, that I know everything that's going on in the world, right now, is nothing new. Russia has invaded their neighbors for centuries based on some arrogant idea they are better than anyone else, and no one could possibly be stupid enough to disagree.

There have been droughts causing famines. Civil wars slaughtering civilians. Genocides by Europeans in the Americas, and tribes in Africa, India and Asia against each other. Natural catastrophes. The one real difference is we never saw them in real time until the last 50-100 years.

What's happening in Washington, right now, is just another corrupt bastard overstepping his bounds with the help of his craven courtiers. And it's not going to change until the man is dead and buried. Same for Putin; they're like 2 peas in a pod.

That is the only thing keeping me sane, right now...hoping I live long enough to see that. I want to piss on Felon47's grave and dance in the streets when Putin goes. But at the rate those two are going, they'll never die.

I may be overwhelmed with empathy for those who are suffering, but I'm also enraged that all of this evil is being done with impunity. No hand-wringing about that.