General life updates:
- I was under the in hindsight absolutely hilarious impression that once we were done bargaining union stuff would stop being a fucking nightmare but instead all the things that got out of hand while we were doing that have flared up into mindbogglingly colossal dumpster fires
- I am wildly and unrelentingly burned out but OH WELL I GUESS
- Birds started living in a second part of my 30yo vinyl siding so I finally pulled the thread on paying someone else for exterior stuff and now I’m spending an eyewatering amount of money on the front porch I’ve wanted to put on for 8 years now (and also siding but the porch is the brutally expensive part)
- I put this off way too long and the contractor I found is Just Ok and I’m probably paying too much but again we are at “siding birds” status so it just needs to get done now
- don’t live in a swing state in an election year
