The whole world has gone AI in an instant, but that’s only part of it. Everything has become so different, free speech has become compromised, and our country has become so screwed up. I’ve never seen things this bad before. Our new government seems “upside-down” now, somehow, and I can’t even comprehend how it keeps getting worse and worse and how we somehow let it continue like there’s no way to stop it.

That’s all I’ll say though, I’ve probably said too much already. I don’t get political at all, so even writing just that bothers the hell out of me, and I’ll probably delete it, or this entire post, before you know it.

That’s primarily why I haven’t posted in a couple years. Lord knows I have the time to, having lost my job in May of last year. At that time I was 61 and couldn’t start Social Security yet. I had planned on working until at least 62 so I could go on Social Security after that and retire with my 401k intact. Being forced out at 61 was a real kick in the teeth and I’m too old to start my career all over again. So we struggled for a year and I ended up taking from my 401k and DoorDashing until my Social Security could finally start.

We’re in a little better shape now, having paid off a majority of our debt, and I’m finally collecting social security. Sandy has had another surgery on her foot (this is the second attempt to repair it, the first one was unsuccessful) and is in outpatient therapy now to get better but she’s not to the point of weight-bearing on it yet.

Sandy’s brother Rick has made much progress since his last fall when he was living up North in Wisconsin Rapids, which nearly killed him. He’s completely sober now, since March, and he has moved back to Kenosha so we can help him. He was in a rehab facility for a few months and just recently moved into his own apartment in Lakeside Towers here in Kenosha. He really likes it down there. Right on the lake with an awesome view.

I’ll be back with more soon.