So…two
months since I last posted anything…and a lot has changed since then. Well,
actually only one major thing has happened, which is that we have a new
President-Elect. Not the one most of us expected it to be, though I did post on
my Facebook page the Friday before the election that I not only expected Trump
to win but that by Tuesday it was even more likely that he would win. As the
next 4 days unfolded, I pulled back on those predictions, partially because of
the FBI Director’s re-clearing of Hillary of any email wrongdoing, but also, I’m
ashamed to admit, because of the virulent protests of my friends who were
certain she would win by plenty. As can be said of so many more important
decisions in one’s life, I shouldn’t have let their opinions sway my own.
What I couldn’t
get rid of though, was a gut level feel that the passion for Trump outweighed
the passion for Hillary, particularly in central Pennsylvania. And it led to my
new political theory that the Presidential candidate whose voters have the most
passion will always win. I believe that can be said of every winning candidate
in my lifetime, at least going back to 1976, and likely even back to 1960 and
beyond.
Anyway, the
other thing that has happened recently, is that we were hit here at work with a
nasty ransomware demand and at least for now, have lost all access to our saved
files, folders, software, network and even the internet for 3 days, which wasn’t
as bad for me as everyone else here as I was sidelined with a nasty cold, so I stayed
home anyway.
So, since I have
no access to any of those things at present, the beneficiary will be this here
blog, where I will try to write up some entries I’ve put off for, well, months
now. If I get some completed, I’ll save them and post them sporadically, so
they don’t all crash through at once.
I had also
started one long Election Reaction-based post that I’ll post later. I had saved
it at work and of course, can’t get to it again yet.
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