Well…with everything that has happened this year, I thought I should do a recap of the lost year in my life…as I’ve talked about before, this year was to be my “living in the city” year where I’d get to do city things as I rehabbed this house…and I was really looking forward to seeing blues on the mall since it only a 10 minute bike ride to get there from here…and get to be a regular at the Triangle bar that is two blocks away and enjoy some time on the various outdoor decks that bars have set up around GR…but no, stupid trump and his cronies took all that away from me….and it even screwed up the housing market so it looks like I’ll be back in an apartment after I have to leave here in a couple of months…and all because they couldn’t be bothered to do their jobs at the start of the pandemic. One thing that was a little easier for me than for most people was all of the alone time as we have all had trying to stay healthy…I’ve always been good with being alone and I never feel lonely even with months of forced isolation…but the one thing with having to be alone is I haven’t been able to see my new grandson as much as I would want…only two times since he was born in the end of August and that is just not enough….and I have a granddaughter on the way in January that I won’t be able to see until the vaccine is available…one good thing about having to be home so much is I’m not spending much money and have been able to build up a big enough cash cushion that I can afford any emergency and put 40K down on a house when I can find one…but damn, I would have loved to be able to spend some of it having fun…I mean, how many more years do I have left for that kind of stuff? So, to waste a year out of maybe ten I have left really sucks….but, I am going to make up for some of that next year with the England trip with my daughter and son in law…and if I can find a house soon, I will be able to put down my last permanent roots and get that stress off my head…it will be nice to just live and putter around at the pace that I want….and not have to worry about dying just going out to get groceries…so yep, this year sucked but trump will be gone in 21 days and maybe we can start to get back to a sane normal again…at least we can hope…