Well…haven’t found a political topic so I think I’ll do a recap of my year for the last one this year….man, when I look back to where I was last December 31st, I can’t believe where I am financially and even psychologically…last year at this time, I was down to 3 months to go to find a house before my son moved back to GR and my stress level was through the roof with seeing so many crap houses that were at the top of the range of what I could afford….but that changed in January when I found this place that had everything I wanted but it wasn’t in GR…so I had to make one of the biggest decisions of my life to just buy it….and living here in Muskegon has been better than I expected but I haven’t been able to get into life out here with the damn virus that is rampant…the trails and scenery are cool but it would be nice to be able to go out to dinner or to just have a couple of beers and meet some people…I have been at peace much more than I have been in years with now living here for 10 months and almost doubling what money I have in the bank….and with the worth of the house going up by 20k, I should reach my goal of having 100K in assets free and clear with the equity in the house and what I have in the bank…and I never thought that would happen…this house has been really reliable, too, with only a clogged drain and the handle on the toilet breaking yesterday that I have had to fix….one thing that I am not happy about is the estrangement from a couple of my sons that I can’t figure out…well, yeah I can…I haven’t been to visit my grandkids with this damn virus but I just can’t do it with the danger of me getting them sick…and I don’t understand why they don’t get that…if there was no virus, I would have been in to see them at least once a month even having to drive over by Detroit where my middle son lives….that is the only thing that has a cloud hanging over my life right now..okay, and not being able to shoot pool every week…now that Tom is retired…I’ll have to find a place that is halfway where we can meet up so neither of us have to drive a hundred miles round trip….all in all, things are okay….I have rebuilt the yard and cleaned the entire outside of the house, put up a new garage door opener and had a huge garden for the first year here that was somewhat successful….so, I am looking forward to a new year for the first time in a long time even though I’m a year older…”the sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death…” to quote Pink Floyd from “Time”…..happy new year….