I was really glad to see the end of the year 2021, just like I was really glad to see the end of 2020, a year earlier.
Then I was definitely glad to see the end of the crypto bloodbath known as January. Now I find myself really glad to see the end of February... and "Welcome to March!"
It has to be better... right?
People sometimes talk about "the new normal," which makes me wonder whether the new normal we're trying to adapt to is basically a headlong tumble into chaos and mayhem.
I have been feeling "out of sorts" for a few days; Mrs. Denmarkguy assures me that it isn't really me but the overall background noise of anxiety in the world, concerning the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Seems like this "brave new world" in which we live spends an awful lot of its time bogged down in some kind of globe-spanning reason to feel anxious.
I am not even sure what it is we are watching unfold, but it feels like it's the "last gasp" of an old "rule by force and dictatorship" leadership style that should have been put out to pasture, several decades ago.
At the same time, it makes me feel a bit nervous to contemplate the possibility that a mentally dubious individual has access to they keys and red buttons to initiate an extinction level even on planet Earth. Because there's no winning a nuclear war. Everybody loses... and likely everybody dies.
I'm not quite ready to check out, yet. Lots of things still to be done!
Anyway, earlier today I reached "maximum density" on keeping up with newscasts and feeds and updates from the war, so instead I dedicated myself to listing stuff for sale on eBay. Even with that, my concentration isn't what it once way, although I am more inclined to blame my ADHD than the distraction of newsfeeds.
I was not impressed with myself for being able to create about half as many new lot listings as I used to be able to manage, even 8-10 years ago. I find that "my eyes glaze over" much faster than they used to. Still, it was better than nothing... and we have to be able to pay the bills, somehow...
Now I have grown too tired to care anymore... so I'll come back and try again tomorrow!
Thanks for reading my strange ruminations... have a great Wednesday!
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