Allison sees the Goodyear blimp from the front door of our condo in deerfield beach.

Item of note, the condo was sold Monday, and it was a wash. No real profit, but no more condo fees or mortgage payments. I have no more financial ties to Florida. 

I honestly didn’t expect this outcome. 

To say I’m disappointed and unpleasantly surprised is an understatement. 

I’m more than a little dumbfounded. I thought that the country would not choose someone so comically undistinguished and ill-suited to be the commander-in-chief.

I thought the republicans somehow magically found a way to pick a candidate less appealing to voters than the democrats, but it seems we prefer to pick someone who acts like a petulant and spoiled child, or maybe an amok chimp with a handgun. Apparently we like the angry monkey, he makes us laugh. Mind the teeth, chimps can get mean. 

Like it or not, he’s our president now. Our job is to remind him that he answers to us, and we as a group are going to have to make sure that he, his vice-president, and rest of the folks elected are pushed toward a sane agenda. 

I’m just not sure how to accomplish that goal. He seems to exist in another reality, where he can say and do anything and not worry about being taken to task for it.

I’m luckier than the folks that will take the brunt of this situation. I’m a white, straight, married, fairly financially stable male. My family has decent medical insurance. I’m too old and infirm to worry about being conscripted into any wars with which we might get involved.

I don’t know how to process this. My heart goes to everyone who will be affected by this. 

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cognition

The cultural cognition of risk, sometimes called simply cultural cognition, is the hypothesized tendency of persons to form perceptions of risk and related facts that cohere with their self-defining values. Research examining this phenomenon draws on a variety of social science disciplines including psychology, anthropology, political science, sociology, and communications. The stated objectives of this research are both to understand how values shape political conflict over facts (like whether climate change exists, whether gun control increases crime, whether vaccination of school girls for HPV threatens their health) and to promote effective deliberative strategies for resolving such conflicts consistent with sound empirical data.

Applies to all of us, how our brains work. 

We are prone to make outside information fit our values rather than vice versa.  

No matter who gets elected, we will have tax problems, a war in which we don’t need to be involved, a lot of hungry and homeless, and worse.  

People will not be happy, and often with good reason. 

We are all people able to make the world a better place. Let’s keep that on that track.

Now more than ever, we have the power to keep on our leaders, and continue to push for what we can get to accomplish that goal. Peacefully, if possible. Whistle-blowing and the power of everyone having a handheld computer and camera can be a fantastic tool in keeping the elected in line. 

If the system needs repair, we have tools to fix it. I feel we are long overdue for a tuneup. It will take time, cost pain, and be irritating, but the end results will be worth it. 

Don’t stop trying to help once the elections are over. If you haven’t started to help, start, please.

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Amazon buy-2-get-1 is back, here’s what’s been found to be included so far: 
Carcassonne

Terra Mystica
Pandemic Legacy Blue Board Game
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Istanbul
Five Tribes
Mage Knight
San Juan
Blood Rage
Tokaido
Mysterium
Dominion
Lanterns The Harvest Festival
Small world
Kingdom Builder
power grid deluxe
the castles of burgundy
flash point
the grizzled
ticket to ride Europe
suburbia
catan 5th edition
Elysium
7 Wonders: Duel
Codenames
Forbidden Island

7 Wonders

The Resistance

Concept

Welcome to the Dungeon

Star Wars X Wing

Zombicide Black Plague

Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak

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Shredding the pointer fingertip, perferating the middle finger tip, and minor gashing the ring fingertip  on my dominant hand on a bunch of exposed carpet tacks makes showering and using soap a real hassle. 

Tablet use, not as bad as suspected. 

Picture not included. Maybe after I take off the band aids next.