It's been a day of alternating between chores and rest. We did get the Christmas Tree put up, and the main floor of the house continues to trend toward a Christmas Eve Party Zone. T thinks we'll have 8-10 people show up, which is a smaller group than has been our average for Christmas Eve. I'm indifferent to how many people show up, and it's ( Read more... )

It's a lazy morning -- I slept past 8am because I stayed up late playing with my new iPad. Wow, iPads have come a long way in the past decade since I bought my last one ( Read more... )

So, we still don't have a federal budget past midnight tonight, but for today we do have one last day of budget authority, so I'll commute downtown for the last time this year ( Read more... )

As of yesterday's market closing, long-term interest rates are now higher than short-term interest rates for the first time since the fall of 2022. It could just be a blip, but perhaps the interest-rate inversion is now over after two years ( Read more... )

The federal budget runs out tomorrow night, and literally nobody on Capitol Hill knows whether an extension will pass by then or what might be in it. This because yesterday President-Elect Trump threatened Republicans with primary challengers two years from now if they wouldn't drop their carefully-negotiated bipartisan budget bill in favor of ( Read more... )

T cooked dinner for us, yum! And there was enough for leftovers! I commuted and spent a full day at the office ( Read more... )

Our house has become ridiculously overstuffed, especially now that T has moved back in with his "second household" of stuff. It had already been overstuffed, now we've reached ridiculous proportions ( Read more... )

Trump held a wide-ranging press conference today, and he used the occasion to state he would "dismiss" federal workers who don't return to the office. He also stated he would sue to revoke union contracts that provide for telework (although he's clearly not an authority on labor law, even the President is bound by a union contract that has been ( Read more... )

Yes, the biweekly Maids/Trash/Recycling Day. T had already completed much of the chores yesterday, but I still rose before 7am to help finish them. He seemed in good cheer for a Monday morning. He went to a friend's Christmas party yesterday afternoon while I went to Baltimore to wish Steve a happy birthday. With Steve and Drew I played Sevens, ( Read more... )

The main reason I posted that confident rant to Reddit last night is because for the past few days I wasn't feeling confident at all ( Read more... )