"cavorting with the enemy...."

I’m doing my best to ignore the tariff merry-go-round. Things have become so absurd that I’ve been avoiding news sites and social media, and people in general. If I’m out and I see a person coming towards me my new base instinct is to flee. I wake up. I do my job. At around 5pm I sit in the corner living room chair and read a little. All my books come from the library now. I feel like a weasel buying them from Bezos like I used to. I don’t eat much. Never did really. I started taking old dude vitamins because I can still hear my mother in my head telling me I’m gonna get scurvy if I don’t eat vegetables. I still don’t eat vegetables. I’m still not sure what scurvy is but it sounds nasty. I stopped drinking in November, so I don’t have that to fall back on anymore. A pity in times such as these, but sometimes drinking just made me feel silly and old…..like somebody who never quite got over high school. I may decide to have a beer tonight, but for now at least I’m using belt loops that haven’t seen action in 20 years. That’s a good bit. Getting old is depressing enough without adding fat to the cake mix.