I had every intent on posting a lot more (and a lot more candidly) over here but then I went and messed it up cause one of my first posts was the big union one which got a lot of eyeballs on me and I immediately thought "well shoot if I just start mumbling all the other crap inside my head it'll undermine my single good post" which despite being silly on its face is a really hard notion to shake myself out of! But I'll have some time to work on it now because: I'm going on vacation!
Sort of, anyways. Dos and I are flying across the country to visit his family for Easter, and that part's cool, but I really gotta admit that neither of us are super-jazzed to be on an airplane at this current point in time. We'll be wearing our Envomasks (reusable masks with certified N95 filters) the whole time, but based on what I've read it's still kind of a coin flip if you get sick or not. We've been pretty fortunate so far considering we both were working in retail when all this started and I never really stopped, but still. I'm consoling myself by remembering that we have actually made this trip once before with no issue, although that was back during that one Summer that was post-vax but pre-variants, when we collectively thought "wow that was bad, but at least the end is in sight". And honestly, my mask has gotten me thru a lot of shifts working shoulder-to-shoulder with people who would later be confirmed to have been positive at the time, so I'm just holding out hope for the best.
Other than that, I keep meaning to throw up some pics and words about the big union rally I went to a couple weeks ago but I've just been lazy about it, mostly because I was sharing so much of it with my coworkers who did not attend in the moment and then sent it around to so many bespoke places online I kind of got tired of seeing the same photos and saying the same words, but maybe I'll have something else union-wise to post soon. Organizing is hard and I'm not very good at it, but damn if it doesn't soothe the soul like nothing else.
I also keep meaning to make more posts about video games because at the end of the day that's all I REALLY want to talk about, all this other stuff is just window dressing to try and sucker you into reading my contrarian opinions about which games are good and which games are bad.

