I am glad now that Trump will be gone from the public scene …. 👋
For too long, he was the car-wreck that everybody had to gawk at. I loved checking his Twitter feed, getting my dose of White Trash from the White House. Not because I agreed with much of his politics, but because it was so juicy to see who he was throwing under the bus in some kind of pseudo-conservative fascist rant of the day. I will say he was good on Second Amendment, except when he wasn’t, and you could get .22 ammunition easily for a few years.
But I don’t think he was good for the cause of democracy or fairness. While government has rife with personal ambitious financial and else-wise, patronage, and partisan ideology since the time of the founding fathers, former President Trump amped it up another degree. While no politician can be expected to full untie the personal from the public and professional as we are all human, Donald Trump had not qualms of essentially stealing from the taxpayer to benefit himself personally. Patronage — a central part of power — should not be center stage, nor should patronage ever get to point as it did under Trump that it was explicit and a central part of his administration. The power of contracting can grease the skids, but grease shouldn’t be larger then the public benefit.
Much like the wrecker-rig hauls away the junked car and the ambulance hauls the corpse to the mortuary and ultimate burial, it’s finally time to look away and re-open the lanes on the highway so the world can move on. A little drama can make politics interesting and fun, but it shouldn’t be all consuming as it was under Donald Trump. We can disagree with others over our central priorities and values, but we shouldn’t be disagreeable as much of politics was during the Trump years.
They are warning their may be a period of ice this morning. Calm wind. So if you slide off the road, don’t worry about getting chilled through by the wind. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 2 pm. 🌡️
It was a nice hike out there, the deer were fluffy but not as much wildlife as in recent days. Just fewer birds, deer, squirrel. Not sure if it had something to do with the sunny skies, although there was a lot deer by the Lyman Farm. 
And cows like always were cute at Meads farm. 
They are having Sunday dinner, in the usual socially distant fashion of late from opposite sides of the room wearing masks. 
They are getting the COVID-shot this week, so hopefully things will get better for them soon. I doubt I’ll be able to get vaccine myself anytime soon, 
as I’m relatively young and relatively lower risk, but I will do it once it’s widely available and convenient from the local CVS. I don’t want to have to make an appointment or wait in line. 
I am sure in a few months that is how it will be, probably closer to summer or autumn. I can imagine eventually there will be a vaccine surplus, 
and everybody in rush to get the vaccine will be done. 
At this point I kind of like working remotely, especially should the weather get nicer and I can work from camp. 
I spent so much of last summer writing emails and even reports from my phone or laptop. I have to think the fun has to end at some point. 
Based on the current vaccine roll out speed, and the relative smoothness of remote work, since I and others have gotten all the technology to play nicely together, it seems like there is no rush to head back downtown. And I like the idea of working from the hammock in the wilderness with my unlimited video data on the cellphone at 20 GB on the laptop.
29 degrees for the high, with snow becoming widespread in the afternoon through the evening. We could get another half of foot. Then even more snow come Thursday. I hoping its the Lion roaring it’s head and warm up in March, although there is no evidence of that in the long range. But might hope is grounded in the strengthening sun angle. I am thinking about going skiing then but I don’t want to drive home in the snow. Maybe I’ll just figure out somewhere to walk in the neighborhood, but I expect the snow is still kind of deep on the rail trail to walk it without skis.
I will need to get there and pick up the books. I guess the library is open today, but I am thinking Tuesday is going to be sunny, relatively warm and I can work down there for a few hours, and then pick up the books. I am back in line for data cap for the month, so I should be good, but I kind of like having the unlimited broadband at the library. 
I have plenty to read right now.