Grab bag

Gonna do a grab bag of thoughts tonight since I can't think of anything bigger to write about.

Thanksgiving is coming up, Zena and I are doing the cooking, I am excited, we have never done the Thanksgiving cooking before, I mean we've contributed dishes, but haven't put together the whole shebang, but what with her sister still recovering from surgery and her folks splitting time between houses to help out, we get to step in, I get to make turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries, and brussel sprouts, Zena will do yams and an assortment of deserts, probably some other stuff I forgot to mention, gonna be fun.

Anti-refugee fervor is reaching a fever pitch here in the states, or at least the Republicans think it is, they are alienating even the evangelical organizations with their massive Islamophobia and callousness.

John Kasich, in an effort to prove he can be just as insane as anyone else in the race, has called for the formation of a department in the US government responsible for propagating the Jewish and Christian faiths in places like China and the Middle East. Because I guess the separation of church and state is only a guideline or something.

Speaking of insane people, Bobby Jindal dropped out of the race earlier, he finally decided that polling consistently below 2% on national polls was not going to make a successful campaign, and I assume wants to spend more time defending his own position as governor of Louisiana, it seems he will be up for a rough reelection this time around.

I've been playing a lot of Fallout 4, it's been quite fun so far, but I have a sneaking suspicion it isn't quite as good as the previous games, it looks beautiful an there is a ton of stuff to do in the game, but it doesn't do a great job of keeping you invested in the story after the first thirty minutes when the game world opens up. I am a big fan of Travis, the voice of Diamond City Radio though.

I think I am going through a mild phase of depression, usually if I am consistently up past four AM that is on explanation for it, I just have this feeling that there is something important I am failing to do, and that everything is ruined because of it. I know that is not the case, I am actually up on most of my obligations at the moment, but tell that to my brain.

It effects my motivation in the strangest ways, I think nothing of playing some mindless freeware game for hours on end, but responding to a friend on Facebook is somehow too much effort, sorry Whitney, I am happy for you that your portfolio was accepted, one day I may be able to click "like" but for now apparently all I can do is write about it here.
Pretty sure it's behind my somewhat erratic schedule for doing these posts too. Whatever, I'll get over it, I am lucky that way, some folks can't.