Messy year personal-life-wise; wife lost one parent and the other transitioned, which has brought up a lot of drama and emotional damage (not about the transitioning itself, just history of selfish behavior by said parent). Professionally, staff shortages, feeling overworked, time to polish up ye olde resume. Plague-wise, this felt like the year things fell into a “new normal.” It’s not over by any means, but it feels like a more predictable pattern and set of social behaviors, less chaotic. And not a return to old either, as the normalization of WFH has shown.

Geopolitically, the revived Palestinian conflict is depressing, but at least it’s shown the true colors of the various zionists. Like, the Dems position of supporting Israel used to be more an abstract argument against libs, but now it’s been made readily apparent they’re signing off on genocide. Ukraine increasingly looks like it’s a matter of when not if the NAFO heads will have egg on their face. And the planet continues to cook so that sucks.