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~ Guy Hall

Because, you know, I’m the Inconsistent Blogger.

Feb 25, 2025

So, some catch-up is in order.

First, on January 30th of this year, I hit 40 years of sobriety. After all these years, it has become just another day. Still, it is something worth noting. Oh, and I’m so dry that the DNR has a fire spotter following me around.

Second, Valentine’s Day was Tina and I’s 11th anniversary of living together. I had known her online since 2003, but we didn’t start dating until 2012, which initially was a long-distance romance as she lived in Green Bay, I lived in Rutledge, and then Willow River. This long-distance romance lasted 2 years until she finished her two-year college course then wrongfully fired from her job. Considering it was in Wisconsin, you’ve got to be a poorly run company to have that government find you’ve fired someone wrongfully.

Third, after not running since November 10th, 2024, I’ve resumed my exercise routine starting on February 22nd, 2025. Yes, I am in pain. But it is temporary, and I will make it through to the other side.

Oh fuck. I now have a Doors tune ear-worming me. Sigh.

Anyway, that’s it for now. Carry on as you see fit for the current apocalyptic time.

Let’s Catch-up

Guy’s Substack

Guy Hall

Hope, too, is legitimate

~ Guy Hall

It is not that we are doomed to the worst possible imagined outcome so much as that we are afraid it is possible, even if not probable. Yet, if we can imagine the worst, we can also imagine the best. So, note the fear, for it is legitimate. But we can also note hope; it, too, is legitimate.

Good Morning Apocalypse!

Gandolf
~ Guy Hall

How goes the slow, steady decline of the U.S. this morning? Fires still raging? Hurricanes rampaging in from the Atlantic and Caribbean? How’s the unemployment numbers doing? How about them COVID numbers?

Yes, yes. I know. [cue Heath Ledger’s Joker’s voice] Why so glum?

Maybe I’m not so much glum as I am pragmatic. All weekend the smoke from the west coast fires have dampened the sunlight here in the upper Mid-west. And that dampening has been happening for longer than just one weekend. Last year’s fires didn’t cause as much lowering of light.

But I am not pessimistic. I have a job, a house, and can put food on my table and in the cats’ bowls. Things are well for us, for the moment. The future holds whatever is instore for all of us, and it is not for us to know. Nor am I willing to sacrifice the moment to an uncertain future.

I slept well last night and feel rested at this moment. It’s has been a while since I’ve slept well. Mostly I’ve been tossing and turning, waking up three or four times a night. So I am content.

Now, if you all will excuse me, I have a morning routine to accomplish. Be on your best behaviors. I know better than to tell you all to behave, because – well, quite frankly – that’s just not possible. And I don’t want to spoil your fun for the day.