The Arecibo radio telescope collapsed fully, destroying everything that was left. Trump spent $3m on a recount only for them to find another several hundred votes for Biden. One of the coffee shops I try to support 2-3 times a week had to close due to a COVID case. The biker bar I get a takeout breakfast omelette from on Saturdays (to try and help them out) had to close due to two cases. I finished all the shows I was watching with my wife on our streaming services, so we watched the latest "Bill & Ted" film and are watching Bones now... both of which are OK, but nothing more. Learning how to use my new synthesizers has me watching endless hours of YouTube videos and downloading dozens of updates, to get everything sorted out... which then means the YouTube videos are out of date and talking about versions/features which have changed. And very little music-making happening... I finished removing the old duct work from our old oil-based heating system downstairs... and had to insulate and do a bunch of reframing where the old heat vents used to be. And framing in a space 11 inches tall by 12 feet long by 3 feet deep is just fucking impossible... so I cut all the wood pieces about 1/8" too big, and just wedged them into place, so I could get my battery powered nailgun close enough to put in a couple of tack nails in to kinda hold it all in place. Gonna regret that in the future, I'm pretty sure. Got the final bid for replacing the deck on my house and it's the astonishingly enormous sum of $35k for a 15x15 second-floor deck with a staircase!! Which is less than the $40k bid, but not enough to matter. And I just can't see spending that... but my deck is rotting and coming apart at the seams... so I have to do something... but there are no "good" options... And work at my day job is winding down - my company closes for 2 weeks over Christmas and New Years - and so I have even less to do, but still need to be at my computer and available on email and slack for all the inevitable questions Salespeople will have as they try desperately to meet their numbers before we close down for the year.... interminable waiting interspersed with panicked flurries of urgent pointless chaos... Man... I'm just done. Can we just skip ahead to this exact same day, 2021, please?