and then I cam home to a late night semi emergency car repair, which would have been FAR easier if the manual I have for the car actually showed the correct wiring diagram!!

Bastards.

I have not commented on the government shutdown because my patience is at it’s end. I am deliberately ignoring the whole affair lest my better angels lose the battle they have been having for a very long time now.

I have an overdeveloped sense of justice, and I do not posess what others would refer to as a conscience. There is little between who and what I am now and what most would consider a monster. Only an herculean force of will and ignoring the petulant games of assholes is keeping me on the straight and narrow at present.