Tuesday, December 29, 2020

2020 And then the unthinkable happened!


I can imagine it all clearly.

Many years from now an old geezer me sitting in a rocking chair with grandkids on my lap…


“Grandpa tell us that one again”


Which one? The zombie attack of 2022?


“No, the other one. That really amazing one!” 


Oh you mean when the Mt. Fuji eruption of 2025 uncovered the portal to an alien world? 


“No grandpa! Those are boring we want to hear about that one that nobody saw coming! You know. That super crazy OMG satire ain’t even this bizarre one. The one about the $2,000 relief payment agreement!” 


Oh that one.  Okay children listen up.  It was the final days of 2020―the year of the worst pandemic in a century.  Hundreds of thousands of American lives lost and thousands more dying daily many months after Trump had promised it’d magically disappear by spring and mused aloud about injecting people with disinfectant.  It didn’t disappear of course, even though Trump did his best to control its spread by constantly golfing, rage tweeting, spreading lies and disinformation and refusing to accept getting trounced by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the November Presidential Election. 

But none of that worked. 

So then Trump did the unthinkable.  

He agreed with Nancy Pelosi! 

Boy was it ever a sight to see. Two arch-enemies  in lockstep agreement about what action the US Federal Government should take next.  And so as 2020 came to an end they…


I'd continue but old geezer me would probably fall asleep by then


Seriously though, Trump and Pelosi are agreeing with each other.  

Nice play 2020.  I definitely did NOT have that’n on my BINGO card.  


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In late summer 1998 I moved from the place I grew up and spent most of my life (Central California) to a small town in Japan. I loved training in Shotkan and dreamt of training in Japan someday, I just didn't know someday would arrive when it did. I signed a one year English teaching contract, missed California life quite a bit but decided okay one more year then that's it. A few months into that second year contract I met a girl. You can probably guess the rest. The plan was return to California eventually but here I am still--still with that girl and now three awesome getting bigger every day kids to boot. Sometimes we pick the journey. Sometimes life does. I still enjoy doing martial arts. Still learning how to dad. Got a house, learned the word expat, etc. Oh yeah, and I love to write. Not that I know anything more about it than what I haven't forgotten that English teachers taught me. More that I find joy in doing it. Write for who or about what? The greatest American poet sums it up best: "One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself".