I no longer know what normal looks like. I feel like I did once upon a time, and that it was not all that long ago. 2024 is odd. That leap day or something else it was just odd. I’ve been away from here for a minute. Sort of by choice sort of by necessity. I am still sorting through a few things and setting myself up to make it through this month.

It feels tougher this year, and I am a little surprised about that. I push things away to handle what is in front of me, and eventually it circles the block. I look at my life today vs 10 years ago and the progress is measurable yet so is the pain.

I watched the VP debate last night and even though I physically yelled to the screen to cut off Vance’s microphone it was a regular boring debate. I remember those and they used to make me happy. I won’t ever not be a politics nerd. The first debate I can recall watching was Regan-Mondale. I recall the controversy with Gary Hart. I remember that Geraldine Ferraro first cracked the glass ceiling that Kamala Harris now resides. She passed in 2010 I think never getting to see Hillary get the nomination and Kamala with her hand on the bible.

This is my 3rd October here. It might just be my last.