Tree is down and boxed up

I still have boxes all over.  Have not taken down the lights draped along the fence.  I kind of want to leave them up longer.  I could bundle everything else back into the attic and just put that light string in the shed for storage.   See what happens.  I've been working on some garage cleanup.  Finally tossing some stuff.  I still feel like I have to tie up bags with broken crap in them and get them in dumpster before dad notices I am throwing broken or now useless item X away and insists on keeping it and I'm probably correct.  But he is at a point where he is not likely to notice some specific item he was holding onto because he might fix it someday has disappeared.  The other impediment to decluttering is my own emotions of "but but but, maybe I could repurpose this or fix that someday"    But slow progress is okay as long as progress is made.  Every last item dealt with now is one less thing when I want to clear the place out to sell it later plus I feel better not having crap stacked up all over the house.  I am super happy that I finally used the internet to track down someone to send pictures that got left in Ed's condo 20 years ago.  I feel a bit badly that I forgot their existence and didn't do that 5-10 years ago; but the family will have the pictures when the USPS gets them delivered and any quarantine period is over.  

Back on the decluttering track

 It is partly just a procrastination tactic.  Avoid the mental and emotional stress of trying to set up a side hustle or change jobs because "I need to get this done first."   But it truly does have to be done and it would absolutely suck to be trying to learn my may around a new job and have dad die or end up in a nursing home and have to deal with all this physical mess of stuff before I could sell or get a roommate or whatever I decided should be done.  

At the same time I've been meaning to take down the Christmas tree but not getting to it for over a week.  I need to go ahead and get that done.   Not that the tree takes very much space, but I want to get all the Christmas decoration boxes put back up in the attic so I'm not working around them while dealing with sorting all the stuff still in the porch and garage.  

I guess I should try to find a new job

Or perhaps try to set up a hobby sideline.   I'm not in fear of losing the job and in fact I feel like I should go more in the Galt direction of putting in bare amount of work to support myself since the commies have come to power, aided and abetted by the media and with the law refusing to act in the face of the fact that the commies got tired of trying to persuade people and just used massive election fraud.  

But the job is my mental refuge from the yucky aspects of living with an 80 year old anti-Fauci.  Morally it would be worse to run away from that home situation than to be aiding the commies via the gub'ment funded job.  But the better moral path would be to find another way to distract from the ewwww yuucckk stuff so it doesn't drive me batty.  

Going to wash that year right out of my hair

 I thought I might do this last night after the UTC rollover before heading to bed, but ended up in a fire drill when clocks were failing.   Boss was working on them too and it turned out to be a weird bug with year rollover, although I had needed to do the copy of a file to 2021 from the last 2020 version as well.  

But all the computers at work are doing their thing this morning and aside from the symbolic good riddance to the year of the 'pandemic', the illegal shutdown orders for businesses that were by and large complied with, as no one realized right away that it wasn't about public health but just the power of the state, the in your face election fraud with MSM crowing about their victory instead of asking questions about all the obvious fraud because they were in on it etc etc  I need to wash the last few days of grime out of my hair.  

I am grateful to have the modern bathroom with hot shower, lots of heat, and a blow dryer.  Stupid useful idiots for the commies have NO idea that these conveniences might go away if the commies prevail and put in their green new deal and so on.  Some of the useful idiots have never camped long enough to miss these marvels made possible by cheap energy.   I'd love to ship groups of them to Venezuela to live with common folk there for a couple weeks and learn the truth about socialism/communism.