Which leads me to summing up the (almost) fortnight into the new year, kinda depressing. My awful hormones aside, 2023 is zipping along just like 2022, Putin claims a cease-fire then proceeds (as expected) to continue bombing. War aside, regular people dropping likes flies, most shockingly Lisa Marie Presley dying of cardiac arrest yesterday. The GOP are still acting like crazed toddlers on crack and doing nutty things like giving in to the far right minority to get McCarthy elected speaker (chaos will be the GOP house word of 2023 I suspect), wanting to get rid of the IRS (and how many American jobs would that be?) and going back to allowing smoking in congress GOP offices (something that began being curbed all the way back in the late 1880's for the obvious reasons).  And climate change serving up more of what scientists have been warning for years, but even worse; the end of 2022 going into 2023 snow storm in the midwest/back east that killed a bunch of people, and the massive atmospheric storms that are continuing to ravish the west, especially California.