FYI, I never replied to the orignal email but I got this one.

Wishing you all the best this coming year. Your pop culture advice keeps me going.

The thing I remember most from the last shutdown is the R politicians going on news shows and being like “look at all these lazy government employees sitting at home” while we were just wanting nothing more than to be able to work.

Afrin is great. I don’t care about the rebound.

I have like 20 of these. They are definitely my favorite ornaments. And this year was super awesome because I was in the Navy and am also a fan of Jimmy Carter.

I used to have over 500 books (only half of which I had read) until the first time I had to move them to a new apartment. Nearly died going up and down the stairs After that I donated them to the local library and now that’s where I get all the books I read. Never going back.