Tuesday 11 May 2021
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Howdy y’all!
I tell ya sometimes the hardest thing is finding a suitable feature image for a blog post. You’d think that the world would be lousy with non-copyrighted pictures of pessimism, but NOOOOooo, no it’s not. Why do so many drunks think it is funny to take pictures of their half finished beer and post that somewhere on the Interwebs, hunh? Is that helpful?
And pessimism, why is it so hard to spell? Two i’s, two m’s, and three s’s, really? Who makes a word like that? What part of English is that from? If it weren’t for spell checker, I’d have no checker at all.
Anywho, I am down down down lately. Down because of the tattered state of our union. It isn’t even fun to mercilessly tease and insult MAGAs and the conspiracy theorists any more. It might also have something to do with all the talking pundits coopting the cool kids of Twitter teases. It might have something to do with just how badly #COVID19 is turning out in the rest of the world: India, Cambodia, Thailand. I mean things are a mess. Although, Cambodia may have peaked. We’re seeing a decline in the number of daily infections. We’re now averaging about 500 per day when we had been as high as 800. It may have something to do with all the ugly #COVID19 anniversaries that we’re experiencing.
Lucky for you, though, I”ll be writing my optimism post tomorrow. And, the King of Cambodia’s birthday is this week. We get two days off to celebrate. I’ll post a picture if anything exciting happens just outside of our window because of it.
Huzzah!
Jack
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