Will we get April fools pink hubski again?

Both Portugal. the Man and Mavis Staples released an album last Friday. Both are great, would recommend.

Can't believe it's been a year since the last election. It simultaneously went wildly fast and concerningly slow. Glad with the turnout and results yesterday, hoping there's real positive change from all this but I'm not holding my breath.

When we went to Japan back in May I got myself a fountain pen -- LAMY Safari with an EF tip. Also got a Pilot Coccoon and a Pilot Custom 74 for my partner. I've really been enjoying mine, but want a fatter nib so I'm exploring getting a second. If anyone has recommendations I'm all ears!

I have an app called "Merlin" that helps identify birds. It's really fun and works through either identifying by how the bird looks or by bird call identification. It alo shows likely birds by region and season. In addition to all that fun stuff, it gives you a bird of the day to watch for, based on likely birds for location and season. I've been using my fountain pen to do quick sketches of my bird of the day the past week and it's been fun. I can't draw for shit and I'm making them all one color, my rock pigeon looks deranged, my stellar's jay looks like it's trying to rob a bank, and my golden crowned kinglet is rotund as fuck. But it's fun. It's a nice 5 minute break from work every day.

Today is my grandmother's 89th birthday. She's got a broken back and was just discharged from a hospital to a SNF. Hoping she'll recover well but she's 89 and I'm not holding my breath. My partner and I are celebrating 4 years around now too. Time flies.

It's a specific type of electric work we need done so we need the specialist -- replacement of knob and tube. I'm also taking it as a good sign it means he's in demand and likely then does quality work.

Lol a little over a year at this point! Once or twice I've pulled from the home distilling one too because #bootlegpubski, but they tend to be heavily discussion based and pics of stills, not cocktails with homemade liquor. /r/firewater if you want to have some fun.

Just signed up for an electrician. They're busy, likely won't be able to come until January. Painting is slow going, we've done two windows of trim, one wall in the dining room, and the upper half of the bathroom (beadboard vs drywall). Taping is by far the worst part. And we don't even have colors picked out for the living room, kitchen, or primary bedroom yet.

Big shout-out to the cocktails reddit page for always having someone posting cocktail pictures it's been fun looking at them for a new pic every week.

Hope all is well with everyone!

VHT's top holdings include United Healthcare, JnJ, Eli Lilly, AbbVie, Abbott Labs, and Merck. Any large cap ETF you hold will have exposure to those already. I just wanted a bit more because I've been entrenched in the immorality of it all for a decade now and don't see it changing anytime soon. My general large cap ETFs (VOO and QQQ) have done better likely because tech exposure in those pulling it all up. But long term I'm unfortunately confident healthcare will continue to be used for shareholder profit and not for the benefit of people so I sought out some extra exposure.

Money in healthcare is a huge issue and I could soapbox about it for days but suffice to say it's long been an issue at every level of care and will continue to for the forseeable future.

It's far from my best performing asset but I do hold a few shares of VHT. The future retiree hopes to see it go up but the human in me wants it to disappear and end investable healthcare.