Work-wise, I'm dealing with some uncertainty (I'm a federal employee, and Trump seems hellbent on Making-America-Greating me out of a job). This wouldn't be a big deal if I had marketable skills, which I don't. People aren't exactly lining up to hire still another lawyer whose experience consists almost entirely of government benefit programs. Needless to say, morale is not at its peak in my office.

In more positive news, we had a kung fu seminar last weekend, which was awesome. About 20 hours of training over the course of Friday-Sunday. I learned a lot, and there's something about intensive workouts that really gets this stuff under your skin. I really can't wait for the day when I can ditch this law thing altogether and start teaching full time. That's still a ways off, unfortunately, so I'm just trying to cope with things in the meantime.

On the short-term, we're taking an easy night of it. My wife's watching some rom-com or another, while I'm here typing at you lovely folks and deciding what game is next on the agenda. The youngin' is off with grandma for the evening, and they'll both be over tomorrow morning. Grandma will help in the kitchen (where I'm not allowed), while I get drunk on the sofa.

Politics lately has made me aware of how little I actually care about the large-scale and abstract. Part of figuring out how I deal with life in the short-term is going to be looking for ways to affect my immediate surroundings for the better. It's easy to become distracted by wonkery, but the end result is a heartlessness that is unhealthy. Studying Greek and the Bible is helping some; most of Christ's teaching seems to be "stop worrying about rules and just be decent."