Happy Fallout Day to anyone who's still a fan of the Fallout franchise somehow. It peaked with New Vegas, Fallout 4 is where I lost interest, Fallout 76 still looks like shit. The TV show and its upcoming Season 2 do be looking gnarly though.

New roommates are moving in and I got caregivers that haven't become religious Qanon fanatics. For my family friend that's stuck in it all, I have all my thoughts and prayers for her recovery from the Qanon fascist conspiracy phenomenon, and that she moves on to healthier ideologies and beliefs, like liberation theology I guess? And drop all the homophobia and all sorts of fucked up bigotry.

Things are vastly stabilized now on the personal front.

The world around me though, it's like there's one war or crises one after the other. I can't take it, but then I'm reminded through the tent cities and increasing poverty of my local environment, the struggling of my friends and acquaintances, and even myself and my loved ones personally.

One day at a time. I live with the mindset I'm a background character in a dystopian story. Learning skills like carpentry and agriculture like the spaghetti squash I grew last year, not making much progress this year.

It's been rough going through how frighteningly and violently political this year's been. Anyways, here's to a cozy winter to weather through, be optimistic and all that. Lovely autumn we're having, I must say, in all its vibrant orange colours.