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I have come to realize that the performance issues I was complaining about yesterday are pretty much isolated when I have fucking Facebook open. They are intentionally making it difficult to use any kind of tracking blocker or ad blocker on their piece of shit site. This may be the year I say bye bye. I mean let's be honest - what's on there anyway? People reposting shit from radio stations and buzzfeed and "checking in" at places giving free advertising to other places? Useless. We're 11 days away from cheeto and here's a quick look at everything that has happened recently:

1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day.

2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee’s salary to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people in Energy and State.

3. Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books those hearings with Trump’s first press conference in months and an ACA budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or protest.

4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget Office from reporting or tracking ANY costs related to the repeal of the ACA.

5. Trump continues to throw the intelligence community under the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that the Russians deliberately interfered in our election.

6. Trump breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by asking Congress (in other words, us, the taxpayers) to pay for it.

7. Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US.

8. House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules enacted by any federal agency or department–for example, FDA or EPA bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not science. Don’t like that endangered species designation, Congress kills it.

Nice, huh? Lovely world.

The kid and I went out by ourselves yesterday. Headed downtown. Went book shopping, ice cream, lunch, etc. We had a nice time. While I am sad to see her go, I feel good about what she is doing and how she is going to end up. I wish I was as solid as she is at that age. She's going to be okay.

We went for dinner, came back, relaxed. Today she needs to pack and her driver will be here around 2. B cousin finally made it home at 11pm last night. They still wanted us to drive them from downtown. Um, no. I am not going there at 10pm. Sorry. I need my sleep. I have to be up at 4 tomorrow so today was my last one to get in full sleep.

That's about it. Life will go back to quiet and boring as of this afternoon.