Wrapping up 2021, and Welcome to 2022!
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I did lots of writing in 2021, but have little to show for it, did my regular book reviews, and fooled around with Wallpapers. I'm not sure I accomplished anything though, besides scoring a permanent job (which is more a 2020 achievement anyway). That's... sad.
Outside my front door we had to face a full-strength Covid invasion, including lockdowns, curfews, and inoculation waves, and thanks to heaven I managed to escape the disease until after my inoculation shots, and only caught it in 2022. Which wasn't fun.
Just before the Covid wave, the world was facing a supply crunch, and in 2020 and 2021 you could see it happen everywhere. Personally, I think it wasn't just the Covid epidemic strangling the worldwide supply chains, it was also an overly reliance on 'Just In Time' production methods, that was just waiting to result in a global meltdown. Covid sped it up, but wasn't the main cause, or so I believe.
The good news: we have vaccines for Covid. The bad news: the stupid virus is mutating.
More good news: Trump's gone. More bad news: that doesn't seem to stop the erosion of democracy. Then again, who believes in democracy anymore? I guess the best kind of government is an enlightened dictatorship. Unfortunately, most dictators are not that enlightened... (You could make them see the light with a couple of jerrycans of petrol and a match, I guess.)
Then, finally, and in the light of everything else happening perhaps the least important thing of all, it's Max Verstappen becoming a world champion in F1, in the most controversial final race of a season ever. Hey, even I admit that. But the point is: a season isn't won in a single race, it's won over the whole season. And Verstappen / Red Bull clearly has been the best pairing over the whole season. None of the British fans agree, but who cares, there's more to the world than the UK, as the Brexit has already shown...
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