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2021/12/31> 1ast day of 2021, th 2nd yr of this pandemic, witch guess we can now officially call it ENdemic... ≈ flu, 5umping we just got 2 live with > ain't a big deal in the scheme of things, in 1918-1919 the Spanish flu killed 50 million (of a total population of 1.8 billion), whereas covid has killed 5.4 million out of a population of 8 billion (7,945,529,388 2 B x-act, according 2 th countr on R homepage)... do the math, Spanish flu killed 2.777% of th population, covid has killed 0.067% of the population > worse is th Economic + mental toll, th planit has done nothing but fret abt covid for th last 2 yrs, it's infected R collective headspace > but @ least in 2021 Drumpf dropped out of th headlines, after coming close 2 killing democrazy + sending th world in2 complete K-OS + ⒶnarkE, so guess we got that 2 B thankfull 4... that + not getting covid, @ least not that we know of > but mostly in 2021 we made mu5ic, coalmin8ing w/ th dubble album Tributaries witch we released last week, after releasing a track a week for 25 weeks (in it5self R diary 4 th yr): > according 2 spotify, here's the tracks we streamed the most in 2021... mostly river-themed songs 2 inspire the Tributaries album: > in 2021 we logged 136 posts on Life in the Blog of Ghosts, as we started calling it this year but R thinking we'll go back 2 calling it what it is (5cense.com) in 2022... but we'R getting ahead of R-selves, we'll tock abt 2022 in the next post, this post = abt reflecting back on 2021, wich blog-wise was abt archiving journals from 1997, 1998-99, + 2000-01... only a few yrs left til our Ntire life will B online > looking back thru R posts, th big event of 2021 was Gian's death, + th arrival of brood X + DB Chirot als0 died > in anticipation of disappearing 2 Bologna + als0 b/c of Gian's death (he was abt 2 assume it as N imprint of Tyrant) we considerd abandoning Calamari, but instead brot Gari-L on as co-librarian, got on twitter + made more of a concerted effort 2 keep the archive afloat > al50 broke a tooth R 1st week in Bologna + had 2 get it capped > we ate @ lot of pasta (+ threw R meatless resolutions out the Bolognese window) + drank a lot of sangiovese + pignoletto + gained 5-10 lbs instead of losing 5-10 lbs like we resolved 2 in 2021, so now we have even more 2 lose in 2022, but again, this post is not about 2022 > can't say we didn't see it coming, we just thought it wd lead 2 Trump using that «insurrection» clause to D-clare martial law + nullify th election > got a few more miles in walking back + 4th 2 Malcolm X park 2 reloc8 a family of mice that have taken up residence in R kitschen... we've lived in this house almost 3 yrs now + have never seen a sign of a mouse inside our walls (tho there's loads of rats out on the streets, specially since covid hit + shut down the restraunts on 14th st) > actually, right aftr we moved in we saw a mouse once but it seemed an isol8ed incident + we scared it off + never saw a trace of it again > but yesterday we saw saw a mouse + sum mouse droppings in the cabinet where we keep our garbage, where we saw the mouse come out of (≈ 1/4 inch gap) > we sealed the gap w/ 1/4 felt tape + set a Captsure trap b8ed w/ jalapeño jack+ early this morning there was a tiny little mouse that we set loose in Malcolm X park > when we came back from our walk there was another mouse in there, this 1 we xpect = mama cuz she's like 2x as big > she was acting pretty chill + kept eating the cheese + grooming herself as if she was domestic8ed > we also set her loose in Malcolm X park, posting thi5 video of her release on twitter + less than an hour later we cot another 1, this 1 also small, so probly another pup... we suspect that since we cut off their food source their getting hungry + desper8, coming out in the middle of the day 2 4age > so now we just have 2 ketch the rest of them b4 they starve in R walls > it's a warm day so hopefully they will reunite as a family + adapt 2 their new surroundings in Malcolm X |
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