Five days until I leave for my first week long vacation since 2009. Not that I’m counting the days or anything like that.

Haven’t taken a vacation vacation other than one three day weekend to the outer banks in over a decade. Closer to two. Just booked an airbnb, rental car and round trip flight to Ausin Texas with plans to road trip out to other places. #Texas here I come.

The real reason to not want to use violence to solve the problem. It’s not that government officials whether elected/appointed/just working for the man don’t have it coming. It’s how likely it is to go this way.

One of the most surreal experiences I’ve had was at a Jimmy Buffet concert in Charlotte not long after Dale Earnhardt died. He played this song with pictures and video of Dale on the screen. I can still remember the feeling in the crowd. Hopefully it was a good life all the way.

Hot take: technology is at a point where if we’re going to do this government thing, everything is done by popular vote. Especially if it’s something that’s going to cost a ton of money. No secret ballots. Let everyone know which of their neighbors support extorting their money from them and how much for a given reason. One adult citizen equals one vote? It equals one share of the tax bill for the new program. Program is 100 billion dollars and there 260,837,000 citizens? Add 384 dollars to everyone’s federal income tax bill across the top. No more spending money of people who won’t be born for another couple of centuries. What’s good for the federal government is of course good for the state and local governments as well.