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Nov. 14th, 2025 12:05 pmAt the end of last month, when we all put our leave in so the front desk schedule could be made up, I took leave for a number of days because I had a lot of use/lose hours and the distinct possibility of being unable to take any of them in December due to being furloughed. Now, of course, I won't be furloughed, but the days off have still been scheduled, and now I'm off today, and will be working only three days next week and two the week after.
I'd like to be mad at the Democrats along with everyone else. But I honestly wonder if holding out would've done any good anyway. Trump was only getting nastier, and the media was basically allowing him to blame the shutdown on the Democrats, with too much of this country's population not even knowing their health care was at stake. And that the government's only funded until the end of January even raises the question of if they're hoping to simply stage this fight again later, with the the Republicans having now outright let the subsidies die more in the public eye, the SNAP benefits safe until September, and much more Epstein-related material released. (And I would not be surprised if the party brass made this decision. That *all* the senators who voted to end it are the ones not trying to get reelected makes one wonder if they were merely the ones who agreed in the backroom to take the fall.) Tactical retreats in wartime are a painful, casualty-heavy business.
I was actually looking forward to streaming, but I've now seen enough in recent days to think now might not have been the time anyway. I'm very much leaning towards trying it at some point, but maybe next year. Heck, maybe I'll just end up getting furloughed in April, and I'll do it then.
I'd like to be mad at the Democrats along with everyone else. But I honestly wonder if holding out would've done any good anyway. Trump was only getting nastier, and the media was basically allowing him to blame the shutdown on the Democrats, with too much of this country's population not even knowing their health care was at stake. And that the government's only funded until the end of January even raises the question of if they're hoping to simply stage this fight again later, with the the Republicans having now outright let the subsidies die more in the public eye, the SNAP benefits safe until September, and much more Epstein-related material released. (And I would not be surprised if the party brass made this decision. That *all* the senators who voted to end it are the ones not trying to get reelected makes one wonder if they were merely the ones who agreed in the backroom to take the fall.) Tactical retreats in wartime are a painful, casualty-heavy business.
I was actually looking forward to streaming, but I've now seen enough in recent days to think now might not have been the time anyway. I'm very much leaning towards trying it at some point, but maybe next year. Heck, maybe I'll just end up getting furloughed in April, and I'll do it then.
