This blog is not dead. It has, I suppose, been on pause for a while, though less in a state of stasis and more one of catatonia. A fugue state, if you will. I, too, have been running in place. It’s been nine months since my last post here, but somehow I find myself standing in the same spot, figuratively speaking. Same problems at work, same assholes creating crises in the news on the daily, and same frustrated sense that I’m functioning as a willing tool in the wholesale squandering of my own life. 2025 was characterized by days full…