New Year’s Eve has Never Been My Favorite.This meh feeling has been magnified the last several years, because New Year’s Eve is when we first found out mom was sick. This year marked 5 years since doctor’s discovered the growth that turned out to be pancreatic cancer. 2019… just me, mom, and dad in an emergency room at the University of Washington Medical Center. We listened to nurses toast the arrival of 2020 in the hallway, as we sat with the news of an accidentally discovered suspicious growth.

It’s time again to fill one post with ALL the things!Dad’s tree, our tree, aunt’s tree.The days before Christmas were filled with fun and errands.We ate at Spaghetti FactoryI generally love The Old Spaghetti Factory. It’s an Italian chain restaurant that opened its first location in Portland, Oregon in 1969. We had one in downtown Seattle from 1970 until 2016. Since its closure, we’ve frequented a location in the burbs. Besides coming for the tasty pasta, this visit we wanted to get a special collectible holiday glass. Goal achieved as you can see from the photo above.

Free pixabay image.We are deep into the holiday season (Thanksgiving, Christmas, heading into the new year) so this seems a good a time as any for a holiday photo dump. ‘Cause if it’s not on the blockchain did it even happen?

Hello My Stacking Friends!It is almost Christmas time. On the Hive blockchain this means two things: It is Secret Santa Season!It is Secret Santa Season!It is the 12 days of Christmas silver wishlist season!It is the 12 days of Christmas silver wishlist season!

Because other people are better putting into words how I feel after yesterday’s US election, I’d like to share a bit of today’s New York Times.Donald Trump told Americans exactly what he planned to do.He would use military force against his political opponents. He would fire thousands of career public servants. He would deport millions of immigrants in military-style roundups. He would crush the independence of the Department of Justice, use government to push public health conspiracies and abandon America’s allies abroad. He would turn the government into a tool of his own grievances, a way to punish his critics and richly reward his supporters. He would be a “dictator” — if only on Day One.

Back on July 20, the silver gold stackers community held its annual Monster Raffle.I did not win a prize…As you will see, @bengy won ALL of the prizes! 😄😄But, @bengy has a good and generous heart. And for some CRAZY reason he felt guilty for winning ALL of the prizes. So, @bengy decided to give three of his prizes away! He did this with the random number generator tool in the silver gold stackers discord.