Commenting on the banal November 2021 is almost over. In some ways it seems like March 2020 just got here. Back then, not that I knew it at the time, but I was finishing up a gig at a small town newspaper. Part of the reason it was wrapping up was due to COVID-19, part of it was due to a mystery illness that was probably COVID-19, and part of it was stubbornness that kept me at my desk when I couldn’t do the work.