A Thanksgiving Review

I thought I'd do something different for this Thanksgiving post. This is kind of a review of my Thanksgiving and a few Thanksgiving thoughts.

I'll start with some thoughts on the holiday. I'm not a big basher of this holiday. I get that this may not be a great holiday for the indigenous people of this land. It is what it is and I can't right the wrongs of 200 years past. With that said, I'm thankful for this land, being born here and all the opportunities it has afforded me.

I'm also thankful for #cryptocurrency, motorcycles, #hive, the freedom to travel, and family and friends both online and IRL. In the greater scheme of things I have a lot to be thankful for.

This wasn't a great Thanksgiving by any means. If I'm being truthful, this was probably the worst Thanksgiving ever! At least the worst I can remember.... Oops, there was that time back in the late 80s when I went on a 3 day LSD binge and slept through Thanksgiving altogether. Ooh misguided youth. That didn't go over with the family to well at all 🤣 So I guess, this made for the second worst Thanksgiving ever.

Mom was sick this year. She's elderly and naturally everyone is scared of the slightest sniffle. Myself included when it comes to the elderly. I ended up having Thanksgiving at my cousins house with her inlaws and my father. Great people for the most part. That was nice.

Personally I like Thanksgiving at home with family and friends. I like cracking open a nice bottle of whiskey, drinking some decent beer, watching football and doing a little cooking. I really can't do that when I go out for Thanksgiving. This year, I vaped a little THC before dinner and munched down several gummies throughout the evening. It was probably my first alcohol free Thanksgiving ever or since I was about 15 and allowed to drink beer in the house! (God that sounds funny now, but the drinking age back then was 18 and it wasn't uncommon to have a couple beers in your early teens back then.)

Thanksgiving at my cousins wasn't without hiccups. Her turkey roaster broke, and dinner was delayed for several hours. My father was a nervous wreck leaving my mother home alone sick. There were a few other hiccups too. It was nice being invited though and we made the best of it.

It's funny, I don't realize how different my life is from "normal" until I get out with other people my own age. I have nothing in common with most people IRL and my perspective of most things differs greatly from people IRL. I can thank the internet for that.

Conversations started with the most boring and mundane of topics. What do you do for work? My reply at first was I don't work. Then I changed my answer to I actually work all day 24/7. It really doesn't feel that way to me though. Then of course you have to explain cryptocurrency to people and that you can trade them like stocks on the internet. I have one cousin that trades so her and I talked a little about crypto for a bit.

Eventually the topic of conversation turned to Covid and the vaccine. I stayed out of that conversation as I listened to family member turn against family member "for" and "against it". Every time I hear this argument I weep for our future. On this particular evening I tried to ignore the conversation while staring at the football game on TV and pretending I was actually interested in the game. Honestly, outside of my hometown team and watching the game with my 80 year old father, I have very little interest in the sport. Even worse when someone tries to have a conversation with me about the game. I generally smile and nod as they start puking up statistics and talk about individual players.

By the end of the evening I realized why most of my human interaction is with anonymous cartoon characters on the internet. 🤣

Well for the most part, it was a nice evening. I ate turkey and pecan pie, got stoned and watched football with my father. Life's good! It's little things like that I'm thankful for!