{"id":48345,"date":"2021-12-30T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48345"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T19:32:41","slug":"a-2021-year-end-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48345","title":{"rendered":"A 2021 year-end post"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Looking back at all my old posts on a near-daily basis through the <\/span>On This Day<\/a> plug-in I use, I realize that I\u2019ve written a whole lot of year-end posts throughout the years, which makes me feel somewhat obligated to write one for this year as well.\u00a0 Initially, my thought was \u201cfuck, ain\u2019t nobody got time for this shit,\u201d but then I stopped to actually think about the year 2021 as a whole, and realized that making one, really shouldn\u2019t be that difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeing as how in my double dad duty life, I\u2019m typically always in search of the <\/span>path of least resistance<\/a>, \u201cshouldn\u2019t be that difficult,\u201d pleases me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although plenty of things happened both in my own little bubble, as well as the rest of the world, for me, the year really can be summed up pretty succinctly as a tale of two halves.\u00a0 The first half of the year was spent preparing for the birth of #2, where my job made me miserable and was sucking the life out of me.\u00a0 And then literally halfway through the year, #2 arrived, embarking on the second half of the year where my job still made me miserable, but it was compounded by the ever-living difficulty of parenting two under two with insufficient help.<\/span><\/p>\n

All while the coronavirus pandemic that plagued most of 2020, still raged on throughout the entire 2021, regardless of how stupid, arrogant and ignorant the rest of the world seemed to become because we\u2019re all a bunch of selfish fucks who can\u2019t understand the importance of quarantine and distancing, and have to be out in public events and crowded restaurants.\u00a0 Vaccinations came into fruition, and smart people got them, but it didn\u2019t make everyone suddenly invincible, as much as it dulled the fatality capabilities of coronavirus.\u00a0 But that was good enough for everyone, and I stopped pondering which was worse between the unvaccinated and the vaccinated who thought they were bulletproof.<\/span><\/p>\n

On that description alone, it sounds like 2021 may have sucked, and I\u2019d be the first to admit that I did have a tremendous amount of time with dark clouds over me and inside my head.\u00a0 But none of it has any bearing for the love I have for my children, no matter how hard they\u2019ve made my life in this current juncture, and no matter how much I bitch and write pissy brog posts, they are still my happiness and the greatest things to have happened to my life along with mythical wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say that the year was entirely a wash.\u00a0 It\u2019s just pretty easy to sum up in very broad strokes, that make it sound negative.\u00a0 Aside from the birth of my second child, she brought baby luck into play, and despite thinking I wouldn\u2019t ever see it in my lifetime, the Atlanta Braves won the World Series.\u00a0 I mean if that isn\u2019t the very embodiment of baby luck, I don\u2019t know what was, the Braves had 88 wins and had no business making the playoffs, but they did, got hot, and rode the momentum all the way to the Commissioner\u2019s Trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also got the NXT UK Tag Team replica blet, that I\u2019ve been waiting to come into existence for three years.\u00a0 That pleased me greatly and was a good way to wind down the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, and the new job I secured with the year winding down.\u00a0 A substantial raise, elevated job title, and for the inevitable future where I have to report back into an office, a shorter commute.\u00a0 Plus, it gave me the long-awaited departure from my toxic current boss, and I can\u2019t wait to get the fuck away from her.\u00a0 That shit is really fantastic news too.<\/span><\/p>\n

But because I\u2019m a nerd that takes general notes on the happenings that interest me, the following things also occurred in 2021:<\/span><\/p>\n