I called in sick today. I’m in the FMLA program due to chronic depression so taking a day when I need to doesn’t get me in trouble, although if I use too much time it’s unpaid.

It’s dark enough in St. Paul that the streetlights are on and we’re having a thunderstorm and it’s raining cats and dogs. Western MN is getting blasted with snow right now and it’s supposed to change over to snow here too later this afternoon (glad to see that ice isn’t in the forecast).

I got a call from my youngest sister this morning kind of upset because she made the mistake of trying to have a discussion with the sister who’s lost her mind to hateful conservative ‘christianity’. She knows that it’s a lost cause, but she was trying to counteract one particular lie that crazy sister was hammering. We both agreed that she should make the point one more time and then give up.