50/50 can't last!
28 January 2021 20:19![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_d_hThe longest period the US Senate has been divided 50/50 was less than five months. Although US Senate elections are generally held every two years, there's continued churn in between elections. Senators occasionally die, sometimes they abruptly resign for whatever reason. They may decide to run for a different office instead, or take a Cabinet position, or even switch parties. Then each state has its own rules for replacing its Senators, and in some cases that replacement could be from the other party.
Sitting here on the Left in the US, I hope the next Senate churn moves in our direction instead of back to the Republicans. We could move the center-of-gravity swing Senator from WV to MT, a very slight improvement ;-)
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Part of my retirement planning is my personal 30-year Green Communism path, also paying off all my non-mortgage debt, and eventually moving out of this house. But another part is doing what I've been telling everybody on the Left to do -- moving to a state where my vote isn't completely wasted. I think I've written in here before that I want to move to the swingiest state that has already legalized marijuana, because I might want to smoke occasionally in retirement and I'd like to do so legally. The only place I've ever bought marijuana legally in my entire life was Amsterdam, on a trip with K. Although marijuana is legal in DC, it isn't legal to buy it in DC. I haven't bought it illegally in DC either, not recently anyway. I think the last time I bought pot in the US was back around when 9/11 happened.
Michigan was the state, last time I checked. And then I picked out which city I want to live in, and then I even picked out which building I want to live in, heh. But this will probably change between now and 2027.
Of course, I might end up in a new or different relationship by then, which would require negotiations about possibly moving somewhere. Maybe I'm stuck in the DC area for life. Maybe my future partner wants to move to Portland like everybody else, heh.
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B's husband is back in town for the weekend (don't ask me why, I don't know), so I won't get the house to myself. T encouraged me to go to the condo this weekend. He said he'd take Dax to the vet on Saturday, so I might head downtown midday tomorrow, although I'd still have to work when I got there, I have an afternoon meeting. But I could get an earlier start on my fun if I drive there midday.
I thought about waiting until Saturday and going for one night, but we're probably getting significant snow on Sunday ... do I want to be driving back to the house in a snowstorm?
If I can get my weight lifting done tomorrow morning, and can drive downtown before my afternoon meeting, I'll probably head to the condo tomorrow. Then the snow forecast will help me to decide whether I stay one night or two. Also, checking in with T about how he's doing. We are still each other's primary social support during Quarantine and my life is easier when my presence helps him to avoid an emotional crash, just as my life is easier when his presence helps me in the same way.
I suspect that after we get our shots, we'll be spending a lot of time socializing with other people. And by this time next year, I should know whether I will want to stay in this house until I retire, or whether I will want to move out during summer 2022. And then would I live in the condo until I retire, or buy my own separate place? It will be weird when my life starts moving again, after this extremely introverted pause, after my beloved K moved away. Despite all the complaints I've had about T during this Quarantine, I'm still genuinely surprised we've gotten along as well as we have. He's probably had fewer complete breakdowns about how horrible I am during the past 10 months than during any other 10-month period since we've met. As horrible as I am, we're still both here.
Sitting here on the Left in the US, I hope the next Senate churn moves in our direction instead of back to the Republicans. We could move the center-of-gravity swing Senator from WV to MT, a very slight improvement ;-)
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Part of my retirement planning is my personal 30-year Green Communism path, also paying off all my non-mortgage debt, and eventually moving out of this house. But another part is doing what I've been telling everybody on the Left to do -- moving to a state where my vote isn't completely wasted. I think I've written in here before that I want to move to the swingiest state that has already legalized marijuana, because I might want to smoke occasionally in retirement and I'd like to do so legally. The only place I've ever bought marijuana legally in my entire life was Amsterdam, on a trip with K. Although marijuana is legal in DC, it isn't legal to buy it in DC. I haven't bought it illegally in DC either, not recently anyway. I think the last time I bought pot in the US was back around when 9/11 happened.
Michigan was the state, last time I checked. And then I picked out which city I want to live in, and then I even picked out which building I want to live in, heh. But this will probably change between now and 2027.
Of course, I might end up in a new or different relationship by then, which would require negotiations about possibly moving somewhere. Maybe I'm stuck in the DC area for life. Maybe my future partner wants to move to Portland like everybody else, heh.
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B's husband is back in town for the weekend (don't ask me why, I don't know), so I won't get the house to myself. T encouraged me to go to the condo this weekend. He said he'd take Dax to the vet on Saturday, so I might head downtown midday tomorrow, although I'd still have to work when I got there, I have an afternoon meeting. But I could get an earlier start on my fun if I drive there midday.
I thought about waiting until Saturday and going for one night, but we're probably getting significant snow on Sunday ... do I want to be driving back to the house in a snowstorm?
If I can get my weight lifting done tomorrow morning, and can drive downtown before my afternoon meeting, I'll probably head to the condo tomorrow. Then the snow forecast will help me to decide whether I stay one night or two. Also, checking in with T about how he's doing. We are still each other's primary social support during Quarantine and my life is easier when my presence helps him to avoid an emotional crash, just as my life is easier when his presence helps me in the same way.
I suspect that after we get our shots, we'll be spending a lot of time socializing with other people. And by this time next year, I should know whether I will want to stay in this house until I retire, or whether I will want to move out during summer 2022. And then would I live in the condo until I retire, or buy my own separate place? It will be weird when my life starts moving again, after this extremely introverted pause, after my beloved K moved away. Despite all the complaints I've had about T during this Quarantine, I'm still genuinely surprised we've gotten along as well as we have. He's probably had fewer complete breakdowns about how horrible I am during the past 10 months than during any other 10-month period since we've met. As horrible as I am, we're still both here.