GREETINGS RENOGADES! So, it looks like the last time I wrote one of these journal entries waaaasss, whoa...... way back in Jan. 2020. Ahh, yes, ... in "The Before Times." Written in a moment where I was reflecting on the previous decade and rhapsodizing about the decade ahead like an optimistic sap. Yeah, well... there's a famous saying that goes, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans." After that post, the world really took a swift kick to the ol' huevos rancheros in the months.... and months.... and months that followed (and that was just that first March!) Perhaps I was tempting fate with my confident idealism, maybe my unabashed hubris was an affront to the mythological gods of lore! Whatever the case, sometimes, I blame myself for this whole 'Rona Pando'... that's what all the cool kids are calling it. (And by "cool kids", I mean "Not the cool kids" and by "all" I mean "me") To quote the great Poet Laureate, Young MC, from his Magnum Opus, "Bust a