Goodbye 2020

Tomorrow will be the eleventh birthday of this blog.

 Sorry, no cake, no candles, and if you come by to drop of presents, make sure you wear a mask.

 The topic of the first blog entry was “Goodbye to the ‘Aughts’” and it was just that. A farewell to the years that began “200X” with a numeral from 0 to 9 taking the place of the X.

 Such an innocent topic it was. Well, you have to start with something. Obama was president, and if someone had said COVID, I would have thought they were going to talk about a family of birds (Corvidae) with an accent. Oh, never mind.  

 And Donald Trump was still known as a third-rate television show, a not-so-great business man, and a laughing stock to anyone who knew much about him.

 But, with all of the terrible things that have happened in the past ten years, there have been some bright spots. More people have broadband Internet than ever before. There are uncounted great films and books and albums that did not exist in 2010. Really.

 There have been some great scientific discoveries, some wondrous technological advances in the past decade. I suppose the amazingly-quickly-developed vaccines for the Coronavirus qualify as both.

 So, we have a whole new year, and, depending on how you compute it, a whole new decade to hope for and to experience and to try to make the best of.

 So many things that have taken place in the past eleven years have been beyond our control. But how we have reacted to those things and the decisions we have each made – those things are control over.

 So let it be with 2021! Happy New Year, everyone!