The political news from back home is discouraging. Every day there is another news item that seems like it should be coming out of Nazi Germany. This year Wakana has to renew her green card and we're worried she may have a problem doing so. We are ready to move to Japan if we need to. Wakana even has an idea about opening a private school for teaching English. Neither of us are employable in Japan because of our age.

I've been writing. It's nothing much, a fantasy story that came to me a while back. I am also putting finishing touches on a post-apocalypse novella (a long time after the apocalypse) and a story about an underground railroad station sneaking people out of the post-fundamentalist USA. I have a number of other ideas flitting around in my head but they've been in there so long I doubt they'll be able to stand the light of day.

My car is a problem. My headlights quit working a while back, they quit working if you use the turn signal. I waited a couple of weeks for the replacement part. After it arrived they installed it and still no headlights. The mechanic said something about the wires being "chewed". Turns out there is a nest of ants in the fuse box. They shorted out the system. The switch was covered by the warranty that just expired. The ant damage will not be.