State of the Lee: January is the waiting room of the world

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For my media spot this week, I decided to go with something a little bit different since Warsaw is in rebuild mode and there's not going to be a heck of a lot for me to write about there (but I will celebrate the small victories when they come along). It just is what it is and we're going to ride the storm out.

 

I really don't like January that much. It's a month that's always felt like it drags and it's also a month where it's cold as hell (I live in Southern Idaho and holy sheesh does the wind blow down here), which makes it the waiting room of the world as I like to call it. A time/place to just wait for the first warm tendrils of spring and watch the plants wake up again which heralds in my least favorite time of year: gardening season. But that, dear children, is a story for another time.

 

December is a hard time of year for me and perhaps that also carries over into my feelings about January. My opa passed in December a while back and I lost a couple friends in a car accident the week before Christmas a few years ago as well so the current state of the Lee at the moment? Just trying to get by and take joy where I can find it.

 

Lately, that's been in books. I like to read at the best of times and right now when the weather is crap and it's just not suitable to be outside any longer than it takes to leave the car and head into the nearest building, I've been trying to read more. So far, it's been going better. My favorite author, Brandon Sanderson, just released a new book but it's been a while since I read the others in the Stormlight Archive so I'm going to need to reread the others and that's going to take me a little while. But that's okay.

 

The VHL has also given me the sim bug and I decided to be insane and join both the SBA as well as the PBE! My player in the SBA, Jonathan Carlton (if you know you know), has been doing really well! His team in the D League, the Fort Lauderdale Lightning, are playing in their finals soon and I'm hoping they can get the win. My PBE player, Takeda Takahashi (again if you know you know), has been doing okay on the Amarillo Armadillos. Originally starting off as a relief pitcher, he was asked by his team to move up to starting pitcher and it's been going okay. Fielding errors mean he's got some runs against, but his stats are solid and the more tpe I can build up and invest in him, the more I can improve some things.

 

The winter blahs are real, but the world still turns, and this too shall pass into much warmer weather. Especially in summer when the temperature is pretty much "the devil's arse" but c'est la vie. Take care, all, and hopefully our January will go quickly.

 

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