Hanukkah

Today is the day for right speech, for with it concepts, voice, and words are all known as sound.  

Hanukkah begins at sundown, which will be at 5:29 p.m. tonight here in Atlanta. 

One year ago today, English actor David Prowse died from the covids in a London hospital.  Although most famous for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, Prowse also appeared as a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 A Clockwork Orange (above).

The omicron variant has now been found in South Africa, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong, Israel, and Australia.  It has not yet been found in the U.S., but its arrival here is imminent and inevitable. Anthony Fauci said omicron appears more transmissible than other variants, but we don't know yet if it's more severe.  We should know later this week how the existing vaccines handle this variant.

I've taken advantage of this year's Steam Thanksgiving sale and bought copies of the Mass Effect trilogy, Far Cry 6, Horizon Zero Dawn, A Plague Tale, and Days Gone.  That should keep me busy for a while, especially since I still have Fallout 76 left to complete, as well as No Man's Sky, Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption II, and The Outer Wilds, all of which I've started but never finished.

Other than that, or in addition to all that, days and nights pass with a pleasant regularity - no drama but no jubilations, either.