this is not a plea for help

But, dang, I am depressed.  The news has been bad lately, both personally and publicly.  An old friend who was a mentor to me when I was a kid subsequently became sort of a right-wing nationalist, and now he has brain cancer.  So I am sad about that.  And people keep being killed by lunatics with guns.  And cops keep abusing their powers.  And education is being run into the ground via the business model.