2010, thou hast possibly redeemed thyself

First, my book order, scheduled for delivery by USPS on Tuesday, Jan. 19, arrives Monday, Jan. 18. A holiday Monday, nonetheless. My books are here, yeah! The government mail service actually did something with some competency: color me surprised.

Then, the nationalized health-care bill all but dies after a Republican upsets a Democrat for Kennedy's Mass. Senate seat on Tuesday. Now, I'm no fan of Republicans or Brown himself, but a victory in a battle, even if its just an enemy of my enemy, is a victory. The small"er" government crowd wins one!

Next, the SCOTUS finds that statutory limits on corporate, union and other "groups" spending for politicians and during campaigns is unconstitutional under the First Amendment's "Congress shall pass no law ... abridging the freedom of speech" language. A victory for free speech!

Finally, on Thursday I start in on The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris and I absolutely love it. Its some pretty good prose, and the concept is already pretty interesting. Its one of those books where - 14 pages in - I'm sad the story will eventually have to end. I like the characters that much. And I've only really been introduced to two of them. So maybe my reading funk was more what I was reading than actual reading.

And now, I find out as I'm typing this post, that the surgery on R.'s eyes have them at 20/25, and that they will probably improve all the way to 20/20.

So, 2010, I guess you're not off to such a bad start after all.