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Since leaving Amazon last year, I built a thing.

So, it has been about two months since I made my post about being laid off.

I waited a little bit to post, but that big Amazon layoff last week… Yeah, I was a part of that.

We welcomed Miley into our family in 2015.

Once again, a vote for my wife.

Hey, I rarely post here any more, but Brandy is running to be properly elected to the position she was appointed to last December.

Snohomish County Council voted 4-1 tonight to appoint my wife Brandy Donaghy to the vacant Washington State House seat for the 44th legislative district left by John Lovick moving to the State Senate.

If you are a person that has looked to the abulsme.com blog for announcements when the new episodes of the Curmudgeon’s Corner podcast comes out, you may have, well, not seen any the last two weeks.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam goes solo.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan once again concentrate on Afghanistan and the pandemic.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Ivan and Sam’s main topics are Afghanistan and the Pandemic.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about the Pandemic, Afghanistan, Infrastructure, Voter Rights Legislation, and the Census/Redistricting for their serious topics.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s main topics are the pandemic and Andrew Cuomo.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, two shows in one!

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s corner the main topic, as it so often has been over the last year and a half, is the pandemic.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan discuss the surge of Trump stories this week from the various new books coming out, and the Guardian reporting on leaked Kremlin documents.

On This week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s main topics are the pandemic, a brief dip into Afghanistan and Haiti, and a check in on a few politics issues.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan once again cover a huge variety of topics.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan discuss the Champlain Towers collapse, developments with the voting rights bills in congress, the potential infrastructure deal, some SCOTUS stuff, and even freeing Britney.

This week Sam and Ivan go into lightning round mode, with eight smaller topics rather than just two or three big ones.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Ed joins Sam for some discussion of the whole thing with the Trump DoJ getting subpoenas of phone activity for some House Democrats and journalists, as well as the reactions to those revelations.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan let the “but first” part of the show take over.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about the continuing negotiations on an infrastructure spending plan, the Ryanair incident with Belarus, and of course the pandemic.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about the pandemic, the back and forth surrounding having a January 6th commission, the Israel/Palestine situation, and the crypto crash.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, the return of “But First”!

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan spend the most time on the pandemic, cause well, it is still here.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about the fake State of the Union, Rudy Giuliani’s legal troubles, the Pandemic, and the Census.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan go a little light and fluffy, mostly avoiding the serious topics, instead talking about the helicopter on mars, some other space stuff, a bit on internet scams and the effectiveness of paper junk mail, and even

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about Police Violence and Infrastructure.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s serious topics are recurring favorites… the pandemic and voter suppression laws.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about the pandemic and Matt Gaetz.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan’s more serious topics are the Georgia voter law, chaos in Miami Beach, the most recent “border crisis”, and the Suez Canal blockage.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan have two “heavy” topics: The Atlanta massage parlor killings, and worldwide covid trends heading upward again.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan discuss the Biden stimulus bill that was just signed and the political implications of the bill.

Alex turned 11 last September.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan do the six smaller topics thing again, although one of the topics is a multi-topic bundle, so you could perhaps say there were actually eight.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Ivan ditches Sam, so Sam’s 11 year old son Alex cohosts!

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan once again do it lightning round style.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan of course talk about the impeachment trial.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, now that the news is slowing down a bit, and things are not quite as crazy… for now anyway… Sam and Ivan do something they haven’t done in a long time… an all lightning round show!

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan finally get to reviewing their 2020 predictions.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan mark the Presidential transition with one segment wrapping up the end of Trump’s presidency, and another on the beginnings of the Biden administration.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan continue blowing off the 2020 review in favor of discussing breaking news events.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan throw the previous plan out the window, and spend the entire show talking about the January 6th attack on the Capitol and all the ramifications of that attack.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan do their traditional annual predictions show, this time for 2021!

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan once again encourage people to send in suggestions for next week’s predictions show.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ed cover the usual developments on the Presidential transition and the pandemic.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk presidential transition and pandemic, along with a bit about how Americans interact with death.

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan play the usual game.

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan do what has become the new normal.