the area around 101 swathed in lights enough to force a detour, around the streets a scatter of santa's roam through crowds of shoppers desperately participating in this great festival of consumerism... thoughts to return with the faulty fifty and see what oddities it will offer up... the rain continues though the temperature has risen a bit, that returning oddity of a warm midwinter... on the island the first local case of covid in 6 months, a pilot who compounded things by lying to the authorities about his movements, the kind of action and scale of selfishness which makes you wonder what's the point...