Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the best thing that's ever happened to you today. Well, for some of us it's even better than usual because today is officially the day that my state, California, dropped mask mandates for adults if they're vaccinated. So that's not a clean win, and the kids still have to go to school with masks for at least two more weeks. But my long road to hell and back is just about completed because I don't have to worry about mandates because I am vaccinated. Whether that was a great decision or a bad one, I suppose we'll find out if I clot up and die. But so far so good, which would mean there's a great possibility that I made it through the pandemic on the optimal path. Don't know that. It's too early. And anybody who claims that they made all the right decisions at this point, a little premature. A little premature.

But if I got through this with only two vaccinations and no boosters, which gave me as much freedom as I could get, and I got through it to the point where masks go away, so that means they didn't keep that weird thing forever. I also did not get infected. Now in theory I will, but we do have lots mo