Well, it's another year almost-but-not-quite-completely shot to hell:>)
It's just past noon in the Eastern timezone - means there's just under 1.5 days to make end-of-the year contributions (political, charitable, tax-deductable or not)

Despite yesterday's revelry in AnotherMassachusettsLiberal's secret underground bunker (or perhaps because of all that drinking liberally?) Thestral feels fine today, and is finally getting to that stack of "gimme letters". Being a rather frugal Kossack most of the year, Thestral finds there's still a few hundred USD in discretionary funds available for some good causes.