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I thought, perhaps he's had some eggnog... :ROFLMAO:
No. A couple of beers though.

Getting old.

My daughter and her boyfriend are coming over today to spend a few days with us. I bought another bottle of Jim Beam for eggnog and a bottle of Absolute and Kahlua and a few cartons of half n half to make white Russian's with.

So if I go off the rails, you'll know why.
 
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The Covid omicron XBB.1.5 variant is rapidly becoming dominant in the U.S. because it is highly immune evasive and appears more effective at binding to cells than related subvariants, scientists say.

XBB.1.5 now represents about 41% of new cases nationwide in the U.S., nearly doubling in prevalence over the past week, according to the data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The subvariant more than doubled as a share of cases every week through Dec. 24. In the past week, it nearly doubled from 21.7% prevalence.
 
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The nation’s office buildings aren’t as empty as they were before COVID vaccines became widely available in spring 2021. But they’re still far less populated than they were in 2019. A recent analysis of Census Bureau data from the financial site Lending Tree found that 29 percent of Americans were working from home in October 2022. In New York City, financial firms reported that only 56 percent of their employees were in the office on a typical day in September.

When only 50 percent of a company’s staff leave their homes in the morning, that firm’s desire for floorspace plummets. If storm-clouds appear on the economic horizon — like, say, a central bank dead set on slowing the economy to kill inflation — downsizing your office becomes the easiest way to cut expenses. Thus, as rising rates have laid tech low, San Francisco’s signature office towers have emptied out. In New York, meanwhile, Meta has ditched 450,000 square feet of office space. Across the nation as a whole, only about 47 percent of offices are occupied.
 
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Half the office complexes around here were emptying out before covid ever hit. They keep on building them but nobody is leasing them.

It's yet another bubble brought on by bogus bookkeeping that leads to unrealistic projections.

And in the end it won't matter because when it all collapses the government will yet again bail all the banks out that financed all of it.
 
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