Maybe it’s the effect of the pandemic or maybe just coming out of the winter doldrums, or maybe it’s just that I’m getting old, but I feel like I’m becoming a grumpy, old man. The last four years of political discourse hasn’t made things any better, but now that we’ve moved on a bit from that, I’ve become increasingly cranky about things that are constantly and annoyingly in my face.

Being shut in, whether due to windy, frigid winter conditions or the pandemic, I find that like many others I may be…