I was going to start this post off with the old joke about how if you play a country record backwards you get your dog back, your job back, your wife back, etc., then realized most folks are probably too young to even know why you would want to play a record backwards in the first place. And then I felt old. Like real old. Which feels pretty fitting now that I think about it. Anyways, 2019 was a hard year for me. I got sick, lost my job, and even my dog (RIP, Bonze). The job