What I mean is...farewell

And so here we are, at the beginning...

I'm writing this on the fifteenth of December. It's twenty to three in the afternoon, it's Saturday, and it's ten days away from Christmas Day. If, of course, we make it that far - if the Mayans are to be believed, it’s six days away from the end of the world, or, at least, the end of the world as we know it...

The end of the world as we know it. I've never really understood that expression.

 It's a big world and I'm just one person, who's →