Cranked up the car and took a little drive around town on the freeways. Gratified to see very little traffic.
Picked up our call-in lunch order from one of our favorite Tex-Mex joints which, like all restaurants are closed except for pick-up or delivery. Now my mouth is on fire.
Called in our weekly booze delivery and am about to put in our grocery order.
The new normal is just fine if you're a dedicated introvert like me.
isn't that sort of standard for dragons?
please be careful about which direction you sneeze or cough
don't want to singe any eyebrows or burn the curtains
remember safety first
Huu. That ain't likely what will be on fire in the morning...kinda gives me a chuckle...
To avoid me grocery shopping, my wife, the hunter/gatherer, has been collecting garlic mustard and cooking it with garlic and eggs, and a little soy sauce.
To avoid me grocery shopping, my wife, the hunter/gatherer, has been collecting garlic mustard and cooking it with garlic and eggs, and a little soy sauce.
Cranked up the car and took a little drive around town on the freeways. Gratified to see very little traffic.
Picked up our call-in lunch order from one of our favorite Tex-Mex joints which, like all restaurants are closed except for pick-up or delivery. Now my mouth is on fire.
Called in our weekly booze delivery and am about to put in our grocery order.
The new normal is just fine if you're a dedicated introvert like me.
isn't that sort of standard for dragons?
please be careful about which direction you sneeze or cough
don't want to singe any eyebrows or burn the curtains
Cranked up the car and took a little drive around town on the freeways. Gratified to see very little traffic.
Picked up our call-in lunch order from one of our favorite Tex-Mex joints which, like all restaurants is closed except for pick-up or delivery. Now my mouth is on fire.
Called in our weekly booze delivery and am about to put in our grocery order.
The new normal is just fine if you're a dedicated introvert like me.
Kurt mentioned books down there, and I’ve been using Libby (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...) for quite a while now. A free program that gives you access to the library on your electronic device. I’m reading “Old Man and the Sea” and listening to “Bad Blood” (about the Theranos debacle). All free.
Yeah, I just got amazon prime because I'm starting to get more stuff from them. Unfortunately, Patty is a book person. She's tried the kindle thing and it just doesn't work for her. She wants the tactile experience of turning the pages, looking ahead to see how many more pages are left before a chapter is done and she can put it down and go to sleep. Things like that. She can do 2 to 4 books a week when she gets going. I'm ripping and she's reading. It goes together very nicely. We are both absorbed with self indulgent activities at the same time that compliment each other. She reads so much that getting books any other way is prohibitively expensive.
One thing that is getting harder to do is keep track of what day it is any more.
Kurt mentioned books down there, and Iâve been using Libby (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/...) for quite a while now. A free program that gives you access to the library on your electronic device. Iâm reading âOld Man and the Seaâ and listening to âBad Bloodâ (about the Theranos debacle). All free.
Rather well at this point in time, having overcome a lot to get this far. I now work no days a week rather than two or the occasional three. The most challenging thing right now is Patty's grieving of her daughter. Their are no rules for grieving. It is different for everyone. I have my albums to distract me for now. And having to keep the balls in the air. It'll hit me later. The Goodwill is closed and she is cut off from her book supply which is her usual source of comfort. Otherwise we have been living the "shelter in place" life for many years already. Making do with what we have the best we can. Not much else has changed. We can keep the balls in the air for 2 or 3 months before we hit critical mass.
I'm more thinking of what comes next when we get on the other side of the worst of this assuming that we get there. And I'm not planning on us not making it through. My job has forever changed and I have to think real hard if I want to go back and play frogger with this thing and work forehead to forehead with the public anymore. I was worried about that for several years after my transplant but got over it. This be different, lot's different. Due to circumstances beyond our control I will have to keep working forever to bring in more than we get from SS to make it work. Or inherit something. So more than anything, I'm watching the progress of treatments and progress towards a vaccine. My job used to be the perfect job to fade away on. Nothing physical, no heavy lifting, etc. Now, doing it puts me right directly into harms way.
As far as passing time, I'm doing exactly what I began planning to do in earnest back about 5 years ago. I've got no one to pass my collection on to. The plan was to get everything sorted out, learn how to properly digitize my collection in high rez and sell it off. The perfect thing for someone to do in their retirement when killing time gets challenging and you have limited means. All the big bucks are done being spent acquiring the tools, equipment, material, and software. That and the knowledge has been put together. The only thing missing was the time to do it. In keeping with the state motto of my place of birth ... Eureka !!
I ordered 4 N95 masks on February 26. According to the tracking site, they shipped on February 27. Expected arrival date in April 8. I'm not holding my breath.
Avoid all anecdotal reports, for your own mental health. Once we get some good controlled studies under our belt, that'll be worth knowing about.
The feeling that we need to know, every 15 minutes, about every minuscule piece of information about this - that's making the nation anxious and insane. The news is there to gather eyeballs, and they're reporting every little inconsequential thing like it's important, and trying to keep track of it (Azithromycin? Ozone? Ibuprofen? N95?) isn't something people really need to do.
Maybe get a summary once a day in the evening, and otherwise go plant your spring garden, or learn to whittle, or crank up ALL of Tales From Topographic Oceans...but move away from this for most of the day, because it's a marathon...
If you're doing OK, then take advantage of this open space on your calendar, and not be immersed in the doom culture more than a little bit. Imagine later when you look back on this period and your closet is still full of crap that you really did have time to clean out, and it turns out that you didn't do anything during this period other than collate other peoples' postings.
I started working at home on March 19, P's employer sent her home the following week. We've subscribed to shipt for grocery delivery, and that's going reasonably well. The state liquor commission has relaxed rules to permit deliveries during the crisis, so a guy on a bike brings us booze now an then. I have occupied the dining room table with my work rig, and P is set up in the guest/multipurpose second bedroom. The cats took a week or so to settle into us being in their house so much, but have now - like us - established a routine. We take at least one, sometimes two walks per day around the neighborhood. So far, so good.
