Category: General

I haven’t been wasting the time but I had a taste of warm weather and sunshine in Florida. 

Then I came back here and it was cool, okay I’m in the mountains I expect it this time of year. I adapted, knowing that it was going to start warming up.

Now winter is back. It snowed last night and I’m more than ready to be outside doing spring/summer things. 

During this lockdown the freeways are empty and it’s one of those times when it would be bliss to get in the car and actually be able to have some fun. Open road, light traffic, and 310 HP, Wheeee!

That’s not to be though. Most of the local places I’d go to are closed.

They even closed Joshua Tree. At the height of the season, I’ve never been within 50 feet of another person there, unless I brought them.

I anticipate that once they end the lockdown people are going to go nuts. There’s going to be mind boggling traffic at all hours of the day and night just because people will be able to come and go as they please. Shopping centers will probably be crowded like Black Friday.

The Twitter feed is loaded with people who are just as bored and restless as I am. They’re entertaining themselves in a variety of interesting ways. Some, more interesting than others and I’m not complaining.

I’m only 4 days into this, what am I going to be like at day 30?

Back to making the place house beautiful…

Hope you’re having a good day.

OH God!

I’m gonna lose my mind.

I really would rather be out wandering around, but there’s little point to going anywhere since most of the places I’d like to go are Closed for the duration I’m pretty sure that this genie is out of the bottle. Fine! I’ll stay at home and go quietly insane from boredom.

You’d think there would be movies I wanted to watch on one of the streaming services. Nope! Anything I’m watching at this point is mostly out of boredom. Remember I’ve been looking for a job for 6 months, so I’ve already been home way more than I’d have liked to be.

I’ve watched most anything that caught my interest after exhausting the job search from 5 to 12. My schedule was usually, get up, have coffee, search for jobs, have lunch, then watch a movie.

I’m movied out. I’ve considered adding to my Itunes collection but a lot of the movies I’d like to add are $20 and that gets really expensive really fast. I’ve noticed that since the Coronavirus hit Apple isn’t discounting movies like they were.  Makes sense, they’ve got a captive audience right? Why discount anything if you’re one of the only suppliers and you know that people will pay top dollar to entertain themselves or their children for a couple of hours.

I do finally know what it takes for me to do shit around the house that I don’t really want to do.  Make me stay home where the distractions are limited and I’m looking hard for a reason not to look at my computer.

I’ve started reconfiguring my home network… Just for the fun of it. Now, that’s freaking sick!

So today I’m shredding old paperwork and statements that have been scanned or that I’ve  downloaded and filed.

Why am I blogging you ask? Because the shredder is overheated and I’m waiting for it to cool down.

I swear I need one of those CIA grade shredders!

On the plus side, the stacks of paperwork to be shredded have diminished by quite a bit. Talk about a fire hazard!

Why do banks insist on sending the most useless bits of paper? Yeah, I know I added your freaking card to apple pay. I had to call you to do it so why are you sending me 3 individual letters stating that I did it on 3 devices?

Really? Are you trying to kill a forest?

Shredder is cooled down again… 

Back to my imitation of a Hillary Clinton Aide.

I said it was gonna be because China quarantining a huge area was a big deal.

But folks… 

Come on, how can you say you’re observing social distancing when you’re packed into CostCo, and virtually every other store thicker than sardines?

Look. Do your normal shopping. Get in, get out, and leave something behind on the shelves for the next folks.

I must say the folks in Northern FL are a lot calmer than the LA folks I left behind. Perhaps it’s a function of population density perhaps, it’s a function of pragmatism.

Thank God the bars are still open here. 

At this point it looks like I can still get home. But if I can’t well I’ll stay right here and if necessary try to locate some kind of job locally and adapt to the new reality.

Worst case scenario. I’l shave my head into a mohawk, outfit a car with steel plating and go “Mad Max” 

I don’t think it’s going to come to that. On the one hand it might be interesting. On the other hand I’m feeling more like Pooh, “Oh Bother!”

Let’s get smart, let’s be kind, let’s understand that this thing is going to do what it’s going to do. It’s not right, wrong, good, or evil, it simply is. 

Panicking isn’t helping. 

Take a breath. Turn off the news for a few hours, read a book. and calm down.

Trust me you can’t stay healthy in a blind panic 24/7.

Stream “The Martian”

Start by solving one problem at a time. Solve the most immediate problem first. Keep solving problems as they arise and we’ll all come through this. We may be forever changed, we’ll probably learn a lot, and the next time we’re presented with an emergency we’ll do better. 

This isn’t the time to play blame X, Y, or Z. Quoting Hillary Clinton, “At this point what does it matter anyway?”

Play the cards we’ve been dealt.

I’m not sure I could carry off the “Mad Max” look, and if I go “Mad Max” you’re not going to like me very much.