…it was a beautiful day… Took a long walk yesterday as we had the first decent day weatherwise of 2020. Arrived at one of my turnaround points on the SVT (trail abbreviated to sound like an STD) and saw that the dog park was overgrown and closed. Then I noticed
…long line of hard -headed ness. A couple of years ago, I quit drinking diet soda. This was a HUGE lifestyle change for me. At the time, I considered myself a Diet Coke Distillery. I thought any liquid to be part of “getting proper hydration”. Yes, I have since learned,
…back to when we were kids… Recently, I’ve heard about “kids these days”. Maybe it’s old person syndrome or the company I keep, but it’s pretty constant. “All they do is play video games” or “They are constantly ON THEIR PHONES”, are the common refrains. Sure, that does seem to
…have work waiting for them… The pandemic is highlighting people in all sorts of new roles and isolated instances everyday. As public places close down, they take the idle time as time to clean and wipe down surfaces hopefully making them “virus-free”. Dateline – Suffolk, England. The Newmarket Library in
What was going on before now? The pandemic has brought many things to light. While we separate, we come to together in our loneliness. Hundreds of small business and huge corporations have changed their messages to reflect the current world view. Although, through this inside-out togetherness, it does make one
Tired of sheltering at home yet? Well, this global pandemic has gone just about as horrible as anyone could imagine. No one has ever experienced anything like this. Tired of sheltering at home yet? Me too. I created a simple bookmark app for my iPhone of that Johns Hopkins tracking
create this odd accident ! Yes, we’re all diligently washing our hands for 30 seconds now silently singing Happy Birthday or the alphabet in our heads. We have to, because it’s not like we had 3 months to get ready for this virus by stockpiling test kits or PPE for
something really BIG coming from Sprint? Earlier this Winter, pre-COVID-19, err at least pre-COVID-19 North American version, I would walk on the weekends at the local mall. Yes, I was a mall walker. Now, it is closed along with everything else. Anyway, I noticed that the mall was nothing like
…it’s more like WYA ! If there is one thing this current “Shelter In Place” order for the State of Illinois has highlighted, it’s everyone’s fear of running out of toilet paper. It’s been more than a week that stores have been out of TP and the order just went
Good night and stay HOME! Well, here we are in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. We knew this was coming since December 2019. Yet, we seem to be woefully unprepared and I’m left utterly typeless. That is until tonight watching the nightly national news about a story involving 2,
