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Warmer weather
Mar. 26th, 2020 12:02 amWell, the weather outside is getting warmer. Not cold and rainy as it's been the last few days. So tonight after work I took a ride down to a nearby restaurant, Golden's Fish and Chicken, to get a Polish sausage sandwich and some cheddar jalapeno poppers. Enjoyed the bike ride. Maybe I should try to get spend more time outside, as the weather warms up, as long as I stay a safe distance away from people. If nothing else, I could move the Ikea laptop table out to my front porch and take a tablet there for some reading and writing.
Wasn't thrilled by how crowded it was inside Golden's. People waiting for their takeout didn't seem to be paying the most attention to social distancing, standing too close together. Ugh. Maybe I should just stick to ordering through GrubHub.
So, 'round about May, I should get a stimulus check for $1,200. Yay, our government. I'm sure that'll be quite helpful for all the people who've been thrown out of work, but for me it'll be like extra money (assuming I, y'know, still have work by then—which seems probable given that the health insurance industry isn't exactly likely to be rendered obsolete by an epidemic!). I'll probably throw it into savings, I guess. Should supplement the emergency funds I already have fairly nicely. It's tempting to think of something nice I could spend it on, like maybe getting another motor scooter for the added mobility, or a laptop or something…but really, I should probably just go ahead and save it, because you never know. Anyway, what point is there in having mobility when there may not actually be anywhere I can go, if the infection rate keeps on ramping up.
The political insanity around the virus proceeds apace. It's weird how in bygone days, this kind of a crisis would have pulled everyone together—but in the here-and-now, it only serves to split everyone further apart by making political discourse even more polarized. Is the lackluster Republican treatment of this epidemic going to lead to them getting tossed out by common people upset with their lackluster handling of the crisis? I'd like to think it will—but then, I also thought there was no way in hell Trump could win the election in 2016, and was unpleasantly surprised.
Rediscovered my glasses, which I lost several weeks ago, thanks to my cat peeing on a pile of trash in my attic. So, uh, yay, I guess.
Wasn't thrilled by how crowded it was inside Golden's. People waiting for their takeout didn't seem to be paying the most attention to social distancing, standing too close together. Ugh. Maybe I should just stick to ordering through GrubHub.
So, 'round about May, I should get a stimulus check for $1,200. Yay, our government. I'm sure that'll be quite helpful for all the people who've been thrown out of work, but for me it'll be like extra money (assuming I, y'know, still have work by then—which seems probable given that the health insurance industry isn't exactly likely to be rendered obsolete by an epidemic!). I'll probably throw it into savings, I guess. Should supplement the emergency funds I already have fairly nicely. It's tempting to think of something nice I could spend it on, like maybe getting another motor scooter for the added mobility, or a laptop or something…but really, I should probably just go ahead and save it, because you never know. Anyway, what point is there in having mobility when there may not actually be anywhere I can go, if the infection rate keeps on ramping up.
The political insanity around the virus proceeds apace. It's weird how in bygone days, this kind of a crisis would have pulled everyone together—but in the here-and-now, it only serves to split everyone further apart by making political discourse even more polarized. Is the lackluster Republican treatment of this epidemic going to lead to them getting tossed out by common people upset with their lackluster handling of the crisis? I'd like to think it will—but then, I also thought there was no way in hell Trump could win the election in 2016, and was unpleasantly surprised.
Rediscovered my glasses, which I lost several weeks ago, thanks to my cat peeing on a pile of trash in my attic. So, uh, yay, I guess.
