With the current situation, I am still working and that’s ok. I have always been ok alone, but by choice. This new forced quarantine where bars are no longer an option kinda hurts. I know it’s what’s best, but it sucks.
Side Effects Of Isolation
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Yup I'm enjoying it a lot. But I'm already at home from work due to injury. And with wisconsin closing all "non necessary" shops and the "stay home" laws, I'd still have to work as a freight conductor....
Netflix, smoking, and posting has taken up almost 99 percent of my time!
I'm caught up on everything Netflix. I did buy Rise of Skywalker and Eurotrip along with Jedi Fallen Order for the PS4. Along with those and several unopened cubes I'm entertained.?
Not good for my mental health. Not that I go out and socialize with humans often. The fact I can't go to certain places like supermarkets or bookstores or restaurants is starting to piss me off. I need more smoke.
A quarantine wouldn't be much of a problem.
The man who has books is never lonely.
I do have worries though.
My relatives.
Societal effects, the wellfare of others.
The man who has books is never lonely.
I do have worries though.
My relatives.
Societal effects, the wellfare of others.
My first duty station was considered to be Isolated Duty. The Columbia River Lightship, WLV-604.
That was nowhere near as bad as it was for the guys stationed at the French Frigate Shoals LORAN station -- once a year, at the highest high tide, the island was entirely under water by a little bit. I knew a snipe who'd done a tour there. I wonder if it's EVER above the water level at all nowadays. Maybe for the lowest low tide of the year?
Ten years later, when I got out, all I had left to me as a philosophy of life was, "Life sucks, you embarrass yourself horribly, and then you croak." To quote John Astin's character on Night Court, "But I'm feeling much better, now."
That was nowhere near as bad as it was for the guys stationed at the French Frigate Shoals LORAN station -- once a year, at the highest high tide, the island was entirely under water by a little bit. I knew a snipe who'd done a tour there. I wonder if it's EVER above the water level at all nowadays. Maybe for the lowest low tide of the year?
Ten years later, when I got out, all I had left to me as a philosophy of life was, "Life sucks, you embarrass yourself horribly, and then you croak." To quote John Astin's character on Night Court, "But I'm feeling much better, now."
After receiving a nickel tip at an Eastern European restaurant, the waiter says triumphantly “I quit! I open my OWN restaurant!”
Hilarious!
When I grow up, I want to be you....
I need my alone time to recharge. Wife is stressed out 25 hours a day at home. Work is 24 hour shifts and plenty of stress there.
At least the turkeys are back moving around and it is supposed to be low 50’s for the next week at least. We really need our kitchen done so we can cook better. We cook a lot at home, healthy stuff, and right now with just a microwave and a grill outside we are kind of limited.
At least the turkeys are back moving around and it is supposed to be low 50’s for the next week at least. We really need our kitchen done so we can cook better. We cook a lot at home, healthy stuff, and right now with just a microwave and a grill outside we are kind of limited.
I wont start my staycation til Saturday. But i have plenty of work to do around the place drywall work, get the garden ready. get the seeds started. wait on my pipes recently purchased. Drink alot. Play with the wife. Smoke an insane numbers of bowls..... I think i will start at the end of the list first
The human psychology of this is striking. We've pretty much stayed home, having groceries delivered or brought by a friend, with a run to the drugstore for prescriptions and other sundries, cat food to ice cream, while I'm there, wearing blue gloves. Now we are confronted with a clinic appointment at a hospital for an important injection for my wife, and we are thinking long and hard, not wanting the exposure. Next month, hopefully, they will offer this at an off-site clinic much closer to home, still a hazard, but less so. The alternative is another serious health hazard. If we go, we will sanitize everything in site, wear gloves, overdo in a goofy way, trying to stay safe. So isolation is wearing, but for us, so is moving around. It's not a happy thought. I admit, when I do go out, it is richly liberating. I do like to rove about; it's deep in my DNA. I'd like to live to rove a lot more, and I'm willing to wait. In most of my adult life, I had to get up and rove my neighborhood, shopping areas, workplace and grounds, and all over any city or town I visited. If I have an obsession, that's it. I can't stand it when people in a store can't direct me to another store two blocks away. They've just never walked that far. Creaky joints inhibit me, but not altogether. Happy future roving to us all.
Went out with the camera... Even the local birds do social distancing (OK.. taken that last year)
Not a lot of fuss for me...
When I was young businesses shut down for the day at 5:00 pm, 9:00 - 1:00 pm Saturday, nothing was open Sunday. You had to plan ahead. You couldn’t run down to the Costco on Sunday if you forgot something.
Over the years it seems for some reason, just about everybody got it in their head that we have to maximize the amount of time doing something other than just relaxing and recuperating. When I was working, I was on that treadmill. I don’t miss it.
I have plenty of hobbies and things to do around the house to occupy myself. And books to read (other than technical manuals...). I find that not many people seem to read books anymore, just for the sake of reading a book.
Order something by mail...? Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Now people spazz if they find out their order is delayed by a day. ?
Even before the current situation, I didn’t go or drive places that much, as I prefer nowadays to hang around the house and enjoy that. Drove here and there went here and there for years. I’m not a shut in, guess I’ve just realized that I’m ok with slowing down in later life.
When I was young businesses shut down for the day at 5:00 pm, 9:00 - 1:00 pm Saturday, nothing was open Sunday. You had to plan ahead. You couldn’t run down to the Costco on Sunday if you forgot something.
Over the years it seems for some reason, just about everybody got it in their head that we have to maximize the amount of time doing something other than just relaxing and recuperating. When I was working, I was on that treadmill. I don’t miss it.
I have plenty of hobbies and things to do around the house to occupy myself. And books to read (other than technical manuals...). I find that not many people seem to read books anymore, just for the sake of reading a book.
Order something by mail...? Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Now people spazz if they find out their order is delayed by a day. ?
Even before the current situation, I didn’t go or drive places that much, as I prefer nowadays to hang around the house and enjoy that. Drove here and there went here and there for years. I’m not a shut in, guess I’ve just realized that I’m ok with slowing down in later life.
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I'm a bird watcher and love to go to the local refuge. While there is no known COVID 19 in our county and no stay at home order, my wife, who has a diminished immune system, has understandably asked we exercise "stay at home" precautions. There are stay at home orders in some counties in our state which has curbed the birding activities of some avid birders I know.
There's a lot to be grateful for during this strange time. I'm trying to resist the urge to be "plugged in" all the time. Yesterday I sat on my porch and read a book while I smoked my churchwarden. I worked in my garage for the first time in months. I'm sleeping in. It's like having a spring break for the first time in 25 years. Albeit, I am still working a few hours a day from home.
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