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Week Six

It’s Monday again.  Patriots Day for those of us in Massachusetts.  It should be Marathon Monday in Boston but nope.  We have completed five weeks of our working from home lock down.  Today begins week six.

Sleeping is weird.  I’m doing more laundry than I’ve ever done before.  We’re doing the dishes more often than I’ve ever done before.  We’re still making the bed every day, though the sheets are in the wash today so it’s not made right now.  The trash is going out more often than ever.  The house hasn’t been this clean for this long since we moved in almost 10 years ago.  We haven’t gone anywhere since week one.  We do sometimes leave the house and go for a drive still, though much less often than before, but we just drive around and then go home.  We don’t stop anywhere.

We’re leaning on instacart for groceries and amazon for everything else.  We haven’t used amazon much because we’ve been insanely frugal.  Jen bought a new desk after week one, I bought window screens, she bought a new USB headset, and we’ve both bought bandannas to use for masks.  That’s it.  We haven’t bought books or movies or music or anything, I haven’t bought any guitar gear, she hasn’t bought any computer gear other than things needed directly for work.  We also haven’t been going out to eat at all, which under normal circumstances we do all the time.  We’re somehow managing to save a little money.  Unfortunately, the instacart bills are pretty high so that’s been eating into our available funds.

Last night I jokingly suggested to Jen that we do a Star Wars movie watch and run through them all.  To my shock she agreed.  Then to further my shock I asked her which movie she wanted to start with and she said to start at the beginning.  Episode One?  On purpose?  Amazing!

So how will week six go?  I’m guessing it will go fine, just like weeks one through five.  We just need to make sure the idiot in charge doesn’t ruin the progress we’ve made by letting his cult start going to Starbucks again.  Keep hanging in there.  Keep washing your hands.  Keep doing what socially awkward folks like me have always done and be socially distant.

Solidarity.

Upgraded Again

Jen brought a whole bunch of stuff over to the conference call nook and upgraded it again.

233/365 - The updated conference call nook.

It needs one more change because the “o” key on that keyboard is wonky.  I’ll swap it out for the keyboard hidden off to the right at some point tonight.  I stole that headset from Jen because she wasn’t using it.  The postman just delivered another one.  Almost as soon as I stole it she decided she wanted it back but she was still nice enough to let me keep it.

I expect that I’ll be the one using this desk, but it’s just a laptop dock so Jen can use it if she needs it.  The kids too.  We’re all set up.

This is So Wizard

Two lines from Star Wars episode one perfectly predicted the age of Donald “nazi Don” Trump.

First, Qui Gon says to Jar Jar, “the ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”

Second, Anakin says to Qui Gon, “your buddy was about to be turned into orange goo.”

How weird is that? Maybe by this logic, nazi Don was actually the Phantom Menace all along!

Screen

When we had our garage remodeled into a bedroom suite the only thing we didn’t get installed were screens for the new windows. That means we went the whole of last summer without being able to sleep with the windows open.

Eventually we will get screens installed, but as a temporary fix, I bought a couple of these things on amazon (the one and only non-food purchase I’ve made since the social distancing started. I’m kinda proud of my sudden frugalness).

I told my wife I’d clean the bathroom but I’m sitting here listening to the Jakszyk/Collins/Fripp King Crimson Projekct album and typing this.

Jen: No worries, love. I’m getting to it now. I LOVE YOU!!

The Stir Crazy Files – Episode 21

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Has the human race ever produced a tool as useless as the scissors in a Swiss Army style pocket knife?

Seriously, I’ve seen wet noodles* do a better job scissoring things than these scissors scissor things.

 

*I actually haven’t.  I wrote that as more of an exaggerated expression to illustrate my point.  I wasn’t lying to you.  I was using a metaphorical type thingie.  Really.  I promise.

All Done With That

All of my April rhythm guitar parts are done, including a bonus 11th song that I started at 3:30am today when I was too pissed off at facebook to sleep.

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I wonder… if I stop taking pictures of whatever guitar I am playing every time I play, would the world go back to normal?  Is all of this my fault somehow?

Can’t Sleep

I woke up at about 2:20am for a biology break. I made the mistake of looking at Facebook. There are so many people bitching about the lock down and listing off the reasons why we should end it early that contradict everything that health experts say that I’m beyond furious and can’t sleep.

I would never have imagined that so many people I know are this convinced that money is more important than life. It’s staggering to me. I guess if something global isn’t happening to them directly then it’s not really happening.