Back Home

We’re back home. We were out for about five hours. The trip was a bit of a bust from the leaf peeping and photo taking point of view. From the perspective of Jen and me jumping in the car and road trippin’ for the hell of it, it was a total success.

We didn’t stop anywhere. As soon as we got North of Concord, NH the clouds moved in and everything looked gloomy and bad. We dipped our toes into the White Mountain region and then turned around and took the long way home.

I took exactly one photograph:

38/365
38/365

Leaf Peeping

The weather forecast was kinda crummy today but the reality isn’t too terrible. Jen and I are going to give leaf peeping a shot. That will let us go out in the world while still being paranoid about spreading any last vestiges of the Covid… even though that is literally not a thing.

I have my Nikons in the camera bag. The Z5 mirrorless with the new 28mm lens, and the FG-20 film camera with the 35-70mm zoom. I even turned on the SnapBridge app connection so that I can possibly post Z5 shots to the blog while we’re out. There was only one shot on the memory card and it crossed to my phone and it’s Robin, of course.

Lets see how it goes today. Fingers crossed for some cool views and decent shots.

Possessions

Daily writing prompt
What would you do if you lost all your possessions?
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Possessions are fun and all but they are just stuff and stuff can be replaced.

The rebuild would need to start with a home to live in, including some basic furnishings, and a car to get around in, specifically to the office and back. I need a computer and a phone for work so those would come next. After that I would need mental health items. Specifically a guitar and an amplifier with a cable to connect them, and a digital camera with a memory card.

In other words, if I lost all of my stuff I would just start over and rebuild my collection of stuff. I would not end up with exactly the same stuff, but the stuff that I truly need (professionally, mentally, and personally) would be replaced. It would likely be a painful and slow process, but I’d get there eventually.

Owen Wilson Night

We didn’t plan on making it Owen Wilson Night in our house tonight, but that’s the way it turned out.

First we watched the new episode of Loki. Season two, episode one came out yesterday. Jen and I watched it together. Owen Wilson plays Mobius and he might be the best part of the series.

A few hours later we were sitting down to dinner in the living room and Jen was hunting around looking for something to watch. Disney+ has The Haunted Mansion. Rottentomatoes.com has a high score for viewer reviews and a really low score for critic reviews. The cast does include Owen Wilson though… so…

We are hoping it will partially make up for our missing our Magic Kingdom day last month. It won’t, but maybe. Right?

9:50am on Day 20

Good news, everybody! Our long national nightmare is over! This morning’s Covid-19 home test came back negative! I’ve been symptom free for a week already and now I have a negative test to go along with it!

This is the final post (probably not ever, but for now) that will be tagged “Live Blogging Covid” and I am really happy about this!

I can go outside again!

I can get the car inspected!

Well… that’s nothing to be excited about. Way to kill the mood, Robert.

Happy negative test day, everyone!

Change My Mind

Daily writing prompt
What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?
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Topics about which I’ve changed my mind. Well, off the top of my head there are bunch that I can think of. On closer inspection though, are some of them more as though I convinced myself that something was true only because the reality didn’t appeal to me? I’ll explain along the way.

  • I once believed that I would always be alone, romantically speaking. Jen proved me wrong and changed my mind. I am extremely pleased to have been wrong about this one. My question though is, did I really believe I was going to always be alone or did I just convince myself that was the case because it was safer to believe it than to ponder the reasons behind it? Something like that at least.
  • I once believed that I didn’t want kids. Harry and Bellana changed my mind. I don’t have kids of my own, but if you search through the history of this little personal blog you’ll find a few thousand posts where I mention that I can’t possibly imagine loving kids more than I love my step kids. I have to assume it’s possible, but I feel like to do so would result in your head exploding. Again, I was very happy to have my mind changed on this subject. Also, I may never have truly believed this one but instead convinced myself that it was the case to avoid being hurt by the reality. I don’t know and I don’t care. I am very happy with how things turned out.
  • I used to think that fascism was a historical movement with no connection to current reality. Boy was I wrong about that. Consider my mind changed.
  • I used to think that god might be an actual thing. Those days are over. Mind: changed.
  • I used to think that given the choice between traveling to San Diego or Los Angeles the correct choice would be Los Angeles. Now all I want is to go back to San Diego and then never leave.
  • I used to hate country music with the furious passion of a thousand burning suns. I still do. I’ll never change my mind about that one. That one is fundamental to my being.

There you have it. A few topics upon which I have changed my tiny little mind.