Check in: still here, everyone is still well. This time last year, the whole family got really sick with a respiratory illness, which was bad enough I thought it might be an early case of the coronavirus. That seems pretty unlikely now, with the later earliest known cases in California, and that no one lost their sense of smell and taste. This year, not even a cold, though the Santa Ana winds brought some allergies, of course.
At first I thought that people were putting more Christmas lights because people wanted to celebrate something, and had more time off work. Well, they did, but after driving around, it seems the phenomenon was mostly limited to my middle-class neighborhood. Weird.
We live near a hospital, and I'm getting tired of all the sirens all day long. What's the rush? All of the ICU beds are taken! But hey, lockdown ended yesterday, time to get back to shopping. Or not. I'm treating this as the most dangerous time we'll see, and hoping to avoid human contact as much as possible. Happy New Year, everyone!
At first I thought that people were putting more Christmas lights because people wanted to celebrate something, and had more time off work. Well, they did, but after driving around, it seems the phenomenon was mostly limited to my middle-class neighborhood. Weird.
We live near a hospital, and I'm getting tired of all the sirens all day long. What's the rush? All of the ICU beds are taken! But hey, lockdown ended yesterday, time to get back to shopping. Or not. I'm treating this as the most dangerous time we'll see, and hoping to avoid human contact as much as possible. Happy New Year, everyone!
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto