30th
April
2020
This quarantine thing comes with certain side effects. Me, I shop, over and over again, for things I don’t need and (probably) won’t buy. Unless the confinement continues for too long. Then, all bets are off. Elsewhere in the house, all of the hares that hang about have been named. I don’t know how to tell one from the other, but if ever I get a clear sign, I’ll be able to address the situation. By name, I mean.
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29th
April
2020
Strange times. Today, we paid off the winter snow removal contract. In cash, that had been kept out of circulation for almost a week. I mean, money is dirty. It can carry disease. But if you put the bills into an envelope and then wait for a bit, at least the disease part goes away. I jest, barely. The money was delivered by hand, and bicycle.
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28th
April
2020
At least my time is free. After spending some minutes perusing the for sale section of my hobby group, I’m bewildered. At what point did your used gear become as valuable as the new article, in a sealed carton with the warranty intact?
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27th
April
2020
When I read the texts from others, I tend to notice the verbosity; all those hours in grammar class learning about adjectives and adverbs was supposed to push us to improving our powers of description. So, just for fun, I’m going to try and increase my effort.
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26th
April
2020
Another afternoon in the house. Which, just before supper, brought the probing question: Was I suffering from agoraphobia?
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25th
April
2020
The pandemic comes with a whole array of reactions. From the “hoax” label applied to our south, through logical decisions to mitigate, all the way to national quarantines; let’s try everything and see what works. Proof we’re in new territory, medically.
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24th
April
2020
Even a false alarm can be “alarming”; this afternoon the alert system notified the whole interprovincial region that there might be a live shooter in the Halifax area. No chances taken; things halted. Stores and public spaces were locked. And then, we waited. Several hours later, the all-clear. We will probably never know what set off the response, although someone did mention that there was some blasting in a quarry (work related). Again, no chances taken. And I guess that’s how it should be.
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23rd
April
2020
Calgary wasn’t on my list of places to go in 2020. Now, there’s even less reason; the Stampede has been cancelled for this year. There goes my only chance to see a chuckwagon pileup, or see rodeo clowns in their natural habitat. Oh well.
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22nd
April
2020
Another sleepless night. I know that I did hear the cuckoo, several times. In between, my brain played through the various ways I could attach PVC piping and small metal rods together, allowing me to mount a new (and yet to be procured) antenna to the side of the house. Somewhere along the way, my recollection of what was already in place proved faulty. When I wandered over there, this afternoon, I realized that engineering done in the fog of insomnia is hardly practical. In the real world, I don’t think they encourage such effort.
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21st
April
2020
This stay-at-home life model has some interesting side effects. The price of gasoline has crashed. Webcam views from both the city and the country show an emptiness not seen (before) in my lifetime. Why I even found a decent article that discussed what to do with thousands of commercial airliners that have no place to go. That one is a logistical nightmare.
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