Mad as a Hornet

I started this yesterday, then ran out of time. I always think I’ll find this time later, and it never happens. You know, every morning I wake up and think I might regale all of you with some non-corona topic. And then I watch the news and reality sets in: it is all virus, all […]

What Corona Wants

I’m not feeling great about the citizenry’s ability to police and regulate itself in the time of pandemic. This feeling is based on me not remaining “safer at home,” as the governor’s “Phase 1” policy is officially called, but on my observations while roaming unfettered through town. Okay, I would like to clarify that I […]

Inside Out

I ran my tank completely empty yesterday, and I didn’t even realize how completely empty until today, when I am still wiped out and not very motivated. I don’t even know why. Stress, I suppose. Every iota of every fiber of my being yesterday was fixated on applying for a $5,000 grant from the city. […]

On Account

Yesterday I added two new accounts to the company books. One of them, which I called “covid-19,” is an expense account, and my first entry in it was for what looks like a fifth of gin but is billed as hand sanitizer by the local company that produced it, Coal Creek Distillery. I don’t believe […]

Barbaric Yawp

I suppose I “miss out” by not Facebooking, to verbize the English language. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to get my news from reputable sources: newspapers, TV, word on the street. Which is how I learned about the big news planned for Gunnison yesterday. My bank teller said, “I’m wearing yellow! We’re with you!” […]

A Wing and a Prayer

Yesterday I interrupted a phone conversation with Kara to announce a large bird, perhaps a sandhill crane, had just landed at our pond. (Ours because our property touches an eighth or ninth of the shoreline.) But the bird moved lower, out of sight, while I was trying to decide if it was a crane or […]

Vann-guard

The timing was not good: about two weeks after we hired our newest employee, we sent him home and told him to stay there. This turns out to not be the best way to get to know someone. Ben, our graphic designer for eight years, gave notice in January that he would be leaving us […]

Blue-Sky Problems

We haven’t talked about the weather in a long time — it feels overdue. And yet, even as I set out, we all know the conversation is going to evolve, possibly devolve, into a virus discussion. They all do. As Ashton Altieri, weather prognosticator for CBS Denver, was busy touting the “bluebird” day he’s calling […]

Technology Bytes

Today I am pondering many things, among them technology, and mostly people and technology, and how do some people decide when enough is too much? My friend Paul wrote a column for the local paper about his covid-19 ordeal, full of thanks for the staff at St. Mary’s Hospital, the health workers in Gunnison, his […]

Socially Distant Money

Money. It’s on a lot of people’s minds these days, and as so much of the time, it’s an infuriating notion. I doubt that it’s really a secret, but in a perfect world, I would be a socialist. A true Marxist (despite never reading his work), not a Russian communist nor a disciple of Mao, […]