Not Shy, But Retiring

I don’t think it’s just me, but these Days of Corona seem like kind of a blur. I know we finally left April a day or two ago, but I have not been been marking my calendar by the events I usually use to do so. Saturday, which is now sometime in the past, should […]

Among the Peasants

So I was looking for a book located somewhere in this house, The Black Death. Yesterday that led me to a complete sidetrack with wayward animals, and I never made it back to my search. I have been thinking about this book, a history book group selection, for some time now, inasmuch as it details […]

Random Acts

I tried having a “covid-free” day yesterday, but as I discovered upon waking at 3 this morning, reality is just never far away these days. I am starting this with no time left for blogging after starting another entry that you may or may not see later, so — since I already skipped one day […]

The Thought That Counts

I hate to ruin the surprise, especially after the fact, but here it is, for all the world to learn including perhaps my niece: her uncle is technologically inept. Probably not this year, but in every year past, we who work at Pat’s Screen Printing may perhaps make the tiniest bit of fun of our […]

Multitasking, Perhaps in Vain

I was going to try, I really was, to unearth a non-virus topic, but I need to write an e-mail, and I can blog or e-mail, but it’s much easier to do both at the same time. The last letter I meant to write never got written, although as I’m typing I suppose that might […]

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!” […]