Global PanDUMBic
Been awhile since I’ve logged in here. I keep thinking that I should log into this site and upload some pictures of what I’ve been working on, but they’re all such little things that it hardly seems worth the post. As if anyone is checking this page to judge.
Anyway, what’s new? Let’s see.. well… I flipped some old gym equipment for new luxury stuff. Just about have this year’s landscaping projects completed. We’re in the middle of a pandemic where 260,000+ people have drowned in their own fluids. Oh and the other day Vally unknowingly stepped right over a mourning dove in a garden and it flew out from between her legs and startled poor Vally so bad she nearly did a front flip.
Soooo that pretty much covers it then! Good entry glad I stopped in ok until next time see ya ok bye.
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COVID19 PANDEMIC PROS
Less time commuting each day
Spend each work day with trusty pooch at my side
Blossoming etsy facemask market
Suddenly justified previously shaky investments into used gym equipment
COVID19 PANDEMIC CONS
30 million + unemployed in America alone
Hundreds of thousands dying
Tigers are susceptible too
Suddenly very difficult to purchase new gym equipment.
So there ya have it. 4 pros and 4 cons. I guess it’s a wash.
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Things have been OK here. I’ve been more or less locked up in isolation since March 19th, the day I started working from home. With the exceptions of a trip to the drive-thru pharmacy and one trip out near the C&O canal towpath to look at some real estate property, I haven’t gone anywhere since then. Food and supplies are being delivered, work is from the home office every day, and Sunday Fundays have been directed to online hangouts instead of in-person ones. So I’m doing alright.
I find one of the difficulties in all this is deciding whether I’m going overboard. It seems like all the medical and professional advice is to continue isolating until this thing is better known and better controlled, and I’m following that to the best of my ability, but all around me I see examples of friends and families still having smaller get togethers. To me, that seems foolish - it’s almost a suicide pact to be spending time around people you don’t have to (if you have it and don’t know, I’ll have it too) - but it’s hard to tell what normal is right now. It reminds me of the years I was super strict about my eating habits. When I have a goal to accomplish and clear steps to reach it, I don’t deviate or make exceptions. I stick to what I’m doing and almost relish the challenge. It’s not unnecessary discomfort, it’s progress towards a goal. So maybe I’ve been unknowingly training for this for years. Either way, I have the means and the opportunity to see this thing through properly and I will do so. I just wonder how neurotic I seem to others as I do it.
Regardless, I’m actually enjoying my time cooped up. Mostly, anyway. I’ve been putting the recording studio together and working to adopt a mindset where I’m less hesitant to make music because it might be bad and more excited to make bad music. Journaling lyric ideas, may reach out to an old friend or two and see if they want to do some online collaboration, it should be fun. Landscaping is going well, and the patio has been a haven for quarantine outdoor time. I’m finding time to hit the home gym each evening and accepting that some days are going to be stronger than others. Mostly I think I’m finally learning to do things because I enjoy them, not because I’m expecting to be great at them. I don’t know if that’s directly tied to the pandemic or I would have landed on that myself. Maybe it comes from not having anyone close enough to try to impress. Regardless, in spite of everything going on in the world, I think I’m still making personal progress.
Will try to get some project or song updates in the near future.
-M
