Adaptation to COVID world

@Amy, how is your dog?

 

Two hours after I got my license, I took out the ticket spitter at the L&C Tower parking garage.

Chevy Vegas were sturdier than we expected. My car sustained a couple of scratches. The thoroughly destroyed toll machine gently spun out a long string of tickets. It was like the wheels of Wile E. Coyote's skates spinning gently on the soles of his upturned feet after a pyrrhic failure.

 

My kingdom for a video of this.

 

I'm sure the CCTV footage made the rounds until the technology changed.

 

Thanks for asking. Nothing came up on any of the tests, either down here or at UF, to explain the spiking/waning/spiking fevers and lethargy. The MRI did confirm he fractured his skull, even creating a permanent dent, when he ran into an immovable object at full whippet speed. The vets won’t say the accident and illness are connected, maybe because he had a couple of weeks of normal behavior between the accident and illness or that his brain was normal on the MRI.

Good news is we’ve gone a week with no antibiotics and no fever. Bad news is he’s still lethargic. He’s lost weight and muscle. It’s really hard to not think it’s dog post concussion syndrome. I’m still very worried Opie will never be his old self and holding my breath there’s no more fevers.

 

That's a lot for one pup to go through!

Someone once jokingly pointed to a VW tooling past our house and yelled, "Fetch!" Great Danes are sweet, but they're not exactly known for their ability to understand sarcasm. He did, however, get the Beetle. It took him about a year to get back to himself. He lived to a ripe old age of thirteen.

Hoping for the best for Opie.

 

Best for your pup, @Amy

So, every bit of this year sucks. No doubt. But one adaptation has been good in my world.

I used to call my mom once a week, as a good son who lives far away does. Less frequent for my siblings, one who lives in the city and one who lives 2,000 miles away.

Since late March, the four living members of my immediate family have done a video chat twice a week. My mom, who is in the “independent” part of an assisted living facility, gets a lot out of it. And it’s two highlights of my week.

I see it continuing after this gets under control.

Definitely feel closer to my family than I did before March 2020.

 

But we have to have schools open?

No. No, we do not.



I don’t know how many people some of you are willing to see killed so we can have “normal life” again, but I’d like to politely invite those of you who are trying to make that point to go fuck yourselves.

 

So this scares the shit out of me.

 

Good. That means you’re a rational human.

As opposed to the other people I was talking to, who are more than happy to see teachers, workers, bus drivers and others die in job lots.

 

And I'm a teacher with a team teacher just like this Arizona case.