Talk to me this evening

[vercetti2021]

I have a cup of coffee with a book. How are ya'll today? Surviving I hope.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. A cup of coffee with a book sounds like a great idea!

Sounds like you're a night owl. I've had times like that too. I used to work nights when I was a nurse.

Sometimes I still stay up late. But not with coffee! That's my after-breakfast beverage.

Tonight I'm just goofing around on DU, playing Solitaire electronically and dropping in on Facebook and other places.

Me and my husband are retired and we're surviving just fine. Social distancing is pretty much how we live most of the time!

[vercetti2021]

5. Very nice

I am a night owl sometimes. It varies from time to time. I watch too much on YouTube lol and the. Posting dumb memes on Facebook to piss off my right wing relatives

[cayugafalls]

2. Sitting here in Texas watching the case numbers rise.

Doing OK so far. Hoping Trump takes a header off the Resolute desk and knocks himself into next week.

How about you?

[vercetti2021]

4. I hear that

Fellow Texan! I'm watching idiots everyday in and out of the grocery stores without masks

[cayugafalls]

9. Yep, the amount of people without masks is incredible.

But they have to breathe and god gave them lungs and an immune system and no brains so they think they are good to go.

I'll just keep doing my thing and try and keep as far away from them as possible.

[vercetti2021]

11. Me too

At least I'm trying to. I live in the dumb part of Texas where common sense is all but a myth

[cayugafalls]

13. Is there a smart part of Texas?

You got me...

[cilla4progress]

3. We are good here in conservative inland

Washington state.

Husband is 3 months into retirement and loving it. No shortage of hobbies and projects. I am extremely lucky to work from home.

We were at the right place in our lives for a pandemic, if such can be said. We live out in the sticks.

Biggest concern is his 92 year old mom. She's taking it like a champ. But she's bored and lonely.

[vercetti2021]

6. I get that

I would worry too. Hell I do about my mom considering I'm living with her and my step father since a covid scare cost me 3 weeks of work without unemployment and a stimulus check. So I worry about coming home from these stores I work with covid on me

[Skittles]

14. it absolutely CAN be said

I too really don't much mind staying at home, but I remember being a teenager and in my 20's, it would have SUCKED!

[vercetti2021]

17. Try being 30

I had half a year of being on my own before I got pulled back by financial problems

[Skittles]

18. yeah, it would still suck

although, when I was 30 I had been on my own for eighteen years, including four years in the military

but yeah, I know it was different back then

[vercetti2021]

21. I'm sure it was easier back then

Jobs that paid well, housing was affordable. Now? Heh I could barely afford the apartment I was renting with two others.

[Skittles]

25. oh I know for sure

when I got out of the military I rented an apartment, worked a minimum wage job while taking college classes and bought a used car......sure I begged dates to buy me steak but no WAY could a young person do that today, no way!!! I is CRIMINAL what they are doing to our young folk, it's just WRONG

[vercetti2021]

26. Yeah

Oh well. It was all about them before us. Reason why zoomers will save us.

[Kaleva]

7. I have an internal clock that wakes me up around 2 a.m. most every night.

I'm feeling pretty tired and after i have a couple of glasses of juice, I'll head back to bed.

[vercetti2021]

10. Me too!

I wake up whenever lol like mind wants to sleep. Body yells nope!

[Skittles]

8. what book?

[vercetti2021]

12. Nothing But Bones

A supernatural story about a girl that can self heal and her mother that captures supernatural beings to sell for parts because of their rarity.

[Skittles]

15. ooh

I don't believe in ghosts or the supernatural yet I enjoy books and movies about said subjects

[vercetti2021]

16. I believe

I saw many spirits growing up. Our home was haunted. Reason I'm on the dark side of life. I enjoy supernatural, death and morbid reality

[Skittles]

20. I wouldn't call myself a death hag

but yeah, I too gravitate to the "dark side of life"

[vercetti2021]

22. Like I moved away from the dark after my "emo" years

Like yeah it went away but remained dormant until this year lol now I'm embracing darkness more than anything. Not pessimistic or anything. Just the art of darkness

[Mountain Mule]

19. It's 12:14 AM as I write this here in Colorado

I'd like to be asleep already, but my mind is more interested in worrying and/or coming up with stupid questions that simply never can be answered, but I brood on them, anyway. I ran into a acquaintance at the grocery store today who works as a home health aid. I was wearing a mask and she wasn't. I didn't say a word about it, but I guess she must be feeling defensive because she went into this long spiel about how she "doesn't believe" in the coronavirus. Then she abruptly ran away before I could tell her not to worry because the coronavirus sure as hell believes in HER. But I guess her clients must all be staunch Trumpers who are willing to die to show their amoral cult leader how much they love him.

Really sad, but I guess I can take some consolation in the cynical thought that there will probably be at least 4 less members of the Kult to cast votes in November. Am I a bad person? Another stupid question, I know.

Enjoy your coffee and your book!

[vercetti2021]

23. There's some things that you can't figure out

Especially people who say they don't believe in this stuff my dad the other they told me that he thinks it's just a similar flu virus but I pointed out like no because the virus has killed more people than the flu has in just three months than it has in a year

[mucifer]

27. and that's with social distancing and shut downs

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. I am doing fine.

I have the good fortune to be already retired. My income is unaffected by recent events.

I was on a cruise to Hawaii March 1-18th. It was a delayed 70th birthday present to myself, and I'm so glad I took that cruise. For one thing, we felt very safe on board, even while being aware of the Covid-19 spread every where. I met some lovely people on board, several of whom I am still in contact with. I got to do various delightful shore excursions.

I'm someone who loves to travel. I would have taken the train to Seattle at the beginning of April, but before my cruise ended, the thing I was going to attend in Seattle was cancelled, so I cancelled the entire trip. Sigh. It would have been wonderful. Amtrak sleeper car from Lamy, NM to Chicago. Overnight there. I'd booked the Palmer House Hotel. Then the train from Chicago to Seattle. Two overnights. In a sleeper car, which meant that my meals were included and I'd have my little roomette for privacy and sleeping. I'd booked a hotel in downtown Seattle, and was planning several days of sightseeing, including a semi-distant cousin found through one of the genetic testing things. After that, it was to be three days at a hotel at the airport for the science fiction thing I was going to attend. Then I'd fly back home to NM. What a wonderful trip that would have been. I sincerely hope I can do it next year, or the year after.

Meanwhile, I'm more or less holed up in New Mexico. I don't go out much. I have a couple of friends I see every week or so. I do miss Geeks Who Drink, which I'd been going to several nights a week before all of this. But for me, it's easy. I'm not having to deal with kids suddenly at home all day while trying to do my job at a distance. What a nightmare that would be! Plus, of course, the concern about your kids' schooling. I am truly grateful I don't have to deal with that.

Meanwhile, I'm getting a lot of reading done. I will recommend a series of books by Iona Whishaw. The first one is A Killer in King's Cove. It's 1946, and Lane Winslow has moved to a small town in British Columbia to start a new life after WWII. Complications ensue. It's pretty good, although there could have been better editing. It's the first of (so far) seven novels. I've just finished number 4 and will happily read the rest. Oh. I know Iona as we went to high school together. Even so, I'd still recommend them.

[cilla4progress]

28. I enjoyed your post!

My daughter and I took that train round trip Seattle to Chicago about 20 years ago. She got strep on the way east; I got a bad sinus infection coming home. We had a sleeper seat arrangement and the top bunk was like 10 inches from the vent system. Good thing you reserved a sleeper.

Also they ran out of water partway!

Other than that, the scenery and landscape was amazing!