Just when I thought I had my life together this coronavirus thing comes along.
So now that I’ve got my quarantine life together that’s going to be up in smoke soon too, right?
Let’s hope so.
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Is it too much to ask that we all wake up tomorrow and find out this whole coronavirus thing was one big April Fool’s Day prank?
Can we please go back to like, March 11 or so?
Anybody?
And then I found out they were pushing the release of the new Bond movie until November.
Never mind Prince Charles and the prime minister…
this just got real.
No fair! No fair!
Today was the day I was supposed to report on Opening Day of the baseball season.
So much for that.
My only salvation is that MLB teams have not officially cancelled any games yet, just postponed them in some kind of clever bookkeeping trick.
Which means Nationals, Inc. is hanging on to my 60 bucks until that game isn’t played!
My copy of The Washington Post today did not even have a sports section.
You knew this day was coming.
Yeah, I got nothin’.
Really can’t complain about the amount of free time I’ve had the past week or two. Free time in which we’re not allowed to do anything. #ironicpunishment
I guess I never realized how much time I devoted to silly things like following sports. Yeah, it was a lot. Without sports I’ve got little to read about, little to blog about, and little to talk about with my friends. Which I guess is okay, because I’m not allowed to talk to my friends anyway.
Man this coronavirus sucks. And to think that after 37 and a half years of life I’d sort of just gotten it together.
Damn.
These days, with everything going on in the world, and little of it good, it’s refreshing to hear, well, anything that isn’t about coronavirus, the Apocalypse, or both.
Tom Brady going to the Buccaneers? I don’t care whether it’s true or not–sign me up for that news story!
Back to work today (well, remotely).
I guess all good things must come to an end.
Let’s hope the bad things come to an end soon too, eh?
For the past 30 years on this date I have purchased a copy of USA Today to check out its “March Madness” preview. Sometimes it would be the only newspaper I purchased the whole year. (And yes, in recent years sometimes they have done it on Tuesday instead of Monday and I actually ended up buying it two days in a row, but you get the idea.)
In 2014 I began taking a photo every year on this date of me and my son holding up a copy of the day’s paper. We’re usually smiling; this year we’re not. I took our 2020 photo last Friday, with the sports-page headline of The Washington Post : “Full stop.”
Full stop indeed.
#sad
Most of what I post on this blog is straight fluff, amusing I hope, but in the broader scheme of things, barely worth the paper it’s not written on.
Coronavirus, however… that’s some serious words you can’t say in church.
Have I been grossly underreacting thus far? Am I the fool for not being a total alarmist about this?
Well, I’ve jumped on the alarmist bandwagon now.
I just hope the wagon has a destination we can look back from.