The days, they go by so fast
So I clearly have been derelict in posting to my LiveJournal account. A lot has happened to the world in the last six months!
Not so much in my life, though! Stagnation or stability? I'll go with the later even if it feels like everything in the world has stopped moving forward.
At this point, like many people, I've been subject to shelter-in-place for about two months. Looking at the numbers, it looks like Chicago and Cook County have now become the epicenter of the COVID epidemic, taking over from NYC which was the prior reigning champion of new cases for the last couple of months.
Not necessarily a champion belt you would want to have.
Working at home has been fine. Like most people I am not keen on external enforced isolation. I live alone, with no roommates. When I stock up on groceries, I can go more than a full week without seeing anyone, aside from strangers on the street as I take my dog Guster for a walk.
Guster, of course, is the reason why I haven't gone (more) crazy. He's fantastic, always a clownish derpy dog with a playful sense of humor.
To help keep a sense of discipline, I have made myself dress for work every day even though prior to shelter-in-place I would barely cloth myself when working at home. I decided to make a photoessay out of it, since I was using this period of time to rehabilitate my waning Aloha shirt collection.
27 days, 27 Aloha shirts.
I wore the first 25 shirts on consecutive days. The 26th shirt, the purple one in the middle bottom row, arrived about a week after I was done. The very last blue shirt on the bottom right was actually the first shirt I wore. The original picture, however, was me sitting at a table in the sunroom so it didn't fit the same setup as the other shots so I reshot it last. OCD, you are still with me.
Guster patiently waits for his morning walk.
In other news, Guster is doing well. If I didn't have him around as my constant companion I suspect I'd be mentally in a far worse place. I'm not saying I'm doing great in my personal headspace these days (I mean, who is right now with everything going on?). But, one of the aspects of my personality is that I need to care for someone, be it human or pet. And I need something to enforce structure to my day. Guster gives me that focus. He's been the best thing to happen for my mental health in last two years, no doubts.
Plus, he seems to like me. ;)
Guster trying to cause a car accident by nibbling my ear.
Happy Friday, everyone.