In which I regret leaving the house
Well, kind of. And of course it's a 5th story studio condo, not a house, but whatever.
I haven't been out since my last entry on account of Unseasonable Winter. -12 C for days, snow in a city not used to it, plus all the omicron stuff. And it looked like I do have groceries to last the month. But today was up to a balmy -7 C ;_;, there's yet *more* snow tonight, and I'd been telling people about how light exercise is good for depression. Not that I feel depressed, maybe unproductive, but anyway I figured it was a good window to go for a walk.
Walked over the bridge to Granville Island. Nicest part about that was all the lights at night. Granville itself was "more city". I thought about getting some food, but passed. Ended up turning north on Maple, which I regretted: downhill on a residential street in a snowy city not used to snow... usually walking on snow is fairly safe (vs. concrete/ice mixture) but I found a block of really slipper snow. Survived, though.
Oh, and before that I found myself walking on a bike path, because the city had clearly plowed it, unlike the sidewalk.
Maple led to Cornwall, and eventually my taking the 2 bus back downtown (the bridge is long and cold), with trepidation, since the driver wasn't wearing a mask at all (also true of another bus I looked into later) and some old guy was a dicknose. It wasn't long by bus, so I held the edges of my mask down and hoped.
(Valved N95, with backup surgical mask; I discovered while out that the valve undermines the 'scarf' effect of wearing a mask...)
Decided to get a treat while I was out, hitting Poke Bar on Davie. Returned home, to find 3 people talking loudly in the lobby, 2 of them unmasked despite building policy. And the building is managed more for 'security' than safety: there's only one way in, through the first floor lobby and an elevator. There are various ways *out*, but you can't get back in via any of them, and there's no stair up from the first floor. So more praying to my mask.
Lots of people happily dining away on Granville. You'd think there wasn't a super-contagious pandemic happening. See the
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I haven't been out since my last entry on account of Unseasonable Winter. -12 C for days, snow in a city not used to it, plus all the omicron stuff. And it looked like I do have groceries to last the month. But today was up to a balmy -7 C ;_;, there's yet *more* snow tonight, and I'd been telling people about how light exercise is good for depression. Not that I feel depressed, maybe unproductive, but anyway I figured it was a good window to go for a walk.
Walked over the bridge to Granville Island. Nicest part about that was all the lights at night. Granville itself was "more city". I thought about getting some food, but passed. Ended up turning north on Maple, which I regretted: downhill on a residential street in a snowy city not used to snow... usually walking on snow is fairly safe (vs. concrete/ice mixture) but I found a block of really slipper snow. Survived, though.
Oh, and before that I found myself walking on a bike path, because the city had clearly plowed it, unlike the sidewalk.
Maple led to Cornwall, and eventually my taking the 2 bus back downtown (the bridge is long and cold), with trepidation, since the driver wasn't wearing a mask at all (also true of another bus I looked into later) and some old guy was a dicknose. It wasn't long by bus, so I held the edges of my mask down and hoped.
(Valved N95, with backup surgical mask; I discovered while out that the valve undermines the 'scarf' effect of wearing a mask...)
Decided to get a treat while I was out, hitting Poke Bar on Davie. Returned home, to find 3 people talking loudly in the lobby, 2 of them unmasked despite building policy. And the building is managed more for 'security' than safety: there's only one way in, through the first floor lobby and an elevator. There are various ways *out*, but you can't get back in via any of them, and there's no stair up from the first floor. So more praying to my mask.
Lots of people happily dining away on Granville. You'd think there wasn't a super-contagious pandemic happening. See the
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