Well, it was bound to happen eventually: We have a COVID case in the building. I thought it would be the flight attendant, but surprise! no, it's the young woman who just gave birth.

I shouldn't say we have a "COVID case". What we have is someone who tested positive for COVID. She's still not showing any symptoms, so there's still the possibility of ( Read more... )

With exquisite timing, the weather turned just after Labour Day. It had threatened to do so earlier--in fact, I'd turned off the AC Sunday in anticipation of not needing it again until next year and was forced to relent that very afternoon. But it's been consistently under 20°C since yesterday evening and that's where it will stay for at least a ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to do a writeup on how I spent the past weekend since--if my attempts to recall how I spent my birthday last year are any guide--I won't remember otherwise. Everything happened more-or-less as I outlined in my previous post: I lazed around on Saturday and managed to miss every single attempt to call and wish me a happy day but one ( Read more... )

*glances at calendar* Oh, I guess I'm due for my annual whiny post about my upcoming birthday?

It's not going to be what I hoped, of course. I really wanted to go all-out for my 50th. I wasn't sure exactly how, but I did consider a destination celebration. Even after the lockdown started, I didn't give up on the notion of an exorbitant restaurant ( Read more... )

When I first met Chest Rockwell (I believe the year was 1995 or 1996), we had both just recently joined the Great Lakes Bears. I'd only recently learned they existe and he'd only recently relocated here from the Northeast. The organisation had been growing explosively and their annual event, Bear Pride, was starting to become the tail that wagged ( Read more... )

I suppose I was overdue for a COVID-19 scare. A couple months ago, I felt a bit overheated and broke out the thermometer, but my temperature was actually below average. Since then the weather has warmed up and my allergies have blossomed but without becoming acute enough to require medication.

I've also been exposing myself a bit more than I was ( Read more... )

Today on a Zoom call with several colleagues, one of them referred to the situation as "post-pandemic" and I quickly jumped it to remind him that we are still "mid-pandemic" and that meeting face-to-face was simply not in the cards for the foreseeable.

Maybe someone should have reminded me of this yesterday before I went out to the parking pad to ( Read more... )

I've been thinking all week about posting an entry here, which is to say I've been spending all week avoiding posting an entry here. There's a lot I want to talk about but the days go by so quickly and leave me with so little energy. Plus the background anxiety is manifesting as insomnia

Usually it's not too bad: Wake up at 4 a.m., take an hour to ( Read more... )

We were waiting for my father's funeral procession to start. It was a significant downtown street, but traffic was slow, so it must've been a Sunday morning or something. Spectators were beginning to line up over a three-block area and seeing how scattered they were I began to wonder if we shouldn't have compressed the route to a single block. I ( Read more... )

This site is called "Dreamwidth" after all, so time for some dreams ( Read more... )