- Shit’s fucked up. It just is. As I noted yesterday, it’s as if we’re witnessing the ghost of normalcy rather than normalcy itself — it died so fast, it hasn’t yet left this plane of existence, and so it lingers, refusing to be banished until an exorcism finally sends it packing. These are abnormal, bizarre, confounding, dipshitted, batshitted, extraordinarily fucked-up times.
You don’t have to be okay with that.
You probably shouldn’t be okay with that.
Yeah man. I climbed a mountain today to try and cope. Because who knows what Inslee is going to declare, and who knows if I’ll be able to climb much this year because of it.
My work is just all like OMG how can we connect? and I'm like "I don't understand how the people around me are still using social media" and pretty consistently angry (at least i'm not pretty constantly angry) and uninterested in absolutely anything except COVID 19, oh and myself. And my now-1-income household. it's cool that y'all, my coworkers, want to do virtual yoga together as a class, but I didn't want to even before all this crap struck, I certainly as hell do not want to do it now. I'm like "the world is ending and i'm calling off work to take some psychadelics because the weather is nice, eff it all." i really don't know how to communicate exactly where i'm at. but like, fuck all sorts of social posturing at this point in time. who even can be interested in it
Yep. After chores, messing around with processing chains for my bass guitar, and taking a walk, I’m sipping on a rather strong beer (OHB’s Freaky Deaky) and playing some Mario on the Switch. Funny that the Switch got a shoutout in the article. This filthy casual will be snagging “Doom Eternal” as soon as the port to Switch is complete.
You might like Golden Monkey - or anything from Victorious.
It just so happens that a friend of mine made a beerhat from a sixer of Golden Monkey I drank. That's not the weirdest part though, the weirdest part is that he made it in 2014, and, for some reason, I still have the hat (you'll see him about 10 seconds in): But also, regarding Hubski's sacred text and hat, respectively:
Everything here went full crazy in the matter of a week, in another week I’ll be driving home across the country. Trying to prep for a 3-4 day trip where I can’t really stop anywhere because who knows how long restaurants or hotels will stay open. I mean, I just got laid off from a restaurant in a hotel so I’m not optimistic. I know I’m capable of driving 12 hours a day, I’ve done it before in less comfy seats but fuck. That’s all I got, just Fuck. My work is trying to be helpful and give housing where they can, a lot of people have lost their housing very quickly so they’re offering hotel rooms but that’s short term. They also aren’t kicking anybody out, but strongly recommending those who can leave do because they might be forced by parks eventually. I’m leaving so hopefully the people who really need it can stay. The whole thing has been surreal honestly, it’s like I’m trying to cling to normalcy while also planning a road trip and wondering if I should get jerry cans in case some gas stations start to close. So happy I have a dog right now though.
Gas will be available. It's a public necessity. So will groceries. Restaurants? I suspect take-out will stay open. The other side of this will be a new world. I don't know what it looks like yet, and I don't know how far out it is. What I know is that life is in the delta - that part of the river where it joins the ocean, and that part of the graph where it changes from one thing to another. There's a quote from The Expanse about what happens "in the slip" but I can't find it now. What you need to look at is who you want to be when this is over. Where you want to be when this is over. And focus on that shit like a goddamn drishti.
Gas is under $2 where I am... guessing part of that are the Saudi shenanigans earlier this month. Good time to fill tank if you're taking proper sanitary pre-cautions at the pump. If talking about job$. Had a shower thought that it's been a nice round century since a world-scale effort of this magnitude actively mobilized countries to face a crisis. Instead of gearing towards a war-effort, the focus is health. Finding an avenue into health industry in come capacity wouldn't be a bad option.Gas will be available.
What you need to look at is who you want to be when this is over. Where you want to be when this is over. And focus on that shit like a goddamn drishti.