Tag: pandemic
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Genealogy and my ongoing search
In early 2016, I heard about a genealogy conference called Rootstech to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its location shouldn’t be a huge surprise since the largest source of genealogical records in the world reside here with the LDS Church in their FamilySearch Library. I was finally at a place personally that I…
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Smoking, sugar, Steiner, and being a senior
I had not fully appreciated what a phenomenal appetite suppressant smoking/vaping was until I stopped.
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Managing expectations, a broken heart and Elvis.
The decent ones are still decent, but a growing number of marginal ones know that their employer is desperate for people so they give the service they want with little or no fear of reprisal for shitty service.
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Pre-elevator weigh-in, attempting to become an activist…and a personal look at mental health
Peering into the elevator shaft of our 60-year old building and looking at what motivates that elevator is a little frightening.
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Finally an appointment … and comments on mental health and friendship.
I am happy thinking I might finally start getting an answer regarding my future, but I am sad too. How many people are out there that need a specialist for a variety of reasons but will not last the 15 months it has taken me just to get an appointment
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A Boomer learns a post-pandemic side-hustle (and cleans out a few closets.)
Problem is in thirty years I’ll be 97 and dead of course, so that scenario doesn’t work for me, and besides, I need money now. So what to do?
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Kinks
Every Friday, I get a much-anticipated email from AllMusic. AllMusic is an online music database that notes all new music releases from the previous week and emails those new entries. Music is by genre, so I can dive into whatever mood suits me at the time. Since it is set to show every new release,…
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Planning a little trip.
In November 2020, after graduating from real estate school, and being pretty much “done” with the pandemic, I started an AirBNB search for properties, in or around Key West. The general idea was to stay for a week or so during Valentine’s Day 2021. I would be retired from Career A, and not yet full-steam…
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Another year to ponder.
2021. It offered such promise. Even if we all knew it could never live-up to our expectations, it had to be better than 2020, right? Right. In many ways it was worse and that too may be attributed to unreasonable expectations. To me at least, much of what we faced seemed to be payback of…
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I’m vaccinated and just tested negative. Why aren’t I happy about it?
At this point in 2020, I had started backing off—a little—my incessant nitrile glove usage and started relying more on a mask, especially indoors, since the CDC said that was the more likely way to spread the virus. I continued to sanitize, of course, just in case. The rhetoric over a “vaccine” and when we…
a life always under construction 