It's September somehow....

Time has passed.

Too much it seems and not enough.

I’m trapped in the drudgery. I am desperate for a vacation. We lost our planned trip to Norway in July. I think my wife is still mourning the excellent airfare rate we’d snagged. Overall, we’ve gotten off light in the age of troubling times.

Troubling times. My wife and I saw a movie and the whole time it felt like we were both betraying and encouraging the world and the people around us. It was fine. It’s hard to get COVID when you’re the only people in the theater. But… listen we didn’t wear our masks the whole time. I mean even if the place was as packed as much as they’d allow, and for real having automatic buffer seats added when you buy a ticket needs to be a thing we keep, being in an enclosed space even with the mask probably wouldn’t have been great odds. But it was so nice to go somewhere.

I have saved so much money. I mean we aren’t rich, and in the time since the last blog post I’ve bought a house, but seriously not rich. The house is nice though. But gas had apparently been costing me a not insignificant amount of money. And I was going out to eat for lunch a lot. So, I’ve lost weight and saved some extra money. If there’s trepidation about returning to my office or the world outside it’s that I’ll lose all the stuff I’ve gained during quarantine.

Fall is starting, and the wretched sun is already blurring to in-distinction. Now that’s mostly because the country is covered in a haze caused by the third of the land mass being on fire. But it’s thematic to the season and probably something else that we must get used to. More and more I miss the privilege of not having to worry about the world around me, but I think those days have passed, just as September will soon be gone as well.