Speaking of…

Covid. (See last entry.) I got it once after flying back from Barcelona in June of 2021 and that was it. These last few years, I’ve taken reasonable enough precautions but grew impatient with people insisting everybody test before we gather— and I’m talking about a month ago!! Enough was too much and I figured I’d trust the Gods to decide if my number was up. And for the last three years, it worked.

 

Until today. I thought maybe I caught a cold flying back from Vancouver, but couldn’t ignore the heat in my forehead and ye-old-fashioned thermometer revealed somewhere around 102 degrees fever.  So now it seemed reasonable to take out the old test kit and lo and behold, the dreaded red line in the wrong place. A few minutes later I checked e-mail and got a message from one of the eight people from Toronto I shared a banquet table with on Sunday night. And the message? You guessed it—one of them had Covid. 

 

So now it’s official and though the Gods didn’t exactly spare me, their timing was damn good! If it had been four days ago with four workshops to give and a movie to share, that would have been a major bummer. If it was next week just before boarding a plane to bike in Slovenia, another minor disaster. I had two dinners planned with friends this week easy enough to postpone, a post-hearing-aid check-up at Kaiser which I can let go for now. My biggest concern is the Friday afternoon piano play at the Jewish Home. Fingers crossed that by then I’ll test negative and yes, I’ll wear a mask the whole time. 

 

So my biggest concern is how to pass my days this week. Of course, I can write and play piano and such, but none of it is fun when you feel like crap. So I rummaged down in the basement for a `1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle I haven’t done in a while. That should keep me focused.

 

Of course, all of this is the most boring stuff ever to share with a reading public, but it did help pass ten minutes without whining about how crappy I feel. Thanks for that, dear readers and now I’ll let you go.

 

Oh, and wear a mask when you read this in case of infected electrons. :-)