Flannel Quarantine Diaries: Log Day 8

Coming Correct

#COVID19 Social (Physical) Distancing Log Day 03232020:

Mood: Reflective

I had to leave the house and go to Target to pick up some jalapenos, especially if we have to be quarantined for another week or two I need to ensure that I'm utilizing the 100 rolls of TP I have stashed (not really -- I'm making jokes). They surprisingly had eggs at Target, so now I can make that frittata with jalapenos. Folks are missing seeing other people they work with. The same people we usually complain to our friends and family about. The ones who are always asking idiotic questions and eating your food out of the work refrigerator you feel compelled to send them emails asking them how they are doing. Ha. Isn't that an interesting turn of events.

I was missing my friend Kimi in California. We usually just talk on the phone, she's one of the few people who hates to go back and forth on messenger. I decided to video chat with her, and she told me she has never done it before. I popped her messenger video cherry. She was sweetly tickled by the filter feature. It's like video chatting with your grandparents. I truly did miss seeing her face. We've known each other since I was 25 and if we do the math right that means she's known me for 20 years. It is totally possible for me to have a long-term relationship with a woman. Sure, it happens to be a friendship, but still we have been through a lot together. And, that truly means something. She could probably tell you a lot of great adventures that we had together and she probably could also tell you how much I've changed since I was 25.

No, things are not going to be the same once the self-quarantine is lifted and we flatten the curve. The jobs we had before will start to look different. We're not going to go back to normal and we shouldn't. Because, the normal that we lived before got us into the situation that we are in today. We can't go back, we can only move forward and hope for the best. Learn from our mistakes and be better off for it. I posted something on my Instagram story that said, "After all of this is over, all that will really matter is how we treated each other."

For some reason I was thinking about this one Tom Hanks movie, "The Man with the Red Shoe." Tom has the COVID-19 and his wife, too. Not in the movie, but in real life. That movie is typical 80s comedy that uses mistaken identities and multiple plot lines. A practical joke played by the friend who's wife the protagonist is having an affair with is the start of a slap-stick string of hilarity and ridiculousness. I think the point of the movie is that no one wins from deception and the one's who aren't playing the game end up winning. Reminds me of another movie I enjoyed, "Knives Out." If you haven't seen either, you should watch both. We seem to have lots of time on our hands to watch lots of movies.