Warm moving to hot, decent moving to ‘too humid to breathe’.
Yesterday was a bit cooler than average and a bit drier too. The shade with a breeze was quite comfortable.
Swim team eats up my mornings. Falling asleep at my desk after lunch ate my afternoon. I got very little done besides two loads of laundry and making dinner.
Dinner was lamb roast with potatoes, onion, carrots, garlic, and rosemary in the dish. A shelf stable loaf of sourdough went in the oven too, since it was on… I cooked the whole 4 pound roast and was grateful that it hadn’t spoiled with my refrigerator issue. Chicken and milk did spoil, and I figured it out after the garbage pickup, so my trash is going to be horrific this week…
My non-prepping hobby club will be meeting today. Normally we meet in a conference room or break room at one of the member’s manufacturing facility. It’s pretty cramped. Today the meeting will be in the big community room of a local church. I’ve thought long and hard about it, and I’ve decided not to go. I miss the guys and have stuff for show and tell, but I’ve been coughing for 3 days, and even if there is more room and a high ceiling, it’s still an enclosed space. If I’m avoiding the grocery store, I can’t justify attending my club meeting. Especially with cases trending up in town and almost every other member being older than me to boot.
I’m going to do my auction pickups and then start pulling back on that again. I need to narrow my focus back down. I’d hoped that I was wrong about wuflu part 2, but it doesn’t look that way. On top of that, people are working pretty hard at getting CivilWarII started. More like Civil War, the low intensity conflict version ™ probably, but still gonna suck.
I’ve seen more references to Qanon and the term ‘boogaloo’* in the press in the last week than, well, ever. Internet talk is spilling over into Real Life. From their point of view, you have to familiarize people with the ideas before you can use those ideas to condemn individuals and groups. That’s beginning. Divemedic posted some material for thought, namely the US policy analysis and instruction books for insurgency. He’s raised some convincing points about where we are along that path. I’ll link in comments because he’s also beginning to sterilize his online presence and I generally try to avoid external links in the post of the day, so they don’t break later.
Things will likely get worse before better. Plan for it. Keep stacking.
nick
*not the racial slur, the same idea as “spicy time” or “when things get ‘sporty'”.