by mike | Feb 1, 2021 | California, Death, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
Year Two of the coronavirus pandemic: yeah, this time I’m not exaggerating. The first case of Covid-19 showed up in the U.S. a year ago, and here we are, still dealing with it. We can thank a non-response by an incompetent administration for a disease that, sometime...
by mike | Jan 18, 2021 | California, Death, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
Day Whatever of the coronavirus pandemic: I stopped counting at around 25,000 days. Feels like it anyway. Am I right? In my 7.0 post four weeks ago, I mentioned that San Diego County was approaching 1,300 deaths from Covid-19. At this writing the number has grown to...
by mike | Dec 21, 2020 | California, Death, Humor, Life, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Day 21,453 (give or take) of the coronavirus pandemic: barely a few weeks ago I mentioned to Jacqueline that the Covid-19 death count stood at 997 here in San Diego County, that it would top a thousand in the next day or so. As of this writing it is likely we will...
by mike | Nov 16, 2020 | Aging, Books, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
Day 18,764 of the coronavirus pandemic: enough already! I mean, freaking enough! Are we back in the Dark Ages with the Black Plague? And it only seems to be getting worse. My bride and I are still hanging in there, doing what we need to do as high-risk seniors to...
by mike | Sep 21, 2020 | Aging, Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
Day 11,587 of the Coronavirus Pandemic (give or take): feels like it anyway, right? We all want it to be over, but the reality is that the blasted thing will likely be around for a long time to come. We’ll just have to deal with it as best we can. Meanwhile, 200,000...
by mike | Aug 24, 2020 | Aging, Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
Day 9,254 of the Coronavirus Pandemic (give or take)—did the Mayans get it wrong, or did we misread their calendar? Was it 2020, not 2012, that would mark the end of the world as we know it? I mean, civil unrest, a world-wide plague, wildfires decimating my beloved...