by mike | Mar 29, 2021 | Baseball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
Year Two (for crying out loud!) of the freaking coronavirus pandemic. Sure, it seems to be trending in the right direction, and many more people have been vaccinated against Covid-19, including my bride and me. But it is far from over, and I choose to listen to the...
by mike | Mar 1, 2021 | Baseball, Basketball, California, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
Year Two-plus of the coronavirus pandemic. Well, it might be “plus” for most everyone, but for me it started for real on a day in early March almost exactly one year ago. Hard to forget: I had watched a San Diego Padres spring training game the night before and was...
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 28, 2020 | Aging, Books, Death, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
When I wrote the first Jack Miller book, Bicycling Through Space and Time, in the ’90s, it didn’t take me long to learn that his many crazy comedy/satire adventures needed to be tempered with some scenes of a more serious nature. The chapter where he meets an...
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...
