Accentuate the positive

Springsteen penned a song titled Dancing In the Dark.

As I begin the middle of the morning of the second day of the three-day Memorial Day weekend I find myself typing in the dark.

It’s so hot that I can’t turn on the lights in my office as they generate too much heat. No, they’re not old fluorescent bulbs, either.

I always love how we go from trying to stay warm to trying to keep cool.

Austin was 104 the other day or something like that.

It’s only projected to be 87 here in Louisville but it feels like 100 after the ’50s and 60’s we were having.

I think a lot of random stuff when it’s warm out like now.

But I guess I also think a lot of random stuff when it’s cooler out like it was just a few days ago.

We’re reopening everything but it’s not really reopening when you have to practice social distancing; it’s kind of like things are still half-closed or half-open if you’re an optimist like me.

I can’t help but have this nagging suspicion that like a black bear in the fall, Uncle Covid is hibernating now that summer temperatures are upon us.

While there were some cars out on the busy stretch of road that took me to the pet store yesterday to finally get a couple buddies for our lone surviving goldfish (Big Red), it didn’t seem like all that many people were out.

Sure.

The nice weather is bringing out some of us.

We’re longing to not be encased like a sausage link. We want to burst through our skin and live again (or something like that).

Except, Uncle Covid still lurks.

He is out there.

He’s just napping.

And we risk losing all the control we’ve leveraged over him with our quarantining and social distancing.

I’ve seen people not practicing social distancing.

I haven’t reported them.

It was on the news.

I can’t control what people say.

I have no real influence on what people do or will do.

Guess I’ve always minded my own business.

That’s also been the expectation I have for anyone else.

Covid is currently making me think of what Bill Maher said when Colorado was about to legalize weed (and I paraphrase): Don’t eff this up, Colorado (sorry, kids, not dropping an F-bomb in this piece).

We have all this newfound, albeit limited freedom once again with the economy reopening.

I truly hope we don’t screw it up by not using common sense and keeping up the easy things to do like social distancing.

Not entirely negative

The isolating and sheltering at home have not been all bad due to the technology we possess like video cams. We can keep in touch that way if we’re so inclined.

There’s also always picking up the phone.

Or you can address any Wi-Fi deficiencies in your dwelling since the mass exodus from the office space into the home (hint get a mesh system to eliminate poor Wi-Fi performance and dead zones).

You can also catch up on things you started six months ago and stopped for some reason.

Or you can try a new hobby like gardening.

Or in my case, weeding–it’s always there whenever you’d like to “pick up” on it.