I haven’t been out ot the house since March 16.  I didn’t get out much before then, 2 maybe 3 times a week.

The wife is making grocery runs with mask and gloves,

I thought I was doing OK when the lockdown started,   I knew I wasn’t when I wanted to run out of the house and hug the lawn people when they showed. up.

I had been avoiding real news because I knew it was going to be depressing.  The only information I was getting was The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert.  The wife is following the news closely.  Guess which one of us has a better average mood.

My step-daughter has a job with an Austin distillery,  Most of the bars are closed so she’s spending a lot of time in liquor stores.  Our governor tried to open the bars to 50% capacity but COVID is spiking so there will probably be another lockdown.

I miss draft beer.  We are drinking a lot of Yellow Tail shiraz.  Every now and then we break out some craft gin for her and either Jack Daniels or Johnnie Walker Black for me.  We’re going to bed at an average of 3 AM catching up on Amazon Prime and Netflix series.

We play trivia through Zoom once a week.  We do it weird because my tower doesn’t have a camera and the speaker doesn’t work.  We start a call with my step-daughter and communicate with the group through her computer speakers.

The trivia game started as a benefit for employees of the bar where we used to play every Thursday.  Now we’ve moved on to supporting a community garden,an anti-racism group in Houston, and a food bank in India.