Covid-iated!

I was going to beat this thing. I was going to avoid direct contact with this worldwide pandemic virus by observing smart, daily protocols and respecting and employing scientific wisdom we've all had great access to. Even when two society-rocking 'variants' of the covid-19 virus slammed through our region and the world and changed all the rules...I still kept my resolve to NOT allow this shit into our house. But alas.... it's here in our house now, nonetheless. When it all began though, the prospect of becoming infected was dramatically different than it is now. I imagined being infected in the early-going, much more fearfully than I do now, of course. I visualized grave sickness, separation from family, possibly dealing with the loss of loved -ones, etc. Thankfully, our introduction to covid-19 infection has come, well within the relative comfort-zone provided by vaccine protection, which all in my family embraced from the earliest possible date.

I am happy to say on my second of five quarantining days since testing/diagnosis, that BOREDOM seems to be the greatest tyranny this particular healthcare crisis has presented me with thus far. Here's a look for posterity sake at the way a covid-19 infection and it's quarantine looks to an infected American, on and about February 16th, 2022.

Quarantine Food Supply: No problem

Thankfully, there was a Girl Scout Cookie delivery quite recently. Don't get me wrong....I am more 'sick' of GS cookies now than from the virus...but nobody's going to starve here. Entertainment: Pretty interesting biography available.

Seriously...this IS pretty interesting! This guy is the greatest American athlete you never heard of. He's perhaps the athlete in world history, who most dominated his field of rivals, throughout the world. Nobody came close to beating him for most of his career. Exercize: My new love is 'biking' without the....@#$& CARS to worry about!

Since adopting biking as a fitness regime about 6 years ago, I have been actually hit by 2 cars and barely missed, by several others. I have crashed hard twice, once at full speed, right into a concrete wall and once when a moron threw a backpack at me, because he was mad that I had not come to a full stop at a stop sign. Since starting biking in my home...there have been no such issues. I will ride two separate programs on our peloton today...and I am truly looking forward to the experience. Note that I am beginning to regard alternating days of peloton and weight training as my perfect fitness regime. Although I cannot lift for a few days now, I have been following this schedule for 2 weeks now....and I LOVE it. (Stay tuned) No need for these right now...

Pants have been optional as well....no complaints there. Quarantine company...

Here is Mrs. Wingate working in her natural state. Note the QR page next to her. She's not officially 'covidiated' yet, but obviously will be when her status is uploaded within hours and she's informed, as I was through a scan of the code on the page provided by the testing facility we chose. Comfortable, 'office'....

Here is where I am working from today. I have a SKYPE meeting at 2PM, which I am already prep'd for...a couple of hours early. After the meeting I'm riding the first of 2 peloton rides. I am just OK at this work-from-home stuff. After the meeting today I can complete an illustration that's due soon too....but I am not really feeling that yet....so it may slip to tomorrow. My general pandemic 'office' is a table at one of three walking-distance Starbucks stores, where I seem to be less distract-able than when at home and can quite oft, complete a really great workload within a 4 or 5 hour session. Christine, on the other hand, is a work-from-home-machine. She generally works 10+ hours per day for an employer which may or may not NOT understand the excellent, self-governed process she observes every day for them. She's constantly plugged in and wired, talking to people around the nation. I have learned to tune her out a bit...and often think she's talking to someone else, when it turns out she's talking to me....and vice-versa.

Sorry for the boring blog. But that's the message of the covid-19 experience, right? Hang in there!