Good morning! Hello, there. How are you? Happy Friday. I am back home. Me and my good friend Doug hung out last night but we are normal adult and he had his wife and kid in town and we were done by, like, ten or something, so I rebooked to the first flight out of LGA to RDU, because it was raining and rain to LGA is like kryptonite (should kryptonite be capitalized?) so I figured let’s jet get home. Last thing I want is to be stuck in New York. Day four and I start to go existential.
Anyway, lovely trip. I’ll probably get covid, and so long as it is a mild case and I do not die from it, get long covid, or give it to my family, I will deem the whole affair “worth it,” but I do hope I don’t get covid, that would be lovely. I am testing negative so far but it is probably too soon so who knows. Also I forgot to take a bunch of my allergy meds so I am sniffly so I am convinced I have it. Lovely.
What a crazy world we live in, no one believes covid is real anymore, our government did a good job getting vaccines made but that’s it. We discovered UV light kills covid pretty effectively and as a species, to a country, we did exactly nothing with that information. We could have given businesses a bunch of money for HEPA filters and ventilation and posted ventilation scores on the businesses like we do food grades, but nah. We all just said fuck it. We all said fuck it even when we know people among us have covid and are also saying fuck it that is really something. We give people grief when they’re wearing masks but you know what? At this point the odds are they have covid and are trying to not give it to us but we still get butthurt about it! It really is something. Is there a single country that did ventilation and UV light right, things we’ve known for more than two years now are the biggest things that we can do? I legit think not a single country, no one bothered to do anything with that somewhat important information.
And I am no different, I spent about twelve hours in crowded bars drinking, I had my CO2 meter and the leves weren’t terrible but they weren’t great. I just said “fuck it” because everyone around me said “fuck it” and I haven’t seen any of those friends in years and I feel a sense of invulnerability because I live in the woods and haven’t gotten covid and every single part of that is completely irrational but I did it anyway, we all do, well, not all of us, there are still holdouts, and if I am writing to you on Monday not having gotten covid I will return to my sanctimonious hold-outedness. But I am not optimistic, and the whole thing was so dumb and so selfish and I am an awful person.
Oh also, it is winter, it’s freakin’ cold, and it was raining, so the walk-and-talk tactic wasn’t really an option, tons of restaurants have just stopped using their still-existent outdoor dining areas, and bars don’t have their doors open as much (though T&Js had the back door open thank you).
But my god it was so fun, it was so nice seeing so many friends, old and new. I saw Alyssa and Graydon and Melissa and Eva and DMD and Steve and Danielle and Nicky and Doug and Evan and I met new people in person that have been internet friends through the pandemic — Daniel and Anita and Ben. I had yummy food and saw my friend Brian the bartender at Tom and Jerrys. I walked around in the rain and I ate in Chinatown and at Tacombi and it was all delicious.
Traveling is still stupid, driving is better than planes, I liked driving to NYC better and I think I will just do that from here on out. The airports are intolerable. New LGA is nice but it is also dumb and soulless and thirty dollars for a breakfast sandwich so, yeah, pass.
And now I am home, and I missed home so much, and my family, even though we Facetimed and it was a whole three days. I am very rundown, got four hours of sleep last night, maybe six each the other two nights. Pretty brain dead and just want to curl up with endless amounts of broth and keep reading Chip Wars, which is as good as everyone says. I want to hug and kiss my daughter but have to stay masked for like three days which makes me very sad, but at least I get to see her.
Got a live mix for you here, luckily this was mostly done. Added Julee Cruise, orchestrated by Angelo Badalementi, RIP, they have both left us this year, that is really sad. And Threw on Tomorrow Wendy since, you know, song about loved ones leaving us.
Thank you for your patience we will return to our regularly scheduled programming on Monday, for at least a week till Christmas.