Seriously, what's wrong with Blogger?

I found myself thinking about the world.

I was annoyed with PayPal on Friday and my Frigidaire fridge today.

A couple weeks ago, I had no trouble uploading YouTube within the blog, but the upgrade makes it different in a way I don't understand.

Finally know of someone testing positive

I didn't like the person who tested positive. She always wore workout clothes like she was at the gym. Wore way too much fragrance... Always made me nauseous when she was too close. Thankfully, I don't work for FedEx.

Hobbies

I see on Facebook memes about people not having hobbies.
Before the pandemic, my work had a meeting where we had an icebreaker where we drew a piece of paper and shared something about himself based upon the color of paper drawn.
My color of paper was to share my hobbies. Rather than say I like Pittsburgh sporting teams or reading or blogging I threw out that my hobbies are whatever my wife wants me to do.
My wife says I'm on my phone too much. I probably am, but I have nothing better to do. She gets annoyed by my wanting to do anything beyond doing her bidding. I'm probably over exaggerating.
Anyways, the icebreaker worked in the sense coworkers from other departments were more inclined to small talk.
Blogging haitus probably occurred to being busy. I have several blogs, but I ceased being active back in December across all of them due to my finally having a 1st shift job. With my being home when everyone else is, I don't have access to a computer like I used to have.
I have a number of interests. I don't follow the news as much since it's mostly fake in that it's insincere. I enjoy twitter, as a means of my info diet, but I mostly follow the Dilbert Guy. I try to to follow economic news, since I have a few 401(k) platforms which I used to monitor daily.
Discover Card says I have a credit score of 849.

less of a funk

Still meh, but I got up without trouble. Yesterday was a struggle.
Wife has been moody. Not sure if it's me or what.
I mowed the back yard, though the high was maybe 49 degrees.
COVID-19 check was deposited into our bank account.
My boss called said the hope was that we'll have jobs waiting for us when the stay at home order ends. He asked how I thought Monday went, I told him I guess okay. Told him I applied for the other opening as well. He said he let everyone he knew qualified for the opening know it posted.
I am not the typical GS-4. 
Skinwalker Ranch is a spooky place.

Depression

Periodically, I have a bout of depression. It's not so much that I am sad, just my body wants to shutdown. I take medication that helps, but I have another medication that I have to take on an empty stomach. 

I'm forgetting what day of the week it is, so it's harder to remember to take my medication an hour after my thyroid medication.

I usually wake up at 5am and leave for work at 6:10. Now I am waking up whenever and I have no cues to take my Wellbutrin.

I've a headache and my body is tired. Only reason I got out of bed was to pee.

I'll be better. Just a momentary imbalance, I hope.

Easter

Awoke around 8 to the sound of the children going through their baskets. I've been sleeping in a bit during the staycation. With the bathroom done, I really don't have much to do that motivates me. Leaving the house to go to the Home Depot or Ace just seems weird. I'm getting restless to go back to normal, yet April is not even half complete.
We watched all of Picard in a few days. Finished this morning after the kids were done with their baskets. Jennifer cried. She's now watching episodes relevant to the show. We almost missed ukulele lessons at 4.
I edged my front lawn. We had steaks on the grill. We watched Onward.
Should be a hard week for the kids. Spring break ends tomorrow.

goals don't work

I neglected to explain a gap.

A sunny Wednesday

Bored. The new normal is a different form of meh. I think I may have sunburned my scalp.
We tried the new poptarts from Sam's Club, then watched the second episode of Skinwalker Ranch.
Nothing seemed urgent. I puttered. I was thinking of clearing my tools so a car could be moved into the garage, but someone wanted me to go to Aldi to get a fire pit. I puttered until the suggestion for a walk was made. Kief and I ended up going to the cemetery.

I think today was Tuesday

Officially been home... 2 weeks and started my 3rd, I think.

I'm completely done doing the bathroom. I put the sink and mirror back today.

It's tiny, but it's very nice.

I wasn't thrilled about screwing the sink into the wall, but given I had one inch tiles I screwed through the grout lines easily.

Started to clean up my garage. It's been my work space for sawing and such. I think I used every tool set I own during this project, so I had everything thrown about the carhole.

I really don't throw out anything I could use someday, so I hauled bunch of odd things into my barn/shed in addition to my saws. I still have to put my tool boxes/cases away, but I have random pieces misplaced that I am trying to sort back into the proper set.

My garage has been a mess for a while. I need to organize it.  The barn needs to be cleaned up as well.

Regardless, I still need to make room for a car to fit inside the garage. Especially, since we had breaks and shocks done for the Passat today.

Baseball season condensed

Who knows when crowds of over 50 people will be allowed together again, but I would be humored if 162 games of baseball were played by each MLB team this season. Rosters can be expanded and the schedule could be modified to have doubleheaders galore with 7 inning games. 10 games a week for 4 months doesn't seem feasible, but I like it better than having games in Arizona and Florida without fans.
I could even see the rosters reduced in September and a new post season format configured where all teams from each league play best of 5 series until league championship and World Series.

a lazy day of infinite meh

Staycations aren't cool. Done with my major project, I moved onto doing taxes I avoid doing due to never having a reason to do them until they are due.
City taxes are weird. They are taken from paychecks if you live in the city but townships and other cities don't take out your city taxes. We pay quarterly estimates. Wife no longer works in a township, so we ended up over paying by more than the amount we probably owe for all of 2020 and then some.
Could ask for a refund, but it's more trouble than it's worth when it's just as well have it pay towards 2020.
Mathematically speaking, 2020 will be the year we became credit card debt-free. We have a balance that will be paid off next month that has been shuffled from card to card for maybe 20 years.
I say "maybe" because the debt pre-dates my meeting my wife. She had odd-ball debts that I thought were paid off when we merged our accounts. She kept one card balance secret and then we had no jobs between us, then life happened...
We were never late on payments. Just shuffled the debt from one card to another. Usually a 0% rate was offered for an extended amount of time which would be long enough for another such offer to come in the mail to reset the cycle. I would not recommend my strategy for managing debt, for it takes a lot of restraint. Discover card seems to think my FICO score is 839 of late.

My TSP, 401(K) and IRA got ugly in February and remain ugly, but I know they'll bounce back before I need them. Given the debts being paid off, I will have a lot of money I don't need to spend coming in, so what to do with it will be a fun problem to have.

Staycation

Been home since Monday the 23rd. Won't return to actual work until who knows when, but I'm getting paid. Telework is being floated. Not sure how it will go since I move boxes, but I guess I will be typing  from home contents from boxes.
Regardless, I've accomplished a milestone. I tiled my bathroom. Seriously, I laid the last tile and doing final touches regarding grout.

Wuhan Virus

Seems like a distant memory the talk of eating bats being said to be the source of a virus killing droves in Wuhan. There were also murmurs of a facility in the area creating bio-weapons.
The impeachment was going on, so China wasn't really getting much news. Trump said something about imposing travel restrictions only to be said to be overreacting or trying to divert attention from his impeachment.
Today, a national emergency was declared.
I don't recall one ever being made. I know schools have never been closed for 3 weeks in my lifetime, but here my kids have 4 weeks instead of 1 week of spring break.
The widespread panic seems like 9/11 and Y2K combined.
SARS scare was bad, but it was quickly mocked by South Park.
Swine Flu was a big deal in 2009. I remember talking with a guy who had had it and thinking he was lying because he said wasn't bad and he recovered like having normal flu. I barely remember much when I got it but I know my daughter and I were both got sick with it. We never got tested, we just had symptoms such as:

• Fever
• Runny nose
• Sore throat
• Cough
• Congestion
• Mild headache
• Sneezing
• Fatigue
• Nose stuffiness
• Watery, red eyes
• Headache
• Diarrhea
• Nausea and vomiting
• Body aches

I'm not comparing apples and oranges, I'm just saying stuff is surreal. I don't get how Trump is being blamed for a pandemic. I remember when Ebola was being hyped. Obama was blamed for stuff by wackos over a death or 2. I don't recall what actions he took to prevent the spread, but nothing happened to the extent of what has been done regarding the Wuhan Virus.

Should be interesting.