Note - the photos have nothing to do with the narrative, I just don't like all words and no photos in our 
blog. We moved back into our regular hotel on Sunday, after the pipes were all fixed. There was the usual weirdness with air and rust in the pipes, and
that lingered in the hot water for a few days. But it eventually worked through.However, our mini fridge decided to quit working. We
tried turning it off and on. I looked online to try to find out if the higher number is low or high. Nothing worked, our yogurt and fruit got warmer and warmer.I finally talked to the guy at the reception desk. He came down to our room, and said the easiest thing is to try a different outlet. We thought maybe he'd check the breaker switches, but no, he just unplugged the mini fridge, pulled the huge dresser/fridge/microwave/tv unit away from the wall, and plugged the fridge into a different outlet.
HUMMMMMMMM!!!!! Success!!!!
Occam's Razor: the simpler theory is more likely to be true.
23 April 2020I probably should start by saying that this is not an upbeat blog. So if you are feeling
overwhelmed by our national and world news, then please, skip this blog. I know that we're living through a very scary time in the world, and all the news is depressing. It is easy to be overwhelmed by it all. But sometimes, I think it's important to realize why it's overwhelming, why it's heart-breaking. I personally believe that being heart-broken about human tragedy is what makes us all human.
Throughout this whole Covid-19 period of our lives, I keep thinking of John Donne - and most people know the quotation, though I will post it here:
"No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manor of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
I found a poster with this quotation at the tender age of 15 or 16. And somehow, at that rather self-
absorbed age, this quotation struck a chord deep in my being. It still does, roughly 50 years later. At any rate, yes, each person's death affects
each of us, the collective whole. Each individual who dies from this horrible disease diminishes our collective humanity - and while their family mourns in social isolation, we as the world lose that soul, that person, and everything they might have done had they survived. We are the continent of Humanity, and we are losing part of our larger selves bit by bit, person by person, in horrendous numbers. We may not know each person, nor their names. But we mourn their death, we mourn the rising numbers, we mourn the loss of life along with the loss of our normal life.
Because to NOT mourn, to do anything otherwise, makes us callous. Makes us less humane. And makes us less human.
24 April 2020Laundry, which included walking to the hotel next door to get more quarters for the machines (since
our hotel was out), and then across to
the neighboring liquor store for more quarters. Boy the owner of the
shop is grumpy! Signs all over to not touch this or that. I walked in
and he pointed to somewhere. I looked at him, confused. He pointed again and
said "there." So I went to stand where he pointed. Nope, not what he
wanted, he pointed again and said, "THERE." I still didn't understand
what he was talking about, I looked around, he pointed emphatically and
said "THERE!!!" I finally realized he was pointing at a container of
hand sanitizer, LOL! You'd think he could say, "Please use the hand
sanitizer here on the counter." But I guess that would have been too easy, LOL!!! 26 April 2020
SIL's Covid-19 test came back negative, so we're all moved in. Nice to be in a house again, so that there are different rooms to be in! Plus a yard! A bunny who lives in the hedge! Two cats inside, and all kinds of birds outside! Plus streets for walking!
SUCH LUXURY!!!
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