Good timing too as they just announced that Regina’s drive-thru vaccination clinic will be shut down for a couple weeks due to vaccine shortages.
Exactly one year ago today, we were preparing for a very unusual Covid-birthday for Sasha, only a month after Covid hit. On April 16, we held a birthday without many of the things you’d normally have with the main thing we missed was a gathering of friends and maybe a table at Chuck E. Cheese […]
This idea is growing in awareness and after the rush to create CERB a year ago, more and more people are seeing the benefit of some form of a universal guaranteed income. This is a great list of books to learn more about different aspects of the idea.
“Support Local” takes many forms. With the lack of live music, why not support a local musician or band by buying their songs (especially a timely one like this one which also has a great video!) “Pity Party – Blake Berglund
…but my RN wife brought home a box of rapid tests as some healthcare staff are being encouraged to test themselves regularly to help catch Covid before it can spread in the hospital. Since they were also allowed to test family members, I got to be the guinea pig for her first “at home” test […]
“Life in a Pandemic (Don’t It Stink)” – “Ironic” Parody
I was talking to the kids about possibly double-masking as an added precaution and Sasha decided to take it a step further with three masks (which she didn’t end up wearing, mostly because she ran out of ear to hook the straps on!) And it didn’t last long as we made the decision to pull […]
When something is going through exponential growth, even in the early stages, most people completely underestimate how quickly things are going to change, even when the exponential growth has been going on for quite a while. Some humans are really bad at understanding math.
Thinking about ideas for Sasha’s birthday…
But remembering the past is also a way of believing that this moment will someday be the past. Which is to say, nostalgia for the past is also a way of believing in the future. Daydreaming about the After Times — the Before Times’s mythic counterpart — is in part an exercise in imagining what it will […]
