Freedom from disease is actual freedom

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I got my first shot of Pfizer today

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Today was the most normal I've felt since the before times

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I wrote my first COVID-19 related blog post 365 days ago

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After a year in the pandemic tunnel I can see the light at the end

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We spent the weekend camping at the Natural Bridge / Lexington KOA. As I pulled up for curbside check in the employee/manager/owner was masked, but she made a snide comment as she checked me in that made it clear she didn’t think she needed to be masked. That …

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June 30th, 2020. The year is 50% done (49.73% if you want to be pedantic about it.) We are halfway home. 117 shopping days until Christmas.

Can you even remember what you were doing in January? I tried looking back at my blog archives but I mostly just published …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

Day 88. The End.

The blog isn’t going anywhere …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

I was reading the manual for our new-to-us 2012 Ford …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

I don't have Google analytics or any tracking codes on …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

Apparently my idea of buying an RV for socially distant …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

None of this is new. Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

Ok is a relative term. If you left your diversified …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

This is an excellent article about a post pandemic world …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

Every year on 9-11 the names of the victims* are …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

Saturday, in the park…

Yep, that pretty much describes the …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

The following happened at a daycare in Virginia this week …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

There is a religious school here in the Richmond area …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

This is a really great point

Nowadays especially it's nice …

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Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html

I've been distracted by camper research the last two nights …

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