Week 6: Mornings

If nothing else, the pandemic has enabled me to take back my mornings.

Things are weird

It seems an exaggeration to call it a "dystopian reality", but the news this week was one gut-punch after another. The stock market plummeted day after day into bear-market territory. All sports has been canceled: professional, college, and kids. So have concerts - devastating blow to the performing arts groups that run on tight budgets. …

Take me out to the ballgame

We went to see the Washington Nationals last night. I lucked into four tickets through work, so Steve and I brought Seth and Ross. It was hot and steamy and sticky, almost unbearably so, but we were very brave and (mostly) stoically suffered through it until the middle of the 8th inning, at which point …