Gardening

The last couple years I've (somewhat) enjoyed gardening. Not the actual act of gardening, no. I just like the results. The kids requested sunflowers again, the wife is hoping I can help her poor bunny-riddled raspberry bush, and I have some other odds and ends I'd like to get put in the ground.

If it would stop freezing every night.

Or raining during the day.

Or snowing. Yes, it snowed this past weekend.

Oh sure I like an excuse to be lazy, but I'm working on a timetable here.

Baking

I like to bake. Always have. It has more to do with my sweet tooth than actually crafting in a kitchen. (which I also enjoy, to a point)

Store bought sweets are honestly too sweet. It's either corn syrup, artificial sweetener, or some other artificial flavoring that they just dump in in large quantities. I'm more of a rich-sweet that you can savor type.

Also when I bake at home I can make an absolute crap ton of it. Recipe makes 12 cookies? Triple it. Entire pan of brownies? Cut into maybe 4 giant pieces.

This is why I'm getting fat.

Almost normal

My workplace finally reopened this week. Half the staff comes in on alternating days. You're supposed to wear a mask if you can't stay 6 feet apart.

It kinda feels like normal. Then again, five weeks of shutdown following a week and a half of medical leave; I'm not sure I remember how normal feels.

Birthday shmirthday

Last month my son turned 11. We couldn't do anything fun because it was all shut down. Today my daughter turns 5 and we have the same problem.

I like going hiking on my birthday, which is in June. Here's hoping.

Write what you know

They say to write about what you know. Sci-fi aficionados don't write military stories, and jarheads don't write romance novels.

I'm trying to blog on a somewhat regular basis, but the only thing is staying at home. Work is over, school is over, and my sarcasm can only take me so far.

What was normal anyway?

Universal joke

So just about everyone came up with this joke at the same time.

Standing behind my kids when they have online classwork really makes me feel like Billy Madison, though. Mostly because I don't know how to do this new math.

Even longer

Apparently it got worse and we're shut down longer.

I still went in today. Oh I didn't do work, but there are amazing shop tools I can use to finish my home projects.

I mean honestly, so many DIY videos are so oblivious. "Why spend $500 on a workbench when you can make one for $50 in parts? Step 1: turn on your $2,000 table saw"