#stayathome

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Not like I have a choice. Waiting to hear what the President has to say tonight about the future. Most people are predicting another month of this bullshit. Anyway, at least I’m not hungry, unlike over 13 million Filipinos because of government ineptitude during the pandemic.

Speaking of which, I didn’t get a response from either Mary Jane Gamgam or Christine (the dancer) to my Facebook friend requests. A little disappointing I admit. I can imagine them seeing my name pop up and them shaking their heads saying “I’m not THAT hungry yet!”. Ah well.

Yeah, pretty much.

Besides, there’s always beer. It’s never broken my heart!

Actually, it’s good that I stocked up when I did. The 7/11 has barren beer shelves and a sign on the booze saying sales are banned.

On my morning walkabout, I saw the Barangay folks were out in force doing some food distribution. Well, technically it was rice. But they were giving out 25kgs bags of it, so that’s a good thing.

The system apparently works like this: They knock on your door and give you a form. You take the form and tape it to a chair. The truck comes by and they drop a bag of rice onto the chair. A pretty smart way to achieve crowd control, I’ll grant them that.

So, with the total lockdown weekend on the horizon, I decided stocking up was a good afternoon activity.

I went to two of the three Barretto meat markets and neither had beef. I’ll try the third one tomorrow. Meanwhile, I have some baby back ribs and chicken wings to tide me over.
Went by the bakery to pick up my two freshly made to order pumpkin pies…
It has been said that man does not live by beer alone. That’s why I picked up some diet Cokes…
I dropped into the veterinarian to pick up some treats for my boys…
“Thanks, Daddy!”
And dinner tonight will be my pork chops with ranch dressing in a cream of mushroom soup base. No pineapple this time! I also made enough to feed my downstairs neighbors.

So, that’s been my day thus far. The Internet is really slow, probably an overtaxed network. It makes me wonder if I’m going to be able to start watching Burn Notice tonight. We’ll see. Or maybe we won’t.

Facebook reminded me of an old profile picture I used in the past:

That would have been me in around 1979 I reckon. Living in Prescott, AZ and reading Lord of the Rings (not for the first time).
And here I am 41 years later, hard at work for you my faithful readers.

As always, it’s my pleasure. Thanks for reading!

3 thoughts on “#stayathome”

  2. Diet Coke in a red can? Keep working on Gam Gam.
    We are supposed to stay at home but the weather is nice. Wife and I took off this morning. I can get to total wilderness within 5 miles of my house. Went W. to the Old Stage Road over the mountain cut NW using several gravel roads to the mountains the West of Air Force Academy. Dirt, mud, rocks, deer, fox. and 1 bear for 50 miles. Picnic under the B-52 and then exited out the S. end of the AFA
    Used local paved roads 15 miles to home.
    Great Day. Feel much better. Dirty pickup.

  3. Well, it’s not technically diet Coke, here they just call it No Sugar Coca-Cola. It’s all the same to me.

    Glad you had a great day. There are lots of worse places to be than Colorado. It is one of my favorites.

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