March has been roaring without cease. I like the snow but it would be nice if the month could stop long enough to take a breath. Historically, March is Minnesota's snowiest month but the last few years haven't been that way at all.
"Global warming!!" the hysterics yell when Spring comes early.
"Climate change!!" they scream when March behaves the way it's tradition would predict.
It must be nice to adhere to a superstition as flexible as that.
Jay just got back from four days in Vegas, watching the Mountain West basketball tournament. He's been going to post season tourneys for decades but I'm not sure he would have bothered this year if not for the fact that one of his favorite bands of all time, Chicago, hadn't been playing at the Venetian. He had a fun time, caught up with lots of friends and all that but he said the games themselves no longer hold his attention like they used to. After 60 years in the business, he's finally seen enough. What a strange thought.
I thought I'd get four days of peace and quiet (I love being home alone) but it didn't quite work out that way. Tuesday I had to get up early for a doctor's appointment, then my usual Tuesday errands and lunch with my Mom, which is always great but I was really sleepy. I don't do early mornings well. I only agreed to that appointment time because it was a cancellation and God only knows how long I would have had to wait. Making up for a year of no appointments at all has severely backed up my doctor's office. In fact, I was meeting with a new doctor, as mine (whom I really liked ) retired in the midst of the lockdown. What a dirty trick, how dare she?? Just because you're in your mid 60s and the State won't let you see any of your patients, you retire?
Well, yeah, I guess I can see how that makes sense.
I wish I could just retire from going to the doctor. But I'm old and as they say in the ads for investments: previous experience is no indication of how things will perform in the future.
No matter how excellent one's health has always been is no reason to assume one will remain fit and healthy. And no matter how I feel, the fact is that I'm an old lady now and the body is falling apart. So I'm getting it all looked at. Blech, what a bore.
I guess when it comes to your health, boring is the BEST.
Wednesday, I got to hang with BoopityBoop for a few hours. Katie didn't have volleyball so we had dinner and hung out. Thursday, Sara has off so she and Zach went to a matinee while I played with #6 and watched a few episodes of The Chosen. When they came home, we had dinner together. Friday, I did actually get to hide out in my house all day and Saturday I went back to Katie's for dinner with the girls while K went to dinner with Josie.
It was a blast of a week and I'm exhausted. In addition to playing with grandkids, which always drains me, it's been snowing all week. The fall has been large, lazy flakes but they never stop. We may have gotten another 3-4". Usually, Jay clears the drive with the snoblower but when he's gone, I shovel it by hand. For some reason, no matter how often he shows me how the blower works, my brain refuses to retain the information in any retrievable way. I know how to use a shovel and the fresh air is good for me. Also, there's something very rewarding about stretching out in bed at night after you've had a good workout. I've been sleeping for 9-10 hours a night, which I love.
Jay returned on Friday night and now he's wiped out too. Travel is tiring, no matter how easily you take it.
Work is still busy, although the lockdown boom finally seems to have peaked. March has always been the slowest time of the year for us, due to people heading south and already working on the projects they picked up at Christmas. This is the first lull in 3 years and we should probably remember that this is normal. By "lull", I don't mean nothing to do, I mean I can fill orders in a week or two instead of 6 to 8. A couple of old customers looked positively stunned when I told them I could get their orders done that soon. It's been a wild three years. Good for me, but wild.
I said at the very beginning of the whole Covid hysteria that it would be a couple of years before we could actually see the effect of the virus, ie: deaths. Globally, the virus is credited with killing millions yet the overall death rate for 2019,20 and 21 remained static. There was no statistical uptick in deaths. It seems that everyone who died during the viral scourge would have died even if the Wuhan flu had never escaped the lab.
Oh yeah: that particular conspiracy theory has pretty much proved the wisdom of Occam's razor. When a new, potentially lethal virus emerges, is it more likely to have come from the local wet market or the nearby lab which exists for the purpose of creating new, lethal viruses? Not exactly a tricky one, is it? Along with lockdowns being a stupid idea and the preventative value of masks is no more scientific than a pocket full of posies. AND the 'vaccine' presents more risk to most of us than the virus.
Trust you common sense over the silliness of "experts" who need to do something, anything to justify their salaries.
I've learned a lot over the last three years. I'm sad to say that a lot of what I believed about the human race in general and Americans in particular has been proved wrong.
As a species, humans are every bit as frightened and superstitious as they were not only during the witch trials but as far back as pre historic man who trembled when an eclipse darkened the sky at mid day.
Even Americans will give up their liberty if you scare them enough.
Even the Vatican lacks the faith to put "be not afraid" and "death is defeated" to the test.
A much larger percentage of people than I would have guessed will believe whatever they're told, even when it contradicts their own experience.
Common sense and logic are rare commodities.
In the valley of the Blind, the one eyed man will not be king: he'll be hunted down, blinded or killed and his memory smeared or deleted so that the Blind can continue to pretend they're not missing anything.
And so, my prognosis for the future is not great. Despite the experience of the last 3 years, despite the scientific truths that we've discovered and the political lies that have come to light...I have no expectation that these same debunked policies won't be used again as soon as the opportunity arises.
It's taken me 6 decades to finally understand what the Bible means when it warns us not to put our faith in man.
We are nowhere near as clever as we think we are and it would be good for us all to remember that.
Have a terrific Lent!