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Stardate: 20210703.0920
Location: Outlaw's vehicle en route to Solvang.
Input Device: Gemini PDA
Audio: Some 80's dance playlist
Visual: Mountains, trees, other vehicles
Emotional State: Still waking up.
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I haven't had much time for personal computing or online socializing
lately. Volunteer work has been filling up my days since many COVID
restrictions have been lifted here since June 15th. It has been
good for my soul to be of service and help other instead of getting
wrapped up in my own self-centeredness.
Today, we are taking a road trip with the outlaws to Solvang and
then Santa Barbara for the day. Unfortunately, my son cannot join
since he is working today. He will be missed.
It seems like things are happening so fast with my kids. I was
talking about this with my wife last night. My son has his
driver's license and now has a job making his own money. We see him
less and less since he also goes out with his friends more often
since pre-COVID. This fall he starts his senior year of high school
and then after that, off to college. My daughter follows two years
after that.
It seems to me that my experience of living in pandemic times, as
well as being unemployed, has shifted my perspective of things like
time and calendars. I have become comfortable with just
taking each day as it comes and doing the next indicated tasks.
Transitioning back to a modified, "how things were," or even to,
how things are post-pandemic" has me thinking about time again in
that way. Going back to the way of imposed schedules and having to be
constantly mindful of the time feels unnatural right now. It's been
nice having an open flexible schedule and I hope I don't resist the
changes too much.
20210720 NOTE: "the outlaws" are what I call my extended family on my
wife's side (inlaws = immediate family, outlaws = extended family.)
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