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My Fifth Apocalypse, Day 6: Super Creepy Piñata Head
Got an email from my dad's memory care facility last night that a worker tested positive. This is ... not ideal. I'm realizing that all of my posts are starting off with "I went for a jog this morning" because this is the highlight of my day. Well, that and watching...
My Fifth Apocalypse, Day 5: Hill Street Blues
This morning, I got myself ready to run, knowing I'd go by the LA Fire/National Guard facility which is on the way to Elysian Park, and guessing I'd see something unsettling there. I ran down, enjoying the clean air even though I was right next to the freeway, bracing...
My Fifth Apocalypse, Day 3: The Rainbow Connection
Today was a bit brutal. I'm starting to notice a deadening in people's eyes when I talk to them on Zoom. Tonight, the mayor put us under a half-ass Shelter-in-Place called "Safer At Home" -- Jesus, just call it what it is, that encapsulates everything I hate about...
My Fifth Apocalypse Day 2: Constitutionals
(For Day 1, go here). First things first, one very important victory on this first day of working from home with Ashley: she did not kill me when I hung the toilet paper the wrong way. It’s surprising me, what I’m noticing: the air is clean and the helicopters...
My Fifth Apocalypse
I’m writing this on my first night home since the governor closed all the bars and restaurants, and since they started shelter-in-place up north. It’s hard to write a first sentence about right now that doesn’t sound like the beginning to a dystopian novel where we...
Some thoughts on online teaching
I've been teaching online and in person a loooonnnnggggg ass time. So I thought I'd send out just a couple honest pointers about teaching online in case you suddenly find yourself doing so. And I'm gonna do so from a real perspective, not from the POV of...
Brief rant
RANT BEGINNING<<Sometimes I think about my high school teacher who said, in 1996, that his generation and the generations before him had tamed history, and that what we would live through would be so easy in comparison. He was a great teacher otherwise, but what...
Rant on the Uber Bill
It's looking like AB5, "the Uber bill," might cost me half my yearly income. One client fired all their freelancers and asked them to sign up through an agency who would then get more money I could be getting. Another couple of clients are still trying to figure it...
RANT (On Bi people)
RANT BEGINNING <<I'm at home with a fever, but I just had to write something ... If you are one of those people who I can sense are thinking "Why does he keep going on about bi people--do they matter?", just take a look at what is happening to bi...