While April showers bring May flowers / April’s illness brought May’s stillness.
The end of April brought Covid into the household and its effects lingered well into the not-so-merry month of May. Plans were canceled, schedules were rearranged, housekeeping and yardwork were neglected, and the passive voice was found everywhere.
As explained in greater detail in one of the posts below, my bout with the ‘rona resolved much more quickly than my wife’s. But then — I ended the month having apparently contracted a mild, but quite tiring, episode of influenza.
Anyhoo — between tending to the missus, dealing with some other family issues, and involvement in some civic-minded projects, there just wasn’t much time for writing anything other than checks. Well, that’s not true — we do all of our banking and bill payments online. Here’s what I have for you this month; I pledge to have a more productive June.
FactsOptional
Stairing Contest (May 16, 2022)
Here is a blow-by-blow-into-tissues accounting of our up-too-close and personal encounter with the pandemic.
The Trump (and other political) Poems
It’s All But Ovary Now (May 9, 2022)
Susan Collins continues to dig a deeper hole in which to bury what little is left of her reputation.
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And that’s it… two paltry posts for the entire month. On the brighter side, I was able to reschedule a trip to visit my life-long best friend in Raleigh that I had to cancel earlier in May due to the positive Covid test. There was a sudden opening in our mutual schedules around Memorial Day, and with no lingering after-effects from the virus and Carol feeling nearly back to normal, I winged on down and back over the holiday weekend
I arrived home feeling tired, but chalked that up to a few nights of poor sleep and consuming a great deal of beer from Raleigh’s thriving brewery scene. While those may have been contributing factors, within a day of my return it became apparent that my defenses had been compromised and the troops were overtaken with chills, fever, headache, and general malaise. Flu seemed the most likely diagnosis. Whatever the root cause, today is the first day I’ve felt nearly normal.
In decades…