Day 26

Hello everyone and anyone how are we all doing tonight?  I hope better than I am as I spent the whole day till this evening, till techie told me the truth that it was Wednesday.  I don’t know why but this really shook me up and I know we joke a lot about not knowing what day it is, but the fact I was so convinced it was Wednesday is freaking me out a bit, and wondering if some little worms have got inside my brain and tricking me.  I know we have all been having weird dreams, or so I have read it is common during the plague, but now I am getting really paranoid. I really should keep a dream journal, because I could probably start writing for Ozark and that show would look tame. I often wondered when watching some of these shows, what kind of demented minds think of this weird shit. Well problem solved, just put them in isolation, deny them Starbucks, buy unlimited vodka, and the mind goes to places at night you would have never thought possible. OK maybe I am making too much of it as it is only one day, that can’t be accounted for and maybe I slept through it.  What really happened is I wasn’t in my routine today, I actually left the house at 8am and was out of my morning coma before 9am.  The bigger issue in all of this is I was separated from my roommate for more than 8 hours today, didn’t take my daily walk and had take out for dinner. Really threw me off my game, and for anyone that knows me, I hate a schedule. I like to fly by the seat of my pants and make it up as I go along. The fact that we have been shut in for over a month, with limited in person contact is taking a major toll, and not just about the personal hygiene. I know I am not alone, for people my age, when I constantly stop in the middle of a sentence or thought, and ask what was I just saying?  My lover here is so nice about it all the time when I say I am losing it , he starts giving me a quiz trying to walk it back, but now I am questioning if he is tricking me.  But of course he is the closest thing to a saint so I know I am off base, or just plain crazy.  One big change that I have made is I am not watching cable news, not to say I am totally cold turkey, I still have The Dailey Show to keep me in the loop. Trying to keep up through reading only print, to keep up with the daily goings on in our new world order. I do read a real live newspaper in the morning, but then constantly look for updates on my devices all day long and clicking on different stories, often take you to another that I never would have found. Now I don’t know if this is a new or old, but I only read it today and it is about one of our favorite subjects during our lockdown, and that is toilet paper. I know there are a lot of theories of why people hoard the TP because it is something they can control when everything else is out of control. But the fact of the matter almost everyone is only using the toilet in their own place and because of all the extra usage we just never anticipated the need. A lot of people have family members that have moved back home and making all their daily deposits in that home.  I know from experience that I would time my walks around the city knowing where all the nice bathrooms where should they need arise, and now they are all shuttered, game changer.  Another thing there are different producers of toilet paper the nice fluffy Charmin, or the thin layer found in commercial spaces like airports. I found that it is not economical for those making the thin paper to really retool the line to change the paper. As it turns out TP is not a big margin, for the amount of bulk storage it takes up, in all these warehouses, so they never really got going in stockpiling the inventory. Apparently there are warehouses full of that low grade TP and it may be coming to a store near you soon but don’t worry it will be a bargain and just put it in the bathrooms your family members are using and they may cut the visit short. At least we can all breathe a sigh of relief because if all else fails, we can be sure that the federal stockpile will have tons of “shitty” toilet paper on hand. I on the other hand don’t want to brag, but a few years back while renovating our only bathroom, I convinced techie I needed this Japanese style toilet, complete with heated seat, against his better judgment because we were well  over budget. Well now I consider myself a visionary because when push comes to shove we don’t need any stinking paper.

 Just sayin……..