Hello everyone and how are we all doing? I hope everyone is healthy and as happy as they can be under the circumstances. Today is a special day for a lot of reasons, it’s Patriots Day, generally when all the reenactors come out and hometown parades, Boston Marathon and of course it is 4/20 Day. So we missed out on all the Patriotic celebrations, and we all know the marathon has been cancelled, so go ahead and light them up, but keep your social distance. Today we walked down to the finish line, or wait did I say walked I meant we ran Boston, and the weather would have been perfect for a marathon. Of course I have no direct knowledge on what ideal weather would be but let’s just say it was moderate. I have celebrated a lot of marathons over the years and the weather has been over 90” and then it has been rainy and sleety. I can only say I think runners would have liked it, spectators like it a lot warmer but they can run in place. It was eerie to walk around the city today on normally would have been a huge celebration and public displays of intoxication, but no just another day in the time of corona. I guess we are all running a different kind of marathon today which is trying to maintain a level of calm in our lives. I can only say to my kids that you have become far better parents, than I would have been under these conditions. I am pretty sure after 4 weeks I would definitely have dropped off Max by the side of the road by now, and Erica would be under the bed writing stories how her mother has turned into Cruella Deville. Or maybe not, because when it came down to whether screen time was ok, no contest you would have all the screen time you wanted, just don’t interrupt my soap operas. Oh how I wish the soaps were still on there is no question where we would all be at 1 pm All My Children, One Life to Live and my Mom’s favorite Guiding Light. My roomie in college Rozzie and I used to run back to sneak in the show a few times a week. It was a sad time when these daytime shows disappeared. I can tell you if they were on today they would find a whole new audience and would quickly become very popular. Anyone who has ever followed a soap knows that you can miss watching it for months at a time but you could easily picked up where you left off without having to go back and watch old episodes. I don’t know why and I really never thought of it but it just worked. I can remember once years ago when my roommate walked into the room when I was watching Dallas on an evening soap and they said the part of the Mom was now played by another actress, he couldn’t believe that people would fall for that knowing she wasn’t the same person, but I said hey obviously you never watched a soap opera because that was standard. In fact I think we could start writing some new soaps during this time and I know there is probably a lot of really great material that can come out of this time of sheltering in place. All you needed was of course infidelity, grown children who just discovered you are their dad, usually a lot of shenanigans that happened at a hospital. I don’t know if they have the time right now for those working in the hospitals to sneak away for these little rendezvous so may have to move that to a different profession say the Grub Hub or Uber eats guys, are getting it on with the lady or man of the manor. Today it would just be the joy of seeing another human delivering your pizza, to get you to seduce that person but alas no touching, so yet another foil in our plot. In our walk around the city today we did observe that 90% of the people were wearing masks and keeping their distance, so not sure how that would translate for a daytime drama unless you have a 60” screen to see all the characters, as they are spread apart. I am actually thinking if you have a wider screen you may be able to see the distance apart, but I did mention it is 4/20 so probably people are stoned out of their minds today. Maybe all getting a bit paranoid right now but no worries we have a freezer full of nutty buddies and ice cream sandwiches so all good here, for the night. Meanwhile I am exhausted because I ran a marathon today or at least crossed the finish line.
Just sayin…………
