Blogging Update
Beginning in the Fall of 2008 I embarked on a 10-year 100,000 mile tour of the 48 lower states and Canada's ten provinces to mark my retirement from Canada Post. I'm so thankful to be retired!
My final big trip was in 2018 to Austin and then on to see Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, and Devils Tower, (minus Dreyfus) and the 5 note chord, though the KOA did show the movie with the icon in the background.
What followed you may have heard about. The Pandemic closed the borders and in Canada even provincial borders. Everything was locked down for a time and then gasoline got so expensive I quip I can't afford to drive around the block.
In the aftermath of all this I've taken to reading 300 books a year, writing e-mail too few ever answer, and cooking up a storm. Who can afford to eat out, well, I can't. The internet is an endless source of new and exciting recipes. Although we appear to have entered a post literate age I ignore you tube videos and read recipes.
Microsoft, Apple, and Google are in a competitive war that sees their softwares made deliberately incompatible even to the point of refusing to accept e-mail written on each other's platforms.
When my amplifier went into protect mode I lost the use of my CD and DVD players and increasingly watch movies online.
I'm still looking for the episodes of Yellowstone I'm owed and have been watching Walker with Paladecki. I've read and watched Game of Thrones. On the advice of a friend have discovered that Yannick Bisson gave up the chaps he wore in Nothing too Good for a Cowboy to wear a dapper suit while he bikes around Nineteenth Century TO as William Murdoch, Toronto Constabulary Detective.
In the last 4 years my travels have been of the armchair variety often reading about the places I missed the first time around. I'm not anxious to return to Cody Wyoming where vans were packed in so tight one could pass a coffee to one's neighbour without exiting the van. Or for a visit to the Nevada Welcome Centre, a gambling casino. Or the park in Florida where I was nearly eaten alive by insects.
These days I walk to church and cross the street for most of my medical needs; one must admit one's age. I'm not so concerned about Trump as by the fact that so many Americans are taken in by him. The world's addiction to social media is also concerning. I've exited Facebook as full of fake news, hysteria, and worse. In an age of handheld devices people no longer know how to do mental arithmetic or write by hand. Mass murders are a weekly event in America and violence and weapons are spreading across the border. Stop the world, I want to get off, or at least get lost in a good book.
