Pandemic Friends - How to be friends when you can't be friends.

It's always a little bit weird when you try to apply cartoons to reality.

I think it's about as weird when you work the idea the other way - try to apply reality to cartoons.

If they were still making MLP:FiM, and tried to make an episode about a pandemic that forced creatures to stay apart, what might that look like?
Something I'd watch, for sure.

Making this blog post also forced me to realize just how long it's been since the last one. Sorry about that. Here's a bit of an update.

I've been at the "new" job for 1.5 years or so now. I've still got plenty left to learn, but the day to day isn't usually so bad. This work comes with an on-call rotation. No one ever likes being on call I suppose. I'd never done it before, so I figured this would be a chance to learn.

Well, I learned it's not for me.

When I'm the primary on call, I don't relax (not that I'm great at relaxing anyway). I keep my work clothes on until just before I fall into bed. I don't take my work shoes off until maybe an hour before I go to sleep. I stare at my phone like it's explosive, just waiting for it to ring. I don't sleep in the same bed I normally do because my girlfriend is a very light sleeper and I don't want to wake her.

Oh yeah, I've got a "new" girlfriend. I don't think that was a thing in the last post. There's an explanation there if it's ever required.

I work for a phone company, so I'm 100% essential. When everyone else was getting laid off, I'm still getting 40 or more hours a week. I'm grateful for it, but I also can't deny a little resentment at all the folks I saw outside this past summer while I was working. Of course, as I've said in previous posts, I don't normally use the time off work gives me anyway. I never claimed to make sense.

Now that vaccines are on the horizon, I'm anxious to see what things look like on the other side of this. I never thought I'd miss going to the gym but I do. I had a gym buddy that I haven't been able to hang out with - even though we weren't consistent with our workouts. I had a D&D group that hasn't met up since this started. I tried joining a different virtual group but I couldn't get into it. There were local cons I liked going to that obviously didn't happen this year. I never got to any of the Pony specific cons, they were all way further than I wanted to travel. Will we have new MLP cons? god, I'd love to go to one.
Ahhhhh, when distance and money were the only reasons not to do a thing....

One thing is for sure, the pandemic should have made everyone more aware of what we used to take for granted.
I know multiple people who got sick from Covid and recovered. My co-worker was hospitalized but didn't get all the way to the ICU. My Ex-Wife & her beau both got it and it made them very very sick, but they toughed it out at the old apartment and have since recovered. My old gym buddy was an early Covid fighter. I think she had it back in April? Not far in.

I don't know of anyone, even second hand, who has died from Covid. If we can make it a little further, maybe I won't have to.

Newest suggested listening - Ohms by Deftones. I've never gotten into them as much as I probably should. I'm trying to get back into a lot of things I used to. So far I'm not having much luck.