No escape from the Wuflu
Just when things have made the smallest move back to “normal”, it seems we get a new variant of the Wuflu. As you’ve seen by…
Category: Life in the time of Wuflu
Well. I guess one more is called for.
And when I thought that the “Life in the time of Wuflu” series was really finished… Son comes down with the Wuflu. Seriously. He missed…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 39: Oh, the things you will see
(With apologies to Dr. Seuss, who, interestingly enough, was a liberal, at least for his time. Now, he’s simply memory-holed.) It’s been a couple of…
Life in the Time of Wuflu, Part 38: A Comedy of Errors
It has been a week and hopefully it’s almost over. The theme of the week has been what I call the “Reverse Midas Touch”-when everything…
Life in the Time of Wuflu, Part 37: Things seen and heard
Ah, Wuflu, the gift that keeps on giving. On a personal note, I may be a bit scarce next week. Two of the health issues…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 36: Observations
I had hoped to allow the “Life in the time of Wuflu” series to die a natural death, but it seems events have me outmaneuvered.…
Happy New Year? in the time of Wuflu
Last night, I gave up looking for some sort of New Year’s festivities on a live stream and went to bed. One of the neighbors…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 35: Busy, busy, busy
Bonus points if you get the cultural reference I’ve been going at what passes for wide open this week. 20 years ago this would have…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 34: This just in
So, two things today, in order of occurance. Thing One: Today was “Haul Trash to the Dump Day”. I know, it takes so little to…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 33: Impatiently waiting
Not where we camped, but a reasonable facsimile. It was an interesting weekend, to say the least. While I had pulled the RV out from…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 32: Brother, can you spare a roll of toilet paper?
This would be amusing if it weren’t both serious and pathetic. This has been a week of being out and about, even when I’d…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 31: Let’s be honest
Sorry to be crude, but fuck this guy and the horse he rode in on. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr.…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 30: Up yours, Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the architects of the country’s ongoing nightmare, suggested Thanksgiving dinner could be a fatal event. Fauci, 79, and his…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 29: Here we go again
I was sort of hoping that I might be out of the Wuflu business. But no-o-o-! Yesterday was errand day. I was out and about…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 28: The madness continues
I had the iThing playing music yesterday and this came on. Blame Apple for this post. Indeed, the madness does continue and has gone one…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 27: How did I get in this basket, and why is the breeze picking up?
Every time I write a “Life in the time of Wuflu” post, I feel like it can’t get any worse. And every time, I’m wrong.…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 26: About that supply chain thing-and a warning
Mrs. Freeholder and I went grocery shopping yesterday. This is unusual. Normally, one or the other goes. However, Mrs. Freeholder has passed some non-verbal…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 25: Supply chain distress
The supply chain is hurting. Over the last two weeks, I’ve seen example after example of supply chain issues. If I’d seen just one or…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 24: A gunshow miraculously appears
Well…yeah. The Notorious RBG kicks off and there is finally a gun show-how much better can my weekend get during a pandemic, I ask you.…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 23: Normalcy Bias
I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts and doing a lot of reading of late. There is a thread that has been going through…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 21: Observations
In the past two weeks, I’ve been out and about a lot, and I have seen things worth seeing. I have seen a lot of…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 20: Intermission
I haven’t been posting much that is directly about the Wuflu follies, because it has pretty much been more of the same things I’ve published.…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 19: Trading the pandemic for riots
I’ve tried to write this post 4 times since yesterday, gotten interrupted by something and come back to it only to find that the situation…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 18: One hell of a week
Or, as I prefer, Day {whatever} of “America Held Hostage”. Sorry for the rather long absence. It’s not been the best of weeks here at…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 16: The damage is showing
I-85 North, Charlotte, NC 5/4/2020 about 1400 When is the last time you saw an Interstate highway in a metro area with no traffic? For…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 15: I emerge into a strange new world
The Hermit, Ignacio Zuloaga It isn’t that I haven’t been out lately; I have. But each trip has been to a specific place with a…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 14: When the medicos don’t do it right, why should anyone else?
Nazzo fast, Ralph. As I mentioned in a previous episode, my Doc wants blood. So today it was off to a local lab for the…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 13
I’ve been hanging out at home, so not a lot to talk about. I did go out yesterday to pick up a prescription. I used…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 12: The natives are getting restless and the idiots have no clue
We’ve had to venture out a total of 3 times in the last 24 hours. Two were trips to the vet for a sick cat…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 11: In which I increase my skills
I’m not sure why this was the first thing that popped into my head as an image for the post. Life continues at its slow,…