If you count from March 13 (Day 1 of self-quarantine for us), it's Day 98 of Covid-19.
It's fair to say that everyone is feeling the strain from staying home for so long (and doing the right thing). I am still working at home full time. Amp is still working three days a week at a Covid-only dialysis clinic. Grace has started working some shifts again at the retirement home she worked at over the last year or so. We are all still healthy, despite having gone through a health scare over the last few weeks. I haven't blogged much because I haven't done much or felt like doing much during that. Blah. But hopefully we are past that and things will get back to our new abnormal normal.
We are still doing the fairly hardcore conscientious self-quarantining thing, despite the fact that our criminally incompetent occupant of the White House no longer seems to recognize that Covid-19 is even a thing. Nothing to see here. Move along please...
We do try to order takeout to support some of our favorite local places which are open again, and place curbside pickup orders where needed from some stores, such as art and craft supplies from Michael's, office products from Staples and some nice-to-have-but-not-necessary D&D unpainted miniatures purchases today from Games Keep in West Chester (a store that I love and want to go out of my way to support). Aside from that sort of thing, we don't go out much.
Along those same lines, and in the hopes that we will play Dungeons and Dragons again either online or eventually in person again at some point, I ordered a bunch of painted D&D minis from my go-to online source, Kings of Light. I love these folks. And with several hundred figures purchased from them, they probably love me too.
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| D&D minis from Kings of Light |
In spite of Covid-19, some facets of normal life continue on in their appointed pace. One of these things is that we are nearing the end of the 3 year lease on our 2017 Honda Pilot. Loving the Pilot, and not being particularly interested in shopping for other things under current conditions, we talked with our salesperson at Scott Honda and told him we just wanted to roll over to a new Pilot with a minimum of physical presence required on our part. In other words, we picked the exact model and exterior/interior color and told him to go find one and do all the paperwork. This was safe enough to do since the only difference between a 2017 and 2020 Pilot is a few minor exterior trim changes (front grill, rear lights and rear bumper), and the addition of lane change warnings and some other electronics as standard.
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| New 2020 Honda Pilot EX-L |
Short summary, we got a great deal, only showed up at the dealership for an hour today to check out the new car and sign papers, and drove home in our brand new Pilot. The process took a week and a half from end to end, with most of that being waiting to get the exact vehicle we wanted brought in from another dealer. As always, I like that Amp and the kids get to spend most of their in-car time in a big heavy tank. This is our 5th Honda lease for Amp's car, and we have now had a dark red Pilot, a dark blue Pilot, a white CRV, and a black Pilot. And now this medium/dark blue Pilot. This one isn't as dark as the very first blue Pilot back in 2008/2009, and is brighter and more metallic in the sunlight. I like it.
Anyway, life continues on (fortunately), and I have gotten back to doing some hobby painting and hobby crafting. That should make for another post in the near future.
Until then, stay safe, and don't listen to the brain-dead morons that are trying to tell you that the virus is "dying out". Look at the numbers. Be smarter than that.
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