So with everyone on social media and mass media and in my friend circles complaining about how awful this year has been, I feel guilty that this has been one of the best years of my life
When my workplace reacted to the virus I am was put on a five days on and 10 days off rotation. And I had three or four of those rotations where I had 10 days off. It was amazing! I got projects done around the house. I planted my little deck garden that I've always wanted to try. I cleaned out the area around my desk upstairs. I got stuff done around the house that I had never had time to do before. I relaxed and destress. I watched movies and videos with my wife and family. I cooked dinner and just enjoyed life at home. It was amazing!
At some point I got put on a five on and five off rotation which was almost as amazing. I still had a weekend that was five days long. I joked at work that it was a conspiracy to make the senior guy work weekends again, but having five days off I reduced the impact that almost nothing! It was amazing.
Then I got picked up for a straight days and weekends off job as one of the support managers where I work. That means that with the reaction to the virus I got telework five days a week. And have a regular weekend. In my teleworking schedule was 8 to 430 or whatever I wanted it to be. It was amazing!
That's just work stuff in my personal life traffic died down to where it wasn't an issue. When I would go out and drive somewhere I didn't have to worry about bumper-to-bumper traffic all of the time when I went. When I went to a store people stayed away from me which was amazing! We all spread apart.
Recently I went on a flight and at the airport it wasn't a negative experience where everybody was crowded in like sardines in a can and you felt like somebody was right up on you trying to play with your privates while they were waiting to cut in front of you in the line for checking in or getting checked by the TSA or getting on the airplane. It was an amazing experience!
Let alone the distance between people. I like to be careful and I like to maintain space between me and strangers. It's just the way I was brought up and it's my personality. I'm a friendly person, but stay the hell away from me and don't get right up on me if I don't know you. So the virus has been an amazing benefit to me where people don't even want to get close to me. Then of course I wear Basques that make it obvious that it's not really my concern about the virus that passes right through the cloth that everybody thinks putting on their face will protect them.
My wife and I have had more time together to adjust to not having children at home. We've gone and done things like travel to see family and the Northeast, not New York, but in the Northeast. We traveled to our property down in Florida and spent time down there getting the no neighbors and the wildlife out in the field. We played games, we've watched movies, we've enjoyed grilling and cooking food together. We had friends over. We've joked and laughed and had a great time without the disturbance or disruption of all the junk that happened before all this.
So I feel bad for the people that are so wrapped around the axle about how awful their life is now and how scared they are and how jacked up their anxiety is. Accept, adjust, and move on. It was this way before COVID-19 corona virus, you just didn't know it and didn't understand the dangers that you lived in every day.
I'm enjoying life! I'm enjoying the election season, though I am tired of seeing people post that they voted. He should've been voting in the first place and it's not something to brag about, it's something that you just do as an adult in the United States of America.
I can't wait to see what next year brings!
