by Bob Walsh
Had to go to Home Depot today to get some project materials. Place was practically empty. They were clocking people in and out and masks were required, but there was in fact no line to get in.
Traffic was heavier than it had been, but still fairly light.
My barber is still sort-of closed. Taco Bell is still opened. My favorite gun store is open on heavy traffic control. One customer per available clerk. Door kept locked. Range is still closed. Tractor Supply is open, no masks required. The guns safe I wanted to look at was not in stock. My favorite bakery-deli is still open (a block from the gun store range). They were out of brownies, but sacrifices have to be made. I had an apple turnover. My assistant had a cinnamon roll.
My favorite healthy young friend-of-the-family was again going stir crazy and looking to get out of the house and earn some pocket money so I picked him to to do fetch and carry, etc. He wrangled the lumber at Home Depot, then unloaded at my house and mowed the lawn. He also did the primary work (bend, kneel, stoop, twist) to get the r/f seat out of my Saturn so we could put the new fancy saddle blanket seat cover on it. Gave him the chance to use a socket wrench, which he had never done before. Seems odd to me for a 13-year old, but since I have no children of my own (thank god) perhaps I am out of touch. He also got to use an impact wrench, which I was not surprised that he had never used before. Those damn seat mounting bolts were in there tight. New seat cover looks very nice.
We then did some move-the-crap-around and throw-some-crap-out so I could clear out and carefully measure a spot for a new safe. With the local land fills closed down (how can you catch Covid-19 from trash I wonder) and me being unwilling to drive an hour to an open one my ability to dump a serious amount of trash is limited. Though there is a large, empty K-Mart a block from my house with a large, empty parking lot.
I even got two loads of laundry done today. Life is maybe not great in plague-ravaged Stockton, but it is not horrible either. (Even without the plague it isn't that great come to think of it, but, as my T-Shirt says, It's Better Than Fallujah.
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