Nor was yesterday Opening Day.
For everyone who hasn’t a clue – I am referring to the opening of Major League Baseball Season. Said season of which was to have started here with a day game yesterday afternoon between my old home team – The Minnesota Twins, and my new home team (is 2016 still new?) – the Oakland A’s. Realistically, all professional sporting events are on indefinite hold. The League has been making old games available for streaming, those who are fanatics are spending time on social media, blogs, and the phone talking about games, players, and what they re planning on doing when the season recommences.
Me? I am a fair weather fan. Or perhaps a, any weather fan as long as I can go to the game in person. I have season tickets to the As and had been contemplating whether I was going to wear my Twins Jersey or my As Jersey to Opening Day or Opening Night. But now, I don’t have to make a decision at all. Perhaps my only regret is not having made plans to spent a week in Scottsdale, AZ seeing the beginning of spring training (and inflicting myself on my sister who lives there). But that blasted paper, classroom obligations and family here took up my time the beginning of February. And then the window of opportunity closed. The closest I am likely to come is wearing an As sweatshirt
We are all slogging through daily life; I expect the same is true for all of you. As the numbers mount in the US, one can only wonder at the total disconnect between certain members of the leadership and the reality on the ground.
Having participated in major planning efforts with regards to pandemics (Avian Influenza, Novel Influenza) in both 2005 and 2009, I perhaps am one of the few people who think the world so far is faring better than might have been predicted. We still have power, the internet is still functional, food deliveries are still making it to grocery stores
as Donna says – I am not stuck at home – I am safe at home.
We are endeavouring to be safe at home too. I am going out on a lone pedal while the Senior Cat has his afternoon snooze. I have worked out a twenty minute ride which includes two inclines rather than all on the flat. If I can keep that up then I will get some much needed exercise – just hope it will be enough.
And there is plenty of stash to work on!
I also made use of yesterdays nice weather to get in a badly needed bike ride.
Wanting to avoid others, I picked a route mostly on unpaved forest roads where I normally rarely see other people.
But yesterday it seemed like half the people in Bavaria had the same idea.