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Plague Diary 5: One Month
It is one month today from the Monday I went into the office to find out that I would be working from home forthwith. I’m still working from home, even though yesterday I called in sick. It is kind of … Continue reading
Plague Diary 4: Comes & Goes
Today is a difficult one. It’s mildly interesting, the way the days are going – on some I am relatively productive and not freaking the fuck out all over the place and on others, forget it, I am just a … Continue reading
Plague Diary 3: The Dream
I finally had a pandemic dream. I knew it was coming and as is usual when my subconscious is trying to make a point, the symbolism is heavy handed, like Hallmark card heavy handed. I dreamed I was driving my … Continue reading
Plague Diary 2
I suppose I am a Stay At Home expert now: I have had a Zoom happy hour and I have mask envy. Yesterday afternoon, they closed all the remaining beaches. Fortunately, I had gotten up early and spent an hour … Continue reading
Plague Diary 1
Hello 6000 Onions! Long time! I am back – I am dismantling my other blog, Mobile Hermitage (no point in linking, it will be gone soon) on the grounds that I am no longer mobile and no longer in a … Continue reading
MOVE!
OK! It’s UP AND RUNNING! Don’t worry 6000 Onions isn’t going anywhere, it will continue to be sadly neglected – I might post stuff there that has nothing to do with the Mobile Hermitage, like rants about the end of … Continue reading
Giant Changes
We’re going to take a break from James Bond. I watched The Man With The Golden Gun a couple weeks ago with my friend Jay, and it was good, despite technical difficulties (the fucking DVD player fell through a stupid … Continue reading
Trolls and the Alt Right
What with the world ending and all, I’m spending a lot of time on Twitter – aka The Resistance, I guess, it will not be televised, it will be sort of retweeted – and as usual I’m also on Instagram … Continue reading
Women March
We marched. It was fucking AMAZING and I feel better than I have since early November. The official counts are saying 10,000 people in Asheville and I suspect it was more than that. Incredible signs, incredible people, let’s say it … Continue reading
Thunderball
ok I am going to try to live blog this. I have not been historically successful at the live blogging thing but, hey! Here we go! James Bond and a guy in a black dress are smashing up zillions of … Continue reading