Skip to main content

Sunday Drive

As you've probably heard, the whole world is dealing with a pandemic at the moment. It doesn't matter where you live, your country and hometown have likely been affected by COVID-19. It really and truly is a pandemic at this point. The whole situation, in general, is far from amusing. People have been impacted in very serious ways, and it's not exactly a laughing matter.

What I will say, however, is that the severity of the situation has made the Mild Wife and I make some very real changes to our lives. We are hardly the only ones, but we're trying to do our part to help things pass as quickly as possible. Namely, we are staying home pretty much all the time. I am lucky that I can work remotely, and we have enough groceries for a little while. Sure, we've adjusted how we cook in order to stretch the ingredients as far as we can, but we have basically decided to avoid stepping through our front door.

Now, this works to help keep the two of us healthy, but we also realized at some point that our car should not sit idle for weeks at a time. It's an older car, so it just needs to run every now and then. It's not like we need to take a long road trip somewhere, but it does need to warm up, get the engine running, and do its thing for a few miles. We figured running it about once a week was enough of cadence (and fortunately for us, that StackExchange link seems to agree with us), so we settled on making sure we take it for a spin around the neighborhood every Sunday.

Given that we haven't really left the house during this time, that drive has become a treat of sorts at the end of the week. Even if it's just for a few minutes, we get to get out of the house and do something outdoors. Mind you, we keep the windows rolled up during that drive, but at least we can see the sun and get a change of scenery for a little bit. It's our very own version of Sunday Funday in these times.

Once we realized that's how we were treating that drive, the Mild Wife and I had a chuckle about it. Who knew that a simple drive could qualify as an event? Still, we're take our little victories where we can, and I'm looking forward to next week's Sunday Drive.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

New York City Trip (Day 3)

By the third day of the trip, I was tired enough from the previous day's adventures/subway rides that I felt like sleeping in. And sleep in I did. I think I woke up at something like 11:30 or noon. Of course, that meant that a later start to the day, which started the vicious cycle all over again. By the time we rolled into Manhattan, it was about two in the afternoon. I had tentatively set aside Sunday to see something on Broadway, so we headed over to the tkts booth for discount tickets. There were actually various 3PM options, and after mulling our options, we figured it'd be a good idea to catch one of those. We settled on The Toxic Avenger , which was actually an off-Broadway option. However, we hadn't eaten yet, and the show started about 15 minutes after we got our tickets. Enter the food carts. There happened to be one right outside the theater, and the guy charged a little bit of a premium for the convenience. Still, I was hungry, and I had yet to try...
1 comment
Read more

Moment of Truth

I forget where I first heard it (I think it might have been Descartes), but I have long been a fan of the notion that certain things just have a " ring of truth " to them. If you've never heard the idiom before, the basic idea is that some things are super-true. They are not just true, but they are so obviously true, that as soon as you hear them, you recognize the truthiness inherent in them. I usually get excited when I hear one of these, since it means that I am a tiny bit less ignorant from that moment forward. For the first time in memory, though, I experienced the ring of truth. First, let me paint the scene with a little bit of background. I'd made plans to have dinner with my friend, but we'd agreed to play it by ear. The end result was that we ended up settling on a pretty late dinner in a local spot. That worked out just fine, since we weren't shooting for gourmet, we just wanted to grab some food and catch up in the process. So, we headed out to ...
Post a Comment
Read more

All Good Things ...

August 8, 2009. Over twelve years ago, I started blogging with this simple post . I didn't really have a great reason for starting the blog, other than I wanted to try it out. I wanted to try writing and putting it where others could read it. I don't know, it just seemed like a new adventure to try. Along the way, there have been all sorts of posts and all sorts of life events, but through it all, I kept writing. It just became a part of what I do at some point. It wasn't a matter of whether I was going to write a blog post, it was a matter of when. The Mild Wife has described it as a "writing practice," and it was one of the reasons why I kept writing. Honestly, it's good practice, and it gives me an opportunity to hone my craft. I'm no professional author, but we all have to write stuff in our everyday lives. Why not give yourself reps to get better at it? However, I think it's time for that practice to change. My weekly anecdotes sure kept me amused...
Post a Comment
Read more