I just found out it’s been unusually cold outside for the past few days.
I had absolutely no idea, since “outside” might as well be a foreign country.
Category / Bill Bickel
Wishing Everybody…
And to everybody celebrating one, both or neither, I wish you a healthy Spring, Ramadan, Memorial Day, Canada Day, Fourth of July, German Unity Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and whatever else you’ve got going for the rest of 2020.
[OT] You Gotta Have Hearts
A trivia question from my 5-year-old niece, of all people, and only on of us at the virtual seder knew the answer — and he might have cheated, because who can tell when we’re scattered across the continent?
What animal has three hearts?
Happy Passover
Elijah will be invisible as always; but this year, we’ll see a face mask apparently floating around the room on its own.
Walkathon
It probably comes as no surprise that it’s been postponed until… whenever.
There’s another set of C-19’s victims: the many organizations such as March of Dimes and the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (the other group I do a walkathon for) that rely on these events for a good chunk of their budgets.
Comics in the Time of Cholera
Quick question: Would you prefer that current comic strips acknowledge or not acknowledge the pandemic?
It is, it is, a glorious thing to be a tiger king
Maybe it’s only an LOL because my mother was just driving me crazy about The Tiger King. Seriously, every time I call, “Did you watch The Tiger King yet?”
I might have to buy the Cliff Notes.
[OT] If you grew up without computers, the Internet, and cell phones…
(follow-up to “Speaking of Nighthawks…”)
This morning, while I was chatting online with an old friend who, like me, was born in the mid-50s, she mentioned we were better off having grown up without computers, cell phones, and all the other stuff that would have seemed like science fiction to us.
I told her it was an interesting question and she said “Not to me. It would have been terrible to have everything I did public knowledge.” I pointed out that I was too boring to worry about any of that and she said “That would have been worse. You were a brainy nerd, and you’d have had to deal with online bullying. You would have been screwed, and not in a nice way.”
Anyway… those of you who grew up with none of this…
Do you think you would have been, on balance, better or worse off if your childhood and teenage self had had cell phones, computers, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Facebook, Kindle, unlimited on-demand music…?
[OT] Speaking of Nighthawks…
(Self-quarantine: Day 23)
I logged onto Facebook at 5:30 this morning, and couldn’t believe the number of East Coasters who were online. Up way too late? Up way too early? Probably a combination. I spoke with a friend I grew up with, and she said that now that she’s working from home, her normally-erratic sleep habits have completely jumped the tracks. I told her it’s as if the whole world’s jet-lagged, and we haven’t even gone anywhere.
Is everybody in the same boat?
April, Come She Will [OT]
When I bought my 2020 calendar, little did I guess that April’s page would feel so nostalgic.
Comics I Don't Understand 