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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2020-03-15 12:51 pm

Self-isolation

Just a warning, I'm going to be a mess tomorrow as I will be missing my kids and dealing with the feeling that once again I've found something I love only to have life fuck with it.

My plan is that I will be spending the next three weeks in voluntary quarantine. I will not be a hermit, I will go out for walks and bike rides, but I will be avoiding groups as much as possible. Sadly, I lack the resources to set up a proper defense-in-depth, as Safeway is out of M-18A1 Claymores and concertina wire.

But I have books to read, a book to work on, a copy of Traveller-related essays I've been meaning to get to, and tons of movies both at home and available on the Roku box. The freezer is packed, I have chips and salsa, I shall not surrender!

I'm doing this because my broken ass is a prime target for COVID-19. If I get it and somehow survive, odds are my lungs will be even more torn up. Like to the point of needing oxygen. So I'm burrowing in, and checking Amazon for M-167 chain guns that I can fire via an app. I think Ring sells those.

This is Offhand Manor, keeping the flame!