Day 3755

Today was uneventful. In today's world, that's a good thing. We have plenty of food. There's a pot roast cooking in the slow cooker. Dawn is content and sleeping on the bed. If I turned off the television, I could easily imagine that everything was normal.

I miss going to the gym on Sunday. I was never a dedicated gym rat, but my exercise routine did make me feel like I was making an effort to stay healthy. Shooting baskets on the gym basketball court was fun too. My exercise mostly consists of walking now, with an occasional excursion to the roof to remove the standing water. It looks like we are going to have quite a few rain free days next week, so today was the logical day to clear the water away. As always, I was amazed at how much water still remained after the pumps quit working. It's hard to remove the water when the pumps get clogged. It's Spring and the pumps frequently get clogged with catkins that fall from our Oak trees.

I spent several hours clearing away the water today and in the process, discovered several new areas that need to be repaired. I wasn't surprised to find some damage. We've had record amounts of rain this Spring and water is relentless. If it sits for long enough, it eventually destroys the coating. Luckily, I still have plenty of silicon coating material. As soon as the roof gets dry enough, I will spend another afternoon making repairs. This is a seemingly endless process, but I can see the results almost immediately. My repairs either work or they don't. Eventually I still need a new roof, but it's probably wise to see if the world ends first.

Everything seems to be working smoothly in the park now. The city has reopened the parking lots, but banned parking in non-designated areas. This seems to work great on cool, overcast days like today. The park is never crowed on rainy days anyway. We'll see how things go on Easter Sunday next week. Joggers, people walking their dogs, and cyclists have never been a problem. Maybe the city should think about banning slacklining and hammocks. That would take care of the kids who like to hang out in large groups.

I think I finally found my lost e-mail from 2018 and 2019. It was located in an invisible file that I finally learned how to view. As soon as I can copy the mail to an archive and save it, I might find the nerve to erase the damaged hard drive and try to reformat it. There's certainly no hurry to do something so drastic. It's not like I'm in a hurry or anything. Working from an external drive has been fairly trouble free. The computer responds much slower now, but like I said, I'm not in a hurry.

I'm starting to hear a lot about the need to build herd immunity. Some say this is the only way to stop the virus. Others say that reducing quarantine restrictions to allow herd immunity to build among healthy people is too dangerous and will cause needless deaths. All I know is that herd immunity is a real thing. Animals can develop it and so can humans. If enough people develop immunity to a specific disease, they can indirectly protect the rest. It may take months or years for a large population to develop herd immunity, but if they are all in quarantine, this acquired immunity won't develop it at all. I have a feeling that this will be the big question in the months ahead. How can we quickly identify the healthy ones, so we can get the process started. We need the healthy people to keep the world running. Right now, we are all just treading water.

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