Sunday, after say, 9am, wasn’t particularly cool. It started well enough, with me knocking out a solid ten bike miles on the Virginia Capital Trail (I did the same Saturday morning). I came home to find my lovely spouse making good progress replacing the ratty old carpet in the upstairs hallway with wood-look vinyl flooring. She’s proud, I’m proud.

I just couldn’t make anything else take the rest of the day. I got frustrated out in the world when I popped out to buy cat food, laundry detergent, and struggled to find chain lube for the bike (because apparently silicone chain lube is the new toilet paper). People aren’t wearing masks (or wearing them improperly), aren’t being responsibly distant, and big box stores that *ideally* stock all the crap I need (so I can be responsible and limit my trips out) are inherently frustrating and evil places even in better days.

It doesn’t help that I looked at the latest ‘Rona statistics to find that while my state is , on the whole, doing pretty well, my particular county, while within spitting distance of a major city, is rather a hotbed of conservative idiocy and macho redneck posturing, leading to the behavior described in the previous paragraph, leading to my particular county being well into the top ten (and solidly at the top of the “second tier”) for number of cases in the state.

And it doesn’t have to be this way; it’s all because my fellow humans are making bad choices. Dammit.

Between this and work (this morning…you don’t want to know…) being extra difficult because of the General State of Things™ it’s really hard to be optimistic about the world, even if, from a certain narrow angle, that with nudges in the right places, we, particularly this country, could be on the verge of some amazing change for the better. It’s all about the walls everyone throws up for the most petty of reasons.

I kinda want to just get off the planet and hitch a ride someplace else. I have my towel and everything.

It’s depressing, and seriously hard to process sometimes. But I managed to fix my Instant Pot, so there’s that. I can cook beans again.