Kevin's Ramblings…

I have not made a post on my blog in some time, November 9, 2020 as it turns out and very few posts in 2020 all together. I guess I lost the bug to write down my thoughts.

I am going to see if I have regained the bug – we will see. My blog has never been intended to be entertaining to the “masses” but more of a way for me to look back at what I have been doing with myself.

So, as we are all well aware, 2020 was a shit-show. I suppose I am lucky enough to live in the middle of nowhere so it didn’t really overly affect me all that much.

The grocery store put arrows on the flow to attempt to direct traffic, no one really follows them. Distancing rules, people sort of follow them. Seeing as I really don’t like people (in general), I don’t care if I am 6′ away from them anyway. The restaurants closed for dine-in, twice, from what I remember. I tend to prefer takeout anyway.

Things are slowly getting back to normal now. We are still being asked to wear a mask in public places. I don’t like wearing a mask and I don’t live my life in fear of anything. If I am going to catch covid, so be it, I catch it. If I don’t want to wear a mask, I am not being “selfish” and for those who say I am, you’re a fucking idiot – how’s that?

Anyway, I digress…

I had been driving a 2015 Ford Escape, my first Ford and I really liked that car. I just traded it in and got my first truck, I am truly Albertan now, driving what seem to be what the majority of other drive. I got a 2021 Ram 1500 pickup – I love it. The dogs are getting used to getting into it and all being in the back seat area.

I am really liking it. I have my first road trip coming up in a couple of weeks as I am heading to Saskatchewan for a few days.

Well, that’s it for now. Spring is in the air – it was in the upper teens here this past weekend which was awesome. This odd winter will be behind us very soon.

I have only made a handful of posts this entire year. I don’t have the blog bug anymore, haven’t for some time I guess.

I may return to it at some point, we’ll see. For now, there are years of entries to look at.

Thanks for following me on the trip. Stay well. 🙂

Kevin

Well, I guess I have been hibernating.  I have not posted in my blog since the end of January this year, that’s over 4.5 months now.

It’s not that nothing has happened.  Unless you are living under a rock, you’re well aware of what has been going on the last couple of months.

In February, I took a road trip to California.  I had a great time.  I went down to see a friend who was turning 60 and also went to Six Flags Magic Mountain with a friend that I had not seen in 14 years.  The only downside to the trip is that my cell phone got wrecked on the trip and I was not able to get any of the pictures off of it, they didn’t back up to the cloud before the phone was damaged.  That was also an expensive lesson, cost me $700 in total or so.  Oh well.  I can’t really complain, in all of the years that I have had a cell phone, this is the first once that has gotten anything more than a scratch.

I got back near the end of February, before the shit hit the fan, so to say.

Things here (in Coleman, Alberta) have been close to normal through the whole pandemic.  Other than restaurants being open only for take-out and arrows on the floors of stores requesting you walk one way, there hasn’t been much of a change.  Things are slowly getting back to full normal now.  I hope the economy gets some sort of kick-start, it’s needed.

So, we are mid-June now, almost summer time.  I hope that I will have more to say over the coming weeks and months.  Stay well.

It’s been a quiet couple of weeks, or 10 days since I last posted.  Winter is on a break, for now.  The daily highs have been in the low single digits so a lot of the snow has melted.  It drops below zero at night, so then everything freezes, what fun it is to go out hiking with the dogs.  I need to buy a set of those ice clips for my shoes – on the list.

I am looking forward to my upcoming trip, in a couple of weeks now.  Will be nice to get away for sure.  I have not been to California in a long time, I was 21 the last time I was there.  Should be a good time.

Not much else to report on.  Stay warm wherever you are.

This has been a pretty relaxed weekend. Yesterday it got up to -4C or so, the dogs and I went for a hike before the really cold weather moved in.

This morning, it was -20. That’s a bit chilly for any hiking, Hera would be ok and Blondie would likely as well, but that’s a bit cold for Twix, even if she has a sweater on.

So, I’ve been on the couch since 1 watching football. It looked like it was going to be a blowout in the early game with the Texans going up 24-0 but ended up a blowout with KC killing them. Lots of offence, the type of game I like.

Now the Seahawks visit the Packers. I don’t like Seattle at all, so I’m hoping for a Green Bay victory.

All in all, it’s better than anything that’s ever available in the CFL.

The next couple of days are going to be VERY cold, highs in the low -20 range. It warms to the negative teens by the end of the week. I’m thankful that I have natural gas for heat, that’s for sure.

Back to work tomorrow. Should be a busy week so it should zip by quickly. Enjoy your week.

I decided to re-open my Facebook account after the weekend.  I did however unsubscribe from a majority of the groups I was in and unliked most of the pages I had previously liked – I should have started with this.

I run a Labrador Retrievers group myself, so, if I was going to close my account I would also need to close the group.  I also think that I would miss the happenings of my friends daily posts and what was going on with them.

I am not using it anywhere near as much though, that’s a good thing for sure.  I also don’t have a readily available link on my phone and I have removed the shortcut from my computer.  All good things.

So, for now, I am back.  🙂

I cancelled my Facebook account today. I’m unsure how long I’ll keep it closed. I’ll see how much, if any, that I miss it after this coming weekend and if I don’t, I’ll see again at the end of the month.

I think the issue is that I’m in way too many groups and have too much exposure to the idiocy that is the general public.

If I decide to return, I will be leaving 95% of the groups I’m in. I don’t mind my friends feeds, they are, after all friends. I’ve trimmed my friends list down pretty well. There are only 3 or 4 who I’ve actually never met.

So, I guess it’s sort of an experiment. I’m interested to see where it ends up.