The Coronavirus: The Multi Day Project in 24 Hours

This was my Christmas present from Samantha. I love to build Star Wars Lego sets. It gives me a sense of calm and focus and challenge that comes from most hobbies. I love to sit down with a beer or a cup of coffee and go through a few bags of the kit.  However, with Covid, and it being Dry January, all I had was coffee and a lot of time on my hands. 

Luke's Land Speeder Master Build kit - almost 1900 pieces in 13 bags.  These models pull you in. It is hard to simply stop once you begin a bag. It is hard to stop when you know the next bag is going to give the kit more definition like a cockpit controls or engines.   

I started early on Saturday morning...

 

...and finished the main body by bedtime.

The nose section was ready before breakfast the next day.

The engines were done by lunch.

I was done before dinner on Sunday. The kit was massive in size for a Lego set, over 19" long and 6" tall on the stand.  

It was a long quarantine in the office, and I wasn't planning on building the kit now. I certainly didn't plan on doing it in about 30 hours.  

My post Covid project is to find a place to display it.

The Coronavirus: Covid at Home!?

In 2024 it seems a little anti-climatic but we have a positive case of Covid in the house.  

My symptoms started maybe on Sunday, but definitely Monday. I was lethargic and stayed in bed most of MLK Day. I felt good enough to go to work on Tuesday but felt a downward spiral in the afternoon.  By Wednesday morning I knew there was something wrong and called into work sick. I ran out an got tests for everyone in the house and came home to go through the motions of swabbing my nose, adding the drops, and waiting for the inevitable.

I now know what what people were talking about during the height of the pandemic. My whole body hurt on Wednesday. Not like a soreness from a workout where you lifted or exerted too much. No, this was pain throughout my whole body.  I did not want to get out of the bed - even thought I was sequestered to the office pull out.  That lasted through most of Thursday but subsided by the evening.  Fortunately, those were the worst of my symptoms. I had no problems with my airways! 
Friday has been a long day in the office watching if anyone else gets sick - so far so good. ...and binge watching shows like I never have before; including a couple of funny episodes of "I Love Lucy." 

I am looking forward to the end of this when I can sleep in my own bed, run again, and rejoin society. 

Your Life on the Small Screen

 

A quick note to my kids; something to take a small pleasure in as you reminisce as you read these posts.

I addition to blog posts, your dad had a small side hobby in making home videos for us - for you.  I hope you find them years or decades later and remember things like the time we went to Family Camp, or Spring Break, or - most recently - a surprise Disney Cruise.  

You need to know that while it was a fun way for me to be creative, in a mediocre way, the purpose was (almost) always to give you something to remember the years when you were toddlers, or kids, or teenagers, and a time when your parents were still young and vital.  

Your mom and I made DVDs until a time when everything went on YouTube.  There are some fun memories out there for you to discover. 

For a short time, I thought I would be one of those social media influencers. I made a Disney Race Tips video, and it got a few views. I made videos of Disney Resort lobbies and pools and those had views.  I thought I might be onto something but then realized that LOTS of people are already doing this as more than just a hobby.  I had neither the time nor the inclination for that. The movies are there for you. If someone else likes them too then I don't mind at all.  

I can't really apologize if I shoved a camera in your face, or if I made an embarrassing movie of you. It was all a labor of love.