Keeping Our Distance
Mar. 19th, 2020 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenMiddleburg wasn't exactly a ghost town, but there are far less people out than would normally be on a nice spring morning. No waiting in line at stores, very little traffic, though not exactly eerie or anything. Saw several people in facemasks and gloves, etc. I elected not to glove up, but washed my hands thoroughly a couple of times. There wasn't a single solitary sheet of toilet paper to be found - luckily I don't actually need any. Publix has instituted rationing on a lot of items, so only two cans of veggies, only two boxes of pasta, etc. The dried beans were wiped out except for some lonely bags of cranberry beans. Maybe people just don't recognize them? I love cranberry beans, so I picked some up. I also splurged and bought myself a dark chocolate Easter rabbit - one of the small Lindt ones.
I was able to top off the diesel can and the truck, and some lady a few pumps away was talking about, "Well, what will happen if there's no gas?" I will tell you - it will be sort of like the week right after a bad hurricane passes through. Except it will be that way forever. I'm not being flippant, either, I've been in the aftermaths of some serious storms and we've had to be very careful in our self-rationing, and even when you know the power and everything will eventually be back it's kind of stressful. So if there's no more fuel period, you'd better start rearranging your life.
I've been on Yoga Journal's mailing list for some time now, and they're giving away access to some of their online courses for free. You might need to subscribe to them, but you can always unsub later. For example, I enrolled in a six week pranayama course taught by Rodney Yee, which is really taking me on the deep dive with yoga that I wanted to do this year. Iyengar said (and I paraphrase) that prana IS yoga. Some of the other classes are things like basic and intermediate asana, meditation, one on yoga nidra which, if you're dealing with a lot of anxiety around current events I'd highly recommend it. Anyway, you get the drift. That being said, whenever I roll out my yoga mat, I usually have a couple of cats who come along and show off how much more flexible they are than me. Like okay Feisal, you can lick your own junk, good job. Dork.
Anyway, got some cleaning up to do this afternoon, an easy three-mile run, roleplaying online tonight while I work on the last two comic pages for "The Cat's Inheritance."
I was able to top off the diesel can and the truck, and some lady a few pumps away was talking about, "Well, what will happen if there's no gas?" I will tell you - it will be sort of like the week right after a bad hurricane passes through. Except it will be that way forever. I'm not being flippant, either, I've been in the aftermaths of some serious storms and we've had to be very careful in our self-rationing, and even when you know the power and everything will eventually be back it's kind of stressful. So if there's no more fuel period, you'd better start rearranging your life.
I've been on Yoga Journal's mailing list for some time now, and they're giving away access to some of their online courses for free. You might need to subscribe to them, but you can always unsub later. For example, I enrolled in a six week pranayama course taught by Rodney Yee, which is really taking me on the deep dive with yoga that I wanted to do this year. Iyengar said (and I paraphrase) that prana IS yoga. Some of the other classes are things like basic and intermediate asana, meditation, one on yoga nidra which, if you're dealing with a lot of anxiety around current events I'd highly recommend it. Anyway, you get the drift. That being said, whenever I roll out my yoga mat, I usually have a couple of cats who come along and show off how much more flexible they are than me. Like okay Feisal, you can lick your own junk, good job. Dork.
Anyway, got some cleaning up to do this afternoon, an easy three-mile run, roleplaying online tonight while I work on the last two comic pages for "The Cat's Inheritance."
