What a silly idea I had. That I could ever fly a drone. Even if it’s stabilized with a 3-axis gyro. Even if it’s stabilized with GPS. Flying outside or in the garage. It makes no difference. I can fly it for a while, then it gets away from me. If I do the least little thing wrong, I correct the wrong way and off it goes, into the tree, or the bike rack, or just off into the wilderness. At the moment, it has banged up propellers. Again. I have spare propellers. And I’m pretty good a replacing them. This time I’m leaving them bent-up. Bleh!

For our Sunday order-out breakfast, Danita and I decided we would like a Mexican breakfast. Maybe an omelet with chorizo sausage. There’s a Mexican restaurant in our area that does this. We waited until they were open and gave them a call. No answer for 10 rings. Rats. We ended up with Panera bagels. Very nice bagels. No chorizo.

The day wasn’t all bad. Instead of heavy rain, T-storms, and flooding we got 75 degrees and clouds. I have been hearing a scraping sound when riding my bike. Just sometimes. Bikes aren’t supposed to make scraping sounds. I put the bike on the stand. I found a possible source, hypothesized a solution, and got out the wrenches. A short test rid confirms. The noise is gone.

Have you heard about oximeters? Those are the little gizmos the doctor puts on your finger. It tells you how oxygenated your blood is. It turns out they can actually be helpful. If you get Covid, the disease can start clogging up your lungs. Your oxygenation goes down. Your body adapts. You don’t notice. Until it goes way down. With a oximeter, you can have earlier detection of Covid, start treatment earlier, have a better outcome. Anyway, that’s theory. I’m usually the last to learn about these things. Danita and I were shocked to find that these little gadgets are still available. Ours is on order. We’ll see how it works. At least it’s easier than flying a drone.

I think I mentioned that we found face masks. The disposable masks are in. The reusable masks are on the way. Now the latest Covid shortage is cleaning supplies. I don’t mean just cleaning supplies that contain alcohol. Or supplies that contain bleach. I’m talking about all cleaning supplies. Liquid dishwasher soap? MIA. Spray stuff for the bathroom sink? Not to be found. I’m cutting back on bathroom cleaning to stretch out the supplies we have on hand. It’s a crazy, crazy world we’re in.

We’re looking forward to attending a concert at 5:30 today. And I will attend our community’s security committee meeting tomorrow. The internet is a wonderful place. But all this crazy Covid stuff won’t last forever. We should have a vaccine in 2021. Crazy, crazy world.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.