vapearoo

This darn thing. Last Sunday the Religious people skipped my house like the Angel of Death skipping Hebrews during the 10th plague of Ancient Egypt-town. (Take that Cairo haha).
I respect them and would have been happy to discuss anything they like. I respect people who mask up and brave the tempest to try and act on what they believe is a plausible story. I think it was because I was dry coughing in a biblical way that they didn't even leave a brochure.
Y'see I been puffing on this here vaparoo to save ducats. It's not a pleasant as flower but it's not without it's pleasantries. I found a way to make it last a Loooooong time.
I didn't use it right. First I couldn't figure out how to turn it on. So I took it back. They told me ya gotta hit the button 5 times to wake it up. I wasn't going to learn that on my own even if I had a hundred monkeys and a hundred typewriters.
Then I used it wrong for a month. I would push the button 5 times, then twice, then draw. Wrong.

Like expecting a gumball and getting a BB every time. But the stuff is so strong I didn't notice. Now I know it's 5 times to wake it, twice to wake the preheater, then when the light turns off, draw, then cough on that stuff until your eyeball falls out.
This is practical but it's making me lose my religion.
Wish it was refillable like shampoo.

Olive made our 14 y.o. go on a bike ride with her.

 After 5 weeks in our house we decided he is required to go on a tallbike ride with her. This is how he made it clear that he didn't want to catch any viruses.

 I don't blame him. I have seen the video games he plays. Mutants, viruses and even angry villagers are colorfully vivid in those displays. Even the ride was like a video game. They were avoiding other people like the game Frogger.

SDD (social distanced duo)

It's so quiet in my neighborhood that when a SDD (social distanced duo) are walking down the street having a heated conversation, I already have strong opinions about what they are talking about long before they get to my place. I can't unhear or mind my biddness.
This is plague times, Yo.
Most of the time I stay silent. Sometimes they hear a voice from the bush with a public service announcement. "The word 'theory' has two meanings. You are both correct." #opinionatedprick
Conversely, I recently saw a travesty of audio perception.
The-otha-day, a local codger was walking Northbound and gagging up a lung. He is coughing like he been puffing on burlap cigars and smokin' aspirin. One of those coughs where ya hear a lot of stuff rattling around his windbags; it was gross I'm not gonna lie.
At the same time a noisy car pulled up blasting the latest tunes. Smiling big, a woman dashes out Westbound just as the old dude gets it together. She didn't hear him, he ne
ver saw her, but the ships passed very close in the night. I saw her (in slow motion) mall-walk straight thru Gramp's slipstream of funk. What could I do?
I wish I could have gifted them both masks but we don't have any and they aren't one size fits all. Olive wants them to fit tight. That was a trip to behold.

Shocking. My 14 y.o.boy is playing guitar.

Sounds like a can of cats but it's all correct. The finesse will come with time. I was never gonna have the time to teach him. Now he is much farther than I was in the beginning. Especially with the mechanical elements.
Guitar 101 is part of his homeschooling but I'm sure it's just the beginning for him. Hope he enjoys the journey and doesn't abuse the power that comes with playing this instrument. He has learned a lot with us.
Yoga, cooking, writing, comedy sports, no matter what he chooses my feelings are the same...I will never have to tune my own guitar again. :)
Uncle Covid got me a guitar tech.
He never cared to learn until he challenged me to learn a song from a video game that i never played Doom.
He saw potential at that point I stuck the song in nonedreds of seconds. Maybe he thought I would have to come up with charts, formulas and theories then get back to him in a week. I was playing it cold as soon as I heard the predictable progressions.
He smiled so big, like it was a magic trick.
I thought "If this kid likes this he is gonna love Judas Priest. Same style.