On the other hand... I do have a stable job that's draining but still oddly fun, I have a patient and talented wife who things are going well with, I have six adorable fuzzy creatures who seem to like me, and I live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, one that's barely got a winter.

And I have a classic Taoist Farmer kind of situation here, because the plague isolation has SUCKED... but if anything, I was a lot whinier about the social isolation and increasing distance from any online community back then.

Suddenly, none of it was even an option. And I sat at home and made the best of things with Peggy for a year. And it was good. And we didn't get washed out to sea. And we haven't died, so far, of any pandemics. And when/if we get through this, the world -- hell, just this city -- is going to seem SO EXCITING.

All I have to do is not steer the metaphorical car off a cliff in the meantime. And some days that just feels really hard, because I'm REALLY getting tired.