It's Autumn - and still COVID.

 It's October. And still, there is COVID. 

The Alberta Premier's announced over the summer that COVID was over and that it was going to be the best summer ever. Yeah, right. Masks came off. People gathered. There was even a Stampede. Mask-resistors were joined with Vax-resistors (people against getting vaccinated). 

While Kenney went on vacation for three weeks (or into hiding, it's not clear) COVID statistics rose. I won't go into the lurid details about how Kenney tried to lure people into getting vaccinated by offering a lottery (where you could win $1,000,000 or a lifetime hunting license. Serious.) There's enough in the news.

I was called back to work. Then we closed and offered curbside. And now we're open again.

My "During the Time of COVID" album on Flickr has almost 400 photos in it now. Since I don't go out except to go to work or get groceries, most of the photos are things I've seen on the way to and from work or in my yard. Or my cat. 

I bought a telephoto lens to take photos of birds, but the city is doing flood construction along the river and scared the birds away. While groups of people congregating on the chewed-up bike path scare me away.

Instead, I binge watch TV shows and movies on DVD. Occasionally, I see a photographic scene that makes me hit Pause so that I can appreciate it more. But mostly I fall asleep. 

Or I play game APPs on my tablet with the false hope that I'm keeping my brain active.  

Lately, I've started an online Gale course for webpage coding. Depending on where my brain is at, the classes are either exciting bits of magic or Greek confusion. (I don't know Greek.)

At work, people ask me when COVID will be over. Like I have the powers of an oracle.

I wish.