Time Marches on… and so does the virus. He was acquitted last month. Welcome to Blog Post #74. This month, the needle dropped… into my arm vaccinating me against the Covid-19 virus. Now that the government have placed their tracking device in me, my dreams of space travel are over. Fortunately for you, my dream of writing Blog Post #74 is still alive and well.

Thank you to the people who bought my book, Nursing: The Funny Side of the Bedside in January and February of this year. I did not expect to still be selling copies into 2021. Appreciate the support:)

Vaccine Dream

Yes, I am happy and proud to get my vaccine. Vaccines are the most amazing discovery in the history of human kind. Even fire or the wheel can’t compare. Human Kind’s Greatest Discoveries looks something like this:

1. Antibiotics

2. Vaccines

3. The Wheel

4. Fire

5. Write or Wroy: The Blog

6. The Light Bulb

7. Combustion Engine

8. Glasses/ Telescope/ Microscope

9. Steam Engine

10. Internet/ Computers.

All amazing inventions and the order may vary depending on whose list you’re using.

The vaccine did cause my arm to be quite sore. It’s a small price to pay to be vaccinated from a once in a century virus that has killed nearly three million people over a one year period of time. For those who are skeptical, don’t feel they need it, or don’t trust its safety, the God will forgive you. Maybe the forgiveness meeting will be sooner than planned.

Novel Progress

My novel stagnated for a bit but it’s now, once again, propelling forward towards completion… of the first draft. The new strategy which has gotten my train back on the track is working on it first thing when waking up… after coffee. Here’s an excerpt from some of the dialogue I’ve been working on:

By the time Cindy began speaking about the loss of her rabbit, he had had enough, “Sorry to interrupt but can I ask what the purpose of these meetings are each week? I mean, we are all just going over the same stuff, again, and again, with no end, no end goal. There’s never progress or ever any ‘moving on’. Life is short. It needs to be lived. Living life to the fullest honors those we cared about who are no longer here. Why are we sitting here in this room, going over the same past each and every week? This isn’t a grief group. It’s a wallowing group. I can’t sit here and wallow any more!”

I’ve just started on Chapter 21 with the intention to get anywhere from 26 to 30 chapters completed to finish the story. The chapter count could go up or down on the second draft depending on what gets added and/ or cut. It’s a process that I’m enjoying the more I put time into it.

Words of Wisdom

1. Life is short. It needs to be lived.

2. Believe in science. Get your vaccine. Think of your fellow humans across this flat land we call Earth.

3. Don’t wallow. It doesn’t really help anything.

Thanks for reading March’s musings. It’s a little shorter than usual. You know where to send your complaints. Fortunately, I’m back putting more of my efforts into the novel, determined to get it to my dedicated readers this year. As usual, I have the ending jokes. That’s really why you came here anyway. Enjoy.

As mentioned in a previous post, part of my current job as a nurse is to phone people who have been in the hospital due to Covid-19. I ask about their ongoing symptoms and how they’re generally doing since having Covid-19. The various symptoms and effects are part of the ongoing studies and interest in this ever evolving virus. One of the symptoms we ask about is changes to people’s hearing. It usually goes like this:

Q: Have you noticed any changes to your hearing?

A: What?

When we all get together and have house guests again after the pandemic is over:

Would you like some edamame?

Yes. Definitely. Give me “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight”!!

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A recent conversation between me and my wife:

Why is your Kindle E-reader so much heavier than mine?

Because it has more books on it than yours.