Lu Zwei wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 12:56 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 12:52 pm I can't do that hand-heart thing and often disconnect on fist bumps. It's pretty awkward.

hahahahahahahahahahaha

Happy independence day!

DaveA wrote: Fri Aug 22, 2025 3:51 am

seby wrote:Hey congrats! Is there any way that we can watch it??

Thanks. You can view it on Vimeo here. But be forewarned, it's a "feel-bad comedy."

Cheers.

Haha noted : )

DaveA wrote: Thu Aug 21, 2025 4:19 pm Found out yesterday that my work as a writer-director will apparently have its Spanish premier in Palma de Mallorca at the end of next week. A movie of mine from 2010 got chosen. But I don't have a flyer from the film festival yet to post on my blog. And yesterday I was too busy feeling the effects of hip pain to bother telling anyone but family. All of my friends are busy/overworked/probably dealing with some form of burnout/depression/political malaise anyhow. Woo, America--the BEST!!

Definitely feels weird to be aging and making/exhibiting art in this climate.

Congratulations! This is so rad.

Woke up feeling like hot garbage. Body aches, sore throat, coughing. Took a covid test, and it was firmly positive.

This is my second time. The first time, I began breaking out in hives once the fever subsided. Those hives lasted a couple of weeks. I’m hoping there will be no hives this time, because that really sucked.

May I invite you to take a well-deserved breather from the rancid fecal storm that is America by watching the young sled dog pups of Denali National Park on a 24-hour live cam? it's almost dinnertime.

That's great! Also those dogs' names are fantastic.

Dave N. wrote: Mon Aug 25, 2025 5:15 pm Woke up feeling like hot garbage. Body aches, sore throat, coughing. Took a covid test, and it was firmly positive.

This is my second time. The first time, I began breaking out in hives once the fever subsided. Those hives lasted a couple of weeks. I’m hoping there will be no hives this time, because that really sucked.

summer covid is the fucking worst. What kinda flu fucking imitating disease is that, that aims people in the summer. Pick a fucking season, you fucking monster.

Get better soon, my man! Stay hydrated! And don't take ivermectin.

Crazy fever dreams. Woke up this morning from a dream where I was waiting on a train so I could take a class to learn how to be a groundhog. The station was in was a supermercado, and a lady at the deli made me the most amazing breakfast sandwich. I flirted with her a bit, and she laughed at my limited Spanish. I realized I didn’t have my train ticket on me, so I went looking for it. The train was coming, and I desperately wanted to find that ticket. I woke up.

I got up and made a pot of coffee, in attempt to have a normal morning. I became obsessed with the idea that I do not exist ten seconds from the present. I drank a cup of coffee on the back porch as the sun came up. Wrens, cardinals, jays, and squirrels abound. None of them exist ten seconds from the present.

I don’t know what to do with myself. I have moments of restlessness and I walk around the house. Elizabeth is trying to sleep in the guest room, but my stomping around is keeping her up. I sit and watch squirrels chase each other outside the window in the big oak tree. I look at the neighbors oak tree, and squirrels are at play in that one, too. I think about how they will make good stew in the event of economic collapse. I ruminate on the end of society as we know it.

Lu is right. Fuck a summer fever. It feels strange and out of place. My bones feel like broken glass. Constant headache. Hot cold hot cold. This virus doesn’t exist ten seconds from now.

I had (what I’m nearly certain was) Covid two weeks ago. I flew out to Seattle for my dad’s funeral and got sick about a day or two after I returned. Nobody else at the funeral got sick, so I’m guessing I contracted it at SeaTac airport, which was more crowded than any airport in which I’ve ever spent time.

It took three or four days for the fever and night sweats to subside, but the cough lasted a solid two weeks. My wife caught it too. One kid left for college last week, and the other leaves to study abroad next week, so they social distanced and avoided catching it.

It sucked, but it wasn’t as bad as the last time I caught it three-ish years ago. And if there’s a silver lining, it’s that we should be decently protected for the rest of the year. Given that we can forget about seasonal vaccines being available (thanks again, people who “gosh, just couldn’t” vote for Kamala!), I’ll take whatever silver linings I can get.