Sunday

4rth July

 

As a nice distraction from muck and muscleaches I did after all get involved with a needle.

 

Not exactly the one I had in mind ...but yes I got my 1st jab!

 

And I am still not sure what to think of it really.

 

The doctor on site ( very well organised I do have to point that out! ...Quick and without queueing or delays) said I have to think of the greater good and know that I do in fact protect the community by getting vaccinated.

 

Well and that is exactly where it does not really make sense to me.

 

As I find it comes a lot more natural to me to avoid getting involved with the human (g)race generally (with some exceptions of course) and try to be as much away from them as possible….

Difficult to avoid them all together as unfortunately I am one of them…and will probably never be able to afford more independence financially at least....do not think retirement will ever be as real a possibility for me as it was /is for my parents. All seems so easy and tolerant as long as one can lock oneself away in a big house with a secure income...and one no longer

"has to " deal with human stupidity on a daily basis.

 

So to inject myself with strange substances just to be able to get close to “them” and be save in their proximity, does really not make sense to me at all and actually somehow speaks for itself in regard to my preference to stay away from them whenever possible.

 

Right yeah that sounds negative….probably is....!

 

Because if we are actually talking about that community of “decayed creatures” and “pits of pain” of who 90% find it impossible to make two steps to the side when they are creeping and crawling towards me on the side walks or anywhere really.

Would/Do they give me (or anybody else) the same safe space and protection in return….?

Ahemm.... actually.... no they do not…. probably could not care less.

 

Pissed me off before Covid already.

Heads in their iphones, mistaking their digital brain fog for the ultimate halo, coffee cup to the right, dog-shit bag to the left.

 

And me constantly zick-zacking to avoid being walked over or into.

 

So why would I possibly want to jab myself to protect them!!!???

 

When after all the safest most natural way to avoid infection (not just viral ones) is space and distancing!!???

 

Well never mind I got it now and it was surprisingly easy and uneventful. The injection hurt though!!!! But no other side effects so far. My shoulder got painful in the evening but that has passed.

So if I did this for anybody it was for my mum who is super happy now and can hopefully sleep again at night….

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday

11th July

 

In other news ....I have been watching a lot of Tennis recently.

 

What a shame all the "OLD Guys" gave it away...

Seems a bit like the exodus of the third tennis era I have experienced so far.

 

Really enjoyed it and it gives me something to talk about with my Dad on our weekly catch up calls.

Really miss the /that old man...Maxply or not.

 

He recently told his tennis mates who suggested after 70 years of playing the old "Pfanne" and arthritis in his hands and thumbs it could be time to change to a lighter racket...???

To which he replied:"I came with wood and they will carry me out in a box playing it still...."

OK Dad ...hope it will be a while.

Though it starts to look almost medieval... have to say.

 

Probably is something of a family thing trying to insist on being not so conventional.

 

 

 

 

And so.... this is actually the proper way of being "pineappled" ... other as in my defence strategy to keep social distancing in place whilst out shopping!!!????