Hello everybody.
Well, my weekdays and my weekends look pretty much alike these days. Except for Sunday when I rarely go out, except for a quick errand to a nearby bodega, every day of the week requires some going out and long walks either looking for food, medicine, or some other pressing issue.

My days start dealing with a trio of rascals of some five weeks of age now. They provide some fun and relaxation to start the day. For some reason I can’t understand they developed a liking for my shoes and sleepers (Exhibit A). Sometimes, I can’t wear them until they finished their naps. If you interrogate them about some poop out of place, they make a face like the one shown in Exhibit B.

By 8 or 9 the fun is gone and I have to face the cruel reality of going out in the streets in this country. We have almost no public transportation now. Most buses and cars stopped working way before the pandemic. Now we have the situation worsened by the scarcity of gasoline and the pending possibility of catching a mortal virus (Exhibit C). Even without the pandemic you do not want to be in a crowded bus here, anyways.

I walk some 8 km a day and that’s just within a short range. I avoid venturing into more distant places in town. It is mostly hot here all year long, so walking long distances under this sun is not fun, especially if one has to wear a damn mask. I take it off most of the way; the streets are mostly deserted anyways (D). I wear it back in crowded places.

Every day I have to deal with garbage in the streets, people eating from it and these repeated images slowly but surely take a toll on you. You get the feeling you’re in loop where nothings changes, except probably the amount of garbage accumulating under the bridge. Maybe it will pile up until it becomes an island with fauna and flora of its own before anyone does some cleaning. Going shopping is not the same as in the rest of the world. Mot people buy an item or two a day. We make or procure money by the day and usually all the money you can make in a week or fortnight is enough for only a couple of things. Prices change every day and it is a torture to look at stores counters/windows unable to afford most of what they offer.

I usually get back home after noon and stay in my room working on the computer. The little rascals inmediately claim possession of my shoes while we have lunch and sometimes take a nap. Sometimes there is some online gig I must work on, or the dogs demand some attention, like pulling out a tick or two. We have dinner around 7 and watch some movies or series until we fall asleep. Sometimes we work on our posts or some pending business that comes across and stay up way passed midnight.

You guys have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe.