Wife kitteh was cranky again today. She didn't sleep at all on Sunday night and got about two hours of sleep last night. Or maybe it was no sleep on Saturday night and three hours on Sunday and ...
At this point, who cares? No sleep is a horrid problem and it affects everything about you. And then it affects people around you. She's not doing this on purpose and she's suffering from it, so what is a good husband kitteh to do but take care of her?
Such is life in the most privileged strata of the Patriarchy.
So we drove up to Palomar Mountain today and then came home by way of Santa Ysabel. We had the Catican Guards with us in the hopes of finding a place where crazed chihuahuas could run free. We didn't.
What is the deal with closing off the parks? I get the beaches because there lots of ways you can get close to other people on and around the beach, but the hiking trails and the parks? OK, so shut down the picnic areas if you're totally insane, but the hiking trails? Madness.
By now, we ought to be able to figure this out. We've got enough data to be able to loosen up a bit. Hiking trails. That's just crazy.
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The hiking trails seem like a mixed bag to me. That first weekend here in San Diego we got to low 70’s and there was a traffic jam of hikers trying to go up and down Cowles Mt. There simply wasn’t any way for people to ‘social distance’ on that trail (which is about 4-6 feet wide). A lot of the ones I’ve walked (can’t really claim to have hiked) are even narrower. But there are places where the paths are wide enough that people could keep distance. So why not open them up? Well because everyone would flood those and the inevitable idiots in the crowd would make keeping separation impossible.
It is like my son says: “just about every rule, and especially the stupid ones, were put in place because there some people who just couldn’t handle it”.
On the other hand, Mrs Ohioan and I have taken a walk around the neighborhood virtually everyday. We’ve seen lots of other folks doing the same. So far every time we have come upon folks going the other way, either we or they have crossed the street (with the exception of one group where we both started to cross, then stopped, then started again, and finally we kept crossing and they stopped). Anyways, it is still easy to get some light exercise and fresh air. So who needs a hiking trail?
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