Anyone else drinking entirely too much during this Covid stuff? I have bought a couple of handles of Tito's vodka in the last couple of months. I used to keep vodka in the house kind of like my parents kept vodka in the house. They would have it on hand for their one friend who came over to play bridge every few months and for the two bloody Mary's per year that my mom would take down. That was me. Old Tito Santana would last me like a year. Now I've crushed a couple handles! And that's not all I drink. There's beer, whiskey, and wine too. Don't get me wrong here; I'm not wasted all the time. But a few every night starts adding up, and I'm not the only guy getting after it because my building's recycle bin always looks like the morning after a frat party.

It's just that there's nothing stopping me from having a few libations just about every night. But I can't be doing that when the world goes back to normal.

Take tonight for instance. I was watching a bootleg Kodi version of the new Pete Davidson movie and was hit with the slightest pinge of sadness. Instead of thinking about what it is that was really on my mind I just poured a tall glass of some brown liquid and no ice. That never sounded that great to me before on a Wednesday, and now I'm loving how it makes my belly burn.

Other than an increase in the hitting of the sauce everything is pretty much okay. Mrs. Noisewater and I have been able to work from home, and our daycare let us send the kids back. Thank God! You know how hard it was with both of us trying to work from home with the two kids all day. In the morning the two of us would go over our schedules and it would be like:

Me: What you got today? I got a 9AM and a 12PM.
Mrs. Noisewater: 9AM and 12PM.for me too! Damn!
Me: Okay, no problem, I guess. We can put Erik on the iPad and Desi can . . . just chew on my laptop wire. I usually don't let him do that, but we got to get through these meetings.

Tomorrow Mrs. Noisewater and I are going to treat ourselves to a happy hour with our bikes and the bike trailer and then pick up the kids afterwards. It will be the first time the two of us have been alone and out somewhere since this thing started, and I'm pretty excited about it. We found a bar with a patio near the daycare. Don't worry, I won't be tanked. Just a couple drinks outside with the wife, trying to feel like normal happy people in Chicago at the start of the summer, how we are supposed to be feeling under normal circumstances.

How is everyone else doing? I'm sorry I've been such a crummy blogger. I'll try to be better. For real, tell me how you're all doing if you catch this post. Hope you and your families are well. 

I'm sorry I've been out so long. My goal was to post every day, then I was happy with every other day, and pretty soon I let most of June go by without publishing a damn thing on here. It's a little bit of being too busy, but it's a lot of just having nothing to say. I usually have a topic or two saved into the notes on my phone, and here's the only one I have jotted down in the last few weeks:

"Topanga's right arm is too big."

The meaning of this random-ass note is that while watching some show where the gal who played Topanga on Boy Meets World now hosts a Talk Soup type of show where she stands by a monitor making fun of things that happened on TV, Gancey Girlfriend said, "remember last time we flipped by this show, and you said her right arm is bigger than her left? Well, it's true."

I had no recollection at first that I noticed that, but I was right as rain! Something is f'd up about that hammy right arm of hers! I actually tried to post this a while ago, but I couldn't find any hard evidence to attach to this post, so I just said screw it. Well, now I got nothin' else, so this is what you get.

If anyone can track down a good picture or video to back up this assertion, I'd greatly appreciate it. What a lame post, but at least the new layout of the blog is cool, right?