I Survived the Apocalypse
My inbox says I have 2 emails. I click each and discover that one is from the chaplain, something about being thankful for our situation yadda-yadda–I promptly click delete. The other email is from the medical department.
Category: In This World
The week the Apocalypse Arrived
MONDAY 9/21/20: I’m standing outside in front of the housing unit with one of the dogs that I’m watching today. She’s a 2 year old sheepdoodle, a cross look between poodle and sheep fluff, and we’re inside the fenced in dog run in front of the unit. There’s an ambulance driving across the yard–again. The “freeze in place” order went out over the radio several minutes ago instructing everyone to stay inside their housing units or wherever they were before the call. I’m the only person on the yard.
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Please Wash The Towels
Back in the day, as we old schoolers like to say, you could have food packages sent to you directly from home. We could receive anything friends or family purchased at the local supermarket, from canned goods to freshly baked donuts and cake. This last item often
elicited good humor from the guys, such as “That cake doesn’t have a hacksaw middle does it?” *wink-wink* I always found this to be humorous because it’s a stereo type pulled from Hollywood movies or prison lore. Nowadays, every package entering a facility is x-rayed, opened, thoroughly searched and scrutinized, and then handed to you one item at a time. Good luck on that ‘special’ cake.
“Feed me Seymour. Feed me!”
Sometime during Operation Desert Storm, when one of my brothers was home on leave from Iraq, he’d said to me that the soldiers were always looking for ways to stay alert and to stay awake on long shifts. I asked him, “What do you guys do to stay awake?” To which he replied, “Energy drinks and coffee.” Wow. You’d think that the military would have a better solution to something like that, kinda like MREs in a pinch. I guess there’s no substitute for good old fashioned caffeine.
Good one, JPay.
Hey there everyone, the Administrator here. This is one of those lovely weeks when a regular Monday post written by Christopher has been lost in JPay limbo. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Here’s a blurb from the last note I left here following the same situation:
Christopher sends his blog posts to me via JPay email (this company is mentioned in one of his more recent posts, Captured Clientele), and I then put them up on the page and hit ‘publish’ every Monday. However, though I’ve received word that this week’s post was indeed sent days ago, I have yet to receive it (it was even re-sent, to no avail). This is a frequent issue with JPay email. Days — even weeks – will sometimes pass before an email is delivered. This illustrates well what Christopher speaks of in the above mentioned post regarding the service.