Back to reality 🏢

Vacation ends this evening. And so does pretty much everything that changed with the pandemic. I will drive east through Tompkins, Chenango and Otsego Counties, past the dairies and farms, the homesteads and rural homes where people are scraping by a rural lifestyle one shovel of manure at a time. Not rushing home, I’ll do the laundromat after work tomorrow. It’s good to get away for a while, some place far from Albany.

I am planning on working downtown four days a week – Monday through Thursday, with Friday being the only remote work day and if I need a computer to do my work for more than a couple hours a day I might go in even then. After Labor Day it’s back in the office just like it was before, no more phoning and emailing it in from the Adirondacks or Green Mountains. Vacation will be just that, a work free session, none of this work eight hours from camp.

Starting this week, August the Bethlehem library is open it’s full schedule including Friday nights and no mask is required. You can sit an work anywhere there for getting on the internet. I’ll probably be doing that more often without the Hotspot or unlimited mobile data at home. I like my little walk down to the library after work for the internet.

The main thing left to change back is the bus service. I keep waiting to see when they bring back the express service, the 719 bus. Also, I’m hoping the local will be running every fifteen minutes like it used to before the pandemic. That will make communing a lot easier for me and close one of the last gaps since the pandemic. I’m not crazy about wearing my muzzle on the bus or elevators but even with the Delta virus strain I can’t imagine it goes on forever.