Tales from Quarantine (Days 1-2)

So to summarize, in the last week, I jumped from a boat a few hundred meters from Alcatraz, swam across the bay to SF, biked 18 miles around the Presidio, ran 8 miles around and about the Golden Gate Bridge, drank about 20 glasses of wine in Napa, spent a few hours sitting at a beach in Tahoe, got extremely stoned off of edibles, hiked up Vernal falls in Yosemite, climbed a 1000+ steps, graduated with my Masters, and caught COVID.

So its been a busy week, and I guess the writing was on the wall for me to catch COVID; its been 2 years since the pandemic started, and I was one of the last few to have not have caught it. But in a strange sense, now stuck in quarantine for the foreseeable future, I am somewhat a bit relieved (despite the sore throat, and body pains) - the world can wait a bit and I am not obligated to do anything.

Coincidentally, J also caught COVID, and so far the first day and today have been spent playing chess with him (He's currently leading 5-2, I blame COVID and lack of practice for my poor performance!). Food gets delivered to my door. My roommate L moved out for the summer. I have the apartment to myself - slowly cleaning up the mess he left in the kitchen.

Napa valley got me excited about oak barrels, so I am currently trying to source a used wine barrel to hold water in - think I found a very sketch guy off craigslist who seems to have an abnormally large amount of barrels.

Fortunate to be living in the 21st century, entertainment is just a button way - been watching the NBA Finals, the Big Bang Theory, reading political pieces, and messaging friends.

But I guess - I haven't really had time off like this since graduating high school in 2017 - its been a more or less a non-stop mental grind. So I decided to take this time, to explore a sort of unrelated series of blog posts, from my quarantine - hence the name of the post.

I imagine by the day 7-10 rolls around, I will start to be bit more restless, for now I will take day at a time because like the setting sun in Yosemite, who knows what colors will reflect of the rocks of tomorrow?