Day 123: Weather, Dinner, and Bad Numbers

It was almost as if the Lords of the Sky didn’t want me to walk today. Every time I started to think maybe I should go out, the sky rumbled. Eventually I took a chance and went outside. It had just stopped raining and the sun was out, though there was thunder in the distance. Marshall came outside and walked for a while with me. He asked me what I wanted to talk about, and I had nothing. My life is so repetitive now that I have nothing to talk about. But we had a nice walk anyway, and we finished just before the rain started up again.
I made pancakes for dinner. It wasn’t the healthiest of dinners, but it’s what I thought I could manage given the ingredients I had and the mood I was in.
The coronavirus numbers were not good today. The U.S. had over 65,000 new cases and 900 deaths, and our country’s total death count will top 140,000 later this week. When I first started blogging about the virus and subsequent lockdown, I never could have imagined how poorly we’d do as a nation. I mean, Italy had shown us how easy it was to do poorly, but we’re the U.S., and we’re great, right? Well, not so much now, if ever we were. I am mentally bracing myself for worse numbers to come.