I am sitting at Lupe Tortilla, and the service is as terrible as it has ever been. Still, it is nice to be out. I should probably just leave, but I feel bad if I do. I have been sitting here for ten minutes or so with no service at all. It is also hot where I am sitting, not what I was hoping for.
It is another Saturday of the “New Normal”. This evening, I am going to a small barbecue. I am really excited about this. I have not had barbecue since this all began, and I am looking forward to seeing some of my friends.
I talk to my sister nearly everyday, and I am finding that our conversations are starting to go back to topics we discussed before all of this started, topics such as what new things my little nephew is doing, how the boys are doing in school, how her husband is liking his new job at Amazon. He is loving it by the way. He is grateful to have a job that he loves.
I find myself wondering how things will be this time next year. Will the “New Normal” be a memory, or will our lives still be in disruption? Who is right? Is there going to be a massive spike in deaths because of reopening? Or was the shutdown never necessary to begin with? Will we have a vaccine? Will the vaccine work? Can people become ill with the virus twice?
I finally got service, the waiter is nice. I will still leave a good tip.
Who will win the presidential election? Will the loss of our freedoms actually drive the state of California to vote republican? That would be incredible. Who will take control of the house? The senate?
How will the economy be? Where will the stock market be? What is the unemployment rate? Will I still have my job? Will I get to travel again for work? Will the US oil market have recovered? Will Tesla have moved its operations to Texas?
What beloved locally owned business will be lost? It is inevitable that not every business is going to survive. There are a couple that are closed right now, and I am praying they are going to make a comeback.
How will relations be with China?
Will we have NFL season? Will we be in the middle of baseball season this time next year?
Where will Brainy Bird be headed to college? Did he get to go to school his senior year or was it all online? Did he get to have a homecoming, a prom, a graduation? Who is their class valedictorian? I LOVE all of the kids, but there are two that I am particularly rooting for to have this honor, and no Brainy Bird is not one of them. He is 11th, with no hope of moving past the 9 kids in front of him.
Did Little Chirp make the seventh grade basketball team? Was he excited to be reunited with the kids from his old school? In seventh grade they move to junior high and his old intermediate school is combined with his new intermediate school. Is Little Chirp still really shy? Did he make it into the Algebra class? Does he pull all A’s? Is he still reading like crazy, which he started doing during the shutdown?
What is my little nephew, Baby Hewey into? Does he like Thomas the Train? Does he have the terrible two’s? Is he using the potty? Has he learned to swim? Does he carry on conversations?
The world is filled with so much uncertainty that will become knowns within the next year. All that we can do is “wait and see”.