Coronavirus pandemic brings opportunity to obsess on little mysteries
Boy, it is hard to get away from this coronavirus thing isn’t it?
It is inspiring to see people helping each other out and the funny videos on the internet almost make it worth staying inside. But there is too much time to think and I find myself obsessing over the silliest things to avoid worrying about the collapse of the economy and the potential for disaster to the human race.
For example, one of the pluses of our internment has been that my wife has been baking a lot of bread. Yummy.
But that leads me to one of life’s little mysteries that I hadn’t thought about much until I had all this time.
When I unwrap a loaf of home made bread, usually it is tightly covered with a sheet of aluminum foil. But even after I have sliced off a portion of bread, when I try to wrap the remainder back up with the same aluminum foil sheet, it never covers all the bread.
How can that be? It’s the same foil and the same bread but now the bread is smaller and should be an easy fit. But it isn’t. I usually have to tear off another piece of foil to fill the gaps or just recycle the foil and start over with a new, bigger piece.
Does that foil crinkle up by itself or are there aliens in play somehow? I guess it is like the mystery of where socks disappear in the laundry. Or how it is that I try to pay a credit card bill in full but I can never catch up with new charges.
When you are home all the time, you pay attention to little details that might slide by if you were busy. My flower beds have been manicured to within an inch of their lives, the cats’ litter boxes are in fine shape and my ice supply is right on the mark.
Ice, ice and more ice
I like my drinks cold so I go through a lot of ice. The obvious answer would be an automatic ice maker for the refrigerator but I didn’t think of that last time I bought one. Also, I am pretty sure I am too cheap to have sprung for that add-on.
Instead I pay close attention to my supply, keeping the ice trays full and rotating usage so that no one tray of ice never gets too old. I always pull a tray from the bottom of the stack in the freezer to use and when an empty tray is filled, it goes on top so it will get enough air to freeze properly.
I find it hard to believe sometimes that I invest that much effort for ice, but heck, everyone needs a hobby.
I wish I could blame everything like that on the quarantine from the pandemic, but unfortunately, I have always been this crazy.
