{"id":6943,"date":"2022-01-18T12:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:03:38","slug":"the-world-has-stalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6943","title":{"rendered":"The World Has Stalled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Irvington<\/a><\/p>\n

Life has been basically the same for several years now. Yesterday I pulled pictures off of the phones & had to decide if I wanted those year-old pictures of flowers, etc.<\/p>\n

And then this holiday, where I basically stopped work at Thanksgiving & haven’t really resumed yet: before the year-end, corporate budgets either run out or don’t have time for services; beginning of the year, they may not have finalized budgets for the new year. So, I did a bunch of singing, some working on chimes, and that’s about it, really. Ordinary things: walks, going to eyeglasses appointments. Oh – and learning how to program in Unity, which doesn’t really feel like programming.<\/p>\n

We keep saying we’re going to take off for Scotland & The Netherlands, or maybe Spain. We keep saying that, but then I guess it’s about risk & Covid & planes. It’s not about cost, really. I mean, if we go for a month, this is at most what we’re looking at:<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Flights:<\/td>\n$1,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max Accommodation:<\/td>\n$4,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Food:<\/td>\n(cheaper than in the US)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Entertainment:<\/td>\n$1,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/b><\/td>\n$6,500<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

It’s not a huge<\/i> expense (and is inflated), but … I think that we just don’t feel safe, and are unwilling to risk. I think we need to get over that, though, because this is the new normal: hide, mask, test.<\/p>\n

May you all find a way to add some passing of time to your lives. Some awareness that the world outside is indeed moving, that you’re part of that movement.<\/p>\n

-D<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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