Well I Can't Seem to Focus, and You Don't Seem to Notice I'm Not Here

Korean Take Out 2020

While watching the Category 4 Hurricane Laura touch down on land last night and before the street cameras all went out one by one, on a mutual nerd website, we saw that trucks were still going up and down this high bridge over Lake Charles in Louisiana.  We being, the hundreds of fellow weather geeks online.  We're talking. driving during these presumably over 100 mph winds, over water, high up, and in these big rigs, the kind that can tip in those types of winds.  The moderator laughs and says This guys, is 2020!!  You are looking at what is normal today.  Multiple people driving over a high bridge in a Cat 4 hurricane is the epitome of 2020, right there!  Everything is unexpected and people are doing bizarre things.  Then he says in his southern accent UnnnnnbelEEEEvable! He had to talk for hours doing this live coverage so I thought he may be getting loopy and not making sense.  I dozed off and figured I was in no rush to see the devastation but his words stuck with me all the next day.   I thought about how I too have said similar things lately, everyone has.  Things are so weird right now. But until now did I realize it was all happening in this monumental year, 2020.   All of this craziness, more than even I could have ever imagined.  How many times in a day do I say 'Hey man, this is a new time', 'we're living in new times, or Well, we have to adjust to this new world.  When people ask me why at work in their whiny customer tone, revolving around being inconvenienced or delays and they ask in such a way that I see reality has not yet crept into their lives and laid a giant crap on their forehead via sudden job loss, loss of a friend or relative, loved one or getting sick themselves and feeling like they were going to die.  How about the biggest city, you know the one we all live in..looking like a Ghat Damn ghost town, buddy!!??!! 5th Ave, Midtown...boarded up and desolate!  I go off into a manic rant,  Gee, let me see, I don't know, hmmmm, let me think.  Could it have anything to do with the fact that the WHOLE WIDE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN right now dude!!!??? in case you haven't noticed.   So, if your.... "nightstand" isn't in stock today, well let me just notify management so that we can all get busy to see what we can do about that!  I mean clearly it's a major priority! 

This is retail 2020! 

I mean, you see me don't you? Standing here in this freakin' space get-up fearing you or your snot nosed kids might reinfect me with this virus from the bowels of Satan!?   We're all a little inconvenienced right now my friend.  

Don't be scared though, because then I took a break to pee, to breathe and then breathed some more.  Breathing is everything.  All is well, tucked safely into my perfect vessel.   Meditation is similar to Quaaludes but without all the messy passing out and clothes falling off.  I get right much quicker now and the agony doesn't linger like it once did.  It's really hard to tell in this photo but I'm embracing the now, even with it's crack-pipe qualities.  Accepting what is.

Today I felt like take out, but something different.  I tried this new local Korean Chicken place Chic-hen.  Cute, but better yet, I loved it.  And even though the plate seems very sporadic, I assure you it's right in line with 2020!  I was able to kill two cravings presented to me this week.  The Extra Crispy Sticky Spicy Soy Sauce chicken was sweet retribution from a good home cooked platter of fried chicken porn sent from a bud and the other was my sister boasting of her perfect Chicken Fried Rice.  The Truffle fries were not the accompaniment you might expect but on the other hand, Truffle Oil is divine and should be on everything!  These were perfectly crispy.  The homemade side salad was a way to get in some raw vegetables for a fresh cool bite.