It’s summer and I’m going places! But all we see in the news is dire predictions of flight delays and cancellations. There is even a website called Flight Aware which has an interactive “Misery Map” showing all the delayed and cancelled flights for a given day.

For better or for worse, QR codes are now part of the COVID era landscape. It all started in1994, when engineer Masahiro Hara was working on a compact code to track car parts.

This is my fifth day on Paxlovid and, I’ve learned a lot. First: it erases most of your covid symptoms quickly. Second, yes, it really does leave an oily metallic taste in your mouth. Third, most people don’t know much about it.

It finally happened, but not to me. Not yet. My son John has COVID. You may remember that he’s been telecommuting from my house

We shouldn’t be surprised that you can get COVID more than once. Viruses are not all the same.

The home office is not what it used to be. The first house I remember living in was a 1300 square foot post World War II bungalow with three bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a wash porch, and a detached garage. The middle bedroom was known as “Daddy’s den.”

This has been a different kind of moving experience. For one thing, it was short. Meeting with a realtor to close of escrow took exactly 75 days.

In COVID news, the focus is on the nose: the promise of a nose spray to prevent COVID, spraying virus into volunteers’ noses to GIVE them COVID, and what is it about COVID that make you lose your sense of smell? So let’s take a look at the nose news.