No More Bad News

Today, the Schloss-Blog, as promised, is going upbeat. No bad news today. Nothing critical of all the lies coming out the president's administration. No lamenting that Dr. Anthony Fauci needs a security detail because of the death threats he's received for telling the truth, counter to the administration's falsehoods.

No, today we are all about good news.

(Trump sucks.)

Today, I am happy that my daughter is feeling better after having been diagnosed that she likely had a mild case of the virus. She's working from home after isolating and is doing well, stronger every day, thank God.

(Trump sucks.)

Today, I can celebrate the absolutely joyous Zoom call I helped arrange last weekend with some 40 of my fraternity brothers, as we updated each other on our self-containment exploits and what we were doing and will continue to do when this all ends some time in the next millenium. We talked like it hasn't been 40 years or so since we all lived together at Zenger Hall at Albany State (now UAlbany, SUNY system). We'll be doing it again, every month, right up to our next reunion in Albany in 2021.

(Trump sucks.)

Zoom calls are really cool, especially huge ones. Guys tend to relax when they're not talking, so you can see what they have in their home offices - memorabilia, frat shirts and hats, grandkids in and out of their laps during the call, guys picking their noses, girlfriends-turned-wives chiming in, a few insults flying like it was 1972.

(Trump sucks.)

For me, the coronavirus, which has closed down my wife's office in Chicago, means she'll be with me every night, working from "home" here. It's nice to have her here every night, falling asleep on my shoulder. No more 10 days or so between visits. She works in the hospital design industry and you can imagine she is very challenged right now. Aren't we all?

(Trump sucks.)

My relatives have all reached out in one form or another online, in social media or old-fashioned, actual phone calls. It's great to hear from them, know they have not been victimized by a virus that knows no borders as they check in from New York, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Austin, San Francisco, Sacramento, Jacksonville and Portland. And New Jersey. "Glamping" never looked so good.

(Trump sucks.)

Don't know about you, but we've been catching up on back episodes of our favorite TV series and finally watching movies we've meant to see ("Star Wars/Rise of Skywalker" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" among them, the latter being a very creative and entirely unexpected spin by Quentin Tarantino on the Sharon Tate-household murders).

(Trump sucks.)

OK, I've celebrated what I have in my life - friends, family, events, kindness, "brothers," technology and most of all, good health for everyone.

No bad news or criticism this time around.

(Trump su... oh, you know.)

More on radiofreephoenix.com on my regular Sunday night show (9 Pacific, midnight Eastern).

Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.