Oh and bummer about the Raiders last night @TMAC
I really hoped they could pull off beating the Chiefs twice this year.
I’d be renaming my dog 
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Sadly it didn’t dawn on me until after like a year that I had unintentionally named him after one of my most despised rivals.
I named him after a combination of Chief Brody (Jaws), as well as Celtics great Robert Parrish. Had to have some tie to Boston, right? I actually had the name picked out about 10 years before I even got him, as well as knowing that I wanted a Boston Terrier…thankfully it suits his demeanor.
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Hopefully you and your immediate family can make the best of it. I’m sure you will.
A potentially helpful way of framing it just dawned on me right now:
Usually the holidays bring us together out of love. This year, we must stay apart out of love.
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Ya I was thinking a big Raider fan wouldn’t like the Chiefs. Ever.
Back in the eighties we named our cat DJ. Even though she was a girl.
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Hope you don’t mind a little bragging here. When I moved to Texas in the eighties I always made the journey to the Spurs Celtics game. We stay at a hotel one night and Chief pulls up the bar stool next to me. I shit you not!! Like a doofus I didn’t know what to say. So I told the bartender I want to buy this guy a beer. Chief says “ I don’t drink beer.” I said said get whatever you want. I think he had a vodka. If he didn’t leave that bar stool I’d still be sitting there
Saw most of the C’s in the bar that night. Except for McHale.
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So… Thanksgiving eve. I’m still at my desk.
Everyone else still hanging in? Baking away? Remember, pie is better than cake and when shit hits the fan, there are plenty of ways to remove yourself from the situation.
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I’ve been feeling pretty nervous about living in an apartment building during covid. I have yet to see anyone else in my building wearing a mask in the halls, stairwells, etc…places with virtually no airflow, despite a statewide mask mandate (and basic consideration of others). I really don’t trust any of them to be exercising caution, based on the behaviors I observe.
With Thanksgiving, I have been stressing about these people having gatherings here, or attending one unsafely and then coming back. It’s a small building, maybe 12 units. I mean I guess I am more hoping they leave to go elsewhere if they are planning on gathering tomorrow…that means no “outside” people coming here, and unrelated to covid, I dont want to deal with the noise…everyone here is so damn noisy.
I guess I can only keep doing what I’ve been doing. All I can control. I always wear a mask when I leave the apartment, until I enter my car. I stopped touching the doorknobs/handles here a long time ago. Hand washing. Staying the hell away from people.
I just can’t wait until this is all done with. I hate that avoiding infection is so dependent upon the actions of others, not just our own.
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T-minus 20 hours until dinner is served. Let the prep work begin.
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Because I was exposed to Covid and had to cancel our two guests, it is our plan to do be basically nothing. We are going to put together a puzzle, snack on whatever we can find and maybe do the Christmas lights drive-through.
I will celebrate Thanksgiving at a later date, to be determined.
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This will be my first thanksgiving sober 
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This is your 1st Trucker J? Didn’t you celebrate a year of sobriety recently? Maybe I’m getting you confused with someone else. As much as I try to keep up with everyone, there’s just too many of us on this app or maybe it’s just my age. lol
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From Alcohol yes 
! Not from Cigarettes after eating some turkey i would like to light one up wether a black and mild Jazz flavor or a pack of smokes it will be my first turkey without a nicotene break
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Oh ok, that makes sense. Thank you for confirming haven’t lost my mind YET. lol
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You gave me a good laugh for the night
Dont worry ill let you know
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I think it’s time to admit that I’m not really that into Thanksgiving food.
My plan for tomorrow - morning meeting, exercise, meditation, knitting, and Indian take out.
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Blasphemy! Lol
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Tomorrow will be dinner with my SO, his daughter, my son and GF coming from out of town and staying through Sunday, my son and GF who live locally. All adult children 22-26. Expect no drama. It will be a lovely afternoon. I’m doing all the cooking and will enjoy it. If hungover I wouldn’t. Been there, done that! Not tomorrow. Very grateful!
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I get the concern… being at the epicenter here on the east coast and on mass transit yeah But what you said there is really key. For the days that end in Y and the days that don’t, all we can ever do is what we can do and do it to the best of our abilities at that moment. This pandemic has really highlighted how much of our lives are unconsciously wrapped up and in the hands of others. For this drunk, so many years were wasted on doing more, being better, and then worrying about everyone else and making sure they did what they were supposed to be doing. Our perceived direct “control” is just an illusion.
I realized that for the first time in three years, I am not going to wake up at the crack of dawn and make a sunrise meeting. Holiday meetings were always special, Thanksgiving in particular. It forced me to look at what I am grateful for because Goat often looks at what he doesn’t have rather what he has been blessed with. This isn’t the Thanksgiving many of us wanted, but its the one we got and probably the one many of us needed, we just have to dig to understand that reason. I don’t have the built in back stop of a meeting to make me think about gratitude, I am responsible for doing that. So as I go to sleep at some point, I am going to make it a point to remind myself that before I get out of bed in the morning, I have to think about something substantive that I am really grateful for this year – even in all the mire.
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I think I’m dead pretending to be alive right now
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