Today, my dad turned 81. It was an unusual birthday, I suppose… I mean, I haven’t seen him due to the whole “isolation” thing, obviously, but I suspect it was unusual.
Still, I gave him a call, told him that I was giving him snow for his birthday (it has been snowing all day today, which is pretty unusual for late-April, but this year, “pretty unusual” barely twitches the needle any more!). He seems to be in good spirits, happy with how his work is going (he owns his own company), and relatively optimistic about the future.
Which I suppose is nice. I’m more… cautiously pessimistic about the future. I think the COVID-19 thing is going to be pretty brutal to the States, but we Canadians are probably going to be mostly okay. Probably. A lot of this depends on people being willing to listen to experts and scientists, and we haven’t had a great history of that, but we will see, we will see.
More progress on Marshal Morcos today, the editing progressing nicely. I think this is the last of the major edits I have to do, after which is one more read-through to catch as many of the minor mistakes as I can, and then jumping through the hoops to get it self-published! Hopefully by Saturday! It will be nice to get back to writing, rather than editing, though!