When I was learning Spanish, I learned that different countries and cultures have different concepts of personal space. So when I was in school as a kid, you know, we learned about your bubble. You don't go into people's — you don't go to people's bubbles. You know, whether it's standing in line or you're standing chatting to somebody, yeah, apparently I forget if it was the cultures we were studying -- so like in Mexico, they stand closer to you? I think that was what it was, Latin American cultures they stand a little closer to you than Americans did?  I can't remember exactly.  In that case the the consequences is just awkwardness, but it occurred to me, that's kind of -- I wonder if there's a relation, an overlap of that to what's going on with social distancing. It's like our concept of personal bubble has been invalidated and so we're collectively renegotiating: what is an okay bubble?

My biggest concern for the last couple of weeks was that about a -- just a little over a week ago. Just one day, I was sort of feeling a little bit weird, a little light headed, a little nauseous and then that night I started feeling a little cold. So I took -- and it was weird cause there's like 94° so I was like, you know what maybe I'll just take my temperature and then I had a low temperature like maybe a 100 degrees and then it steadily got worse and worse until I had about a 103° temperature. My whole body ached, I was freezing cold, and I had a couple of other symptoms none of them respiratory all of them gastrointestinal. So, I was like, I'm just going to wait it out and call my primary care physician in the morning and that's what I did. So they told me to go to the emergency room. I went to the emergency room. I got a COVID swab just everybody knows what everybody told me was: It's not painful. It's just really weird and uncomfortable, which I agree with although not painful is the worst endorsement for a test I could ever think of. Basically, you just gag the whole time, if you're me. I didn't have COVID that was negative, got a couple of blood test. I went home. They were like, yeah, I probably have like a really weird -- a really bad stomach flu. We just do clear liquids for a couple of days and then call on Thursday. So, then the next day in the morning I got a call from my primary care physician saying call back as soon as you get this. So I called and they'd gotten results back from blood culture that was taken while I was in the emergency room, but It takes a day to have preliminary results then several days to have conclusive results. But basically it started growing something which is not supposed to happen in your blood. So because of my history with infectious disease stuff they wanted me to stay in the hospital on IV antibiotics until symptoms went away and the -- and subsequent blood test came back negative. So I came back to the hospital. I was there for four or five days and it's kind of weird because you can't have visitors.…

Ways to celebrate, you know, my son's 20th birthday is in two weeks and we're trying to figure out a way to celebrate. I was going to have a party at a park, a barbecue for the family, so we’d be outside. I had thought about getting a campsite at a nearby lake, so people could come and enjoy the weekend with us here and there. Yeah, I wanted to take him down to Auburn Hills to do this golfing place, I can't think of the name of it now, but it's a golfing like restaurant and you get to shoot golf balls and stuff off of the edge. It was really a neat place when I went there with one of my friends and it was fun. I wanted to take him there I wanted to take my daughter there too when she came to visit. I don’t know my son is kind of a homebody. He likes to be at home. He plays video games and stuff and he's -- He feels safe here and he doesn't -- he's nervous about going out because he is asthmatic, he worries and the face mask do make it hard for him. He can only keep them on for so long. So he likes to stay indoors, but he does like to get outside too. So I found a nearby lake that we can go to for free. Just get out of the house. Take a dip in the water and relax for a little bit.

I actually had a really great plan for Fourth of July. I live about an hour away from a yacht club where I do sailing and they had a whole bunch of activities planned for the weekend.  So I just decided to spend the weekend there. I slept on the  boat, which had an AC unit.  It was very comfy, and it's way better than driving an hour home and an hour back every day.  So on Friday night, they had different tents spread out, and it was outside and they had different drinks and snacks that you could try, and I guess it was like a little competition and that was a lot of fun. Saw lot of friends and since it was outside, you know, we were able to keep our distance a little bit, which was fine.  I did have my mask for the weekend and inside the yacht club you had to wear it when you're not sitting down and so I wore my mask at various times throughout the weekend.