This week I felt myself feeling sluggish, mostly from the continued onslaught of new I’ve been consuming in order to stay up to date with what’s happening in Texas . It may have also been the fact that Erika Paradise began babysitting her sister’s kids this week, needing to get up at 530 AM in order to be ready for when her sister leaves to start working again.

• Regardless, this week I made a conscious effort to not keep up as much with wat was going on Texas.

My week began by starting a six week journalism course I created for the father of Erika Paradise, who had been asking me for a while about teaching him something about writing/journalism as hes looking to start a blog or something of his own.

Fifi the cat has taken to sleeping in the bathroom next to the toilet again, but since the weather has cooled off, she’s also been sleeping outside on our patio more often as well, sometimes for 1-2 hours at a time.

Saw my first gnarly looking Texas opossum. In my two years living in Texas so far, I can’t say I remember seeing an opossum despite the fact that Erika Paradise would tell me stories of and many she’d see living in her old house before we met.

I can’t believe I’m admitting this, but Erika Paradise got me hooked on a the quarantine cooking show Selena + Chef on HBO Max, which stars pop singer and Texas native Selena Gomez as she attempts to learn recipes taught to her by well known chef’s from afar.

• What I dig about it is that it is forcing Gomez, who doesn’t have much experience in the kitchen to do the recipes on her own, only guided by the chefs (since they can’t be there in person due to stay-at-home and quarantine issues). It doesn’t rely on the host half-assing the recipe only for the guest chef to reveal a perfectly done dish at the very end like many shows do.

Online grocery shopping has returned to normal in the last couple weeks.

A play I’ve been working on continues to come along nicely, though I have no idea when it will be finished.

The shortened baseball season is in jeopardy again thanks to another COVID-19 outbreak.

Both Michelle and Barack Obama didn’t hold back in their speeches at the first time ever all virtual DNC this week. It is what it is. Ouch!

While not outright endorsing it, The 45th President of the United States didn’t condemn the growing conspiracy theory known as Qanon at a press conference because “I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate,” he said in front of cameras and reporters. Like W…T…F??

• This came days before and after several other high ranking republican leaders, including Vice President Mike Pence simply condemned the conspiracy group outright.

This week saw Texas become only the fourth state to surpass 10,000 Coronavirus death in the entire country. Yowza!

Despite this, it still appears as though (if the numbers are to be trusted) that San Antonio and the surrounding Bexar County numbers of Coronavirus cases are in fact declining, as well as hospitalizations.

Having said that, several school districts in San Antonio, and one in neighboring town Boerne (pronounced Bernie) have reported several cases of Coronavirus as more kids are going back to school.