Rant #2,467: Lost In My World

Let's see ...

1) No, I still don't have a job. 

There might be something on the horizon for me part-time, but I haven't gotten the official word yet, so I have no idea at this point.

Pretty much you know as much as I do about this.

2) No, I have no idea what is happening with unemployment.

Like millions of Americans who are out of work right now, we are all betwixt and between. The President signed an executive order to provide those out of work with $400 extra a week in payments, but it is sure to be challenged, so who knows hen--or if--it will kick in.

At least he did something. Congress continues to sit on its hands and do little for people like me, some of whom are really desperate, but what else is new in Washington?

3) Yes, my father is doing better.

He remains in the hospital, we have received mixed signals that he might be coming home soon, his pneumonia is ebbing, but he is still in and out and will certainly need some home nurses or somebody to help my mother in caring for him.

I saw him yesterday--and pretty much almost every day he has been in the hospital--and all he wants to do is to come home, so he may get his wish soon. But at this point, I am not sure what "soon" actually means.

4) Unfortunately, I hurt my back this weekend.

Yes, in the "what else is new" category, I must have done something in my sleep, but my right side seems to be out of whack a bit. It hurts here and there, and even sitting here typing this thing out, I can feel that something is not right in there.

Will I need physical therapy again? I doubt it, and after my recent experience, even if I can't move, I won't go back to physical therapy unless the world comes falling down on me ... that last bad experience still plays on my mind.

5) Unfortunately, he New York Yankees are falling apart at the seams.

Nobody said this season was going to be easy, even with only 60 games, and the Yankees looked so totally inept this weekend against the Tampa Bay Rays that you have to ask yourself if these 60 games are going to morph into 360 if the Bronx Bombers bomb out as they did this weekend.

They looked like they did not want to be in Tampa Bay, and maybe they need some home cooking ... against the Atlanta Braves, a good team that might be a big challenge for them.

6) Yes, unfortunately, that pretty much sums everything up for me at this moment in time.

I am sort of betwixt and between, not yet knowing if I have this part-time writing job or not.

I have been going back and forth to the hospital to visit my father, and it hasn't been easy. He is getting better, which is good, but he just isn't all there yet.

My back is bothering me, my mind is probably bothering me even more, and I know I just have to "hang in" and things will get better.

I am just about at the end of my unemployment payments, and yesterday, while putting in for my weekly allowance, the site was asking me all kinds of questions, those questions you get when you are filling out a form that the site needs to ask to verify it is you.

These include what my first pet's name was, the name of my childhood best friend, my first concert, stuff like that. It is almost as if I was reapplying for unemployment, and since I am, I suspect that I had to do this because I am still in my unemployment "year"--which would end in December--so I can still get unemployment through and up to the period where I am officially retired, in September or maybe even through that until I get my actual Social Security payment at the end of October.

Who knows? I certainly don't, and I know that it wasn't a "reboot" of the unemployment files for everyone, because it was an easy "one-two-three" when I filed for my son right after I did mine.

Kinda weird, to say the least.

And that is another thing. My son remains on the call list for his job, where he remains out on furlough. While his place of business only has a skeleton crew working there, others are working from home, and evidently, because of the storm that came last week, things have been off and on for the company, with power down and servers not working correctly.

We received numerous calls from his place of work last week about the status of things, so he is still on their call list, still part of the company.

It was good to hear that, but when can he resume working for them?

We have no idea, none at all, so he sits in relative limbo here, just waiting for the call to get back to work that we all hope comes soon.

It is a mess, everything is a mess, and we all are part of this mess.

I wear my mask regularly, but it is coming to the point that I want to totally cover my face, and not see anything anymore.

One more for the list:

7) Yes, unfortunately, I am truly lost in my world, and it seems that everyone else is, too.

It is a world that has changed so much during the past six months that it doesn't resemble what it once was in any way, shape or form.

I want the old world back, but I guess it just isn't going to come back so soon, or ever.

We will all have to make the best of what we have, but let's be honest about it; we don't have much to go on right now.

It can't get much worse, I don't think, but you never know.

Collectively, we have to look at the glass as being half full rather than being half empty, and simply run with it.

That is the way to go, and I vow to do just that from here on in.

Let's all do it!

The world is our oyster, and things are going to get better.

We might be lost in my world at the moment, but that compass is coming for all of us, and it will lead us directly to something better.

Let's go ... where the action is ... and put all of this nonsense behind us ...

And let's do it NOW!