For me, I didn’t give two cents to what I looked like every day, so, I chose a black t-shirt (reduced the author-belly look), jeans, and whatever shoes I wanted for my normal outfit.
Then, I got “bigger,” and the t-shirts got a little worn out. I went looking for larger black t-shirts and bought them in packs until I found out that wasn’t a good thing. They were cheap and often got holes after a couple of washings.
Now my black t-shirt drawer was full of different styles of black t-shirts. Shit! I couldn’t even get “wear the same clothes each day” to work for me.
Don’t even ask me about jeans. When you do the math, my black t-shirt, jeans, and a pair of sneakers became something like one of seventy-two different decisions (six brands of t-shirts, four types of blue jeans, and three sneakers.)
Then, LMBPN went and purchased some collared Under Armour shirts, and I fell in LOVE with them. Not only did they hide the author-belly problem, they were a great fabric, had our brand, and were easy to choose.
Until my wife got tired of me wearing them all of the time.
It seems that my spouse might have wanted to see a husband with a bit of fashion sense (I have very little) and didn’t approve of years of black, blue, and sneakers.
She found out I liked old-school metal and rock band t-shirts and bought me something like five one time. I knew right then that if she was willing to give me old-looking rock t-shirts, I needed to clean up my only black motif.
So I did.
I’m now wearing a white Under Armour LMBPN Publishing collared shirt.
Baby steps people, baby steps.
Diary June 14 – 20, 2020
So, Las Vegas is a little weird right now. You have pockets of people who are very Covid-19-aware around the valley area, and then you have the casinos. Some of the casinos are very Covid aware and more stringent, and others aren’t.
No casino (that I’ve been to) mandates wearing a mask.
The Station Casinos shoot that temperature gauge at you when you enter their establishment but are pretty open after that.
Caesar’s Hotel and Casino (for this latest weekend) was packed with people, and they try to encourage social distancing, but occasionally people get a little close together—and by occasionally, I mean all of Friday night.
I can’t speak to Saturday or Saturday night since I didn’t get to continue playing. My budget was used up, so I worked and slept most of Saturday, catching up from some mixed up sleep during the week.
I’m at the Green Valley Hotel and Casino. Sitting in the food court, I can see at least twelve people playing on the casino floor. The mask to no-mask ratio seems to be about even, except for the person who has a mask, but is smoking, so the mask is pulled down.
I’m going to count that as a no-mask.
Here in the food court, the mask ratio is about one person with a mask to twenty without one.
We are fifteen feet from the slot machines.
I get why those of us in the food court have no masks (and there is no difference when I go to regular restaurants. Once a person sits down at a table, the masks come off almost immediately.)
I think I will be about done with these updates starting next week. Enough of my diary entries have dealt with Covid-19 and Las Vegas, it’s time to just…talk about other stuff.
Like books, maybe?
Sometimes, it’s hard to remember what readers want to hear about in our (author and publisher) lives. I eat, sleep, and breathe publishing and stories at this point in my career, and what’s normal to me (and seems like would be boring to you) is probably not.
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