OK, I have to get this off my chest... This afternoon I went into my office, and found out my boss' wife has Covid, so he's not at work(so that's a good start). The office consists of us retirees with two active duty Sailors. As a result, a lot of senior Sailors come in to shoot sea stories. We had a Sailor come in who somehow tried to get a religious exemption to avoid the "jab", but because he is a special Rate(job assignment), he was slow-walked until DoD stopped caring(It happens, and I predicted it would). He's a Chief (senior enlisted, like a First/Master Sargent), and beside his stupid decision, he is the ideal Sailor. At this point, our Command Master Chief (highest senior enlisted, like a Sargent Major - I hope you are all learning something :)) comes in, and they start talking(luckily our Sailors aren't in the office). And then they say this: Command Master Chief: (After Chief jokes about getting all the shots except one)So, did you get Covid? Chief: No, did you? CMC: Yeah, it was no big deal.(He had two shots, like the rest of us.) Now normally, I get in their faces and become Instructor Kosh, but today I couldn't do it. I stormed out of my own office because I haven't wanted to knock out a Sailor this bad since I was a Sailor! This. This is what we're dealing with. I literally check my temperature and O2 levels twice a day(because of comorbidities) and test myself every other day(out of my own pocket)because I work with other people, I'm the only one who wears a mask outside my office(who didn't come back to work after having Covid), and yet I know I'll catch if from someone who doesn't give a fuck. Meanwhile, I'm keeping an AV safe until he lucks out. Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. Here is a quote and an explanation of all of Kosh. If you like Sci-Fi, may I suggest Babylon 5?

All right, this is OT, but I felt like sharing... I'm sitting here, and I felt like sharing this... I'm a retired military(I'm not fishing for "thank you for your service" statements... just stating it) government employee, and I noticed I see a lot of "living scared of living" B.S. crap. My thing is this: I'm a 50 yr old overweight former submariner, and I was trained on risk management, and that means for me mitigating risks... For me, that means buying multiple tests, and tests every two days out of my own pocket, and being the only person who still wears a mask every day (I'm a big guy, who's been there since I was Active Duty, so no one says anything about it)'; however, everyone who gets COVID-19 wears it after quarantining, now. The reason I'm writing this post is to answer that statement. I'm not not living scared; I'm living cautious. That's how I was trained. Make sure you know where your nearest fire extinguisher is(behind my chair in the game room), protect yourself, so you can protect others(tests ever other day, since I work with Public Relations)... For me, that's the same thing. The reason I'm writing this is to tell what I did today, and ask what others did today. I went out with the guys I work with to breakfast. We do this once a month(I am the only one who wears a mask(until I eat), but they never say a word about it.;). After that, I went home, drank a lot of Bailey's and Cognac, played Grim Dawn and drunk-screamed commands at Alexa(I finally broke down and downloaded it)... Not living in fear, I don't think. Thanks for reading this far... Please, tell me what you did, while living in fear... :) These are the three songs I screamed for(my favorites). Yes, I didn't realize the ironic aspect about the first song... I've loved Bad Religion since the 90's.