It feels like a day is a week. And a week is a month and a month is a year. If this lasts a year will it feel like what, a decade?
“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”
Hi and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 17 of the Second Season’s My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment, on March 26th in the spring of 2020 here in California.
Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year
S2 E16 — Scroll to the Bottom for Foresight and Quality-of-Life, Right Leo?; S2 E15 — Behaving Badly, Why Big Sur made “Fodor’s Travel NO List”; S2 E14 — Reading Tea Leaves Bottled and Set Adrift;
Related from Season One, the Normal Year
S1 E17 — Day 17 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E16 — Day 16 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E15 — Day 15 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E14 — Day 14 of My 1-Year Experiment;
“5” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “You’ll be watching out for yourself, loved ones, colleagues and everyone around you, even total strangers.” Leo
Evidence
Zoomed snapshot updates, first from Colorado, and then a roundup from Southern California.
From their mountain home in Dillon, Colorado — the Boomer couple report that the Summit County Mountain resorts are shut, tourists were sent home, boutique stores closed and it recently snowed — yay for them.
From a studio apartment off of 2nd street in Belmont Shores (Long Beach, California) — social marketing manager and flight attendant report he’s working remotely from home, she’s on unpaid furlough with options to return, but had been harboring mixed emotions considering that passengers wore masks and the attendants weren’t allowed to, yay for him hopefully the airlines will change their policy.
Moving south, as if you could.
From their Huntington Beach home in Orange County — stay-at-home mom and firefighter raising year old boy, he’s concerned about being second responder and maybe being a virus carrier without knowing it and bringing it home, one or two cases have popped up in the Los Angeles district at large. The district set up trailers for potential quarantined facilities away from the stations and from families
This from widowed OK Boomer in Irvine, California — his fiancé, like Dillon sister-in-law suffered from migraines for the last two or three days so he’s been holed up, except for a trip to his local Costco to fill up his gas tank. He reports something out of the ordinary when he noticed the tight bundle of vehicles parked right in front of the big box store unusual for the time of day before opening.
Reporting from their South Orange County two bedroom apartment in San Juan Capistrano — couple newly moved in together with Moe, her dog. He’s been working remotely for a couple of years now as senior product manager for online advertising firm who like his Belmont Shores brother has seen their online consumer business pick up while other walk-in businesses have dropped. She’s been laid off at the non-profit Harbor museum as staff was cut back to only those who care and feed the sea creatures in the aquarium, while her school class visitor training suffered from the school closing ripple-effect. She’s waiting to hear if she’s been accepted from UCI for to earn her teaching credential.
And, not quite in San Diego proper, but North County, San Diego — suburban family with second child due in two weeks, husband home earlier than expected because of a Coronavirus-19 case reported in his office building, looking forward to the help from OK Boomer driving the hour (no freeway traffic) trip to baby-sit number one grandchild while mom and dad (if allowed) are at the hospital. Dad’s commercial real estate hotels and office building owners are freaked out about their business and meeting Dad’s loan payments.
Wow, is our Holiday Tau for Zahn, Winkler, Emma the Baroness and me more about the absence of physical connections? Sign of the times?
“4” Steve Zahn, 51: “You hear the song and then miss someone who doesn’t even exist. That’s the power of art, of music and of your own capacity to connect.” Scorpio
Random ones that make me want change my sign.
Hold on there, mister Patron Saint. What if up until this time they couldn’t do what the wanted to do, but now can? And if what the want to do is share interesting and challenging experiences?
“3” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “Those who only do what they want to do are limited indeed. Most of the good stuff comes from doing what’s right, helpful, challenging, interesting, gutsy.” Aries
Like what we’re wanting — physical, touching — those kinds of relationships? Do Zoom meeting count for gathering intelligence?
“3” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69: “Knowing what someone values is like having the keys to their kingdom. Good relationships involve good intel.” Taurus
So far I have to say your Holiday Tau carries the most wisdom so far. Fake news, fake certainty, fake everything is not fake scary.
“5” Steve Smith, 30: “Humans crave certainty. Where none is available, fake certainty will do.” Gemini
Guys, your Holiday Tau feels like the antidote fo Smiths scary uncertainty.
“5” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “You’ll be watching out for yourself, loved ones, colleagues and everyone around you, even total strangers.” Leo
Hmm. Hi Coach Kerr. I want to agree, but right now I’m not sure if I regret doing something today. This does seem like stellar Tau.
“5” Steve Kerr, 54: “You’ll see moments, wonder about how things might have worked if you’d have done it differently, and get golden insight and ideas for going forward.” Libra
Okay, look this is a TauBit of Wisdom I’d expect from Mr. Jobs, right? If you don’t reverse engineer your success you won’t institutionalize the reinvention process as a core success process — an insight I’m working on for “Volume Two — Work” manuscript.
“5” Steve Aoki, 41: “Sometimes you can reverse-engineer a thing that’s working well to duplicate the success. Sometimes you can’t. Try anyway because the alternative is to start from ground zero.” Sagittarius
What’s Going On …
Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll
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- @knowlabs followers or one or more of my 35 digital magazines jumped from 1407 to 1452.
Foresight
Quality-of-Life
Long-Form
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- “The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World” by Marti Olsen Laney
- An Introvert’s Guide to Finding Success in Web Design
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate
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