My last day of quarantine and the sun is shining and the birds are singing and I’m looking forward to going out and about. For the last two days I haven’t left the confines of the home and garden due to the news of someone being fined $1000 for venturing out whilst being in quarantine, however they did actually jump in their car and drop someone off.

I landed in Armidale NSW two weeks ago after my adventure flight from Shanghai and it seems such a long time ago, but surprisingly enough the past two weeks have gone very quickly and I haven’t really felt bored but more frustrated because I was not free to wander about. Having our freedom curtailed is certainly a problem for many people right now and they will just have to get used to it.

I guess most of us that look at Facebook see many tales of woe, sometimes something uplifting and often downright stupid and misleading. I saw a friend complaining about the internet being slow and that they could not get a hold of the ISP and they were thinking of changing as soon as they could. The problem here is not to much the ISP but the government infrastructure that the ISP’s use, there is just not enough bandwidth at the best of times in Australia and if most households are going to be on Youtube, Netflix or just the Freeview on demand services then it will eventually grind to a halt in places. So maybe we need to amuse ourselves in a non technical way, like reading a book, writing a blog/diary with a pen, talking to your neighbour across the fence maybe, but make sure you don’t get too close. What did we all do before the internet came along, before smart phones were common place? There is more to life than Facebook.

Now I know this is not easy for everyone to go outside because they not have a garden but if you do venture out to the shops, savour the moment and try to embrace the experience because none of this really wants to go through this wartime scenario again and maybe this might make a few people conscious of others that are already in a shit situation due to conflict, ill health or bad luck. So if your internet is slow, just fuckin’ deal with it and move on.

People are scared of change, scared of the unknown but there are a few out there that are seeing this as an opportunity rather than a disaster and if a few more people looked at it this way they may find themselves in a better place. Learn a new skill from that “BOOK” which you got from the internet. Write a bestseller and live off the proceeds. We all have a chance to learn something new here, to get back to basics, to appreciate what you have or for some what they have lost. If you are just going to complain rather than adapt you may as well just catch the virus and become a statistic and give us all peace and quiet.

So let’s all pray to the Deity the Great Green Arkleseizure to keep us safe because he is the only one that really “Nose” about this virus because as you may or may not know he is the creator of the universe, as claimed by adherents of the faith on planet Viltvodle VI because the Jatravartids of this faith believe that the Universe was sneezed out of the Great Green Arkleseizure’s nose.