Author: rainleander

We’ve been doing this a whole week, Warriors. One week ago today the Dutch government decided to close down almost everything – schools, daycares, cafes, restaurants, sex clubs, cannabis cafes, saunas and sports clubs. I wrote about the latest nineteen in the Netherlands. It didn’t really seem real. We survived working with two partners and…

Something’s wrong with the bread maker and things aren’t rising quite as much as they used to and if that isn’t just a metaphor for the new reality, I don’t know what is.

We’ve abandoned our trip south as Spain and Italy lie in transit and the planes lie dormant in the hangar. This satire / sarcasm / alt-world section is REALLY difficult to write when The Cabin In The Woods is playing in the background. I think part of the reason why I’ve always found horror movies…

Dutch Lock Down Day Four “We’ve sold the house, the car, and all but the essentials and are moving to an undisclosed island on the equator to wait this out.”

All the other days I did this style report, I started out with a ‘joke’ report but, really, I can’t even. Here’s the State of the Leander Union Address, y’all. My partner and I are sharing my office while the three kids have a sort of schedule that includes some academic, creative, and outdoor time…

I haven’t seen my partner in seventeen hours. I think the natives voted him off the island. Or ate him.

Some of these points are media based. Some are via via. Some are personal. Take everything with a grain of salt. Or some other idiom.

the Netherlands didn’t have ANY known cases because that’s the cultural norm – if you’re sick in any way, you take paracetamol and wait at least ten days for symptoms to pass. THEN you go to the doctor.