I appreciate the polite tone you your response.

I guess I am already here "We’ll get back to our obsessions with appearances for other people’s sakes soon enough — after we relearn how to enjoy being outside again without worrying about whether we’ll be one of the unlucky ones who catch a bad case of the pandemic curse — just by breathing."

I was never concern about getting sick from breathing outside without a mask.

I was not and rarely are outside with crowds. Last time was a funeral for a friend and we did wear masks. The other outdoor events I might have attended were cancelled. I have been double masking when inside places with people who might be infected. I just went back to a single mask but I am just 4 days from "full immunity" if the vaccine can be trusted.

Except for a few spot shortages this pandemic has been good for me. Only a couple people close to me got sick and only got minor symptoms. I got to work from home, I like that a lot and expect I will be able to continue working from home most of the time. I did not have to go on any business travel.

I rarely like getting on planes or staying in hotels no matter how nice. I do miss eating out a tiny bit but when I was not on travel I probably ate out once a month. My wife does not trust other peoples cooking, she worked in a restaurant, she thinks they are gross, she feels the same way about movie theaters.

The idea of eating food someone else might have touched and sitting in seats that other people just sat in, gives her the heebie jeebies.

Me, maybe I do need blinders because flab, grosses me out, I have to look away. I don't discount that some people couldn't do much about it no matter what and if someone doesn't care about their flab that is their choice. If they don't wear clothes that hide it because they are more comfortable letting it hang out, that is their right.

My post was just an appeal to make the world a prettier place. You response was appropriate, asking to give some people some slack and others a little more time, is fair. I was only trying to nudge not push. I am not about to fat shame any one person just the whole of society.

You say you are a practical shooter, are you a member of PPL or USPSA. I am more of a target shooter, I did compete in metallic silhouette shooting when I lived in California. Now I shoot bench rest rifles. My idea of a self-defense weapon is a pump shotgun with a long mag. I don't carry. I would in a crisis but not daily. I open carry in the wilderness, I have a hunting and fishing license. I have not killed an wild animal or fish in years but I still go fishing and walk the woods.

I never surfed but I did sailboard when I was in California and Florida. Well, I do have a couple boogie boards and have caught some good rides that way but I don't count that as surfing.

Does you name have a meaning? Is it a pseudonym? I use my real name it means "he of the hill people who honors God." If you throw in my middle name Edwin, it means "wealthy friend from the hill people who honors God."

There are many paths but only one God, God created all that is and will ever be.

I am not good with pronouns, mine must be he, him, his. God has no pronoun, God is God.

I am more of a technical writer (the kind that writes instructions for making complicated things) than a literary writer. I do fix things, I fix lots of things.

TEK