New Shoes in the Rain

Hey, it's Friday, everyone!  If you're among the majority of folks who don't have to work on the weekends, good for you, we've almost made it to a couple of well-deserved days off! My wife and I bought a new car last weekend.  This is significant for a number of reasons, the primary one being that the last time we did this was almost fourteen years ago!  The other reason is one I'll explain below. As I've noted here, I work in a healthcare sales position and have responsibility for a pretty large geographic territory.  During the worst of the initial COVID-related lockdowns and limitations, this job became a work-from-home gig, which was OK with me, as I'd done that before.  My counterparts and I have been asked since sometime in the summer of 2020 to begin getting out to see active and prospective clients a day per week, then two, then three, and now back to our original model of four days per week in the field.  Complicating matters is that many of the ac...

Happy Monday, er, Tuesday, everyone.  This is always confusing for me following a Monday holiday, but I made it worse by taking last Friday off as well.  Despite today's uncertainty, I enjoyed my long weekend, and hope you had the opportunity to do so as well. One group that we can probably rest assured didn't get extra time off is our medical personnel.  I live in Kentucky, as mentioned here repeatedly, and it seems we're now on the list of states "of concern" to public health officials at the national level.  Why?  Because we have too few of our citizens vaccinated against COVID-19 and therefore our hospitals and emergency rooms are overrun with COVID cases of varying severity. Kentucky is one of the states where a significant portion of persons have continued living their lives pretty much as they always have, without masks or social distancing or avoiding congregant settings.  So it isn't hard to understand why these circumstances are converging so rapi...