Sunday mornings are typically quieter here in Phoenix, but today, with traffic reduced because so many people are trying to self-isolate, it’s exceptionally quiet. It nearly feels like we are somewhere on vacation as the songs of the birds are heard from far and wide.

Breakfast on Sunday has been had at a restaurant for so long that it might be our one real food habit. Today, for the first time in countless years, we are at home enjoying a relatively peculiar breakfast of Nduja Rustica, which is a slightly spicy spreadable Calabrian sausage made of mangalitsa pig that cooks up like chorizo and to that, I added some leftover Sahlen’s Smokehouse Dogs from Buffalo, New York, and cooked it all together in scrambled eggs.

Now’s the time to start dreaming about our next vacations, and at the top of the list before we consider flying is a drive to the Oregon Coast, maybe including a swing through Yellowstone, too. Then, there are restaurants to visit to celebrate the freedom of choice after these quarantines come to an end. What will our first concert be?

My day was spent far from the news, working on preparations for publishing my book titled Stay In The Magic – A Voyage Into The Beauty Of The Grand Canyon here on my blog, the first time it’s been available electronically.

From there, I also worked on consolidating and subsequently deleting a couple of thousand images that had been hanging around since the early 1990s. I kept the important ones that were truly representative of our work back then in Frankfurt, Germany. The image above is from March 1993 and is the incomplete cover art for a record on Rising High Records out of London. Sadly, or maybe just whatever, things got tossed around, and sometimes files were corrupted, fonts lost, or software companies stopped supporting products that are more than 25 years old, so what happened to the complete cover with text is beyond my scope of knowledge. Of course, we could scan one of the old CDs or LPs, but it wouldn’t have the same quality as the digital copy. We had just gotten a copy of some software that I think was called ManneQuin, and with the help of Photoshop 2.5, CorelDraw 3.0, 3D Studio 3.0, and a lot of hash, we made stuff as we explored the world of 3D. Believe it or not, by this time, we had already been using either Turbo Silver or Imagine on the Commodore Amiga or 3D Studio 1 & 2 and then 3.0 for about three years.

That was pretty much day 8 of self-isolation, but of course, there was walking, though not as much as the previous days. Step count comes in at 16,424, giving me 141 active minutes to cover 7.6 miles or 12.4km. For the week ending today, I managed 127,673 steps, climbed 118 floors, and burned 27,712 calories, covering 59.4 miles or 96 kilometers. For my German readers, that’s Frankfurt to Marburg up north.