Pubs closed

The coronavirus panic has finally become rampant even here, and on Friday evening all pubs were forced to close and stay closed until further notice.

But maybe it's a blessing in disguise for me. As an extreme night owl, all I can do after a day shift is have a night cap and go to sleep. Trouble is, for several weeks now the night cap used to be three or four pints in my favourite pub. And I would go there even at the weekend, out of pure force of habit. Unable to go there now though, maybe I'll be able to do with a beer can in my digs, and consequently spend more time awake after.

Diminishing, maybe nearly eliminating the various backlogs that I have in the meantime barely managed to keep from overwhelming me, like reading the articles I've bookmarked, processing the books I've read (in the pub), and catching up with what I wanted to write in this very blog.

In fact, on Saturday night I found myself even enjoying not having gone to the pub and sitting at my laptop instead.