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Discontinuing his Where Is The Idiot Today? blog after fastidiously posting over 2,500 daily items and photo(s) during the past seven years.

Love getting the latest issue of The New Yorker, with its insightful cover, on a rainy lockdown Monday morning in Northern California. Support first responders! Read more

FaceTiming with Lynne Taylor, a New York actress friend who contracted Coronavirus two weeks ago, is coming out the other end and talked about it in today’s New York Post. Read more

Wondering, as he walked by on a solo outing this week, why it’s considered essential that construction continue on this complex in downtown Redding during the pandemic crisis. Read more

Wondering, during his daily seven-mile solo walk, whether the one of the bald eaglets hatched in Redding, California, this week will actually be named Bigbelly. Read more

FaceTiming his walking daughter Sonia and her meditative dog Oreo on the French Riviera while he’s hiking in a similar field in Northern California. Read more

Finding a first class seat in the middle of a field during his seven mile daily escape-from-isolation-to-get-some-exercise walk in Redding, California.
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Continuing to stroll solo and practice social distancing while seeing the roses, smelling the lavender and not picking the poppies in Northern California. Read more

Watching a bird practice social distancing on the Sacramento River in Northern California while three fishermen in a boat do not. Read more

More attentive and admiring of natural and manmade art during his daily walks than before the existentially surreal Coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Taking a meditative breath and going for a walk to get a break from either isolating or spending hours with his 100-year-old mother. Read more

Doing an increasing number of things online, from 12-step meetings and Scrabble to Zen Buddhist meditation and today’s first live-streamed SilverSneakers exercise class. Read more

Posting an April 1st calendar update on The Idiot and The Odyssey website. Read more

Delivering essentials and non-essentials to two Helens in Redding, California. Read more

Reminded, after a Coronavirus cancellation in Las Vegas tonight, to always “Beware the Ides of March.”

Realizing that the only sane activity in Northern California during the Coronavirus pandemic is meditatively transpotting and being comforted that some trains still run on time. Read more

Warning visitors to keep a safe distance away from his 100.45-year-old mother during the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Scoring toilet paper on the black market in Northern California, where the commodity is sold out in many stores due to Coronavirus panic buying. Read more

Happy that his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea prevented him from panicking from the Coronavirus run on toilet paper that’s emptied store shelves. Read more

Looking forward to disposing of the opioid pain medication he was given following a recent surgery with his DisposeRX destruction kit. Read more

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