{"id":48348,"date":"2021-12-31T20:23:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T01:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48348"},"modified":"2021-12-31T20:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T01:23:59","slug":"a-kick-in-the-balls-at-the-buzzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48348","title":{"rendered":"A kick in the balls at the buzzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-48350 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_3668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_3668.jpg 560w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_3668-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If you\u2019ve never seen one of these before, no this is not a pregnancy test.\u00a0 God forbid, no.\u00a0 Mythical wife and I used those fancy tests that could actually run <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Doom<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> on them.\u00a0 Two kids was the plan and mission accomplished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No, this is a rapid COVID-19 test, and the two lines that are shown indicate a positive, yes you have coronavirus within your system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For all the caution, masking, distancing, isolating\u00a0 and other measures mythical wife and I have done over the last 22 months, it still made it into our home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To clarify, this is not my test, although considering someone in my household is registering a positive, it\u2019s safe to say that we\u2019re all exposed.\u00a0 I, or anyone else in my house can\u2019t really go get confirmed, because everyone in my area has gone bonkers and any testing sites are all slam packed not to mention it\u2019s New Years fucking Eve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m quite upset over the likely circumstances that brought this unfortunate development to light, but what\u2019s done is done and raging about it will accomplish nothing at all.\u00a0 But the result is still the same, and for the next week, maybe two, my household is going to be wonky, my wife and kids and myself will have to play spatial chess as we try to minimize together time so that those with symptoms avoid those without.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It upsets me that the world went from intelligent avoidance to eventual acceptance that everyone was inevitably going to contract coronavirus at some point, and in the case my home, it wasn\u2019t anyone here that went out of their way to get themselves exposed.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been doing our part to minimize exposure and stay safe, but unfortunately we can\u2019t monitor the world outside our doors and the activities that the people outside our doors are doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m just upset on varying levels and degrees right now.\u00a0 There\u2019s never any good time for anyone to get sick, but happening right on a holiday makes things a little bit harder and more inconvenient.\u00a0 There is no consolation in me being negative or asymptomatic, when my wife and one of my kids are ill and addled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">My daughter registered a fever of 103F. Ordinarily, that\u2019s a need to go to urgent care, but clinics and facilities all over are so overrun, that they do an assessment to see who\u2019s at the greatest risk of death to determine on whether or not they should go or.\u00a0 Seeing as how my daughter is acting fairly normal in spite of the temperatures, we\u2019ve been recommended to \u201cstick with what you\u2019re doing &#8211; at home\u201d instead of going to urgent care\u2014that\u2019s where the fuck we\u2019re at in this state of the world right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Life is already fucking difficult enough as it is, but to throw coronavirus on top of it, and I\u2019m just feeling defeated and owned and all sorts of dejected.\u00a0 Things will seemingly never get easier, and all I can really feel like is the endless need to endure and be patient, instead of thrive and enjoying life more than I am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s funny, because as I was finishing out my last post and ending it with how the book on 2021 was closing with that post, it was almost like tempting fate that something should occur with the one day we had left.\u00a0 And much like the title of this post is called, it really does feel like a kick in the balls, right at the buzzer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Happy fucking new year, everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-48349\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bobbynuts.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve never seen one of these before, no this is not a pregnancy test.\u00a0 God forbid, no.\u00a0 Mythical wife and I used those fancy tests that could actually run Doom on them.\u00a0 Two kids was the plan and mission accomplished. No, this is a rapid COVID-19 test, and the two lines that are shown &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A kick in the balls at the buzzer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,194,71,177,123,52,105],"class_list":["post-48348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-coronavirus","tag-famiry","tag-mythical","tag-new-years","tag-owned","tag-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48352,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48348\/revisions\/48352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}