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When the quarantine started, one of the guys decided we'd have a meeting with all of us, in Zoom. This is my group of friends from high school, and some of the wives. It's been weekly. They do it early enough that sometimes supper gets in the way, and I'm not in a big hurry to join. One week I was late because the kitchen sink was clogged, and I had to take it apart.
One week I decided to scan all my photos of the group from years ago. Mostly in the 90's. So I shared them through Zoom, and everybody loved them. The next week I had just a few more. Then someone decided maybe she had some photos on her computer that she could share. So she started taking us through her photos from her phone. And she couldn't find the ones she really wanted to show us. And there were technical difficulties. And then another one of the guys showed us photos of his family's trip to the Badlands, which was not quite as boring as the slide show just prior. The night was so boring! I did not join the call the following week. I told them we were going to celebrate Cindy's birthday, but that was only partially true. (Her birthday was on Tuesday, but I thought it would be good to celebrate on a Saturday, which we sorta did, but it didn't really take all day.)
But I was back on the call this week, and it was fine. One of the things we always talk a lot about is the COVID. But there's only so much you can say about that. We'll see how I feel about next week's meeting. These are guys I usually only see a couple of times a year (some of them see each other more often). There were six of us tonight. We were down one, since someone's dad just died. Tonight's call was kinda quiet. People have gotten used to the format. You can't be too talkative because you might talk over someone, so we are generally polite that way.
One week I decided to scan all my photos of the group from years ago. Mostly in the 90's. So I shared them through Zoom, and everybody loved them. The next week I had just a few more. Then someone decided maybe she had some photos on her computer that she could share. So she started taking us through her photos from her phone. And she couldn't find the ones she really wanted to show us. And there were technical difficulties. And then another one of the guys showed us photos of his family's trip to the Badlands, which was not quite as boring as the slide show just prior. The night was so boring! I did not join the call the following week. I told them we were going to celebrate Cindy's birthday, but that was only partially true. (Her birthday was on Tuesday, but I thought it would be good to celebrate on a Saturday, which we sorta did, but it didn't really take all day.)
But I was back on the call this week, and it was fine. One of the things we always talk a lot about is the COVID. But there's only so much you can say about that. We'll see how I feel about next week's meeting. These are guys I usually only see a couple of times a year (some of them see each other more often). There were six of us tonight. We were down one, since someone's dad just died. Tonight's call was kinda quiet. People have gotten used to the format. You can't be too talkative because you might talk over someone, so we are generally polite that way.
