RamWire Mailbag: Finding Things to do at Home

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Hope your quarantine is treating you well. As well as a quarantine can.

With a wife who is in the high-risk category, a daughter who flew in from Maine after her college was shut down on Friday, we in the Brohard house have staked claim to our own portions and are practicing social distancing. Then a couple of times a day, I sanitize the house.

Gotta love the smell of bleach in the morning with your coffee.

I've now limited myself to watching the news once a day, because the constant stream of information was becoming overload. All of world's changed in a matter of 24 hours, and the bar continued to rise hour by hour last Friday. So, give me a recap of the day and I'm good.

To go with the times, I wanted to flip the mode this week, with me asking the question: How are you spending your time in quarantine?

As it turns out, a lot of television sets and computer screens are supplying comfort to the masses.

Now, some of those computer screens are spent doing work. I used to work from home, then had to settle in to office hours. Now I'm back working at home, and I have to admit, I miss the office.

Y'all are going back to favorite movies to watch again. Or taking in the Star Wars movies in succession, start to finish, though there seems to be some debate on the proper order. The Harry Potter marathons have no such debates.

Nor does The Office.

There are shows being binge-watched that I didn't know existed, and some I am sick of watching thanks to my family (Friends tops the chart).

I have found the past two nights on MLB Network the replaying of classic games. First, the Pine Tar Game with George Brett, then the Cubs-Phillies 23-22 slugfest from 1979.

I know what most of us wish we were doing: Watching March Madness.

Honestly, some people are searching to find the best tournament games of the past and rewatching them, just to get back to what would be normal right now. To calling in "sick" this first Thursday, or using the hide button on your computer so you didn't get caught watching.

There's the flip side of not having the tournament. You may be stuck at home, watching reruns of games, but your picks will be much better. Normally by Sunday, you're crossing teams off your bracket, knowing full well your chance of winning the office pool were eliminated by some guy named Ali Farokhmanesh who had the stones to hit a transition 3 against No. 1 Kansas with 30 seconds remaining on the shot clock.

Has it been 10 years already?

I'm also pleased to report items called books are being picked up, dusted off and given a second chance. And some folks are, believe it or not, practicing social-media distancing. Again, information overload is not always a good thing.

You're already stuck inside. With your thoughts. That can be scary enough.

So take up a new hobby, like senior track athlete Michelle Gould.

"Picked up painting on canvas and baking! Going to be doing a lot of home working out as well," she said.

I'll be interested to see what she's painting, and it can't be bad being quarantined with someone who is filling the house with the aromas of fresh-baked goods.

I did get one question submitted: Would CSU end up closing everything? Including all the buildings and stadiums used for academics and athletics so nobody can work?

I just can't answer this question with a yes or no – none of these types of questions come with certainty at this point.

As we've found, just about anything is on the table right now, as local, state and federal government decisions keep reshaping what the public thinks is happening. I do know currently there are a few research projects being done on campus that can't be terminated, so they will go on.

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