by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
A famous Twilight Episode involves a man who loves to read. It gets him in trouble at the bank he works at. Then the End Of The World comes and he realizes he has “all the time the world” to read — until he breaks his glasses.
I keep thinking about this as I sit here with a badly broken ankle in a cast for the next few weeks. I’m keeping a close eye on his the situation between Russia and Ukraine as well as the the various variants of COVID19. The thing I’m worried about is the apocalypse may happen and I’ll be stuck with a limited ability to move around.
I’m being extremely paranoid, but for the time being at my most vulnerable. I can just see the possibility that things might grow existential and I’ll be in a real pickle. But, again, I think that abstract fear has more to do with my love of scenarios than anything else.
It’s just very easy to run the scenario where somehow I have to survive a post-apocalypse hellscape with a cast I can’t get taken off because the technology to do so doesn’t exist anymore.
