It's been nice re-opening the restaurant, mostly to regulars, but the bar thing feels like a huge mistake (and most of my bar friends, both owner/operator and low level employee, seem to agree) because it's one thing to regulate how people enjoy a meal and an entirely other thing to regulate how people enjoy an adult beverage (or two).


Seeing the Memorial Day Madness only further complicates my feelings on all this. I've found some dark humor in the rollout, though. For example, in restaurants customers can't have a drink without food on the table, and until bars are re-opened we haven't been allowed to open up bar seating, but once we are customers who sit at the bar ARE NOT allowed to have food, while customers at tables are STILL REQUIRED to have food.

It was bizarrely easy to forget Nebraska was run by a bunch of half-ass leaders doing a Maypole dance around the GOP for a few weeks, even easier to remember.

Otherwise, it's really strange being in the Midwest, in our usual economic/national crisis bubble, and yet more aware than ever that the coast's problems could come for us at ANY time. I can't tell if the summer weather makes it easier or harder to deal with all this than if we were transitioning into winter instead.


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