Karla Noyes' Captain's Log Series

 At 4:30 the other morning a frightful sore throat woke me up. "Oh no, here we go." Should I get up and gargle warm salt water? Since I know the problem with covid is the body's overreaction, I took my temp (no fever), a Tylenol and went back to bed. When we were up and about I told Kevin about my throat, and to keep his distance. He said, "You were snoring so loud last night I had to sleep in the other room!"  Thus the sore throat. When I began working at the Vet's Home last year one of the men in my office had an unusual hair cut. He was Puerto Rican with golden-brown skin, black eyes and thick, black hair. He said he spent over $100 on his haircut which was shaved 3/8 inches long on the sides and back with a patch of longer hair on top, carefully trimmed to a glossy, mounded pelt. I admired his commitment to the style (all it needed was glass eyes and a tail.) Then covid hit and salons were shut down, everybody's hair grew. I was jealous that I didn...