You may be wondering: it took you all day to clean your apartment? Yes, yes it did. This wasn’t just your typical Saturday afternoon tidy up. This was a deep, deep clean. I’m talking emptying out the fridge, scraping the inside of my oven with steel wool, washing my shower curtain - that kind of deep clean.

I can’t believe July is over. It feels like it’s only been a few weeks since there were first rumblings in my office of the possibility of working from home. It’s been over four months and the whole situation is just as surreal as day one.

It may appear that there isn’t much to this comic and you’d be absolutely right. They say you should start your car every so often so the battery doesn’t die. I usually go out at night and randomly fiddle through different radio stations to see what the world is up to.

After much pointless dithering, I finally jumped into the strange, strange world of online dating. I had been on the fence for a variety of reasons, but pragmatism won out: this was the only safe and responsible way to throw my hat in the dating ring. I’m sure the isolation didn’t help.

My first introduction to Hüsker Dü was their 1985 album Flip Your Wig. This was in college and at the time, a couple friends and I had a podcast called “The Wheelhouse” where we would recommend each other movies, albums, and other pieces of entertainment. The Minnesota band’s fourth LP was my friend Gus’s first recommendation for the show.