It was the summer of 1968,  and I was still 17.   Somehow my father pulled strings and got me a summer job with a real paycheck at a tire, battery, and automotive parts warehouse in Phoenix. The work was physical labor;  pulling items from the warehouse and boxing them up for shipping to service stations.   Every two weeks a boxcar full of auto tires would be parked on a rail siding outside the warehouse,  and a team of 3 of us would unload the boxcar of around two thousand tires.   It would take us half a day in the Phoenix heat.     I learned that I actually LIKED physical labor,  and after working in an office environment after college .... I would think of the advantages of not being tethered to a desk, along with the office politics.    I still think that sedentary work is not what humans were evolved to deal with.   I figure that maybe half of the work-week should be physical labor, and the other half should be sitting at a desk.    But that's just me.

To my thinking, Green Valley restaurants have not made the effort they could or should to carry on through the Pandemic.  In spite of having 4 covid shots, I got the illness and I don’t want it again so I don’t eat indoors in restaurants.  In my primary home town, San Francisco, most restaurants have created outdoor dining spaces that are very popular.  The weather in Green Valley, at least October to April, is even better and most restaurants have room to do it, but only a couple of fast food places (McDonald’s, Burger King) have.  Hence, I have all but stopped dining out in Green Valley which I find regrettable.