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May 22 3:06 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 68: The old rustic Barn gets a tiki bar makeover with rum drinks

Tim Grobaty

My latest assignment was learning how to make tiki drinks. For once, I nailed it.

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May 21 3:07 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 67: Ink before you leap into calligraphy

Tim Grobaty

I jumped from practice mode to pro level, a rapid leap demanded by my deadline and my self-imposed rule to not dawdle all day on these projects but rather to hurry up and become an expert in the given area by, say, noon.

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May 20 3:32 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 66: Got a minute? Like my TikTok video

Tim Grobaty

The video basically detailed what I’m doing at home to kill COVID time. So it’s a little light on content and semi-heavy on effects. That’s a perfect description of TikTok.

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May 19 4:17 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 65: First rule of painting by numbers—ignore the numbers

Tim Grobaty

Don’t let numbers push you around. Be your own painting boss. Step on the snake’s head. Paint free or die.

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May 18 3:01 pm
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Quarantine Chronicles Day 64: It’s three for Tuesday on KVID-19 Radio

Tim Grobaty

With immediately likable vocals and melodies and some great guitar work, the oxymoronically titled “Simple Math” goes into my Georgia-rock Hall of Fame.

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May 17 3:49 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 63: Learning Spanish during downtime—como se dice ‘I need help’?

Tim Grobaty

Many of us had our first Spanish lesson at the then-new Taco Bells, which began popping up in the mid-1960s with their helpful pronunciation guides on their menus: Buh-REE-Toe, Toe-STAH-da, and the tongue-twister TAH-co.

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May 16 2:53 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 62: Yoga adventures with the Headless Dog

Tim Grobaty

Maybe if I practiced this for a few months I’d get good at it, too. I might almost paralyze myself. I’m going to err on the side of caution.

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May 15 3:03 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 61: ‘Baking Bad’—mistakes were made

Tim Grobaty

It was delicious in its own mutant, blunder-riddled way. Ah, the sweet taste of failure!

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May 14 3:34 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 60: A bread recipe you can’t mess up? Here, hold my beer

Tim Grobaty

Active yeast, excited gluten. I was throwing a Gymboree party for fungus and wheat.

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May 13 4:09 pm
  • Tim Grobaty

Quarantine Chronicles Day 59: Ideas? I don’t know, they just come to me

Tim Grobaty

Every morning my phone alerts me to the fact that I have no scheduled events today. The last scheduled event I had was on St. Patrick’s Day and that turned out to be just another early casualty to COVID.

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