Solitaire… Comms from Hanx
OR,
JustHanx being a fucking sob pompous ass?
BTW: The replies to the WSJ article tweet are pretty good
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1373439251149373448
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ
Tom Hanks on lessons of the pandemic year: “Our time is limited and finite. In the accumulated minutes I wasted, what didn’t I do instead?”
Tom Hanks on the Pandemic Year: Never Play Solitaire Again
The virus has taught us that life and health are precarious and we must not squander precious time. wsj.com
9:00 PM · Mar 20, 2021
from article:
By Tom Hanks
Updated March 19, 2021 8:54 pm ET
If in the past year you played solitaire, even a single game, you wasted that time. Take it from me: I played many hands of the game and have nothing to show for the effort. Granted, I had no Zoom schooling sessions to enforce, no children to parent, no job to perform remotely. I did work, but at a studio with strictly enforced Covid-19 protocols, along with a large crew who had all been bubbled for the duration of the pandemic.
During a time of lockdowns, quarantines and social distancing, solitaire seemed like a harmless enterprise, a salve for the mind and the hands, a safety valve that meant having something to do. The deck of cards was right there on the table, and, without thinking, my hands would take up that file of 52 to riff and shuffle and cut. A game would be dealt—to myself, by myself—in a line of seven cards with a growing pile of face-downs. The cards in my hand were revealed in threes, and the blacks were played on the reds, and so on, and an hour or so would pass. I would play more solitaire later in the day or the next morning…
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tom-hanks-on-the-pandemic-year-never-play-solitaire-again-11616075968?mod=e2tw