I could start this blog by saying absolutely nothing has been happening, and while that’s true, as the title of this post implies, it’s also…not.

As I’m sure everyone everywhere has heard, there was a county jail break not quite 3 weeks ago and a convicted murderer escaped. That was close, but not that close to me. About 15 miles? But my county. Near Longwood Gardens. I pass by the jail and Longwood regularly. No big deal. Until he stole a van and camped out 5 minuted from my mother’s house and she was in the shelter-in-place zone. In fact, news media was live-streaming from the bottom of her hill. So, that was unsettling. And watching the coverage, I knew every road and hill and fun place they kept showing. But he was caught and life returned to normal. Sort of.

Wednesday night there was a horrific fire in my town. It took out almost an entire block of our Main Street. 90 people were displaced from their apartments above the small businesses. After burning for almost 20 hours (water was in short supply as fire ponds ran out and water was trucked in hourly), buildings were demolished to stop the spread. It’s completely heartbreaking. They think the fire started in the Dubarry warehouse and just spread. It’s all just gone. These aren’t my photos. All courtesy of the folks on the Oxford Facebook group.

Then last night 9 juveniles overtook 2 female guards at a detention facility in Morgantown, PA (15 miles the OTHER direction from my mom) and were running loose. They were all back in custody by 7am, but still. Come on PA… let’s fix all of this (the facility happens to have stuff like this happen often). 4 gave up because they were cold and tired kids. But still. 5 stole a truck and got in mini chase.

Then there is Nay. He’s still on vacation because, it turns out, steroids make him nuts. So, for everyone’s safety, he’s off until he’s off his steroids… We’re trying that now, but he got hives immediately.

Anyway, as you can tell, things have been pretty uneventful, boring, and not at all resembling any Dick Wolf TV show.