After catching up on hugs with my family, play basketball and travel.
See my students.
Get some of my deeply fractured sanity back – even a little bit would be so, so welcome.
I was supposed to see Letterkenny Live in March (and the venue still has my money!) so I am planning on the tour resuming when we get outta this mess.
Then…baseball at the stadium. And city council meetings in person where I get to kvetch with the other city people and maybe go out for a burger after.
See my daughter, who is rapped in New York.
Biggest change in my life has been that my wife lost her job a few months ago. I’m still doing pretty much everything I was doing before the pandemic came along.
Travel. Fly on an aircraft without a mask, pass through airports without a mask, ride in a taxi without a mask.
I want to get to Toronto, and possibly see the Blue Jays play, hit Woodbine, and catch up with some old friends. I’ll rent a car, and go to see some old friends who live outside the city, as well.
I want to get to Las Vegas, and play around a crowded crap table. Play horses in the race book. See some shows, visit downtown, hit the Pinball Hall of Fame, and hang out by the hotel pool.
Masks are necessary right now. But there will come a day when they’re not. I’m looking forward to that day.
Eat a good cheeseburger.
Visit my very elderly dad. Usually see him every few months, but haven’t seen him since February. Same goes for my MIL in Japan, whom we haven’t seen since last fall.
Travel.
Donate blood.
Go to stores. We’ve been getting virtually everything delivered, and I miss the mental stimulation of browsing aisles of goods. Not fashions at the mall…just plain old groceries and hardware, ya know?
SKI!!
That was all I wanted to post but it seems the software won’t let me.
Hugs and close personal contact I’m more than happy to do without but getting out into the mountains with minimal restrictions would be great.
Go to morning minyan at synagogue again.
Sit at the bar until last call.
Meet my granddaughter in Florida.
Spend a couple of weeks in St Martin/Sint Maarten.
Travel, by air and by car. (at least one trip to see my daughter in CA) Staying in nice hotels and eating in new and interesting restaurants.
A massage.
A night of blackjack and drinking at a casino.
Travel. Once I get my shot, and things open up again. I’ve been banking money , so this is the plan: Star Alliance Around the World trip (I usually do three days in a city, so this can be done in around three weeks. YOW LON /-PAR BER TYO SEL SYD CHI WAS YOW. Already started planning 
Travel for sure. Istanbul and London are both calling to me to return. As is Tel Aviv. And so many other cities I love.
I also want to go to a Mets game (probably to watch them lose) with my wife and eat a hot dog and drink a coke and scream at the so-called relief pitcher.
Most of all I want to sit down in a restaurant. Any kind. All kinds. I want to walk around NYC like usual and when I feel like it, stop in a diner and have a toasted English muffin and coffee. Or grab a slice and a root beer.
Sometimes I watch TV shows or movies from the before times and think “will we ever get that back again? Ever?”
I want to have a leisurely dinner at a sushi bar. I want to get on an airplane and fly someplace new and interesting, or heck, someplace familiar and reassuring where I’ve been before. I don’t care.
I want to go to a hockey game and to my gym.
I want to go in to my office and work at my desk and talk to people face to face again. Zoom is not doing it for me.
I’d managed to master the trick of getting a bad cold every darn time I flew, and even before the pandemic I wore a paper mask at the airport and on the plane. I’ll probably keep doing that going forward. And really, I find a mask on the plane quite comfortable as you don’t dehydrate so badly on a long flight.
Visit my grandkids. The last time I saw my granddaughter was last Christmas when she was about a month old. My new grandson was 3 weeks old (different parents, not a way long labor) but we saw him a few months ago when they visited.
Resume my walks in San Francisco.
Go to the library. We can order and pick up books, but it isn’t the same as browsing.
After I catch up on hugs, I want to travel to visit my grandchildren, and travel for leisure. Meet friends for dinner, and do all the things I miss doing in NYC. I retired in mid 2019 and only managed 2 leisure trips before the pandemic hit.
My family celebrates birthdays and holidays by going to a fancy restaurant in normal times. I miss that a lot. We did a Zoom Thanksgiving and it was pretty cool. (I got a bottle of wine and a pizza, lol) Much better when we got together though.
Me too. Every birthday I used to eat out at Ruth’s Chris steakhouse. I really miss going out for a good steak.
I’m looking forward to eating french fries that came directly from the kitchen fryer to my plate, no car rides or styrofoam containers inbetween.
Get a haircut from a real barber.