As is usually the case in Oklahoma, the big local news story that month was the weather. We were hit with a decent – yet still overhyped – snowstorm in February that brought record-breaking cold temperatures, rolling blackouts, and made robins all across the state freak the hell out.
Like the 11 months before it, February was a pretty boring month for me. As one of the rare Oklahomans who treated the pre-vaccine pandemic very seriously, I spent most of the month hunkered down in my fortress of solitude recovering from the health issues that plagued me in January, anxiously awaiting for the vaccines to arrive so I could go back out in the world and get drunk with large groups of people again.
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