Schools in Washington State are closed through the remainder of this academic year–so my oldest won’t return to Kindergarten. Summer meetings are starting be cancelled. It’s… interesting? how the hive mind coalesces around certain goods (flour, seeds, baby chicks) and how rapidly they are all sold out and back-ordered. If you think of something you […]
For lots of complicated reasons today I masked up and went to the grocery store to do our own shopping–the first time in a month. I got there right at opening (assuming restocking was most likely to be completed then and the crowds the smallest). There were purchase limitations on some items and no stock […]
I’ve been working at home for a month. There’s at minimum another month ahead, and likely more… The Army set up a field hospital in Seattle? It is currently empty (as is the medical ship in New York, the latter due to bureaucracy rather than lack of need). In what seemed to me a surprisingly […]
Working all day at my makeshift standing desk gave me so much shoulder pain I had trouble sleeping last night :-/ Virtual Zoom backgrounds do make meetings nicer! We ordered hair clippers… sadly missed the rush and the best choices are already sold out. Washington’s Stay Home, Stay Healthy order has been extended now to […]
Well, this has been the first April Fool’s Day in years without a cavalcade of annoyances. I’m finally updating my laptop’s OS so I can belatedly get on the Zoom background train—if only to spare my coworkers constant views of our basement. California schools won’t be opening again this school year. Photographs from inside a […]