Cashmere, that's horrible, I'm so sorry for all of you! May your family get everything they need to heal.

My coworkers showed up at the ELI (Educause Learning Initiative) conference in Seattle this weekend only to be told it was canceled. We live in NC, so it was a bit of a hike for a conference that didn't happen.

Sunday my sister flew from Virginia to Denver for a conference only to find when she landed that it was cancelled. Getting home was kind of a nightmare, but she said she was just as glad not to have to sit for four days amongst people from everywhere and all their germs.

Travel~ma for your DH, Laura. Such a sad reason to go to a beautiful place.

Wow, Chris Matthews just quit on air.

I heard that he was "out" and wasn't surprised, then found out he basically flounced off ON AIR and... wow.

Talked to my cousin who lives in Virginia and works at Costco. She says everyone is flipping out over the Coronavirus, wearing masks and are lined up all the way to the back of the store buying up all the bottled water and toilet paper.

Where is she in VA? I was in a Food Lion in Charlottesville yesterday and everything seemed calm and normal. I was surprised, given how people here raid the stores when there's snow in the forecast.

A coworker just got back from Denver, where she'd gone with her husband who had a conference. Something to do with physics. Anyway, that conference has been canceled, too.

That was undoubtedly my sister's conference that got cancelled. AIP, American Institute of Physics.

I have a freelance editing job with API, American Petroleum Institute, and I keep getting the acronyms mixed up with AIP, for which my former-brother-in-law works.

Glad you and Leise and all are okay, Kate. I've finally heard from all my friends in Nashville and everyone's okay, thank goodness. Tornadoes are fucking terrifying.

Welp, my parent company just canceled all non-essential travel and now a whole bunch of people who had tacked ECCC plans onto their business trips don't have flights out to Seattle.

I finally saw on FB that my friend is OK (though a tree fell on their house!), thank god. Now I just have to plan to wait in line for 1-2 hours to vote on my way home -- several polling stations are affected, so four or five precincts are all being funneled into one community center to vote.

my parent company just canceled all non-essential travel

I'm worried about the assisted living where I work being quarantined -- haven't heard how that will affect me or the other 'outside' people, like do we move in for the duration? (There are empty units and cots, so this is a possible strategy for some.)

Am washing hands frequently.

I can share a little bit of good news: one of our residents, who happens to be a particular favorite of mine, is moving out to a regular apartment! She had been diagnosed with ataxia, and expected to be quadriplegic in a few short years, but it appears the ataxia was actually caused by a bad drug side effect, and now that it's cleared her system, she's getting some major function back -- maybe not to 100%, but enough that she can go back to living in a regular apartment, with a regular life span, et cetera.

but it appears the ataxia was actually caused by a bad drug side effect, and now that it's cleared her system, she's getting some major function back -- maybe not to 100%, but enough that she can go back to living in a regular apartment, with a regular life span, et cetera.

Great news!

I've gone and voted and feel like I'm on the other side of the cold now. Just a little headachey.

I've gone and voted and feel like I'm on the other side of the cold now. Just a little headachey.

Voting cures the common cold?!?

That's wonderful news for your resident, Theo.

I just sold a pair of shoes to a guy who is going to Vegas for a 10 day trade show tomorrow. So not everything is cancelled. Although I'm not sure how I would feel about going to a trade show during this.

Out big trade show (Housewares, which actually had a diifferent name this year before it was cancelled) is cancelled, but we had already opted out of it (not that I ever go, but I read those emails)