Buffy ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Mmmm, Excelomancy.
Msbelle, the new job sounds challenging, in a good way!
DH arrived back in Florida this morning and is zooming towards mid state for the basketball finals. He's emotionally exhausted, but good. He was struck by the contrasts in Jamaica. The stunning natural beauty vs the horrific poverty. His friend's home is right on the ocean and covered in iron grates and big locks. We'll go back together to visit after things settle some to distract his extra mom.
FWIW, DH was asked at the Miami airport if he had been to China or Iran, but there was no other variety of screening.
Well, not as exciting as a spreadsheet, but I thought this was cute.
Those pictures are hilarious!
The stunning natural beauty vs the horrific poverty.
I realized that in my old job that worked in a lot of rural places around the world -- places that are not developed are often gorgeous to look at, but that means that the people living there don't have running water, etc., and there are no jobs.
. . . and ECCC is postponed. :-(
I'm hearing King County is pretty much WFH (for everyone who can, anyway), so that's probably unavoidable, but a bummer for sure.
They may have waited as long as they did hoping that state health officials would recommend/order that conventions be postponed or cancelled, so they wouldn't have to pay the penalty clauses on the convention center and hotel block bookings.
Mmm, that seems likely.
I also just heard that the soccer and XFL games are still scheduled, so my sense of inevitability is shaken
Yeah, I have a dance convention that's planned here for the weekend of Mar 21--I'm sure they don't want to cancel if the hotel is going to charge them and attendees demand their money back! But dancing is not exactly a low-contact activity!
Our assisted-living has had one event cancelled already -- going to be a bunch of high school art students coming over to draw resident portraits, which can be very nice, but evidently a couple of the kids at the high school went on a winter trip to Italy -- so while nobody has tested positive (yet) they're still exercising all caution with our vulnerable population.
Our company has given preemptive permission for folks to work from home and suddenly everyone is self-quarantining. ("Out of an overabundance of caution" roughly translates to "Out of a desire to avoid my commute for as long as I can get away with it")