Matthew and his mom and their dysfunction is going to drive me to drink or online gambling or something I don't know.

Someone keep me from treating my anxiety by buying all the things on the internet.

Just got an email from the mayor of our city. Long list of closings of course. This is still high season here so bunches of events and street fairs and such. The nice part was the list of 30 county schools that will be open for distribution of meals. That didn't surprise me since they do the same thing on normal school breaks. I love living in a blue county.

Apparently that surgeon is one of the best in several counties. What a stroke of luck!

Now THERE is a pun. My best wishes for your friend and his recovery. It can be a rough road and it's wonderful news that it is starting off so well.

My brother is finally getting medicated in jail! I hope the lack of access to meth and the medication will help.

I'll take heartbreaking statements for 800, Alex... You and your family have very much been in my thoughts. This is simply mindbending. It makes me think of Marvin Gaye and then I feel grateful that everyone survived. Hopefully the public attention has been dying down and you can all heal with some privacy.

In this corner of the world, television and film productions shut down one by one and now they all appear to have stopped. The law firm has a project I can work on at home if I get quarantined or our building gets shut down and, for now, I'm going into the office for my three days a week. I'm skipping morning rush hour (not that there is much of one anyway) and quiet midtown is a very spooky thing. Mom will be flying home on Sunday and it's not great, but it appears to be our best option.

At my house three are working from home and two of us are still going into empty offices on empty Metro North trains. Two of us have asthma and it's kicking in so we spend a lot of time saying "It's just asthma!" whenever we cough in public. One of my roommates picked up Scott tissue ("There was nothing else?" "It was cheaper!") and is being abused savagely for it.

askye and sj - can you both go color something?

I got more emails about Covid-19 at work yesterday than I did about my actual work. I have my laptop and can work from home. Again, still no cases here, but everything is shutting down. All the universities in town except for the art school are going to remote learning. A concert I was supposed to go to Thursday has been postponed.

I've managed to avoid most of the craziness at the grocery store. It turns out I might be a pasta hoarder? I have 7 or 8 different types in my cupboard. And I don't even eat that much pasta! The large farmer's market closed, but the one I go to was opened this morning, so hit there before 8 AM to get some potatoes and bacon.

I'm not sure where my coloring supplies are currently hiding. I really just need a quiet room for a bit, but I have to wait for TCG to get back.

We have spring break next week, and the position of the schools seems to be "we're not shutting down till there's a confirmed student or parent case." Which seems semi-reasonable until you realize they aren't forking testing anyone. It's amazing how many confirmed cases there aren't when you've only tested 30 people in the whole state.

I'm hoping someone gets their head out of their ass over the break.

My department head is totally freaking out, and keeps sending out emails about how we're now all soldiers in a war against an invisible enemy.

TCG said even the local bakery was picked over and packed with people. Not much bread left and no individual pizzas, which they always have a ton of.