Matt, that place looks great!

I'm sorry about your aunts, Scrappy.

My sister and I are getting so frustrated at our parents.

Yeah, my mother went back to the grocery store this morning and was going to invite a friend over tomorrow! Duuuuuude.

In other news, I'm listening to an episode of Thirst Aid Kit, and they are doing a segment on hands, and I can't believe I can't talk about this with ita.

I'm hoping once we get into a new schedule things will get better, but ltc hates changes in her normal schedule. So everything is currently a fight or whining, even the fun things. We have an apple cake in the oven.

Aaaand the condo is already under contract with a prospective buyer as of this morning.

Ah well, it was way sooner than I was prepared to move on buying a home; I haven't even been pre-approved yet. And that unit has sold twice in the last 3 years, so it or one of its sisters might be on the market by the time I'd intended to be buying.

So they are shutting us down to the public but since we are a county entity, they will not pay us so far. There are some meetings happening that may allow us to not have to exhaust our benefits (vacation & comp ONLY--NO SICK LEAVE) during the shut down. Ugh.

I'm in a better spot than most but some (read: most) people in libraries have very few benefits or leave to burn.

If the county doesn't come through, we could lose people just by being shut down.

Ugh. Ohio wants to delay their primary and I don't want that to happen. I didn't early vote and fear mine being delayed too. Mostly I fear a precedent for November.

Ohio wants to delay their primary

I don't think it's "wants to"; I think it's "is going to", because the primary was supposed to be tomorrow. It's being moved to June 2.

Yeah mine is tomorrow too. They sent an email looking for last minute poll workers. I expect from cancellations.

There needs to be a plan for how all of these businesses that are being told to close are going to survive. We are working through a spreadsheet of all of our creditors right now and going through one at a time and asking if they have any relief for businesses impacted by Covid-19. So far Ford Credit is the one that seems to have a path for relief and I'll hopefully have a call back later today from them confirming that.

My insurance companies? Yeah, they flat out stated we offer no relief on the premiums at this time. Of course they don't.

Also reaching out to the SBA and other places to get more information.

If there is not a real effort to save businesses, we are going to move directly from Pandemic to Economic Depression.

Bay Area folks, this looks like as close to "total shutdown" as we're going to get, effective tonight/tomorrow: [link]

I deeply resented how much the W. Administration made me feel like a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Now I deeply resent how much this administration makes me feel like a walk-on character (not even a protagonist) of a Mira Grant novel.

I think it all just caught up to me, all of a sudden. My entire existence seems to be "I don't know" at the moment, and that is harder for me than a known problem. I don't know exactly how many hours I'm going to get over the next two weeks (possibly around 25 per week? does that make me in/eligible for unemployment or not?), I don't know why I suddenly have a throbbing headache and am exhausted (I slept all night, even late, but it could be anxiety?), and I have a nasty dry cough that I think is probably just my allergies/sinus, but how am I supposed to know for sure? I don't know if my landlord (a realty firm that owns literally 80% of the rental properties in town) is going to be understanding about finances (they're usually...not).

I'm grateful the bakery is going to stay open, but I'm also a little anxious now about dealing with the public. The bakery is right next to the bus station in town, so we get people from all over, including Philly, all the time.

Which is all just another way to say I am, as always, very grateful for this online home and family.