Happy anniversary, Laura and Brendon!

[Edit: happy day-after-anniversary! Foiled by Daylight Savings Time by half an hour!]

Thanks for the upduate about amyth upthread. I've been wondering, too.

Has anybody heard an update from javachik, as well?

askye and Maria's family and everybody else whose income is infected so badly (on top of everything else) - I hope things are going to be not-as-bad-as-it-seems-right-now. I wish I had a better wish, but I wanted to stay realistic.

Kate, good luck with the fixing of the sink! How frustrating (and yet, on some way, it was comforting to read, from my no-sinks-falling side of the world, about such a 'regular times' problem).

billytea, congratulations for Ryan! They're lucky to have him.

Hec, fingers crossed for Matilda (and her friends) for the best possible outcome.

Lots of ~ma to all of you. All possible sorts of ~ma.

And with that, I'm off to film (is that the correct verb?) myself teaching, to send to my students.

(It's funny - the students now see me for hours without the mask on my face, when I teach in front of the camera in the quarantined room, while my family haven't, for a week-and-a-half now. Other than when we talk on Whatsapp and when I installed zoom and they helped me make sure I can be seen and heard. Pi++Girl actually sat and listened to a couple of minutes from a lesson I've uploaded to youtube, not understanding a word, of course, just for that very reason.)

I've had insomnia from pain before (mostly low-level chronic) but this is the first time I woke up because of a piercing ITCH on my back. Resting, it feels like it should be one tiny point somewhere near the point of my shoulder bone, but scratching merely puts it to sleep for a few moments.

Screw this. So I'm up for what looks like good.

Oh, Theo. I hope things get better soon, either asleep or awake.

Tries to virtually scratch Theodosia's back...

I slept in this morning until nearly 8. Yikes! I never do that. DH had fed the cats, otherwise they would have been nibbling on my toes.

Had a relaxing evening at home. The kids and DH devoured the corned beef, cabbage, and baby potatoes. Then I decided I should have dessert, when I never have that kind of stuff around. Settled on cool whip and black raspberries, which was super tasty.

And with that, I'm off to film (is that the correct verb?)

Yes, it is. It is such a help to have the technology to still connect with our families while in quarantine. And do our jobs!

I'm hoping that the use of tech to keep so many at home helps to get this spread under control. If it helps to keep it from exploding, as we all expect it will, I will happily roll my eyes at all those who claimed we overreacted.

Local supermarkets are trying to enact a dedicated shopping hour first thing in the morning for the elderly and disabled

My local Stop and Shop is doing this as well.

I just placed a Whole Foods delivery order. Friday night was the earliest delivery.

I'm in the office because I can't get internet access at home. I have been productive - a couple of people didn't get their office phones forwarded to their cell phones, so I could take care of that. LOTS of phone calls from people with questions who didn't know who to ask (so the phone directory didn't help); I could tell them to email the people they needed to contact. I also collected the mail (left at the front door); I'm supposed to look for incoming checks, but so far there haven't been any.

It's really quiet and, surprisingly, warm in the office; it's usually chilly. Annoyingly, our motion-activated lights keep going out because I don't move enough to keep them on. Luckily, the sun's out, so I'm basically OK.

I definitely need to be in on Friday - I have THREE Zoom meetings scheduled.

Meanwhile, in more positive news, Ryan will be in high school next year. I just got a call from them yesterday - he's been awarded a scholarship! 25% of the school fees. (It's a private school, run by Lutherans.) He's pretty thrilled. We're pretty happy about it too.

Great news! That whole Buffista cohort is going to high school next year or the year after.

My family is so far healthy except for the anxiety that this is causing. Matthew's mom still is mad the hospital here is going to be used for Covid-19 patients. She keeps saying that people are going to go visit them and then get infected and go to stores and we are all going to get it. I didn't remind her everyone will be in quarantine and can't have visitors but I did point out it's probably already here and I work in a store so I've been dragging germs home for weeks.

Her facebook friends tend to spread misinformation (not realizing it's misinformation) so she is also not even sure why they are setting up hospitals "they say on FB if it gets in your lungs you're dead. No point in even going to the hospital"

It occurred to me - one way someone could probably make some serious money - ethically - would be to develop something that would sanitize your hands without drying them out. A moisturizing sanitizer or sanitizing moisturizer.