Just had my first Zoom meeting with my new writers group! So nice to see faces, and we added a work session in while we were on, which was also productive. So that's a nice new thing to come out of this.

You can also share documents, if you want to ... doesn't always work as well as you might like (last time, the document by boss was sharing showed up as a 1" x 2" inset in the upper corner of the screen), but it's possible. Or so they say ....

Toddson, once I get a link to out training I will share. It is probably your or their settings!

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.

Since the stuff that can break the lipids in the virus molecule tends to break down oils in general that would be quite a feat.

Now I'm wondering about a sonic solution. Using the natural frequency of an element of the molecule? Although chances are good that important parts of the body would have the same natural frequency.

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.

Purell makes one (or used to), but it was AWFUL. We had it in the office less than 24 hours before everyone complained very loudly to facilities. The texture was incredibly offputting.

Didn't see if anyone else posted this, but javachik has been posting on FB. She's in the middle of a cross-country move, which is obviously not ideal, but otherwise fine.

One nice thing this week... my brother contacted me and we've been messaging back and forth. We've always gotten along, but he's not good about communicating so this is a nice change. He's a social guy so staying in is challenging for him. He and my nephew are working from home now and his SO (who is a nurse) in on as-needed status. I suspect she's embracing the isolation while she can.

I thought of the sanitizer thing after an appointment where a woman was complaining about how drying it was and saying that, by the time THIS crisis ends, we'll all have infections in our cracked hands.

Ha! I tempered my hands in turpentine and linseed oil long ago; the increase in handwashing frequency actually seems to be improving the skin on them.

I am allergic to the hand sanitizer and the new soap at work. So my hands are fin, but I am a sneezy, Ronny nose mess. I think I have to buy soap and bring it in.