It calls for a bottle of hard cider instead of requiring yeast and no kneading. That's just about my expertise level with baking from scratch.

MA schools will now be closed until at least the first week of May.

MA schools will now be closed until at least the first week of May.

CA too. So...that's going to be interesting. On top of which, we don't know what's going to happen with any summer camps at the moment. So, it's just a wild frontier of no structure for Matilda right now.

msbelle, Matilda has offered her bed. She doesn't mind sleeping on the couch. But my body is adapting to sleeping on the couch (somewhat), so I'd rather not add another level of disruption. If my back starts hurting though I'll ask for a switch.

Spent an hour talking to the parent of one of Matilda's friends about how to finesse transfers and bad school assignments in SFUSD. It's going to be complicated and you have to play chicken with the school year willing to start at one place and pull out after a couple weeks to jump on an open slot. Just another massive stressor.

So, it's just a wild frontier of no structure for Matilda right now.

Same here for ltc. She's not very happy with the "evil virus". Best of luck figuring out the school situation for Matilda.

Laura hugs would be awesome right about now.

After this has passed there has to be some serious catching up on hugs!

I can't even imagine with the kids! All day I see lots of them coming and going to the park across the street. It is theoretically closed, but has about 10 outside parking spaces and lots of people come on bikes or golf carts. The few times I have left the house there have been far fewer cars, and a lot more kids on bikes or playing ball in the street.

I have some ear protection ear muff things that are used for construction work . I can't lay down comfortably in them and they make my ears sweaty after awhile. My computer headset does an ok job.

It's been a fairly chill day today. I'm on tap to make dinner and I kinda don't want to but I will but we just ate lunch 3 hour ago so I'm going to push dinner closer to my preferred time.

I saw photos of one local playground where they'd used yellow tape to close off the swings and other equipment. And people seemed to be out and about (not today - it's cold and gray and rainy) so one guy had a sound system on top of his car and was driving down near the parks and such where there were crowds and sending out his amplified message to go home.

I'm tentatively scheduled to be put On Call next week, and I'm about to have a conversation with my manager that essentially boils down to, "Do you want me to quit? Because that's how you get me to quit."

Good luck with that, shrift

I am trying knock off early because I worked late yesterday and I'm super tired but I can't stop checking my email just in case. Sigh.

My manager is on it, thankfully.