I'm glad regions are getting together to plan recovery and all that, but I actually find it kind of stressful, because Texas sucks? Like, my life is being held hostage by a governor who chastised the state for only buying the second highest number of guns in the U.S. and a lieutenant governor who said grandparents should just get COVID and die for their grandkids.

I wish I could say things were better in Florida, but we are stuck with a Trump wannabee governor until the 2022 election. His ads during the election included his toddler child "building a wall".

Shir, are sky and water plural in Hebrew? In English we can say "the skies" and "the waters" but the meaning is a little different. Language is fascinating.

They are! No singular version for sky or water. News has a singular version - and it's "new". And by that I mean that's the literal translation of the singular form. It took me years to remember that even though it ends with an s and the (supposed) singular is new (as in Hebrew), it's still a singular. C'mon, language!

And huh, thanks for telling me that. I felt there was some difference just from reading, but I never officially learned it and only now googled it.

Shir, English is hard. Often weird. It uses a lot of idioms and has lots of irregular verbs.

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." ― James D. Nicoll

English is a weird language.

There was excitement - Penny was AwOL for about 90 mins. But she came home!

And now Matthew is making burgers but he is adding molasses to them as a seasoning for some reason I don't understand but hope is edible.

Molasses burger sounds good to me. Not very far off from some bbq sauces (I am the opposite of a bbq purist)

I ordered an assortment of pastas (pizza place offers a meal that's sort of a sampler of pasta dishes + a salad, I jumped on that for my post-Passover meal) but I don't think it's coming for a while. I suppose I could check.

Sad about Brian Dennehy.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday ND! You join my mom(4/14), my eldest nephew(4/15) and me(4/17) in the mid-April birthday club.

I miss being able to go out.Not even in the sense of going to a concert or movie, though that would be nice, but just going out to run errands. Gary's been doing the food shopping and such. Other than going to work, I don't get out much.

Happy Birthday, ND!

Wisconsin's stay at home order just got extended to May 26th and the kids' school has been cancelled for the rest of the year.

I am not remotely surprised--I was expecting an announcement by tomorrow. My kids miss the structure and I miss the kiddos at the library. They will probably start up a curbside thing at the library but that will mostly be circulation aids working that--and they get less hours than I do, so I will not take any of those. I may have *just* enough personal leave and sick time to cover my pay for the whole period, and DH continues working from home.

So we are definitely in a safe spot, with enough room in the house not to be on top of each other. But this is going to be rough, regardless.

And I'm now overthinking the political ramifications because the economic and political blow back will be placed firmly in our Democratic governor's lap by the GOP controlled state assembly.

And I saw a clip of Dennis Miller joking about marinating a steak in hydroxychloroquine with Sean Hannity and I want to punch his smug face off.