Does that mean you have the shrimp as a fallback?

Nope, that was the lunch special that I opted out of in favor of getting dinner from there. My lunch was a cheap burger and fries that I'd have been perfectly happy with if I weren't comparing it to the shrimp and grits. Oh well, somehow I'll soldier on.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm totally planning to take vacation days even though I can't go anywhere.

It is weirdly gratifying to think "damn, it's hot" and have your phone confirm that it is 97F.

It's not nearly that hot in SF, but it's still hot enough that I have been putting off making cookies because it's Too Damn Hot in my apartment to use the oven. Maybe tomorrow will be the day!

I think I'm going to make some kind of Mediterranean salad for dinner.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm totally planning to take vacation days even though I can't go anywhere.

Yeah. I took last Friday afternoon off and went for a walk with the dog. Gotta look after ourselves.

Aw, I'm sorry, Matt.

I'm kind of glad for the furlough days we have to take because I was feeling like I *couldn't* take time off (not a stated policy, just we're really busy). Really glad I have time already on the calendar for September, whether I end up doing what I originally planned with it or not.

Dinner is going to be rice and shrimp which I should start soon because Lionsgate is streaming John Wick at 6 and I've never seen it so there's my evening plans all sorted.

Just donated to the GoFundMe covering the costs of my former Girl Scout troop leader's funeral, so that's how tonight is going. She was a nurse in NC.

It's not really a personal blow, it's just...like this is what our lives are, now.

I hear you, Dana.

I keep thinking - sigh this is gonna be very mememe and I don't mean it to be but that's what I have to work with - anyway, after Katrina, a friend of mine that I wasn't super tight with had died and I only found out because he was sort of slightly famous so it was in the paper, and it made me wonder about all the people I only knew to nod at in the neighborhood or whatever and whether they were okay and it seemed almost certain that many of them were not but I would never know and it's that times a thousand for all of us now, isn't it?

I don't like it.

And people who are okay with making it worse are terrible human beings.

Guess what I just scored after talking about it for years? A grey market CD-R of Precious Bane with Janet McTeer! Wooooo!

Sorry to hear about that, Dana.

Dana, I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry, Dana.

msbelle, that is awesome news about Mac!

I watched that not too long ago, Hec. It's very good. Janet McTeer was scary in Ozark.