I miss my mother every damn day, but oh my Dog am I glad she didn't live to see this. And I feel like a terrible son for feeling that way.

If it makes you feel any better, Karl, you are not alone. I miss my mother so much - but I don't know what I would have done if I had to worry about her through all of this. So, yes, being relieved that they're not going through a pandemic with us is a perfectly valid way to feel.

A friend's husband died in January, after a long horrific decline with Alzheimers. The only silver lining that I can see is that she didn't have to try to take care of him now, when it would be so much more difficult.

(((Karl))) feeling any kind of way doesn't make you a bad son

Barn kittens!

Karl, you are far from the only person thinking that.

Much love and ~ma to Buffistas who are having a difficult time with Mother's day, especially this year. I can only imagine that the social distancing from everything makes is harder. ♡

Theo, this is good news!

So I tried to log into the online system I use at the uni for exams and grading and such to update a few grades and to see how the final is proceeding, and all I'm getting is a message, "Table "sessions" does not exist". That can't be good.

What type of LMS are you using, DXMachina?

Moodle. It's working again, but this is the second time in as many days. Finals week load issues. The good news is that it happens early in the morning, because apparently none of my student have noticed. I have yet to receive a "freaking out" e-mails. Or else they are used to wonky tech.

Karl, you are far from the only person thinking that.

My mother died one week before the 2016 election, and even that soon after her passing I felt gratitude that she didn't know what was happening.

We met at an ice cream shop for mother's day with my DIL's parents. Rain checks on hugs.

I'm glad Moodle's working again for you. I know that Blackboard and Canvas had issues when schools initially moved online as a big group.