I am tempted to book a table at the "nice" restaurant down by the waterfront (scare quotes because the food has never been more than just fine, and their cocktails are THE WORST, but you can't beat the view) because they are one of the only places in town that was set up for outdoor seating pre-pandemic, so it isn't just a bunch of chairs moved out onto the sidewalk.

Looks like our work is going to a mid-July back to work plan with employees in our building being divided into 3 groups and each group working on a 1 week in, 2 weeks home schedule. There are about 3 employees that have been working in the office this whole time and they will remain in and it might be that anyone who is overtime eligible will have to go full time in the office also.

I would so much rather be on a schedule where I go in 2 days a week and work from home the other 3.

The local olive oil place (press? I don't know what to call it) has lunches to take out or eat on their patio and I know from being there before the patio is huge and nice so I am thinking about going there this weekend, mostly to have somewhere that isn't my house to just hang out for a while but also because the lunch comes with yummy gelato. There are a few closer to me places that have dedicated outdoor seating that I would also go to, probably. I am pretty used to dining out alone with a book but I feel more conspicuous about it right now for some reason? I got a notice from my parents' town (I'm not sure how I got on their distribution, but I do go to events over there, I probably signed up at one of them) that they are going to allow tables and retail displays on the sidewalks but they will make room for that by closing the street to cars so people can walk on the street. At least I think that's what I read. They close the streets to cars for various festivals, it's totally doable for their little downtown.

I hope Cashmere got successfully tested yesterday

Did you get results, -t?

I am tempted to book a table at the "nice" restaurant down by the waterfront (scare quotes because the food has never been more than just fine, and their cocktails are THE WORST, but you can't beat the view) because they are one of the only places in town that was set up for outdoor seating pre-pandemic, so it isn't just a bunch of chairs moved out onto the sidewalk.

Oh yeah, I'd do that.

This is the place closest to my house. They have fewer tables now, but the sidewalk is still as narrow!

Yeah, that seems problematic for pedestrians

No results yet, but they said 48-72 hours on Tuesday at 6pm, so hopefully today sometime. I suppose if I am positive I will just get groceries delivered instead of going out anywhere...

Orange Dickweed and Faux-Religious Dickwad and the whole fucking Cabinet aren't wearing masks. Where are their positive tests? Where is the karmic, viral justice?

I also hope that Cashmere got tested.

I posted this morning my first blog post in three years. It was fun! I've been meaning to get back to blogging for a while now (to improve various written communications skills) and wondered what the hell I can write about next. After a few hours I remembered that I probably have an infinite number of twitter rants that I can now translate into English and into blog posts. It's sometimes fun being a bilingual ranter.

I made a dumb mistake: bought a yogurt at the supermarket that I thought was a dairy substitute (because it was right next to all the soy- and coconut- variations) only to discover that when I'd taken a couple spoonfuls and more closely perused the label that it wasn't.

Guess it is a good thing that I wasn't planning on going much of anywhere tonight and tomorrow, and if I sleep terribly, I can sleep as late as I wanna on a Saturday...