I have a haircut appointment for tomorrow. I am so excited.

We're going to need before and after pictures.

vent warning -

The IT department at work has created a website that employees must use to gain entry to buildings each day now that we are doing some re-opening. 3 questions/fields - it captures the data and date and you get a green go or red stop.

It is a WEBSITE - web address to go to.

They are calling it an App in all the re-opening webinars and powerpoints and handouts to all 8000+ employees.

I was like "um, it't not an app - it's a website - that is confusing - we should change it in our presentations" to my boss and team. Big boss said it is the term OIT is using!?!?!?!?

Science Friday has a piece on these socialization-during-pandemic questions right now: [link]

Hil, my cousin had to travel from St. Louis to Myrtle Beach to attend the closing of several properties, so she and her husband made it as a several-stage camping trip, which meant that they didn't have to worry about dodgy hotel rooms, and could give a quick spritz of Lysol et cetera around the campground bathrooms to be sure they were clean of virus.

I'll let you know in two weeks if that worked -- but I suspect it will as a strategy.

Hil, my cousin had to travel from St. Louis to Myrtle Beach to attend the closing of several properties, so she and her husband made it as a several-stage camping trip, which meant that they didn't have to worry about dodgy hotel rooms, and could give a quick spritz of Lysol et cetera around the campground bathrooms to be sure they were clean of virus.

That probably works better in June than in November.

Yikes, true dat.

By November, perhaps some hotels will be offering specially cleansed rooms for travelers. And it may be that you can trust that some chain restaurants will be all-masked-all-the-time et cetera.

We are, alas, in for a marathon of this if we as a nation don't smarten up.

I'd think that a hotel room ought to be fairly safe, especially if you check in late at night (when more time will have passed, presumably, since a previous person or the cleaner was in the room).

I did take a lunch break and walk 5 blocks down to the taco place for lunch and then across to the brand new bougie grocery store that opened last week. That'll make 10 grocery stores within a mile of me. A food jungle rather than a food desert.

I'm flying back to Florida on the 9th to go to a wedding. Originally we had reserved 3 days in Tampa for wedding festivities. I canceled those reservations and we are just driving over for the wedding then driving home. DH offered to go without me, but this is one of our basketball kids and I expect everyone will be on their best safe behavior. They had the cutest invitation, styled as a game ticket with tip off time and so forth. They are both basketball players and the families are both big into athletics.

After the wedding we will go home and pack up the dog, boat, and stuff and drive north. We might just drive straight through since there is two of us.

Wow, meara, such luxury!

Timelies all!

The company that makes the piece of equipment I was concerned about sent someone out today to work on it, and it is working now. So relieved. (They are going to send someone else out to train us on maintenance, which makes sense.)