Holy cow, Scrappy! So upsetting. My boss had a similar story about one of his neighbors, although the guy didn't try to kill himself. but all the neighbors are of course concerned...

I have mostly had it with the day and am drinking a beer, although my work email is still open...

Laura - just be extra careful at the wedding.

Yes, I confess to being very concerned. DH called and talked to the groom today. The couple are super athletic health nuts. They will just have to accept a rain check on hugs. It is a large venue and I expect there will be a smaller than originally intended crowd.

Wow, Scrappy, that is very unsettling.

I am trying not to be anxious about work. I have a coworker who is 8 months pregnant (she is coming back for reduced hours) and another whose son had a lung transplant three years ago so she isn't coming back yet.

Scrappy that's really scary and creepy.

Laura - if you are supposed to be quarantining then you should do that and also I keep reading about people who went to events and parties where they were sure they would be fine and they got sick. And not just one or two people it's large numbers of people.

I had a shitty day at work today, I got into a rather unprofessional spat with a co worker right when the store opened and I didn't ealize the store was opened and also didn't think I had done anythign to warrant what happened. She and I don't get along well at all and I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but it ended up something that all assistant managers AND the manager got involved with. Because she went to them.

Seriously we both got places in the same dept. There is one register, I said something like "you can do recovery " or something like that and she took it to mean I was telling her what to do. And I had thought she'd mentioined a couple weeks ago about wanting a break from being on the regsiter and when I said that then I was putting words in her mouth.

I do not fucking care if I'm on register or doing recovery. I do not fucking care if she is in active or goes some place else.

I do care that hte other day she got pissed at the way quarantined go backs were staged (someone is getting together all the downstairs stuff and bringing it down after we close so we dont have to - go down to put up our stuff, go back upstairs to get the go backs, go back down stairs with the go backs) but since it's all together and was over in the section she was in that day (and I'm norally in) suddenly she was acting as if someone expected her to put it all away and kept saying she was goign to talk to the manager about it.

And also I , evidetnally am still pissed taht back when we wre both in mens she would drag her feet about covering my lunch breaks almost every day and it was impossible. I would have to get a supervisor to ask her to cover my break otherwise she wouldn't. We were in the same dept just on opposite ends of the store and I was in the more central part so she'd have to come over but when she took her break I stayed where I was. No matter what I did it was wrong and a big deal, I always feel she's antagonistic to me. but maybe she feels the same way about me. I don't know.

It just left e feeling horrible and like I'm awful and just defective because I know I blundered into this bc of my shitty ability to read people and also bc I just blurt things out and I'm not .. conscious of a lot of things.

Oh, Scrappy, what a shock!

I'm sorry, askye.

Laura - just be extra careful at the wedding.

Yeah, I really don't get people going ahead with events right now. It seems very irresponsible. You shouldn't have to worry about putting yourself in danger!

I'm starting to get kind of stir-crazy. I'm trying to decide how safe I feel about inviting a friend over to social-distantly hang out (outside, six feet, maybe masks?)

Laura, it may be worth asking if the venue is providing a streaming option.

Scrabble is practically as bad as making out!

I'm tempted to COMM this sans context.

Someone on my neighborhood FB group asked if anyone got photos of todays post-storm rainbow. There is now a comment thread of 113 (and counting) rainbow photos. This is officially the best thing to ever happen on a neighborhood group.

That's beautiful, Aurelia! (iPhone decides name needed caps)

I'll probably make a last minute decision on the wedding. DH will go but groom would understand if I didn't. Some of the young men Brendon coaches become sons to us. Graduations and weddings feel like our own kids milestones. This one was in my son's class. He is a coach now.

Sorry that you will have to endure more mental wrangling to come since wedding is still 2 weeks away.

I'm tempted to COMM this sans context

Yes!

Hil. That is why I ended up podding. I am all alone, and my coworkers are going for haircuts! I can see a friend from feet and social distance, and then when we talked about it we ended up a pod. I think one of the narratives missing in the coverage the abject loneliness of an unpartnered person with no children. The partnered people with children have challenges that I can never dream of but when my options for contact with another live human person are going to the store unnecessarily or seeing a friend, I think I would rather see a friend.