I'm so sorry, Epic.

you are doing the RIGHT thing, both for you and for all the others including your coworkers. Keeping all of my digits crossed here.

I actually slept a real night's sleep last night and feel a lot better. My fatigue was just overwhelming.

I just was so aghast when he kicked me out. Like somehow I was special and could work until noon instead of calling him or texting him the night before when I made my appointment as would have been the responsible thing to do.

It's sad though. Any other situation and I'd have gone to my doctor because it was the fatigue that was really concerning me. But random county-provided COVID testing is better medicine than seeing my PA.

DH is very upset. Mostly at her hospital for asking her to come back to work, knowing she wouldn't say no.

They shouldn't have asked. Her age, her DH's age and conditions and basically taking advantage of knowing she'd say yes.

In totally sane employer news, my DIL has officially been told she will be WFH until the virus risk is gone or her maternity leave is done next spring, whichever comes first. Being pregnant puts her in a risk group so she can't go to the office. Period.

Good for them!

Remember how I quit my job? My last day was supposed to be next Saturday. But now it's apparently yesterday

That Band-Aid got ripped off quick.

Oh my flea!

Nice to see you Pix. I too am thinking about how grateful I am for this community. If I hadn't found you guys, maybe I would be one of those people who doesn't wear a mask!!! I was listening to Buffering the Vampire Slayer today and they were talking about being able to hold both loving Buffy, and critically thinking about it in re: of Joss in their minds at the same time, and how fandom is bad at that. I think you guys taught me that!

Flea, that's nuts but I'm glad you're out.

Well, I'm off work for 5 days, 2 of which I will spend on a road trip to Colorado to stay in the mountains with my brother-the-doctor and his family. Bringing the dog, the laptop, and the mountain bike, so I can do some work from 9,000 feet. So looking forward to it, except for the 2 days in the car each way.

I am staying over in a hotel on Sunday night in eastern Nevada; I just wasn't prepared to camp. Gotta bring some wipes, I guess...

My town is thinking of enacting mandatory face mask for people going to a grocery stores or pharmacies and for all employees. The local FB group was a shitshow of ppl flipping out. One woman kept responding to my actual questions by posting images of boxes of masks that say the don't prevent coronavirus. I explained about reducing risk etc and posted multiple scientific articles that explain why masks work. When I asked her to tell me why those scientists are wrong she never responded.

But there were also people pro mask who were saying things like "would you go to a store with no shoes or shirt"?

Glad you got the clearance, 'Suela.

Just got back from the grocery store. Seemed like 75-80% of people were wearing masks. Things have really changed here.

Sure sounds like you made the right choice, flea.

That sounds awesome, Consuela! I love the mountains.

Random nostalgia - I'm reading a murder mystery and one of the clues is explained with "Saturday was the last weekend on April - the start of Daylight Savings Time"

Last weekend in April!

Today has been terrible.

I'm sorry, Gud. Can we help or listen?

I dunno, there are certainly a lot of people with bigger problems. It was just a work day were I was busy but didn't accomplish much. Then I kept screwing things up in the evening. I wasn't feeling very well after work so I laid down and listened to an audiobook for a bit, but then I fucked up and feel asleep. When I woke up it was too late for me to take care of dinner and my wife got really angry, pointing out how I always let her down. After that I went to the grocery store where I forgot a couple of things, then went back to get the missing stuff. Then I did some quick carpet shampooing and I fucked up again and missed the spot my wife really wanted me to get. I hate making mistakes, whenever I make mistakes I really let people down which is probably why people don't like me.

Anyhow, then I processed mail and paid bills to discover some really big medical bills for my son. Well, we just had to replace our HVAC system since the blower motor burned out and it was too old to repair so now money is getting pretty tight. I don't want to tell my wife because I know she will freak out and get really angry and I've already fucked up a lot.

I'm still feeling too sick to eat anything and just generally feeling really down and like the world would be a lot better without me just fucking things up and disappointing people.