I've been coming in to the office all along ... there have been any number of days I would have preferred to stay home, but I do serve a purpose here and it does give my days structure. And, all along, I've been handling the mail, getting checks and invoices processed ... and we had a BAD leak which I reported right away and it was fixed quickly, so it's a good thing. Commuting has been fairly easy, since there are still so few people riding.

I went up to visit mom. We had lunch outside on a picnic table - on opposite ends.

And we didn't hug but we got a little too close but we both used hand sanitizer and had on masks. Mom's cat really needed his claws trimmed and we ran by her house for a minute and she joked about bringing him out to the car and I was like "I'll try it!"

So she got him in the cat carrier, we did an exchange, and I sat in the front seat of the car and trimmed his claws. He did ok for the most part. Then we did another exchange.

We went up to her storage unit and got some of my stuff out of it to bring down here although only so much fit in my car.

Glad you got to see her and accomplish some stuff, askye! It sounds like you mitigated the risk pretty well.

I got a new blood donor card in the mail and was able to reset my password under my number rather than my email address and that worked MUCH better. And already got my antibody test results, apparently? Negative, which is actually disappointing.

They haven't wanted my blood for a while ... I take too many medications. I'm still listed as an organ donor, if anything's usable. When my father died, about all they wanted were his corneas and maybe kidneys - he'd had a series of minor strokes, was a life-long smoker ... even his skin had had too much sun exposure.

The ankle is doing quite well, just the slightest bit twingey if I forget and come down hard on it, or go one-foot-per-tread on the stairs. It is swollen and looking bruisey, so I know I wasn't exaggerating that I hurt it. I walked on it all day without pain, so I know I'm getting off lightly.

If you can, keep elevating it when you're at rest, Theo.

They haven't wanted my blood for a while ... I take too many medications.

Same for me, with the addition of my getting tattoos regularly.

Has anyone heard from Gud?

I'll check out that training. I don't know if I'd participate in group actions, but it's good to have more info to make that sort of decision.

I gave blood last May. I should probably do so again. A couple of times the blood just stopped flowing out, but I've found if I hydrate well ahead of time, things go better.

I've sprained my ankles many times. It hurt like the dickens each time. I hope yours heals up quickly, Theo.

Yeah, keep resting and elevating it as much as you can, Theo

Flu shot achieved! My office friend who transferred to Vallejo before I did and stayed there when I came back and then got laid off but hired back temporarily and then totally laid off has come back "permanently" over here in her original department. Nice to see her face to face! Masked and distant, of course

I used to give blood every 8 weeks or whatever, then for a while I couldn't because my husband had risk factors but that has expired for me. I tried getting back to the regular donation a few years ago and they wanted me to do the apheresis plasma donations and that went badly enough (as I recall it was difficulties with getting/keeping the needle in my vein) that a nurse told me maybe donating was not my thing so I just didn't bother for a while but when I went in July it went find other than not getting the full pint and this time even better. I did make sure I was super over hydrated for at least a day before