Very weird dream last night wherein I was investigating insurance fraud at an airport terminal that was being rebuilt after some kind of disaster. It involved a sinister Bradley Cooper character, and me breaking the fourth wall by being aware that he was a character played by Bradley Cooper and making references to that.

Teppy, I'm glad Tim's dad's TB test was negative. I'm sorry this is all so hard.

Juliana, I think you did the right thing keeping Peanut home.

I'm splitting this conversation between here and the Buffy thread, but I think Joss is a narcissist, and a sociopath.

He's Spike, he's Warren/Andrew/Jonathan, he's Topher, he's Mr. Universe in Serenity, he's Xander's resentment /entitlement.

I think Joss may have minimized Xander's involvement in latter seasons, as Joss's issues rose to the fore; he no longer related to the flawed, but basically decent guy who began as his avatar.

And it explains why Buffy was "wrong" (by the show's telling) to let go of the guy who got suck jobs from vampires, because she didn't pay enough attention to him, and instead concentrated on trivialities like her mother's brain cancer and saving the world.

BTW, today is Buffy Summers' 41st birthday.

Aww, I had somehow forgotten that Buffy shared her birthday with my son who turned 30 the same day. He is more fond of sharing the day with Poe, Parton, and Joplin.

Still in slow mode here, barely even on the internet except for minimal work duties. I did however walk the 1/4 mile loop in the park across the street yesterday for the first time in months so that was pretty delightful. By summer I should be back to several miles a day again. It was a good first step. I've been adding a whopping 100 steps a day per my tracker per instructions from the doc. Woot!

DH went through his closet and purged the 3x and 4x items to give to one of his huge coach friends. Even bigger than he was! Anyway, the coach has watched DH lose 80+ pounds already and is now going to join him walking the beach in the mornings. No doubt they will turn heads as they will easily clear a path when they walk side by side. Dude is 6'9" and probably 400 lbs. It is an issue when athletes stop playing and hit the middle years. They both plan to play men's league again. Their enthusiasm is cute.

That's pretty awesome, Laura. Way to be quietly inspirational, Brendon!

I'm glad you're recovering nicely, too.

Quiet, gray day here. My friend D and I co-worked via Zoom yesterday, and it was weirdly astounding. We put each other on mute, and did our work! I was far more productive yesterday just having him up in the corner, and so was he. We don't know why, but we don't care. We are co-Zooming again today. I mean, we literally said maybe a paragraph's worth of stuff to each other, and most of that was logistics. Both came and went as we pleased, but... it worked!

That’s a neat idea, JenP

That is a nice way to add a bit of a socialization element to the WFH environment. Except for the having to wear pants part. Well, depending on the co-worker for that one.

That's a good idea, JenP. I'm on zoom with people for a couple of hours most days, so that's probably enough for me, but if I wasn't I'd consider it.

It's a cold, drizzly, gray day here, today. So I have pot roast in the slow cooker and plans for mashed potatoes.

I don't want more Zoom in my life, but I do miss having my coworkers just kind of passively nearby where we can idly chat if so moved. Every interaction we have now - chat or email or zoom or whatever - is for a purpose, you know?

I don't want more Zoom in my life, but I do miss having my coworkers just kind of passively nearby where we can idly chat if so moved. Every interaction we have now - chat or email or zoom or whatever - is for a purpose, you know?

I miss casual interaction so much. There's a fair amount of chatter on our team Slack but it's not the same.

Yeah, we don't even have that. There is some sporadic chat happening but it's pretty sparse (or I am not invited to most of it, which is also possible)

Coincidentally, I just got a notice that we are switching our corporate phones to Zoom. Who knew Zoom had a phone system?