Wild card element #3 is that Russia is threatening to use nuclear power, and if cornered Putin will certainly be willing to fire off a nuclear warhead shell in some lesser populated part of Ukraine as a show of force.

If we're lucky its lesser populated. Russia just tramped an army through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on its way to Kyiv. Putin doesn't seem overly concerned with who else he iradiates.

Feeling pretty dark on this point.

In the office. It simultaneously feels like I never left and is completely weird and alien. I'm already tired just from sitting in a different kind of chair for a couple of hours and my keyboard arrangement is all strange. But being around people is much more ok than I expected, so that's nice.

Between my normal work, dealing with the roofers, and the surveyors, I am pulling stuff out of cabinets and taking pictures to inventory what is in what bin so when I want something I can find it without opening 50 bins. SIL is on her way to pack.

Zoom calls from the cubicle are pretty bad. That's all I have to say about that.

I'd like noise-canceling headphones that block out news.

So, news-canceling headphones, then.

That sounds like a goldmine

Unfortunately, just because we don't hear the news doesn't mean that it's not happening. if only ....

News-canceling headphones would have to cancel the actual news.

News-canceling headphones would have to cancel the actual news.

Fully onboard with this.