I feel like (in California) I wouldn't mind so much if it were something solo-ish, like yoga. But all my dancing is partner or group, so just, by definition touching hands and standing close (while breathing hard) with multiple other people. It's been 17 or 18 months though (!!!!!!!), I think I'm gonna have to bring the mask and give it a try.

Epic I went dancing on Friday and even though everyone was vaccinated I still wore a mask. It was sweaty underneath and a little harder to breathe, but mostly fine (the bigger issue being how out of shape I am—I’d sweat less and breathe easier if I had moved my body during the pandemic!)

My mom is torn on what to do about her yoga classes, because she's just recently gone back to teaching in person, both in her home studio and at outside locations. She's fully vaccinated, but doesn't want her classes to be a place where the Delta variant gets transmitted, even asymptomatically. So goddamn frustrating.

Teppy, yeah. This is a lot of what's going through Sue's mind; most of the regular community is either older, dealing with a physical or developmental disability, or both. Her husband's a MD, they've been so careful for so long, but - how much longer can they keep paying for a building they can't use at capacity?

Also, the news from Salt Lake about the aftermath of the thunderstorms last night is breaking my heart: the parking structure at the main branch of the library flooded (two blocked floor drains AND an HVAC return duct collapsed, taking out a fire sprinkler line, so when 2nd East backed up . . . ) and there was about a foot of standing water in the lower levels, which is where the children's library is. In July of '17 the Sprague Library, near our old house, wound up with five feet of water in the basement when Parley's Creek went over its banks during a bad storm, and they just completed renovations in November of last year - the staff must have been beside themselves last night.

Our local library branch lost all 32,000 books in February when the sprinkler pipes burst in the snowpocalypse.

the bigger issue being how out of shape I am—I’d sweat less and breathe easier if I had moved my body during the pandemic!

Also a VERY real concern. Especially for Irish - it already made me breathe hard!

Oh, ouch, Amy & Dana! I feel a visceral pain at those stories!

I am excite! Water is going in my pool, both from mother nature and the pool fixer company. It is such a joy for me when I watch people doing things well. Crew of maybe 8 did the plastering and so forth. Worked together with speed and precision. Amazing to watch.

This is nice: [link]

New job is keeping me really busy right now. Meanwhile, daughter's upcoming wedding keeps generating drama rooted in the whole pandemic thing.

Have you seen his version of "Sixteen Tons"? [link]

I'm really sorry about the wedding drama, Gud. Way too often what should be a joyous occasion is soured by people who care more about themselves than the couple.