Things to keep:

Work from home, without kids
Not accessing restaurants, but nice to get to grocery stores more
Keeping the handwashing stations at the start of the stores
I don't mind the kids at home, but some do.
I like the ability to do crafting and laundry during the day

I like the work when you need to, eat when you're hungry part of life.

I do need to do more CHORES during teh day though, that's a thing.

Sunday

I find these days that I get through the mornings really well, but the afternoons are shit. Bad mood, tired, unmotivated... I wonder if there's something I should be doing in the afternoons, like right after lunch to try and re-energize.

AS GOD IS MY WITNESS I SHALL NOT NAP. Not that I could anyway, because ... Peanuts need attention, so ya that's not happening.

I am re-energized by bouncey music, by reading, by COMPLETING something... maybe what I'll try is pushing through with a small, completeable task right after lunch to help feel like the afternoon is a conquerable hill.

Thursday

Here's some predictions:

I am going to lose at least one of my favourite breweries.

Eating Street in Prairie Metropolis is going to lose at least 5 restaurants.

The Project Manager's business will drop to one location.

After this is done, I will work from home at least 2 days a week.

School will not start back up until September,

Day camps will run in August, but maybe not in July.

The American Pr*Sident will attempt to delay the November election.

The Albertan economy will shrink, structurally, by 10% and there will be an exodus of young Albertans to other jurisdictions.

Tuesday morning....

Well it's another quiet Tuesday morning here, and I'm already at work getting through e-mails and working on some documents.

A lot of my job is sending e-mails and so on... but a lot of it is also just writing.

And some stats tracking, and also what to do WITH those stats. and creative problem solution proposing

That doesn't always seem like it's enough Job to do, you know? I mean, it's a lot of work, but at the end of the day, if I weren't doing it, it wouldn't reaaaaally make a difference. Maybe that's the theme for today: What makes a difference?

What if the new normal is permanent?

So, like, there's a possibility that, without a vaccine or treatment, that this kind of social isolation could go on for an indefinite period.

Wait, that's terrible writing. This social isolation will go on for a period that is defined by the absence / presence of a treatment or vaccine.

Maybe, maybe if you can get a community with no cases for two weeks, they'll stop isolating inside their community, but they'd still keep out the external vectors, so the isolation would remain global.

So interesting...

Still at home!

(this was supposed to publish before the other one, so it's out of order)

I read some things in advance:

Structure is important: shower, brush teeth, do normal things at normal time, etc.

But man... this is surreal

The Peanuts are adapted well, and they're being better than we ever deserve. They are being good friends to each other, and good students and good sleepers.

Peanut #1 had a Big Sad the other day, and we were able to solve it with a video chat with her cousin which was a lifesaver. Peanut #1 has also decided that this is the time to REALLY start learning to read, which is great.

Peanut #2 is doing great, and is not being super annoying to her sister, which is good. Her reading is coming along well, and her math is spooky good.

Right now they're upstairs playing computer homework games with each other and not fighting which is some kind of miracle

COvid update

Hoo boy, it's been a few days.

Prairie University has been pounded by the combination of cuts and covid, and we've had 5 layoffs on our team, one and a half retirements, and two more layoffs in the team above ours and one looming retirement there, so it's brutal. Plus, you know, these are the people who are helping to support the researchers who do research on Covid-19, so that's not awesome.

But the fucking provincial government is bound and determined to destroy post-secondary education in Alberta so off they go!

I've decided to start thinking of them as actual lunatics in an asylum, because it's the only thing that makes sense to me as a motivator for their behaviour