Sleeping Coworkers

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I thought I would start off this mornings post with a picture of one of my coworkers sleeping on the job. The cats are still confused as hell as to why we never leave the house and go to work. The funny bit about this is that Kenzie and Josie tend to hang out with me in my office during the day and Mollie the skittish cat hangs with my wife when she is downstairs. This has actually been pretty great for Mollie since she is actually getting time to play and be cat like without being freaked about the other two being around. Usually Josie sleeps up behind one of my monitors as shown and Kenzie sleeps on an old PC Case box that is sitting beside me that she adopted at one point and now as a result I cannot get rid of it.

As far as our well being goes, we are doing pretty good. We have been in limiting outside trips for a few weeks now and both my wife and I are at home for the foreseeable future. I’m working remotely and as a teacher she has not reported back from spring break yet with that whole situation sorta being up in the air as to how it is going to work. We still have quite a bit of food and plenty of other assorted products, but I figure at some point over the weekend we are going to have to either make a trip out to a grocery store or luck out and get an order in on one of the grocery pick up sites. We got our first order like that on Monday and were a little frustrated that they didn’t attempt any substitution of items. For example we ordered a specific type of butter just because you had… which they apparently were sold out of but they had other salted butters that eventually my wife went and picked up.

All in all we are doing pretty well, which is not meant to tempt fate but more just to give a general status update. The world around us however is not doing so hot. The Governor made a declaration that any non-essential business is to remain closed, which effectively means if you are not involved in food cycle or involved with critical infrastructure like hospitals then you are effectively closed. For a long while the part that was disturbing about this is how I knew things were getting bad but the world didn’t seem to reflect that yet. It reminded me of being in a Zombie Apocalypse movie but one where everyone tries to pretend that the Zombies aren’t actually a thing. However since the most recent order the world does in fact look changed, and everyone sorta seems to eye every other human being with suspicion.

Other than having trouble with a frame of reference for what day of the week it is, I am doing fairly well with social isolation. Given my druthers I would spend all of my time at home anyways, so giving me a reason to do so doesn’t seem to be impacting me nearly as much as it is some of my friends. I am also super lucky in that I get along well with my spouse and we are more or less treating this like one long extended weekend. Because she has a better immune system than I do, she has been the person to go out in public for the majority of the needed trips. However I did make a trip to the local comic shop that was closing for twenty one days as per the order so I could settle out my pull box and make sure she went into the lock-down with some additional funds.

As far as Blapril our moved up running of the Blaugust festivities… we have quite a few signed up and ready to participate with still a bit of time to get new folks signed up. As of the time of writing this post we have twenty three, which is down a bit from our normal Blaugust runs. However last Blaugust was among the lowest as far as participation goes, so we might just be in a bit of a blogging slump. I did also completely spring this thing onto the community without much warning, but hopefully as we get started more folks will show up and chime in. Here is the list of participants so far.

Regardless of numbers we will have a good time going through the process that Blaugust is. It will serve as a delightful distraction to the things we are going through on a day to day basis.