One or more misty moisty mornings

[hrj]

The six core Bay Area counties (including mine) are now under a “shelter in place” order. “People in the six counties will still be able to go shopping for items such as food and household supplies, and seek medical care. They will be able to go outside for walks or exercise as long as they keep six feet away from anyone they don’t already live with.” Though there’s some ambiguity because elsewhere the article says “In the six Bay Area counties, non-essential gatherings of any size are now banned, along with non-essential travel “on foot, bicycle, scooter, automobile or public transit.”” which suggests that “go outside for exercise” has tenuous status. Presumably some more detailed guidance will be forthcoming. Or not.

I’ll see what the tree guy thinks about it. We can get the work done without close contact, but it will depend on how he’s interpreting things regarding his crew. It'll be his call.

Today I had the first signs of getting twitchy about the isolation. Part of it was the combination of a lack of general chatter from the co-workers online, plus some annoyingly irrelevant requests from my QA reviewer on one of my investigations, which ordinarily I could have worked off via an informal bitch session.

But the rain let up enough that I could do a lunchtime bike ride, and now that the workday is over, I can get in some yard work. Then I've assigned myself taking notes from one chapter of Halberstam's Female Masculinity for the LHMP, then starting to declutter the computer desk (the one I never use for actual computer work because it's too cluttered). I should assign myself some fiction writing as well. Maybe I should make a wall chart and give myself gold stars for categories of tasks.