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Time keeps on slipin' slipin' slipin' into a circle
Let's see, I last posted on Tuesday and now it's Thursday. And I still don't know how that happened. The days are very very much the same. Tuesday was the day I decided to crack out the poppy-seed filling that might or might not still be good past its use-by date. (It was good.) Made a large batch of kolatchky, froze about half, put half in a large ziplock bag to keep them fresh a bit longer, and put the rest on my fancy cake pedestal.
I'd decided to do sushi from GrubHub and ordered in advance to get it around 6pm. Then just as I was closing down the office computer for the day, I got a text from Beth in New York asking if I was going to join the movie-night zoom like I'd said. Time: what is it even? So I quickly signed on and joined the group (half-and-half some DISTAFF folks and Beth's friends from other contexts) to watch the new Emma, with commentary from all of us running in the chat box. A minor infelicity in that the zoom host who is presenting the movie evidently can't participate in chat without disrupting the show. The sushi arrived early in the movie so it really was a dinner-and-a-show night. We decided to watch Clueless next week for a compare-and-contrast, since some of the participants had never seen it.
So no yard work Tuesday, but I'd been planning to take the day off anyway. No yard work Wednesday because I was still feeling a bit dragged out in the afternoon. Did something interesting with chicken and stir fry with a tomato-coconut-milk sauce and a bit of Sri Lankhan spice mix (that came with the cookbook kickstarter). Not any specific recipe. I really do need to try working through a bunch of those recipies seriously.
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threadwalker pinged me about our dinner night (which doesn't always align with actually eating dinner). We figured out how to play Splendor through zoom. The game is well suited to that purpose, given that the game play is all in the open so one person with the set can serve as moderator as well as player, as long as you can adjust your webcast camera to see the play on the board. I used some of the color-coded spice jars from the kitchen re-org as my tokens and tracked the rest of my hand on post-it notes. It's a fairly fast game, even with the ramp-up for figuring how to do the online play. (Yes, there is also an offiicial online play version, but this was more fun.) Great game. About 70% strategy and 30% luck of the turn of the cards.
So will I get to yard work today? Only time will tell!
ETA: During our monthly staff meeting yesterday, the topic came up of whether the company is going to be more open to general working-from-home after the Current Unpleasantness is over, and it sounds hopeful. I also brought it up earlier in the day with my boss in our regular one-on-one. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the possibility of doing WFH at lest two days a week routinely going forward.
I'd decided to do sushi from GrubHub and ordered in advance to get it around 6pm. Then just as I was closing down the office computer for the day, I got a text from Beth in New York asking if I was going to join the movie-night zoom like I'd said. Time: what is it even? So I quickly signed on and joined the group (half-and-half some DISTAFF folks and Beth's friends from other contexts) to watch the new Emma, with commentary from all of us running in the chat box. A minor infelicity in that the zoom host who is presenting the movie evidently can't participate in chat without disrupting the show. The sushi arrived early in the movie so it really was a dinner-and-a-show night. We decided to watch Clueless next week for a compare-and-contrast, since some of the participants had never seen it.
So no yard work Tuesday, but I'd been planning to take the day off anyway. No yard work Wednesday because I was still feeling a bit dragged out in the afternoon. Did something interesting with chicken and stir fry with a tomato-coconut-milk sauce and a bit of Sri Lankhan spice mix (that came with the cookbook kickstarter). Not any specific recipe. I really do need to try working through a bunch of those recipies seriously.
Just as I as finishing up dinner,
threadwalker pinged me about our dinner night (which doesn't always align with actually eating dinner). We figured out how to play Splendor through zoom. The game is well suited to that purpose, given that the game play is all in the open so one person with the set can serve as moderator as well as player, as long as you can adjust your webcast camera to see the play on the board. I used some of the color-coded spice jars from the kitchen re-org as my tokens and tracked the rest of my hand on post-it notes. It's a fairly fast game, even with the ramp-up for figuring how to do the online play. (Yes, there is also an offiicial online play version, but this was more fun.) Great game. About 70% strategy and 30% luck of the turn of the cards.So will I get to yard work today? Only time will tell!
ETA: During our monthly staff meeting yesterday, the topic came up of whether the company is going to be more open to general working-from-home after the Current Unpleasantness is over, and it sounds hopeful. I also brought it up earlier in the day with my boss in our regular one-on-one. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the possibility of doing WFH at lest two days a week routinely going forward.
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4/8 - Temperature 97.7 - Lunchtime bike ride on the canal trail, no close proximity, no physical contact, no other excursions off the property.
4/9 - Temperature 97.7 - Because everyone is being paranoid about random symptoms: had a little bit of a tight chest this morning and did some "deep breaths and hold them" exercises. Feels like a sightly swollen lymph gland on my right jaw. These are both most likely to be pollen-related to I took an antihistimine to filter out that possibility. Slept well last night but feeling a little headachey, though that's something of a constant these days.