Anyone else keep having to remind themselves that many of the monitors on their desk are not touchscreens?
And I've been having to do that for something like 12 years.

Popup discussion about the sudden need (want) for a waffle iron.
"Catching coronavirus while buying a waffle iron is not a good trade. I don't care how good the waffles would be."

"But, waffles!"

"No."

"Then why did you put waffles in my head. Stop teasing me."

My wife will be wearing these today.
Our adult, college-age children are confused. Surprised we had to remind them that my wife teaches 6th grade . . . And not everything is about them.

An accidentally created tradition/ritual happens when I open a new bag of coffee beans. All the coffee drinkers in the house get to enjoy the "first breath" the coffeentakes when I first open a new bag.

#cafeinclub

Always amused that the most popular images in my Flickr account are stupid visualizations of how I used to use social media.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjzrmCoq

Wife is now cooking dinner following a recipe from a Google home. It is not going well as she's yelling at the device.
I felt the need to deploy the emergency chocolate. She almost knocked the bag out of my hand going for the first piece.
I left two more pieces on the table and quietly left the room.
Coronavirus has a 6 foot minimum safe distance. What we have started to lovingly call a gravy moment sends everyone into the next room and maybe even cowering under our beds.

That feeling when you want another shot of espresso but your wife is in a video meeting and doesn't want to mute the mic. It is not my fault the grinder is that loud.

#caffineclub

Woken up by a work emergency at 06:10. Just finishing up for the day now almost 12 hr later.
Is it too much to ask people to not expect servers and services behing corporate firewalls to not work nesrly as fast a when they had 1gb desk connections now that they are working from home.

My setup for my middle school teacher wife. Four camera, 3 microphones, two whiteboards and props I didn't know we had. This is how teachers work from home.

Just getting back from a rush trip from VB to Charlotte and back today to get my son who goes to school there.
He was trying to stick it out in his dorm but the writing was on the wall...they would be closing the school soon.
That message, that the dorms would close, hit while we were on our way there.
Thankfully we were already on the way.

His right eye looks even more swollen. AMD did he just almost fall off the script?

Standing st my desk going through the end of day updates on pandemic prep and WFH from work when I suddenly realize I'm sweating; beads of sweat are dripping onto my keyboard sweating.
And my watch is showing my heart racing.
Its 70F outside and the house thermostat downstairs says it is 73F in the house.
I've been working so focused today I didn't realize I probably should have put the air on earlier.
You know, like when I pulled that espresso shot 20 minutes ago in the kitchen.

Those are clearly sniffled coming from a connected DJT.

Is he sniffling or trying not to cough? And does the one eye look swollen?

And now a brazen breakfast bagel belly beating.

It's like, but it's not a soggy lime.

Don't know if I'm just overworked, nostalgic or just lonely today.

Myst Online: K'veer Finale
https://youtu.be/-mWs4aW0ZLs

#cosomusic

Work paused while I watch them mill the road behind the house.

New bagel place near work. I dont know what to say or do. They even have it in their print menus . . . So a brand thing. OMLETS?

Trying to decide how I want to book time this morning. While sitting up with insomnia at 3 AM, I get a question from an offshore coworker. Finished answering his questions over 3 hours. I then asked if he actually expected an answer from someone flagged as Off Work at 3AM local time on a US holiday.
So I guess work owes me a half day holiday.