I must be distracted.
I just caught myself starting to pour milk right into a freshly pulled espresso, completely bypassing the whole frothing.

What is wrong with me today?

#cosocoffee

Sitting here with my family and making tea. My oldest looks across the room at the half&half and asks in a perfect deadpan, "if it is half&half, how is there 30% more cream?"
All we could say was "wait, what?"

I keep hearing car horns behind the house. Finally go to see what is going on. There are a number of geese just standing in the street paying no attention to the cars or people trying to go past.

I don't have words.

I'm sitting here watching my wife try to provide tech support to a student and parent. I was doing my own technology job just before.
Talking to non-technical business users who want to treat me like I'm stupid I do all day. Sixth-grade students and their parents are not something I have enough patience to deal with.

Looks like some groups decided to have fun and DDOS a bunch of services schools are using to host virtual today.

Oh joy. Co-teacher hosed cause the school building she is working from lostbinternet and now their LMS is flagging features off because today added a few million more students and they weren't ready.

So it begins. My wife just logged into the first day of school. Of course, the day started just after 9 with a panic call from a parent for a student not in her grade, any of her classes, or on her caseload. It's going to be a fun year.

Watching Stranger Than Fiction and my wife is wondering a) why I rented it, and b) why I am laughing so very loudly while she is trying to take a nap.

Just happened to flip to a Phillies game.
This is a surreal experience.
I knew about the cardboard cutouts. I knew about the video game crowd noise.
I wasn't ready for how it all actually went together.

Trying out my wife's new kit for going back to school. It's not horrible I'm not sure how it will play with 6th graders.

For the past couple of (weeks?) this has done a pretty good job of matching how I feel.

All we'll have is
All this time

#cosomusic

https://youtu.be/TvVNxqosZ7s

Today is the first time since March 7 that everyone has been out of the house and at work. It is only for a few hours while my wife is doing whatever thing her school is requiring teachers to do to prep rooms and gather materials for virtual day 1 and my kids are at their jobs.
This is a note of how different it feels than it would have in the past 12 years of WFH. The awareness of how much I'm relying on people to keep my family safe just by choosing to wear a mask or stay home.

Listening to news talk about how to deal with the heat waves and the virus (cooling centers would be a risk).
All I can think is that an historian could possibly discuss how heat waves were dealt with during historical plagues.

I'd like to share with you a description of the vision of loveliness that is my wife.
She is currently in a recliner, wrapped in a blanket with a bag of pork rinds enjoying a gobblet of Diet Coke while watching YouTube mudlark videos.
And in this moment everything seems right with the world.

Listening to some of the "take my kids, please" folks and while I'm sympathetic to their plight, I can only conclude that many people who are in the back to school come hell or high water camp have to be admitting their parenting is more dangerous than the kid getting the virus.
But I am sympathetic.

My wife: I want steaks tonight
The universe:

Morning. Let's just stick to the facts today and leave the value judgment at the bottom of the next coffee.

Happy Friday. Is the work day over yet?