cats, meeting notes, covid-19, 354,

[elainegrey]

Edward got out of the fence Wednesday late afternoon. Attracted to the fence by Christine and i sitting in the mossy glade (i was trying to just breathe and release the overwhelm), he found a hole and slipped through and then -- you know, it didn't look like we were going anywhare, maybe check out the bird feeder?

I spent time weaving wire and repairing the hole, but i didn't have heavy gauge wire like the fence.

Yesterday at lunch he disappeared, we stalked around, called, rang, then posted to NextDoor, texted my sister (just for solidarity). He came back around 1:30 -- a two hour outing. All the cats had to spend the rest of the day inside after that.

This morning i needed to let them out, particularly for fear of some inappropriate relief. We had bought a glowing pink collar for Marlowe, so i found the excess clear plastic and cut an Edward appropriate length. Out he went with the glowing tell-tale. I bustled about some things checking on him every few minutes, but he just seemed to do the usual patrol. I was back in the bedroom and could see him sitting on the steps.... and then he went back down to the stretch of the repaired fence. I think he just shoved his head under and slipped out that way. The glowing pink light was easy to follow and eventually recapture.

So, there's that.

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Looks like we got a little rain last night. I really ought to get lettuce seedlings out in the garden because only the very dear hydroponic bib lettuce was available in the store. I'll eat violet leaves, thank you. (But Christine will have the bib.) I look at the national weather and see snow is called for some of y'all and ... we have 80°F high today.


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Meeting is going to use Zoom for the duration, so i get to be Zoom coach.

I am tired. I wonder if it's right to go see Mom & Dad.

I don't know how anyone has time to look at free content. I was days behind in just finding my email and last night realized i had messages from days ago i hadn't seen. Not sure how that came about.


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In good news, my caps key SEEMS TO BE WORKING! Huzzah, one thing i don't need to sort.

I can't figure out why my nice conferencing video camera won't connect to my personal laptop, so there's that.

And i can't figure out why so many people seem to have so much more time. No commute, Christine says.

The grocery trip last night was impressive -- no paper products at all, wow.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I can't figure out why my nice conferencing video camera won't connect to my personal laptop, so there's that.

Ugh, things that don't connect are so frustrating. I finally had to give up a printer/scanner because first the printing function wouldn't connect and later the scanning wouldn't either. I had to get a new microphone too for a different computer when it failed to connect either. New device? Plugged and played. ::shakes fist at designed obsolescence::

[weofodthignen]

Oh, Edward ...

The commute thing is real. I recall my one-hour or more subway commutes in NYC to various college campuses, and I know many Bay Area workers have moved out to the remote North Bay to find housing; that's presumably part of the pressure to extend the creaky old BART system around the head of the Bay. But also many jobs are forbidden under the shelter-in-place rules, mine included (my manager sent me a nastygram when my response to his e-mail did not include woe about the loss of pay; I just hope the store and more importantly all of us who work there survive), although those who clean necessary facilities still have to commute, usually on public transit—they're getting opprobrium in London, I notice. Big shake-up, many people simply out of work now, others adjusting to working at home, esp. with kids around, although people buying up staples such as toilet paper was wise forethought in most cases.

Be well, and stroke your cats and Carrie for me, please.

M

[egret]

Brave Edward!

Chauncey never ventures further than 3 feet from my apartment door. She looks around the corridor and then seems to recall her food and fluffy bed are back inside and turns right around. <3

Hope you get some rest soon. Don't visit your folks if you don't feel well. If you ever felt you had transmitted anything, you would feel so awful. Can they facetime?

[elainegrey]

The visiting of my folks is to help dad care for Mom. He's not getting her to walk -- i don't think she's walked for ten days now. That's a lot of effort to loose.

I do hope my sister and her family come out of quarantine without having contracted anything. And i'm so glad they know my niece had Flu-B.

[egret]

Yes, I regretted this comment when I read your subsequent entry and realized it was more complicated. No good choices. I am sorry things are like this.

[elainegrey]

That's OK - there's so much to keep in mind right now, and even then it is good advice!