katre @katre@masto.henchmonkey.org

@joshg Farewell, brother, we'll miss you.

@maenad @RAPIDPUNCHES That is amazing!

@maenad @RAPIDPUNCHES I can't wait to see it.

@signalstation Funnily, my house is now cleaner than it's been in months, simply because I have to stay here all the time and look at it.

Bread machine success! Delicious lunch tomorrow.

@wsteria I do not have your blog address and would appreciate reading it. No Facebook so I can't do that, unfortunately.

@ksonney I love that they are both Daryl, but then who is Larry?

@maenad Social distancing! Minimize time at the laundromat.

@aldersprig I love me some Belgariad, so yay someone else liking that.

I love the Dresden Files, but there are so many books now I can't make myself reread them, it's just too much work.

@wsteria That is a totally rational thing to do. Rest and recover, friend.

I'm starting to get a little buggy. Last time I actually left the house was Sunday, since then it's been working-from-home or schoolteaching-from-home, with breaks to clean the home or cook food for my family.

I know a lot of people have it worse (I'm still getting paid! I have a spouse to help wrangle everything!) but I need to figure out a way to get some downtime before I start climbing the walls.

I guess the upside to staying home with my family is that my commute is an hour shorter, so I get to sleep an hour later.

Of course, I've been combatting this by going to sleep an hour later.

:shruggie:

In case people haven't noticed, I am trying to toot more to try and overcome social isolation of being permanently WFH/homeschool teaching.

One of my favorite things about work is realizing that I just absent-mindedly kicked off about 15,000 tests and a) I'll have results in under an hour, and b) no one cares about how much that costs.

@vicorva I am always unreasonably happy when people choose their own names. In my head, you are always Vi (pronounced with an "aye", because I'm a yank), but if you prefer something different I will gladly change.

So far, during the morning my wife wrangles the kids (three, cause we also have my niece) and works intermittently, and in the afternoon it's my turn. This way we each get four productive hours and the kids get some semblance of an education.

I am hoping that after a week or so this will be easier. I have a sneaking suspicion that schools in NYC aren't re-opening this year.

@vicorva Thank you! It's a lovely little story.

@maenad Oof, those are no fun. Glad you're better!