Hope y'all are hanging in there. I'm doing better than many if not most. Healthy and feeling good, as are the loved ones...the important thing.  Freezer full of meat and cubbards full so eating good. Not much else you can ask for, right?

Still working albeit from home, with a 20% paycut till further notice. Would probably do better moneywise being furloughed or laid off with the extra 6 hundo the feds are adding on, but I figured I'd hold on for the timebeing. If pay isnt restored in another month or two things could get dicey. Hopefully more stimulus bread from Uncle Sam is forthcoming. All these people out of work...I worry about the people who can't get unemployment or the pittance stimulus. And of course all those lost or suffering from this damn virus. Mother Nature really doing her thing tryin' to thin an overpopulated herd...not surprising in that sense, probably long overdue.

Isolating with the ladyfriend and her daughter, homeschool online is for the birds but we do our best. Get out to the local park everyday to maintain semblance of sanity. Rockin' the skateboard like I'm a teenager again lol. Missing live music the most, yearning for the day the right to peaceably assemble joyfully is restored. I don't think social animals like us can live like this for more than a couple months and still call it livin'.  

Our company gave us the choice of using a floating holiday some other time but I decided to just take it now.  I'm very fortunate to be working - in some cases more than full time.  We are full steam ahead from home.  Feeling extremely fortunate for that but it's also very stressful.  Not nearly as stressful as for all my service industry friends though.

It's not something I would normally do but these are not normal times.  It's really very good.

Hollywood Reporter

Arguably the best drama you're not watching, or haven't even discovered, Amazon's gem returns for more existential spy action, laughs and folk songs.

We've never really discussed politics and based on their comments, I was never sure which way they leaned and I really preferred not to know.
Well, today I found out that my sweet old lady neighbor is a hardcore Trumper. Lordy! I spent an hour gently shooting down all the misinformation being spewed about the "fake news lying about Tr*mp", "the wonder drug - hydroxychloroquine", "Nancy Pelosi and her ice-cream", "Nancy Pelosi not doing anything to help small business", etc.
They are the first Tr*mpers I've dealt with in person. I don't know how those of you who deal with it on a daily basis handle it. It is exhausting!

"The 2018 Kīlauea eruptions were one of the most extraordinary sequences in at least 200 years, according to the scientists, with rifts opening, summit explosions and collapses, and a magnitude 6.9 earthquake. But the trigger was not known.

"However, several months of unusually high rainfall preceded the eruption, with one 24-hour period setting a record for the entire US. This flood of water would have percolated down into fissures and pores in the rocks of the volcano, as far as 1.8 miles (2.9km) below the surface.

"The scientists calculated this pushed up the pore pressure inside the rocks to the highest level in almost 50 years, weakening them and allowing magma to push up from below.

"The scientists also looked at eruptions of Kīlauea since 1790 and found that these historical events were twice as likely to happen in the rainy season."

The report itself strongly suggests that the effects of climate change, especially excessive rainfall, may influence volcanic activity.

It was on TCM so I recorded it.  I don't remember seeing it since tv weirdly.  I was a huge fan in theaters.  Several times.

So I got a clothesline.  It's awsum.  Something I probably would never have done but air dried clothes are awsum.  Try it.

This won't happen.  To be fair, even if the west wanted to, is there enough money?

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that "the worst is yet ahead of us" in the coronavirus outbreak, raising new alarm bells about the pandemic just as many countries are beginning to ease restrictive measures, Politico reports.

Said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: "It has a very dangerous combination and this is happening ... like the 1918 flu that killed up to 100 million people But now we have technology, we can prevent that disaster, we can prevent that kind of crisis."

He added: "Trust us. The worst is yet ahead of us. Let's prevent this tragedy. It's a virus that many people still don't understand."

But there is a developing bifurcation in the public.

There are the smart ones.  Who wear some form of protection, mask, gloves or both, and the others.

The others not only do not do this but often, if there's more than one of them, makes jokes about the 70ish percent of their fellow shoppers wearing protection.

Eventually, if what we have been told is true, this behavior will bring results.

I'm really trying to think that's bad.

What I accidentally discovered is that ants really really hate the dilute bleach solution I have been using to hose down everything I buy and bring into the house.

This weekend the globe printed 15 pages of obituaries.

Very excited

Found it in the dregs of Prime but it's great.  Great cast and all.
Somehow I completely missed it.  Never remember hearing of it.

It seems ahead of its time.  It would probably be more successful now than 2006

"The Lost Room"- An Overlooked Brilliant TV Series

These conversations were underway before Trump suggested that researchers investigate whether doctors could cure coronavirus by injecting people with disinfectant. But a source said it finally seems to have dawned on Trump, after this incident, that these briefings aren't helping him. The CDC and other public health officials responded obliquely to the comment by telling people not to drink bleach.

Is Kim-Jong-Un Dead? Reports Suggest Kim Could Be In A Vegetative State

Type the word "fashionable" into google

The first choice is fashionable face mask

It's starting to feel like all Biden has to do is not be Trump.  People are deciding they have had enough Trump.  Biden just has to be a viable alternative.

Biden's invisible campaign is winning

In other good news for Biden, the rights desperate attempt to revive 30 year old accusations is running smack into the Covid wall.

The steamer had left Helena, AR the prior afternoon and was nearing Memphis, TN when the tragedy occurred. An estimated 1,168 people lost their lives, although the exact number is still in dispute because the steamboat's manifest clearly underestimated the exact number of soldiers on board. Regardless, the Sultana's destruction remains to this day the deadliest non-combat disaster in U.S. maritime history.

In 1982, the wreckage of the Sultana was located by archaeologists in a dry field on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi. Due to the Great Flood of 1927, the river had shifted course, which is presently two miles east of the sight of the wreck.

it totally is

There is even a website called rabbitagility.com

Even better if you look to the left there is gerbil, goat and fish agility.  The las one interests me since I have a fish that can jump 15 out of the water and some times knocks the heavy glass tops flying.

Reckoning, now available on Netflix, is quite possibly the most relentlessly bleak drama I've seen for a while. Of course, any show whose plot is about the hunt for a serial killer whose victims are local teenage girls is going to be pretty bleak; it's subject matter that you don't usually find much levity in. In Reckoning, however, the bleakness is baked into every single frame. Every glance, expression, and dialogue any of the characters share is grim and weighs heavily and hangs over each and every moment. This is not one that really lends itself to binge-watching, I found that between episodes I needed to come up for air and take a deep breath to cleanse myself.