I dreamed last night that I turned on the TV and saw, to my surprise, that the men’s basketball national championship game was happening — between a major-conference team (I think Villanova?) and, shockingly, the Lafayette Leopards, out of the Patriot League. Lafayette’s stunning participation aside, I was surprised to see a title game happening at all, because, even in the… Read more »
Monday, March 16 Day 4 of my Pandemic Lockdown was also, in a sense, Day 1 of the New Normal: the first weekday with the kids home from school, and me officially working from home for the foreseeable future — thanks to Sunday’s e-mails from my employer, which had flipped normal work-attendance practices on their head by indicating that I… Read more »
Friday, April 10 With Easter two days away, and Becky at home for the second straight day (after four E.R. shifts in five days from Saturday-Wednesday), she and the younger girls did some egg-decorating Friday morning, using the Cool Whip & food coloring method: Whipped cream was featured again at dinner time, atop the 8-year-old dessert chef’s jello creation: In… Read more »
Thursday, April 9 The coolest thing on Thursday was the 8pm howl, which our seventh-grader & I experienced (and participated in) from Greenway Park in Stapleton, where we could hear the howling more loudly than from our front porch. Here’s a video: Earlier Thursday, it was Day 3 of DPS’s official online school, and I snapped some pictures of the… Read more »
Wednesday, April 8 I awoke Wednesday morning to a disaster: we were out of ground coffee!! #PANIC Thrust into action by crisis, I had to find our strategic reserve of coffee beans (in the pantry), then locate the relevant pieces of the Vitamix for dry-blending, and then figure out how the hell to do… well… this: Success! Coffee! The big… Read more »
Tuesday, April 7 When Tuesday dawned, it meant the girls’ Extended Spring Break was officially over. Hello, First Day of Online School: (Well, first day of official, district-run online school, anyway. The younger girls’ teachers independently tried out some informal online-school stuff during the first two weeks of “break,” while the school district was figuring out what its overall plan… Read more »
First of all, a housekeeping note. I’ve decided to proceed on two tracks with this blog series: I’ll do some contemporaneous “Pandemic Lockdown” posts about a current or recent day (like this one, re: two days ago), and other posts that are more retrospective, looking back on an earlier day or days (like the preceding post about March 13-15). If all goes well,… Read more »
I actually didn’t take a ton of photos or videos in the first very first days of our lockdown. So this post may not be as fun as later ones, as it will be mostly text and screenshots. Once we got a bit further into it, I started thinking more consciously about documenting this lockdown period as a moment in… Read more »
I’ve already covered the broader context, the screenshots, the tweets, the “where were you” moments, etc., of Wednesday 3/11 and Thursday 3/12 in my “Day 0” post. But Thursday late afternoon and evening were actually sort of the beginning of my “Pandemic Lockdown” — i.e., the period of time when I’m staying home from the office, and from most normal… Read more »
I’m planning to do a series of blog posts using photos, videos, etc., to document each day (or maybe eventually each week or whatever) of my experience of the coronavirus crisis and the resulting shelter-in-place situation. I realize that my individual experience isn’t significant in the grand scheme of things. (Though Becky’s experience, as an E.R. nurse, is far more… Read more »
