Category: daily drivel
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slow rise
1,228 more people tested, 1.4 time more people than reported yesterday. 41 new cases, 1.2 times more than yesterday. 11 new cases in Dane County. No new deaths reported. Trump wants to lift restrictions by the end of the week because the economy’s not making enough money. Sick and dead workers don’t make money, you… Read.
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#safeathome
855 more people tested. Thirty-five more confirmed cases. One added death in Milwaukee County. No new positives in Dane County. The governor ordered all non-essential services shut down tomorrow and told everyone to stay indoors. Working at home again this week. I’m not sure how much I like this working from home. On the one… Read.
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thirty-six percent
1702 more people tested. One-hundred more cases today over yesterday’s total, a thirty-six percent increase, can probably be attributed to more testing but is right in line with the daily thirty-three percent increase seen in other countries. No increase in the number of deaths, thank goodness. Source: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/outbreaks/index.htm Read.
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out and about
I left the house yesterday to go shopping for groceries but I did not feel good about it. I’m not sure there’s any way to do that and feel good about it. Here’s what I mean: For as long as this pandemic is raging, we should all be acting as if we are contagious and… Read.
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hindsight
So we’ve just come back from a cruise. In hindsight, going ahead with our plans to cruise was probably one of the dumber decisions we’ve made, now that it’s become clear the nation was already diving headfirst into the calamity that is the novel corona virus pandemic. At the time it seemed as though we… Read.
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verandah
Best part of our cruise? The balcony. I’m not kidding even a little bit about this. There were lots of things about the cruise that were great, but the number one best thing about it was sitting on the balcony with a book and a fruity drink, listening to the waves whoosh off the sides… Read.
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So long Boo
So long, Boo. I miss your crooked little tail already. Read.
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hot ones
Tim tipped us off to a show he watches on You Tube called Hot Ones. In it, Sean Evans interviews celebrities while they eat hot wings that get hotter as the show goes on. Some of the celebrities bail out before they get to the hottest wings, earning themselves a place on the Hot Ones… Read.
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bifocals
I’m wearing my first-ever pair of bifocals now. Well, not right this minute. I’m nearsighted, so I don’t need corrective lenses to see a computer screen that’s right in front of my face. There are times, though, when I have to look at someone else’s computer screen and it gets weird because to get close… Read.
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tremendous
For once, he’s not lying. Read.
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