Sunday evening post

 Late, because I had a Good Cat on my lap.  

How does someone go through a day under pandemic conditions, and a rainy one at that?  

I read news stories, using Google News to accumulate them.  At noon, I went upstairs and checked the mail at work.  Not surprisingly, there was a pile there waiting.  If my backup did much with it, it was hard to tell.  In about an hour, things were organized; nine requests for tool assistance, four remaining (out of the 8 originally there) requests for tool assistance without sending the tool, and one request for a conference call.  That can all wait until tomorrow morning.

BB made a pot of chili, I vacuumed the house, we spent time with each other and with our cats.  

I watched some volleyball, an episode of 30 Rock, and the remaining half-hour or so of Line King.  

Friday off

 A day off from work.  (With pay, I might add.)  How did I pass the time?  

BB and I got in the Toyota, I put on chapter one of Blott, and drove to Bethlehem ShopRite for some seltzer and a few other small things.  A pint of Ben and Jerry's for $2.88, for instance.  Then back home with chapter two.  

Dropped off the ice cream and went back out to Wally's in Emmaus for a sandwich.  Home again to eat some of it.

One more trip, this time to Wegmans for stuff BB didn't find at ShopRite.  

Then, listened to some of chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby, baked some M&M cookies, and cued up The Lady Eve.  (Which I'm going to return to now.)

Stafford, R.I.P.

 He was a good cat.

Thursday night

 Stafford died today.  He was a good cat at Tabby's Place.

Another day in our house, going outside only long enough to check the mailbox (and find it empty). 

Nebraska vs. #1 Wisconsin postponed due to the pandemic.  

Quality Time this morning with Nelson, and this evening with Schwirley girly.  

Another 4 chapters of Blott in the headphones.

A day off (with pay) tomorrow, and I'm hoping to go for a ride somewhere.  Weather forecast: sunny and low 40's.

The house is dark except for the laptop screen.  News from French network LCI in the headphones.  Subject:  Covid-19, what else.  

Tuesday evening

Watching:  Purdue whipping Indiana in straight sets.

Eating:  chicken murphy, followed by a Dove bar.

Listening:  audiobook of Blott on the Landscape arrived today.

Backing up:  almost all the media files are copied to the new external drive.  All that's left is photos from 2008-2021.  

Pretty uncompelling, but at least I'm not shoveling.

OK, that's enough checking in.  Time to listen to Blott.

Saturday Evening Post

Happy Walter Becker's birthday to one and all.

Events of the day:  WalMart to pick up a prescription for BB.  Also cat food, bird food, cleaning supplies, and some nourishment for ourselves.  

AOC has helped raise $3 million for Texas, and today I chipped in a few bucks.  Her activity is a nice contrast to what Senator Cruz has done.  Reasonable persons on all points of the political spectrum agree.

Baked M&M cookies this afternoon.  I may never buy an Oreo again.  

Then got a haircut, the first since October.  Locks of Love will appreciate the gift, if they don't mind the grey.  

After that, to Costco, where parking spaces were in short supply and the checkout line stretched to the back wall.  Walking out empty-handed, I found a shiny quarter in the parking lot.  In the kitty for Tabby's Place it goes.

Looking back a little, BB called a local plumber to replace the faucet in the kitchen, and the replacement is an improvement.  Of the 2-out-of-three choice in such cases, we elected Good and Fast and passed on Cheap.  

But, we tell ourselves, it's covered by one of the stimulus checks from Washington.  We're spending it locally, helping the economy, just like we did with the garage door opener replacements last year.  (Kids, if you have any aptitude for the trades, you can make a good living.  I mean a *good* living.)

Thus ended another day in winter 2020-2021.  Now the TV's on and I'm trying to figure out spikeball.  

A nice surprise

The Big Ten Network's top-rated sport is football, followed by men's basketball.  In third place, though, is women's volleyball.