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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 7, Day 132: My tiny victory with the oven was followed up by a power outage. I told the oven VERY STERNLY that it had better come back from the power outage fine...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 7, Day 125: We’re still figuring out the rhythms of drop off and pick up. When PiC has an 8 am meeting, he can’t do drop off. Since we have an excessively narrow...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 7, Day 118: The first week of school, which was all of two days last week, trounced me. I was exhausted in body and spirit by the time retrieval of both children...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 7, Day 111: Not to be all about the confirmation bias but I’ve been harboring a not-at-all-secret fear that this layoff will be as bad or worse than the last one....
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 7, Day 104: I’m doing the math for next week and with the kindergarten class letting out at 12:30 for a month, I’m only going to have roughly 4 hours of kid-free...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 7, Day 97: It’s possible that mistakes were made. There was a free Gundum build and take workshop. I power walked the kids to it and we each received kits. Now...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 90: Hm. It’s possible the depression-like feeling of the past weeks was the physical and emotional fatigue. I’ve had both kids sick, one after the other. I’m...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 83: Some stranger on LinkedIn asked my laid off friend for a meeting about their former role ahead of their interview with former bosses. For the job they...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 76: Microburst cleaning: I bought a bulk pack of customizable compartment bead organizers and used one of them to organize my desk supplies. I’ve been using...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 69: Welp, this might be me paying the price for thinking I could do two medical things in a row: a massage to loosen up the lumps that pass for muscles and a...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 62: I’ve never wandered into the clothing section at Costco before but after seeing Maggie‘s excellent linen pants recently I figured it could be worth a...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 55: We’ve been doing a LOT of walking the past week, much more than normal for me, and my fatigue and pain are (mostly) only ratcheting up a couple notches...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 48: JB and I had the school lost and found project scheduled and we’d invited one of their friends to come help out since they were bored at home. I didn’t...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 41: Somehow we landed on some cruise lines’ mailing lists which is starting to make me batty. We don’t cruise. Stop sending us junk that I have to clean up!...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 34: I’ve had an intermittent sore throat for three weeks. Four weeks? I expect that’s the stress expressing itself in immune insufficiency – my body’s so...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 27: I’ve got maybe 3 months left. I’ve calculated the PTO to be earned and, if the math is right, I’ll have 3 weeks to add to the severance runway. Did the...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 22: Butts. Home insurance and earthquake insurance are due this week. That takes the shine off my win against Comcast – they had several outages and I got...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 15: I wanted to try this roasted cauliflower recipe from Smitten Kitchen but we only had florets and no pumpkin seeds, so I accidentally overroasted the cut...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 8: We’ve finally gotten some information on the layoff. I’ll have months to wrap up work, though there’s not much of it (any?) that I care about. Now that...
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Year 7 of COVID in the Bay Area Year 7, Day 1: We have finally gotten the garage door fixed! It cost a bundle ($$$$) but we got a good price from the guy we used with more services for less than the...
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