Corona, and, if it lasts until tick season, lime updates.

So, weirdly, I've actually been pretty busy during The Great Hunkering Down of 2020, at least so far.

Let me explain. Normally, my wife and I run our own online business through Amazon & Etsy selling decorations for Weddings, Baby showers, baptisms...basically everything that's been put on hold during this crisis.

So we had to shuffle some assets around, which is why my asset is working at Home Depot these days. In fairness, I'd been considering getting a part time job with them for a while, mostly because I was in there every other weekend, so I might as well get paid for it.

The problem is that, like many other businesses, HD is fairly ethical. They're still open because they're essential (like, say, if your water heater goes out). Furthermore, to help stem the spread of the disease, they're limiting stores to 100 customers at a time. They are also stepping up big in terms of fulfilling online orders for curbside pickup. The issue there is they need about half the store to run online orders, the other half of the store to keep the counts accurate (with varying degrees of success), and the other half of the store to run the actual departments.

For those of you who, like I, are the product of what is charitably referred to as "A Liberal Arts Education", might be somewhat slow to realize, that's one half too few.

For the record, I majored in Philosophy in college. So, not only am I qualified to ask "Would you like Fries with your meal?", I can also ask "Why?"¹

_{1:In reality, any philosopher worth his salt would ask "What Fries?", But this is a rabbit hole we shall not pursue .}

It is not all sturm und drang, however. We're not where we should be, financially, but we're not struggling either. So far, other than some belt tightening, the worst that's happened to us is I've managed to develop a truly stupendous blister on one of my feets from all the walking I've done. We're not living hand to mouth like many are at the moment.

It's been truly humbling to see everyone stepping up during this upheaval. Just this morning, I woke up to find my wife valiantly protecting me from the virus.²

_{2: She was holding a pillow over my face. She's a sweetheart.}

Be of good cheer, keep faith, and we'll all get through this. And keep writing. I will if you all will.