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Mar. 23rd, 2020 05:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterI didn't get anything posted yesterday, but I've got a good excuse for that. I didn't get enough sleep the night before, and after a big meal of half-price Domino's pizza, I went to bed for a nap around 5. Woke up just after midnight. I guess I must have really needed the sleep.
Had a nice video phone call with my parents. They were lucky enough to have stocked up on groceries (and, indeed, TP, more or less by accident) before the catastrophe hit. (And only one of them even actually uses much TP anymore; there's a bidet for the benefit of my one-armed Mom.) There are a couple of things they're low on, but they might make a point of getting in to a nearby Wal-Mart for the elderly-shoppers hour at the 6 a.m. start of business to get them. If they're going to have to go to a store, I suppose going at an hour restricted to the elderly when almost nobody would be there anyway would be the best time for it.
Wrote a couple more pieces for TeleRead—one about Barnes & Noble's possibility of layoffs, and another piece looking at Corona's potential impact on movie theaters. Definitely a societal sea change we're going through.
I continue to be disgusted at how politically polarized the crisis has become. Republican local governments are being slow to act and rightists in general are pooh-poohing the disease and thinking that we're overreacting. I can't help thinking that these right-side antics are going to lead to more people getting killed unnecessarily. And that's not even getting into how Republicans want to use this to help out big business, rather than individual people. I can only hope that it redounds against the right once this is all over.
Oh well. Should probably nap before work tomorrow (today) and try to get sleep back on schedule.
Had a nice video phone call with my parents. They were lucky enough to have stocked up on groceries (and, indeed, TP, more or less by accident) before the catastrophe hit. (And only one of them even actually uses much TP anymore; there's a bidet for the benefit of my one-armed Mom.) There are a couple of things they're low on, but they might make a point of getting in to a nearby Wal-Mart for the elderly-shoppers hour at the 6 a.m. start of business to get them. If they're going to have to go to a store, I suppose going at an hour restricted to the elderly when almost nobody would be there anyway would be the best time for it.
Wrote a couple more pieces for TeleRead—one about Barnes & Noble's possibility of layoffs, and another piece looking at Corona's potential impact on movie theaters. Definitely a societal sea change we're going through.
I continue to be disgusted at how politically polarized the crisis has become. Republican local governments are being slow to act and rightists in general are pooh-poohing the disease and thinking that we're overreacting. I can't help thinking that these right-side antics are going to lead to more people getting killed unnecessarily. And that's not even getting into how Republicans want to use this to help out big business, rather than individual people. I can only hope that it redounds against the right once this is all over.
Oh well. Should probably nap before work tomorrow (today) and try to get sleep back on schedule.