Five weeks down, how many to go?

I spent most of the day working on code – for fun, of course! The weather was not conducive to walking, but we took our usual two long walks anyway (and got drizzled on for our troubles).

We felt lazy at lunchtime, so we ordered from Panera Bread; I was going to have it delivered, but the quoted time was 45-50 minutes versus 10 minutes to pick up the food ourselves – we drove. They brought the food out to the car as soon as we pulled up – nice and smooth.

The sewing light on Diane’s sewing machine burned out last week; needless to say, Sears no longer carries it. But someone on eBay named klanddj has a good supply of NOS (new old stock) bulbs and now we have two in hand. Our friend Sarah also sent Diane some bias tape and it arrived today – there are more masks in our future.

And it’s been more than two days since I’ve seen a dropped packet; I hope I can safely give Comcast back their modem, which is still in its shrink-wrap. I just have to figure out how. But that’s for tomorrow.

The Farmers’ Market was open and doing a fairly brisk business – they’ve gotten better at marking places for people to wait and stay properly distanced, but there are still people wandering around not paying attention. We picked up fish (as usual) and were happy to find Penny Lane Farm selling tomato plants (she’s only at the market a few days a year). We picked up four varieties of cherry tomatoes and planted them right after lunch – wish us luck!

Diane runs Shir Hadash’s book club, so she’s on the mailing list for the Jewish Community Library’s brochures. They were going to have an interesting-looking lecture in San Francisco on March 26: A Slippery Slope: Jews, Schmaltz, and Crisco in the Age of Industrial Food with Rachel B. Gross – but it wasn’t interesting enough to drive up to see it. But thanks to COVID-19, the lecture was postponed to today and put on Zoom, so we went – and it was worth it.

It would have been even better if it hadn’t been Zoombombed! I do have to grudgingly admire one of the trolls – she kept suggesting that the host press Alt-F4 to solve the problem; it had been a long time since I’d been on Windows, but I was pretty sure that was the way you close a program. Fortunately, the host didn’t fall for it and they were able to get rid of the trolls fairly quickly, and Professor Gross kept her cool, despite the obscenities and other hassles.

And so ends another week. Or was it the beginning of another week?