For the first time since Tuesday, I haven’t gotten a “Screen Time” alert on my phone telling me that I’ve been on Facebook and Twitter too much. I haven’t felt compelled to check the New York Times and Washington Post sites every few minutes. The only TV I’ve watched was the last few minutes of last night’s SNL.

And to add to the decompression, we spent the afternoon with friends in their pool – safely distanced, of course! We might still be there if it hadn’t started raining.

I could get used to this.

I had plans for today. Of course there would be walking and Torah Study and Shir Shabbat services and walking, but after lunch, I planned to work on photos or maybe see if I could improve the way I get from Paprika to a printed meal plan for the week.

That all stopped at 8:30am when I saw a tweet claiming that the AP had called the election for Joe Biden – I checked their feed and it was, of course, true!

We still took a walk before Torah Study, but I was joy-scrolling the entire time. The chatter before Torah Study officially started was all about the election. And after services, while Diane was learning about a new version of the software she uses to make photo books, I was glued to my computer and phone, scrolling and enjoying.

This evening, we watched President-Elect Biden and Vice-President-Elect Harris’s speeches, then some of the after-speech commentary.

And we plan to watch SNL in a few minutes – the cold open should be interesting.

Maybe I’ll work on photos tomorrow.