I just discovered that, technically speaking, I’ve been using the wrong title for these blog entries since July 2, 2020 (Day 108), when Santa Clara County replaced its Shelter-in-Place Order with a Risk Reduction Order. “Risk Reduction Journal” just doesn’t have the right feeling, so I’m going to stick with “Shelter-in-Place Journal”, at least until we spend a night away from home.

If this had been a normal year, Diane would have been spending tonight away from home, at a multi-day “Pixels 2 Pages” session, probably at a hotel in Morgan Hill. But since it’s 2020, she’s attending from home – she’s been in the office on Zoom all day. At least we were able to have lunch and dinner together!

And it may be just as well that we were together – the software she’s using (Forever Artisan) is Windows-only. The SSD on her laptop filled up just before lunch, and we spent a while carving out enough space to let her continue working. We got rid of a lot of Windows cruft, and I discovered that I still had my Dropbox folder on her machine, along with Quicken backup files from two years ago and the like – after clearing that out, she’s got 23GB available, which should get her through the weekend. 256 GB seemed like a lot of storage when we bought the laptop, but it’s clearly insufficient – time for an external drive so she can move completed projects and resource kits off the SSD.

This marks 200 days in a row that I’ve written a blog entry. Not all of them have been gems, but I hope they’ve mostly been worth reading. My IBM colleague, Jessica Wu Ramirez, suggested I insert animated confetti to celebrate hitting this milestone, and I’m always eager to respond to reader requests (especially when the reader provides all the information needed!), so Jessica, this is for you!

The air has been bad all day today, but it was just barely clean enough this morning to let us go out on walks (Diane went during my Toastmasters meeting, and I went afterwards). That would have been it for actual exercise if I hadn’t also had a stress echocardiogram scheduled – I think being put on a treadmill and told to walk as long as possible as they keep increasing the speed and elevation counts as exercise, don’t you? I even remembered to start a workout on my Apple Watch so I’d get credit!

My cardiologist was happy with the results, and I was happy to go get lunch afterwards. I don’t think she would have been happy with my choice – tri-tip sandwich and fries – but it sure tasted good! I thought about eating it on one of the outside tables at the restaurant, but the air discouraged me, so I brought it home.

No new progress on fixing my photo workflow issues, but they didn’t stop me from making a first editing pass on photos from Rhodes – here’s a photo of the Mosaic of Poseidon and the Giant Polybotes from the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta as proof.