A question or two
Nice weather today, and apparently the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin are going to hit peak bloom by the end of the week. How are the authorities going to keep people away from the flowering trees? Should they do so?
Of course, the real question is how long this pandemic is going to last. Today Maryland postponed its primary election from April 28 to June 2. Great, so now I won't get my election-judge stipend for three full months. Not that it's a huge stipend -- $200 plus $50 for the training session -- but every bit of money is good. (And, seriously, will anyone bother going to the polls in Maryland in June? Already the outcome is pretty darned obvious.)
There are still some good things in the world. Today my cousin Dick's wife, Margaret, turned 70 years old. My Laurel friend in the Kingdom of Lochac sent me a PDF of a hard-to-find book. And tonight I watched a live, online Dropkick Murphys concert -- streamed from somewhere in Massachusetts -- with the boy toy in person and a bunch of SCA friends via a Facebook "watch party." So that was fun.
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Of course, the real question is how long this pandemic is going to last. Today Maryland postponed its primary election from April 28 to June 2. Great, so now I won't get my election-judge stipend for three full months. Not that it's a huge stipend -- $200 plus $50 for the training session -- but every bit of money is good. (And, seriously, will anyone bother going to the polls in Maryland in June? Already the outcome is pretty darned obvious.)
There are still some good things in the world. Today my cousin Dick's wife, Margaret, turned 70 years old. My Laurel friend in the Kingdom of Lochac sent me a PDF of a hard-to-find book. And tonight I watched a live, online Dropkick Murphys concert -- streamed from somewhere in Massachusetts -- with the boy toy in person and a bunch of SCA friends via a Facebook "watch party." So that was fun.
This entry was originally posted at https://luscious-purple.dreamwidth.org/251706.html. Please feel free to comment either here or there.