Done Since 2020-06-14

It's been a week and a half. Feels like a month and a half. But we finally got L moved into the Box Room. That required a couple of 3-hour sessions with L' and A' Friday and the previous Friday, plus another bit with A' on Saturday, the actual moving day. Huge stress relief after it was all done.

This all meant having people in the house. They wore masks, of course, and disinfected touched surfaces afterward. But still. Stress. It will be another two weeks of quarantine before I'll be completely comfortable, despite the low risk. It's not paranoia if the monsters are really out to get you. The fact that the monsters are invisibly microscopic doesn't really matter; they have us outnumbered.

Getting the cats into the bedroom was sometimes challenging. Last week we managed to herd Ticia successfuly, and yesterday we just took advantage of the fact that both cats sometimes decide to sleep on our bed. Friday was more difficult, and stressful. Ticia ended up cowering under a shelf in the living room. I managed to slide her out and carry her to the bedroom, and was rather surprised that she let me. Desti was easy as usual -- she likes it when I carry her around.

Every once in a while someone on 7cups comes up with something good, which is pretty much the only reason I keep reading it. This time it was "I do hope you understand that you can’t fix everything. / I hope you understand that no one thinks you can, and no one is expecting you to." It's a nice thought, and there are times when I almost believe it. But sometimes nobody else can, either, and things just stay broken. And when the broken things include my brain and Colleen's body, ...

Link of the week was MMR vaccine could protect against the worst symptoms of COVID-19, by way of siderea. A little surprising. I wonder whether that's part of the age vs severity correlation: the rubella component (the part that appears to give the most protection against COVID-19) was the last to be introduced, in 1969. That was the year I graduated from college, and by that point I'd already had it. Talk to your doctor about this.

( Notes & links, as usual )