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Introvert to My Bones

This quarantine thing is really working well for me.  I really have next to nothing to complain about.

11-Apr 12-Apr 13-Apr 14-Apr 15-Apr
Did you stay home today? Bernice Day Jericho Market Yes, 100% X’s snow tires Jericho Market for milk
What was for dinner? Curbside Kitchen Table Bistro Mexican casserole Split pea soup Curbside meatball hero Turkey joe!
What business or charity did you support? Curbside Kitchen Table Bistro Jericho Market Pizzeria Verita gift card Mountain High Pie Empire!

And Vermont in general, and Chittenden in particular, BTW, is totally SQUASHING it.

Chittenden Positive test results 351 364 372 372 372
Vermont Positive test results* 711 727 748 752 759
Total tests conducted 9,258 9,841 10,365 10,585 11,081
Deaths+ 25 27 28 29 30
People being monitored 40 39 38 35 32
People who have completed monitoring 785 786 793 796 800
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 32 34 33 31 33
Hospitalized patients under investigation for COVID-19 45 33 33 33 30

Book Corner 2020.17

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Northanger Abbey: an Annotated Edition

Jane Austen at her best – so much better than the humorless MANSFIELD PARK, whose annotated edition I read earlier this year. Jane as narrator is just a barrel of laughs in this one. I bookmarked a few of my favorite quotes.

“Mrs. Allen immediately recognized the features of a former schoolfellow and intimate, whom she had seen only once since their respective marriages, and that many years ago. Their joy on this meeting was very great, as well it might, since they had been contented to know nothing of each other for the last fifteen years.”

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull or the jackonet.”

“The expectations of his friend Morland, from the first over-rated, had ever since his introduction to Isabella, been gradually increasing; and by merely adding twice as much for the grandeur of the moment, by doubling what he chose to think the amount of Mr. Morland’s preferment, trebling his private fortune, bestowing a rich aunt, and sinking half the children, he was able to represent the whole family to the General in a most respectable light.”

The annotations are mostly excellent. Quibble, after a while it felt like they became downright harping on the lack of feminine power in Austen’s society, constantly conjecturing whether in this passage or that she was commenting on it, insinuating on it, etc. ( )

7-Apr 8-Apr 9-Apr 10-Apr
Did you stay home today? Curbside burgers & beer Yes, 100% Curbside Mexican Yes, 100%
What was for dinner? Curbside burgers & beer Ravioli Curbside Mexican Leftovers
What business or charity did you support? Curbside burgers & beer Single Pebble gift card & employee fund Curbside Mexican Sweet Clover (advance order)
7-Apr 8-Apr 9-Apr 10-Apr
Positive test results 308 324 336 336
Positive test results* 575 605 628 679
Total tests conducted 7,129 7,749 8,181 8,657
Deaths+ 23 23 23 24
People being monitored 46 48 47 44
People who have completed monitoring 767 773 777 781
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 29 35 33 32
Hospitalized patients under investigation for COVID-19 51 40 44 43

Check that out – one curve, for one day, in one state, has been flattened!

S’E2S’E Swag!

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My reward for spinning a total of ten rare breeds!  Very generous if you ask me.

6-Apr
Did you stay home today? Yes, 100%
What was for dinner? Jambalaya
What business or charity did you support? Dobra Tea
6-Apr
Chittenden Positive test results 285
Vermont Positive test results* 543**
Total tests conducted 6,633
Deaths+ 23
People being monitored 68
People who have completed monitoring 745
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 28
Hospitalized patients under investigation for COVID-19 63

Data

26-Mar 27-Mar 28-Mar 29-Mar 30-Mar
Did you stay home today? Almost – went for milk Yes, walked on my road for exercise No, went for goat supplies No, weekly groceries Yes, 100%
What was for dinner? Black bean soup Risotto Bobcat Café Chicken & bok choy stir-fry Butternut squash soup
What business or charity did you support? Phoenix Books Give Together Now Bobcat Café Sweet Clover None, I’ll double down tomorrow

The Data

 

3/26/2020 27-Mar 28-Mar
Did you stay home today? Almost – went for milk Yes, walked on my road for exercise No, went for goat supplies
What was for dinner? Black bean soup Risotto Bobcat Café
What business or charity did you support? Phoenix Books GiveTogetherNow Bobcat Café

And another spreadsheet I started a few days ago.

24-Mar-20 25-Mar 26-Mar 27-Mar 28-Mar
Chittenden Positive test results 40 55 75 90 105
Vermont Positive test results* 95 123 158 184 211
Total tests conducted 1,535 1,712 2,008 2,261 2,374
Deaths+ 7 8 9 10 12
People being monitored 339 342 325 331 304
People who have completed monitoring 316 317 371 376 425

Scroll right for the full picture of both.

I Think in Spreadsheets

3/26/2020 27-Mar
Did you stay home today? Almost – went for milk Yes, walked on my road for exercise
What was for dinner? Black bean soup Risotto
What business or charity did you support? Phoenix Books GiveTogetherNow

I started the above spreadsheet last night.

I do lists and spreadsheets a lot.

I think the above will inspire and comfort me.

Feelings Are No Guide

When my father was dying and I had a serious anxiety breakdown, it felt like my world was crashing down.  I could see rationally that it was not.  But I could not stop feeling like it was.

Now I can rationally see that my world is beginning to come crashing down.  But it has not yet hit my feelings.

 

My Sunny Spot

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Blogosphere, you are now caught up on vacations, books, and yarns.  It’s back to boring life just in time for life to get REALLY boring.  May boring be as bad as it gets.

Above is my wintertime sunny spot, the south-facing sliding door of my boudoir.  The green comforter is just thrown there by chance; the spot is waaaaay too warm for a comforter to be called for.