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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.

Day 6: Montserrat!

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Enough with the beach shots; here’s something completely different.

The real impetus for this whole trip was to go somewhere a) warm b) quickly and c) preferably with a volcano.  Hence destination Montserrat, which had an eruption in the 1990s.  You get to Montserrat from Antigua, hence Antigua.

So, day trip to Montserrat.  Unlike Barbuda, Montserrat is a whole other country from Antigua.  It’s part of the UK, whereas Antigua is independent.  So there was check-in, customs, immigration, and embarkation fees.  In both directions.  On both sides.  That took up half the day.

We had a tour guide in Montserrat, because among other things that buys you a permit to actually tour the former capital of Plymouth, buried by the volcano, abandoned, and now overgrown.  We got to walk all over the ex-town and look at the ruins.  Hence the toilet shot above.

Montserrat’s other claim to fame is Air Studios, a recording studio founded by Sir George Martin (the Beatles’ George Martin) and birthplace of some famous 80s albums like Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms and some Police albums.  The studio’s abandoned but we did stop at a café which is kind of a little shrine to Air Studios memorabilia.

Well worth the trip.  A very lovely and peaceful place.