It’s best to remember

I realized that I might want to remember some things about how this all worked out, once it’s over.

My family will be sheltering in-place, and reducing social contacts. We’re not going to turtle in just yet, though. I have concerns that within a week said lock-ins might become more mandatory, and then we won’t have the options we have today.

We’re not going to take chances, too much. At least we think we won’t be taking much of a chance today.

Today is my son’s 19th birthday. Sucks, right? Not much to do about it.

For the past two days I’ve been the only one to leave the house and be in public. I’ve made a couple of trips to the grocery store. That’s nothing amazing, but it’s also not _nothing_. We’re fairly well stocked up on supplies, but I do have concerns about us burning through some of our supplies too quickly.

So today we’re all going to go out. We’re not going to a normal grocery store, we’re going to an open-air produce marked called Greens. We’re going to buy a lot of fresh produce, and some plants as well. We’re going to get some plants for the front flowerbeds, since that will let us spruce up the look of the house from the outside, as well as give my wife a good reason to go outside when we’re prohibited from travel.

We’ll also get a couple of plants for around the house. I want to do as much as possible to make the house a pleasant place to be for everyone.

We’re really very lucky. My younger son has had his spring break extended until March 30th. My older son has had his classes shifted online.

My wife has had her work deemed “essential/non-essential”, meaning she needs to work (which is good) but she does not need to be physically present (which is better).

My office has been preparing for this, and word came down from our parent company that everyone is to WFH starting immediately. My university hasn’t _yet_ gone online, but that’s because spring break is this week. I’m sure that by the end of the week, we’re online only.