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Yes it is. I am sitting here with tears running down my face. As flawed as we are, we have been gifted with an amazing spirit within and among us as a people. Thanks so much.

Yes, everything comes at a price, and everything has pu$hback, for sure, but there is still good that can come from it. The economy will need to adapt, for sure. And it will. BTW, Trump just extended the social distancing guidelines until April 30. Thank you, Dr. Fauci. I am also often not enamored of Team Building activites, but I think they do have some value. But when given the option, I pick and choose the extent of my involvement. We may have different types of jobs which have different degrees of benefit from team building. Mine does optimally require a good bit of collaboration and mutual trust, and to whatever degree we can build goodwill and understanding of how we each tick, things do go better.

Their Cecil Taylor Montmartre set wasn't so hot sonically, either, from what I remember. But the material is so great.

So many good things can come of the telecommuting, as Mark and Jim have pointed out in the last two posts. I've used the tools for years, since we went to a worldwide distributed model for our workforce. Since we are meeting with people from Brasov and Bangalore (often together), we don't bother to get a conference room for the Malvern-based employees, we just all sit at our desks and meet on Microsoft Teams (Webex and Skype before that) It's not as good as being in the same room, but it works, and you get used to it plenty fast enough. And Teams has a lot of good features such as Whiteboard, where we are all able to write and draw on the same screen. Managers such as mine are starting to find ways to do team-building that are effective. We have "virtual happy hours" for our team on Thursday afternoons, and are having a contest for coolest home office setup at our next team meeting. I actually am spending more time communicating with the rest of my team now than I did when in the office. The positive impact on the environment can be staggering over time. The savings for businesses not needing so much expensive commercial real estate is great, and if less land is used for commercial purposes, more can be used for housing, which can re-calibrate the supply/demand for that and make housing more affordable. And families spend more time together, and people get back their commuting time, energy, and expense, and can reinvest that in different ways. And so on and so forth.

I saw Sun Ra at the Empty Foxhole on Penn's campus, probably a year or two earlier. Quite a spectacle. Small venue, and they came marching in down the aisles, in full regalia, playing their instruments. I'm thinking it was Halloween, but I could be wrong.

I love that album! To each his own.

Some things are going to change permanently, I believe. For instance, this will usher in the telecommuting revolution.

We won't be able to return to "normal" until we have more protocols/capacity to test/identify, treat, and immunize against the disease. And it will be a "new" normal in many ways, for sure.

And that was the original pressing, not some later limited boutique job.

Chuck's comment was directed to me, and I had no problem with it. Chuck understands and cares for humanity as much as anybody. Anyone who remembers the whole horrid situation with BrightMoments knows that. As Rooster says, these are tough times. If we lose any semblance of having senses of humor, that's going to make them even tougher. We need to trust each other's good will as much as we can.

Oh, we will do a lot "better" than 803. Add in the suburbs and we're at 2200, and it will go multiples higher, though so far we've been spared the worst of it.

Philly region has grown over past week from 85 cases to 803 cases. We are well stocked and hunkered in for awhile except for our daughter who works at a bank, but the bank is taking very limited walk-in traffic (loan closings only).

Rock addendum - "Inside (Looking Out)" by the Animals , later by Grand Funk Railroad. "Don't Stand So Close To Me" by the Police. "From a Distance" by Bette Midler. "Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring" by Traffic.

That's one heck of a pick up team!

My other big go-to was the Sporting News Baseball Register, and before that, Who's Who In Baseball, and also The Baseball Encyclopedia. I love stats and trades. And I was way early onto the Bill James train.

A shame that Pablo never made it onto CD.

I remember it. Like so many of his albums, the whole to me seems less than the sum of the parts. I think I like the CTI"s better due to Sebesky's input.

Absolutely. He could run faster, throw and kick farther, had a better feel for the game, compared to anyone else in the league. We won the city championship, rather he won it single-handedly for us. Yet, because of the times, he was the only African-American player in the league, and he didn't even start at QB for us, the coach's son did. But the coach would put in Holloway to start the second half (or earlier if needed) and he would just totally dominate the game. BTW, I had nothing to do with the success of that team, was a second-string defensive end. I also played on a city champion baseball team in Cincinnati a few years later, where I was a second-string outfielder and also contributed nothing to the championshiop. Had a good knack for being in the right place at the right time. Or maybe it was my intangibles, LOL!

They could let you pick your own simulated announcer. I could have Bob Prince or Harry Kalas.

He was actually even much better than we realized back then. He was a walking machine, drawing as many as 148 in a season, so had otherworldly on base percentages for the era. Joe Morgan did, also.

Pretty cool, thanks, feels almost real. Realmuto is off to a lousy start with my Phillies, won't help him when negotiating for his extension.

I played on a team with Condredge Holloway in Huntsville, Alabama when we were both 11 years old, if that name has meaning to anyone. CFL thread seems like the right place to mention that.

Wow. He hasn't touched me in decades, only 'Time Out of Mind' (especially "Highlands") in the past nearly 40 years, but this is a very moving experience, especially now.