Brad

I generally agree with Jim; not doing anything different than before: doing that gives me a sense of normalcy. As an aside, I went on online to look at some John Prine music and noticed that a lot of things are sold out and on “back order,” plus I see people on eBay jacking up prices to take advantage; not surprising. Usual commentaries on greed, etc.

Definition from Merriam Webster: Definition of dandily : in the style or manner of a dandy. From the Free Dictionary: 1. Suggestive of or attired like a dandy; foppish. 2. Fine; good. [Perhaps short for jack-a-dandy, fop.]

One of the large wine stores in our area has pickup only; you order through their website, they let you know when it’s ready, you call them when you get there and they load it into your car. When I picked up last week, there were a few other cars waiting too.

From the Washington Post: The Daily 202: John Prine is the latest great musician killed by the coronavirus

Looks like I was wrong. The two restaurants we use for takeout have been closed since mid March. Bummer. I think the Chinese food store, which is about 35 minutes from here, may be open.

I’d like to hear their reason for not paying any rent. I’d be curious if they’re relying on the force majeure clause in the lease. Force majeure clauses are a hot topic right now.

The one pictured hasn’t caught many but we don’t know what he does with them because if he sees us with a kill he runs away. The other cat, Harold, caught a lot of little mice in his time. He would rip the head off the poor things and eat part of them and then leave the remainder for us to clean up. He once bought a live baby mouse into the house. It escaped and disappeared for a day. It resurfaced the next day and we were able to catch it and return it to the wild.

The new 15 cd box of June 76 is out for those who may be interested. https://store.dead.net/special-edition-shops/june-1976/june-1976-15cd-boxed-set-1.html

He isn’t as bad as one of our other cats, who is a real killer but is in retirement now. Cats are a real danger to small outside wildlife

Chairman Mow surveys his empire.

A further article on cats from one of the Times’ science writers. A Tiger Is Slightly Sick With the Coronavirus. Your Cats Are Probably OK.

A growing toll. Another voice sadly stilled. RIP.

NY is not a good place to live in.

Watched “Yesterday” this morning. Very enjoyable. A world without Beatles music is a very strange world indeed.

I haven’t listened to Nashville Skyline in years, probably since I lived in Nashville in the mid 70s, but it did have some wonderful songs, as I remember. I don’t even have the album anymore. Can’t say I’m the biggest Dylan fan though, although I do have a couple of his early albums.

Perhaps it was a low budget release; some of those releases don’t provide much information other than song information.

I was never a big fan of working from home as I found I was more disciplined at the office. Moreover, I was 10 minutes max driving time from the office. Of course, I’m retired now, so it doesn’t matter!

I used to live in that neck of the woods; went to law school at WNEC.

The most famous in my book.

I’m not sure how much credence we should give to the research in question as the article states that: “The results are based on lab experiments in which a small number of animals were deliberately infected with high doses of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, and do not represent real-life interactions between people and their pets, says virologist Linda Saif at The Ohio State University in Columbus.”

Cool story indeed.

Rafael Gomez Nieto, a survivor of the Spanish Civil War and a member of a French unit (principality composed of veterans of the Spanish Civil War) that entered Paris in 1944, has died of the Coronavirus at the age of 99. Rest in Peace. Descansa en paz. Rafael Gómez Nieto, Last Member of Unit That Helped Liberate Paris, Dies at 99

The New York City school system has decided to move away from Zoom to Microsoft Teams because of these issues, https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/us/nyc-schools-zoom-online-security/index.html