Since the coronavirus isn't going anywhere, and we're not going anywhere, Val and I thought it'd be nice to finally create a space for me to Work From Home. Up until now I've been Working From Bed a lot, which I know is not great (see this particularly helpful video from CGP Grey). Now we've […]
Monthly Archives: June 2020
Coronavirus: Day 107
Bourbon and ginger beer is sooo much better than bourbon and ginger ale—like, way more better than the amount ginger beer is better than ginger ale. If anything, coronatime has encouraged me to drink alcohols other than Miller Highlife and Evan Williams Green. There's an an entire rainbow of booze to explore!
Coronavirus: Day 106
Valerie surprised me with a case of Highlife today—my first Highlife since quarantine began over 100 days ago! What a wonderful and very thoughtful surprise!
Coronavirus: Day 105
I started reading Philip Roth's The Plot Against America for some reason (who recommended this to me??), and it frequently blows my mind. This description of living in a world where an anti-semitic Charles Lindbergh beat FDR and kept America out of WWII hits way too close to home in the current Trump/pandemic/racism moment: And […]
Coronavirus: Day 104
While following the COVID Tracking Project on Twitter may not help me maintain a reasonable level of doomfeeling, it is certainly fascinating. Coronavirus cases in the South continue to skyrocket, but things have not yet progressed to a New York City Levels of Apocalypse. Still plenty of time for that, I guess, as states surrounding […]
Coronavirus: Day 103
Benadryl still works during a pandemic. Whew! Heckuva drug.
Coronavirus: Day 102
Due to the pandemic, we canceled our annual trip to Blacksburg for the Virginia Tech spring football game. It's one of my favorite family traditions, and this is one of the first year's we've skipped since my son was just a couple years old. Honestly with all of the…everything…going on, mid April rolled right past […]
Coronavirus: Day 101
It’s weird how part of my nightly quarantine routine is to wait until the sun goes down and then check Goad Gatsby’s Twitter timeline for updates on the evening’s civil unrest. Didn’t have that on my coronavirus bingo card!
I just finished watching all six seasons of LOST with my family, and I think I will remember it for the rest of my life. ✈️🏝💨🚪🖲✨😭
I spent some time looking through the Richmond Police Department section of the budget, and we’re gonna need *a lot* more details before we can make smart decisions about how to reimagine the public safety budget.
Coronavirus: Day 100
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Coronavirus: Day 99
I'm having frequent coronavirus-related nightmares. They're not terrifying dreams, more like frustrationmares: I forget my mask, I'm stuck in a crowd of maskless people, I have to organize an event but can't provide proper social distancing, stuff like that. I haven't slept well in over a week due to these low-key, boringly upsetting dreams. I […]
Coronavirus: Day 98
With just five episodes of Lost left to watch, I'm positive we'll look back on these quarantimes as the "Catrow Family's Lost Era." I do wonder if we've got enough time trapped in our house ahead of us that we'll split up quarantine into its own mini eras. Era 1: Lost…Era 2: Every single episode […]
Riding my bike through the downpour was the best decision.
Coronavirus: Day 97
I feel weird about how my beard spreads out around the edges of my mask.
Coronavirus: Day 96
I finally got around to grabbing pictures of each monument torn down by protestors over the last couple of weeks.
Coronavirus: Day 95
I've now been in two buildings other than my house since March 13th: The mortgage refinance place and my parents' house. My quarantine world is expanding! I think I'd have flipped my biscuits by now if not for riding my bike all over the dang city as much as possible.
Coronavirus: Day 94
One of my neighbors just planted a ton of corn in his front yard. Lol, coronatimes!
Coronavirus: Day 93
The seven-day forecast is an endless stretch of potential rain. If I get trapped in this house for the next week with no escape THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES. And, by consequences I mean I will be unintentionally rude to my family while eating lots of chips.
Coronavirus: Day 92
My son finally got Chick-fil-A for lunch as part of his graduating-from-5th-grade celebration, and it was probably the happiest he's been in three months.