Friday, April 17th 2020
Day Thirty-Two:
Good morning Ya’All, got up at 5 am, made coffee, and waited for Erin to get up. She has volunteered to make a shopping trip to Safeway during senior time.
I got a text back that they didn’t have: Soy Milk, Yogurt, or Carrots.
I got another text saying that she decided to stop at Trader Joe’s to see if she could get the previously mentioned items. She said the line didn’t look that long. Thanks Baby!!
When Erin arrived home she had an amazing amount of groceries. I tend to forget that she is the one that used to do all of our shopping. I started doing most of the grocery chores when she started working more hours than me. She really knows what she is doing. She got all of the things at TJ’s that they didn’t have at Safeway, and more. Perfect! I set-up a cleaning station on my new platform by the back gate. I washed and rinsed everything she bought, then dried them and we put them away. We are now good for weeks, and longer if we needed…
We didn’t walk today.
Erin wrote in her journal, and I set-up Zoom on my laptop. Since we started this new existence at home everyone has been socializing on video talk platforms, but all I had was Skype which no one uses anymore. Erin, and just about everyone else uses Face-Time, but I’m not an Apple guy and either is my son James, so this leaves us out of group get togethers with people from “The Dark Side”, Apple! James and I are longtime PC and Android guys, although I have moved away from the bloated Windows 10 platform to Google Chrome. Needless to say, Zoom is a cross-platform service that does meetings and video chat.
All of the blither above leads me to my point. I needed Zoom for my virtual Ham Radio Club meeting tonight, so now I have it as does James. It always takes a real necessity for me to implement new things. Whew!
At four-o’clock I watched “That Thing You Do” special on YouTube. It was for “Musicares”, which was set-up for Coronavirus relief. It was the four guy’s from the movie by, Tom Hanks doing a running commentary while we all watched the movie on separate devices. Kind of complicated, but fun. By the way, it was done with Zoom!
At seven-o’clock I joined our radio club’s first virtual meeting on Zoom. It was a learning experience, we had 43 people in the meeting in separate thumbnail windows. It worked because everyone except the speaker kept their microphones on mute. So my first-ever radio club meeting was done remote. We made history. In the club’s 73 years of existence this is the first time it was not done in person.
After all of this Zooming around it’s time for bed…