Thursday, March 19th 2020

Day Three:

Another morning of my same routine. The early morning was time to reflect on all of the things going on around us. I once again tried to keep in mind how lucky we are to be in our peaceful little home. By the Powers we have come into this situation healthy, and our Kids, their spouses, and baby are also in a good place. We are trying to keep a positive attitude, knowing that all of the good things could change to bad in an instant.

We took our hour long walk of two and a half miles and the weather was gorgeous. We got home and had lunch.

Well, things did change just after noon. My manager at work called me and said that things there would most certainly be changing, and not for the best. He said a letter would be mailed to all employees tomorrow. His take on it was that it would probably be a large layoff, and that my vacation pay would probably only come as payroll for the next payday. That sent a message to me that my job was probably on the line. It kind of threw me off-balance because I had thought that at least I wouldn’t have to worry about my job for three weeks. Now it seemed that I would be retiring early. I have less than three months left, and that wouldn’t be a real problem, but it meant I had to arrange my supplemental health insurance for Medicare. I would have eventually had to do it anyway, but I wasn’t prepared to be doing it now. I went online and got all of the forms so I would have them ready for tomorrows news. I then had to calm myself, because this was small peanuts compared with other peoples huge predicaments.

I settled down, had a beer and worked on my website and posted a few of my writings there. It was a bit frustrating because the internet was very sluggish, but it was the least of my concerns at the moment. I finished-up and logged out.

Erin and I made salads for dinner and adjourned to do our own things, I watched the news, and Erin knitted and watched TV shows upstairs. On the news our Governor had a news conference where he announced that the entire state would be on shelter-in-place at midnight tonight. Wow, it was moving faster and faster.

After all was done we went to bed…