Monday March 16, 2020 – Day 3 of Quarantine
The first day of work-from-home and… this is harder than I thought it would be.
But first, this past weekend. Becky decided we needed to go up to the Publix again on Saturday. We did and bought a bunch of stuff, including some frozen pizza: more meat, some lunch meat, sandwich stuff, that sort of thing.
The place was packed, and the shelves were even barer than Friday. I was glad I had gotten the paper towels I had because they were entirely out of them too. The entire paper aisle was empty. They were also out of hand sanitizer and a bunch of other things.
I commented about it to the cashier, and she said the weird part was that no one was buying diapers. She said that usually when we had a snow panic or whatever people also bought diapers. But they had plenty of them. Weird.
We also went to the Office Depot next door so that I could get a UPS for my new home office setup. They had paper towels and kleenex (but no toilet paper), so we got a few more from them.
Since then, Publix has said that they are going to close their stores at 8 pm every night so they can thoroughly clean and restock, which is good, I guess.
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Back home, I cleared a bunch of Becky’s stuff out and set up my office, only to discover that the docking station I had brought from the office had Displayport adapters, not HDMI. My home monitors both use DVI (and VGA), and I had HDMI to DVI adapters, but nothing for Displayport.
The docking station had a single VGA port, so I hooked up one monitor to it (and wow, I had forgotten how fuzzy VGA was). I ordered a pair of Displayport to DVI adapters from Amazon, so I wouldn’t have to go out again.
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My local gaming group had been planning a game on Friday night, but we canceled it out of caution. We would probably have been OK, but things are getting weird very fast.
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I got set up and did my first work-from-home. It went… OK. Having meetings via Zoom is a bit weird, but I guess I’ll get used to it. I got some work done but can’t help but feel that I could have done more at the office.
Part of it was Becky. She had the TV on in the next room all day, and every time something came up on the news, she had to come in to tell me about it. I kept getting interrupted.
The other part was that I kept checking on what was going on myself. I have multiple Slack channels for various groups, and I keep looking at them.
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Cobb County closed all public facilities today, including all parks and libraries. Not that I was planning on going, but still…
If you had asked me a week ago, I would have said that things were more-or-less normal. Now, things are falling apart. What a change a week makes.
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