Life During Wartime?

Seems to me as if we're now on a sort of wartime footing. No specific enemy nation-state or "non-state actor" that we're up against here. In this case, the "sharp end of the spear" is hospitals and virology and genetic research labs right now.

How about you? Are you getting the same feeling?

I'm hearing that CBC Ottawa is going to try to make sure that teleworking technology will allow Ed Lawrence to do his weekly gardening phone-in with Ontario Today after noon EST.

I still consider myself under financial and ethical obligation to keep looking for work. Pandemic rules will be an obstacle to this obligation. I don't know how to square that circle right now. My job alert e-mails from Workopolis, Indeed, Jobilico, the federal Job Bank, etc. are still coming in, so I'll keep looking at those.

Some of you have offered financial assistance (publicly or privately), and I thank you again for that. No sure how best to answer that, so I'm going to keep that up my sleeve for the moment.

Local Weather

The snow is melting, slowly. We're expecting rain tonight and/or tomorrow right now. That will accelerate the melt, and neighbours of mine are expecting to get on with their yard projects next month, whatever else happens.

Weird Question About a New Subscriber

Why would someone claiming Branson, Missouri as their hometown claim a home page hosted in Russia?

John Scalzi makes the National Post

His photo from Fort Lauderdale got picked up by Associated Press, and from there...