And a third mystery subscriber...

...claiming to be from the States, yet citing a home page URL ending in ".ru". In the space of a week. Right now?

Once is an accident, twice is coincidence. Thrice, I consider a threat.

A Thought on Bank Architecture

Seems like banks picked the wrong time to go to "open concept" storefront designs, doesn't it? Their on-call architects will probably already be under orders to revive the teller-cages of old.

As an alternative to St. Patrick's Day, for cat people

https://www.catster.com/lifestyle/st-gertrude-patron-saint-of-cats-history-prayer-patricks-day

Weather today so far

From snow to freezing rain to rain. Not sure how the rest of today is going to go...and now CBC Radio is going to Justin Trudeau's new plans of COVID-19 countermeasures.

(no subject)

US Census 2020 v COVID-19 as detailed by CityLab:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/03/coronavirus-census-bureau-san-francisco-pandemic-planning/607246/

Ontario stops evictions for the duration of the pandemic:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-puts-brakes-on-new-eviction-orders-postpones-ones-in-the-works-because-of-covid-19-1.5499926

Financial supports for Canadian citizens and businesses expected:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-coronavirus-financial-supports-1.5500045

Mental health, as discussed on the radio at CBC Kitchener-Waterloo:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/maintaining-mental-health-amid-the-spread-of-covid-19-1.5500074

In further celebration of Saint Gertrude's Day

https://cheezburger.com/10801413/thirteen-cat-thoughts-that-are-actually-quite-deep

In the absence of my own photography...

A sampling of glimpses across my home city...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-covid-19-closures-pandemic-1.5499056