Pandemic, Week 8 (And so it goes...)

This week the world reached 4.1 million COVID-19 cases and 280,000 deaths, of which 1.3 million cases and 80,000 deaths were in the U.S. New cases included the President's valet and the Vice President's press secretary (who's also Stephen Miller's wife). The CDC chair is self-quarantining. Over 33 million people have filed for unemployment insurance. The President held a virtual town hall at the Lincoln Memorial where he claimed that he has been treated worse than Lincoln. Little Richard and Roy (from Siegfried and Roy) have both died. Hair salons are now open in Colorado.

Life continued for us. We officially cancelled our Grand Canyon vacation and started planning a new one for 2021. We finally obtained masks that Nora deemed acceptable (yay Harry Potter!) so we can now venture outside with her without fear of castigation. We found a pub quiz better suited to our attention span and knowledge base (2nd place! Less than an hour!) Katherine stopped by to borrow John's car and inspect our green space. We brought game night back with a vengeance. Our peonies are coming in.

We also desperately tried multiple times to order from Jose Andre's Oyamel only to eventually find out that they're closed for renovations this week. So, we opted for Toki and We the Pizza instead (with some wine from Pursuit and beer from Atlas Brew Works). Social distancing has a surprising number of dining options.

But mostly, we just kept it moving. Owen had a geometry quiz. Nora directed and starred, as General Bratwurst, in this week's podcast, The United Kingdom of HotDogTopia. I worked on the slideshow for Nora's graduation. And Allen tried to keep it together as he planned two separate Mother's Day and birthday celebrations for Sharon and I.

We'll see if he makes it through next week.


(To see all of this week's pictures, click here.)