Getting Serious Now

So today they're calling it the day sports ended in the US. Yesterday the NBA shut down and suspended play. Today the rest of the leagues followed suit. NCAA March Madness: cancelled. MLS: cancelled. MLB: spring training cancelled. I couldn't have imagined there would be no sports anywhere! What would ESPN do? All the sports talk shows I listen to? Closer to home, Santa Monica/Malibu School District closed all schools until Monday in order to "clean up". CLEAN UP. Is that code for we're about to close for a while? Fortunately LAUSD has not issued any directives, closure or otherwise, at least as of this morning although there are rumblings that meetings are being held everyday to discuss that very possibility. So for today, it's class as usual for my Little Bug. Look at him perched on top of his favorite root with not a care in the world. All he cared about was watching Peep and Chirp and seeing if Chirp can deal with falling leaves LOL LOL. And why should he? It's us adults that are creating the atmosphere of FEAR and WORRY. In the meantime my team at the office is in the middle of cranking out 15 laptops we will need by tomorrow so those that don't have them can work from home. Oh and of course we have to train them. And MANAGE the anxiety. To me that's the most important thing. No need to look any further than the wildly fluctuating (downwards) stock market to see what the attitude is like nationally and worldwide. Oh people are worried alright. For me I took it as a sign to finally sign up for that Bengston Research event on Energy healing for the weekend. Time to strengthen that belief system instead of the Western world's prevailing notion that the human body is apparently easily victimized by invisible germs for which it has no defense for. The discourse I follow is best described here. Germs are a part of us...a companion species to all living things on the planet. What we need to do is clear what is and could be weakening our individual immune systems. I'm looking forward to the weekend learning...

By  the end of the day we had started to distribute laptops and scheduled training sessions with a couple of departments. I think we'll be alright actually and I conveyed my confidence at the Planning meeting today even given the fact that I had less than 48 hours to get everyone ready to go from home. It should be f-f-u-n LOL. In the meantime, it's still sort of drizzly out, just like it has been all week, probably mirroring the general outlook of the population locally. I picked up Johnnie and he's still his be-bopping self. Because I had to stick around work later than usual though I didn't have time to stop at KFC to get him some popcorn chicken for dinner. Instead I asked him if he wanted to go there instead when I picked him up. And he immediately responded that he wanted more Panda Express teriyaki chicken. Done and done. Off we went to Sawtelle mini-mall. He polished off his plate and in the meantime I got myself some orange chicken for dinner too. I didn't eat it there. My stomach was bothering me. I felt like I had some gas and intestinal pains. Probably a result of the anxiety and stress from the last day or so finally hitting me. Nothing would poop out either. For his part Johnnie wanted to poop too right there at Panda Express even though he wasn't done eating yet. And so we packed up quickly and headed home and he almost knocked off to sleep even though we were less than 10 minutes away. He quickly woke up though because I think he still really needed to poop. Or maybe he's just feeling my energy?! Still he was very much in a playful mood and I wanted to take advantage since it IS hand-off night tonight. Look at him in the last pic building something. That would be my face under the roller. And of course he had to make a present for his mom. He's getting pretty good drawing those color wheels. By 7:30 Lisa had called and come around and when she picked up Johnnie I stopped to chat a bit about Johnnie's report card that came yesterday. Hard not to be proud of him and the job is to keep him from getting a big head about it so he keeps on working like he does. He loves schoolwork what can I say. It had stopped raining by this time. And so as Lisa drove off I finished my 11,000 steps, all the while processing the day that passed and anticipating tomorrow. Things have happened so quickly all week that I feel like I need to be mentally prepared for almost anything. But after the walk I went home, plopped on the couch and watched Picard S01E08. Getting really interesting with the Borg sub-plot and the synth world. Can't wait for the next episode. But first... there's tomorrow...