Shutdown

So that's it. The first Covid lock-down. Will it be the last? We are now allowed out once a day for exercise with only people from our household. The entire nation effectively imprisoned in their own homes. I keep thinking I will wake up in a minute, but this nightmare seems set to continue for many weeks if not months. As if to taunt us further, the weather was once again glorious and sunny today.

This was the first day of homeschooling for us. Tomoki showed great initiative and self-drive and gamely worked his way through the suggested itinerary that the school sent home with the kids last Friday. Nozomi also worked from home, and some good news. She can do that every day now. Her company has finally relented to the inevitable. So that is one less vector that the disease can reach us from.  She is also doing a stellar job arranging online food deliveries so that is not a big concern yet.

We walked the dog this morning and at lunchtime. There were far fewer people about this morning so we will make that time our allotted exercise slot. It was very very quiet this morning, but at lunchtime, there were plenty of people about in the woods where I had hoped it would have been quieter. It wasn't crowded by any means, and it was easy to stay a good distance away from people, but the morning was definitely better. Fortunately, Tomoki and I are morning people so we should be fine.

I had very little enthusiasm for work, but I managed to get the first draft of some training slides I have to present next week done. I can get back to more interesting project work tomorrow. Nozomi has discovered she likes working at home. We managed it quite well I think.

I read to Tomo for half an hour this afternoon, and I think he is enjoying the story. Part 1 of The Belgariad by David Eddings; The Pawn of Prophecy. A great series. After dinner, (Pad Thai for us, hot dog for Tomo), we played some music together. We practised Tarantella and then we fooled around with the Tetris theme. It was good fun. I had to glue on a false thumbnail today to fix my own shredded one for guitar playing. So far so good. Sounds a bit duller than a regular nail but at least I can pick the strings properly again.

A fly is buzzing around and is driving me nuts at the moment. I hope the dog can snap it in half.