Give Satisfaction

It's not bad here, yet. I'm in Maine and we still have less than 200 cases. I guess restaurants are closed to sit-inside business, but I've got pizza or order. There is nobody who delivers food in my neck of the woods, pick up is the standard. Toilet paper can't be found on the shelves, but one of my co-workers told me that Trader Joe's will get some from the back room on request.

My husband has been working from home for the past two weeks, and has now been cut down to work 4 days per week at a 20% pay cut. I have been cut down to working 3 days per week, but am going to get paid as if I worked 5, so I feel incredibly lucky. And even on the days I do go to work they're cutting out as many as possible to go home early.

For my husband and I, we're pretty much hermits anyway - we never go out to eat or to shows, I generally only shop once per week, we don't visit friends very often. We have friends over once a month, but last time we did that via Zoom. It's working out pretty easy for us. I've actually had to shop more often because of all the things not available, so that's annoying.

I was also slightly annoyed to see a lot of Massachusetts and New Hampshire license plates when I was driving home, today. All the summer complaints are headed up to camp early. But if they feel safer here, well, they may be.