April 8th, Morning (Not posted until the 14th 'cause life)

Weather's starting to get nice, and it's starting to feel like spring. which
clashes rather dramatically with everything in the news--1,900 coronavirus
deaths reported in the US yesterday, for example.

Went outside for thirty minutes yesterday evening, with the roommate. Just in
the backyard, but it was the first extended time either of us had spent outside
the house in about two weeks. They pruned a bush; I dethatched part of the
lawn. We'd have stayed out there longer, but A, it felt kinda weird being
Outside, and B, our neighbor was working out in his backyard while blaring some
of the worst rap Spotify has to offer, so we scooted back to the safety of
isolation toot sweet.

That being said, I... left the property, this morning, and went to a local
grocery store. I didn't entirely want to, but my roommate was fairly emphatic
that we should supplement our supplies with, say... some chicken. So I went and
got chicken, and some veggies, and some other stuff, and returned, probably
safely, for another couple weeks of isolation.

The store, a latino mercado, wasn't very busy, but it was very picked over. The
carniceria had plenty to choose from, though.

Other than that, not a lot has been going on. Still cooking and baking with
great regularity. I've almost run out of normal baking yeast for making bread
with, and can't find more anywhere. I was afraid I was going to have to make
and maintain a bowl of starter, go really old-school, but Amazon a few weeks
ago still had distiller's dry yeast, so I got a pound of that. Turns out that
yes, Virginia, you can make bread with distiller's yeast (and probably brewer's
yeast), and it'll work just fine and not taste weird or anything.

Work continues to be kind of brutal. Traffic is up massively, presumably
because everyone everywhere is out of school due to the pandemic. And the
corporate bean-counters are incredibly reluctant to allow more resources to be
deployed. It's "impossible" to spin up more instances outside the holiday
season, lkosov. Don't bother asking again. So I'm kept busy trying to contain
twenty metaphorical tons of traffic in ten tons of servers, whoo.