morning update, Thursday March 19

I had to get up 15 minutes early today, because TCAT has cut back bus schedules on account of drastically reduced ridership, so my usual 8:45 bus is gone and I had to catch the 8:30 bus instead. *sigh*

I think there were a grand total of four people on the bus. Usually it's standing-room only by the second stop up the hill.

Collegetown is nearly deserted. It's weird and eerie, how empty the streets are.

We have switched to having all package deliveries go directly to the building lobbies, to reduce people coming in to the rental office. Of course, this means that I or Miss California will now have to make rounds of each building at least once a day to write apartment numbers and dates on any packages sitting in the lobby, but I guess the idea is that we can scrub our hands after contact with the packages and any lobby surfaces/doors, and at least we won't be speaking face to face with people less than six feet away as we hand out packages.

All keys that have been turned in have to sit in the envelopes for at least 72 hours before we can touch them to check them in electronically. This strikes me as overkill -- we do have anti-viral wet wipes in the office -- but I don't make policy; I just follow it.

I think our method of coping with the new "only 50% of your staff should be in the office" guidelines handed down by New York state is for Aunt Boss to work mornings and Mom Boss to work afternoons. Miss California and I already alternate days, so that makes an easy 25% of office staff out on any given day.

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It's very slow here today.

evening update, Thursday March 19

Things and stuff:

1. Work continued very slow, though when she left for the evening, Mom Boss did hand me a bunch of sublet forms and a handful of new leases to scan and process. I got most of them done, but still have a few emails to send out in the morning because there were also a couple phone calls and tenants coming in either to pick up our handful of remaining packages or turn in their keys.

2. Steamed broccoli, both for tonight's dinner and for upcoming meals this week.

3. Zoom meeting with my parents at 8:30pm. In the event, my laptop's camera did not work. Neither Zoom nor my laptop itself could identify any camera, which is extremely annoying because it is built in to the laptop hardware itself. But I could see Mom and Dad though they couldn't see me, and we talked for just over an hour about various things.

It turns out that my Aunt Jan had a health scare recently -- long story short, she had a procedure done to correct a particular type of heart arrhythmia, and then developed a blood clot as a side effect of the minor surgery involved in the heart procedure -- but the problem has been identified and the prescribed treatment is going well. So that's good news!

4. Continued crossposting three-sentence ficlets to AO3. I have decided to do the Magnus Archives ficlets in batches rather than dump all 21 in one fell swoop.

5. Wrote ~250 more "and then" style words of the Narnia/Naruto crossover. It's rapidly approaching 7,000 words, and may crack 9,000 by the time I'm done, given that I have both a couple Big Emotional Choices coming up and a lot of fleshing-out to do with the rather scraggly "and then" text. *hands* This is a very serious story despite being based on a silly premise and a silly joke, and I think it encapsulates a lot of my longstanding preoccupations with ethics and worldbuilding and how to live in community and friendships and family and all that stuff. Also, while it fits seamlessly into Narnia canon, I may have accidentally derailed vast swathes of Naruto canon past a certain point. Sorry not sorry?

And now I will wind down for about half an hour before falling peacefully into bed. :)