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afternoon update, Sunday March 22
Mar. 22nd, 2020 05:29 pm1. My church had some technical difficulties with our live-streaming this morning -- we couldn't get Zoom to play nicely with YouTube -- but the fallback of a Facebook livestream worked mostly okay, aside from some intermittent sound glitches. I am glad I virtually attended. :)
2. My bean soup took longer to cook than usual, which is probably because I only soaked the beans for ~10 hours instead of 12+. But it smelled like food this morning (for a good long while it just smells like dirty water with an overtone of raw onion, which is super gross), and once I turned up the heat for a few hours, it coagulated nicely.
This soup is ugly as all get out, sort of vaguely ochre brownish and mushy, but it tastes delicious and it's practically a meal in itself considering the beans, the ham, the onion, and the carrots. And now I have ten servings chilling in my fridge! (Four of the containers -- two servings per -- are going directly into the freezer when I get home this evening.)
3. Had a brief phone conversation with Landlord Dude, who's checking in with all his tenants on how Covid-19 is or will affect our rent payments and such. General consensus seems to be that we're all okay for the April payment, but May might be a problem. He's going to talk to his bank about mortgage relief and so on with our input in mind.
4. I was going to use my purple carrots in the bean soup, but last night I discovered they'd all grown roots and were trying to grow stems and leaves as well, so this morning I planted them in a big tub of dirt. We shall see what happens.
5. Walked into town and caught a #70 bus out to the mall.
6. Worked (am working?) 2-6pm at Not the IRS, where we have gone to drop-off only, whether that's physically bringing documents into the office and filling out a couple simple forms so we can do the return while the client goes home and we all stay at least 6 feet apart from each other, or whether it's uploading all documents via the internet and never seeing anyone in person at all.
I got most of the way through one client's return, but had to email them for some additional information without which I can't finish the return. They haven't emailed back yet, so I guess I'll just finish up on Tuesday.
7. Bought a tiny succulent at the grocery store, which was a foolish impulse decision but buying houseplants is my personal version of retail therapy, okay, and it's cute and I needed something nice. Fingers crossed I can keep it alive...
And now I will start closing things down in order to be able to catch the 6pm bus back into town.
2. My bean soup took longer to cook than usual, which is probably because I only soaked the beans for ~10 hours instead of 12+. But it smelled like food this morning (for a good long while it just smells like dirty water with an overtone of raw onion, which is super gross), and once I turned up the heat for a few hours, it coagulated nicely.
This soup is ugly as all get out, sort of vaguely ochre brownish and mushy, but it tastes delicious and it's practically a meal in itself considering the beans, the ham, the onion, and the carrots. And now I have ten servings chilling in my fridge! (Four of the containers -- two servings per -- are going directly into the freezer when I get home this evening.)
3. Had a brief phone conversation with Landlord Dude, who's checking in with all his tenants on how Covid-19 is or will affect our rent payments and such. General consensus seems to be that we're all okay for the April payment, but May might be a problem. He's going to talk to his bank about mortgage relief and so on with our input in mind.
4. I was going to use my purple carrots in the bean soup, but last night I discovered they'd all grown roots and were trying to grow stems and leaves as well, so this morning I planted them in a big tub of dirt. We shall see what happens.
5. Walked into town and caught a #70 bus out to the mall.
6. Worked (am working?) 2-6pm at Not the IRS, where we have gone to drop-off only, whether that's physically bringing documents into the office and filling out a couple simple forms so we can do the return while the client goes home and we all stay at least 6 feet apart from each other, or whether it's uploading all documents via the internet and never seeing anyone in person at all.
I got most of the way through one client's return, but had to email them for some additional information without which I can't finish the return. They haven't emailed back yet, so I guess I'll just finish up on Tuesday.
7. Bought a tiny succulent at the grocery store, which was a foolish impulse decision but buying houseplants is my personal version of retail therapy, okay, and it's cute and I needed something nice. Fingers crossed I can keep it alive...
And now I will start closing things down in order to be able to catch the 6pm bus back into town.
