Three weeks ago we finally installed a hood over our stove, something we’d been meaning to do since we moved in eight years ago. We removed the cabinet that was over the range and had to find places for all the glassware inside. Then we had to install a new outlet, as the power line labeled MICROWAVE was too short. The MICROWAVE got removed as soon as we moved in. If you visit our house, you’ll have to reheat your coffee in a sauce pan on the stove. Berck bought a giant attachment for his drill to cut a hole…
I never really had an aunt. My mom and dad each have one brother; one of them never married, and the other did three times. In the late 80’s, when my dad worked for the Christian Booksellers Association, he befriended a couple who had a book and gift store in Wisconsin. When he introduced his family to Sam and Judy, who didn’t have any kids of their own, they informally adopted me and my sister and brother as honorary niblings and started spoiling us like an uncle and aunt. Sam and Judy sent us Christmas presents, let us watch PG…
About a year ago we employees found out that the three partners in our little law firm had agreed to merge with the largest personal injury law firm in the state. Since then, we have been nearly overwhelmed with new clients because this firm is the one that advertises non-stop. Being super busy and having someone else worry about paying our salaries is the good part; becoming a cog in a giant bureaucratic wheel has been the challenging part. But I still work with the people I have loved working with for years, which is definitely the best part. Working…
We live a 10 minute drive from the nearest town, which has a post office, a liquor store, three restaurants (although one of them has announced it is closing for good on Sunday), and a grocery store that’s more of a bodega and is definitely not a supermarket. Being Colorado, the town also boasts a brewery. None of them deliver to our house. If you drive another five minutes further, you get to the biggest town in the county, which is still not very big, but has two supermarkets and a Wal-mart. Nothing in the bigger town will deliver to…
I think I can say with reasonable confidence that I was wrong in my prior estimations of a super-low herd immunity threshold. Things are not looking good for COVID in most of the world. Colorado is seeing 10 times as many daily new cases as in the summer, and the United States as a whole is looking almost as bad. Colorado was barely untouched, so that doesn’t say much about the herd immunity claims, but then there’s Europe. Europe looks so much worse than it did in the Spring. The UK, Spain, France and even Italy. The daily new case…