self-isolating

I will be self-isolating from now until March 28, because Adrian is sick with what the doctor thinks is probably coronavirus, and I saw her last weekend. So, a fortnight from this past Saturday.

This isn't going to make a lot of difference compared to what I was already doing; I am very glad we are now in an apartment with a little bit of back and side yard, which will be handy if I want to be outside and not worry about passing someone on a sidewalk.

cattitude and I have a reasonable stock of food and other consumables, with the exception of one medication, which Carmen mailed the prescription for after our tele-medicine session on Tuesday.

Adrian is also well-stocked with food and relevant medicines, and isn't in any of the high-risk groups, so I am not terribly worried, but I wish I could take care of her.

cattitude and I went for a walk around the neighborhood this afternoon, before Adrian talked to her doctor and then to me. I am happy to report that I have now seen dandelions and periwinkle, and a very pale cherry tree that is just starting to bloom.

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Since it's a very nice night, I asked cattitude to go for a bit of a walk with me, just around the neighborhood.

We saw pretty sky, one other walker (on the other side of the street), a few cars and, a few blocks away, the 73 bus.

I wanted to go out because this was probably the warmest it will be in the next 72 hours, and I like walking around in the dark sometimes. This part of Belmont, unlike our old neighborhood in East Arlington, has street lights at least as far as we went or saw. To go from our old place to the Bikeway in the middle of the night required either very good night vision or a flashlight. The street lights are definitely useful for walking around, but without them we might have seen more than one star.

The lights in the neighborhood are spread out in a way that means a lot of them produced the odd radial lines that are an effect of my post-cataract replacement lenses. I asked Dr. Lazarra about that, in one of the post-surgery follow-up appointments. He said it was a known and harmless effect: the synthetic lenses aren't as flexible as the natural ones in the human eye.