After having used Teams now, a couple of times, I don’t see where using Zoom would be more advantageous. There’s really no need to be looking at a screen filled with faces staring back at you. Faces attached to bodies[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I live in Westmoreland County but it’s just about three, four miles over the Allegheny County line. So while at this moment, my county hasn’t gotten the stay at home order, because I’m so close to Allegheny, I kind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve heard doctors say on the news that if you think you may have gone somewhere, where you’ve been in the presence of other people, to be on the safe side, quarantine yourself for at least two weeks. So with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again I find myself comparing something in my life with that of a fictional character. Though if I want to feel better about myself, I should compare my self to Homer Simpson in the episode “King-Size Homer”: He weighed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, it’s the great Toilet Paper and Paper Roll purge! Since I live alone, I obviously don’t go through as much of those paper products as a household family would. I understand that. But with all the images of panic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, the training week is over. I had reservations about attending it, what with the spread of COVID-19, but… I did it. It was creepy, seeing so many empty parking lots around restaurants. Having to eat in my hotel room[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not surprising that with the continuing spread of the coronavirus (keeping my fingers crossed that I haven’t been exposed while here) and the shut down of movie theaters and of inside dining at restaurants in this state, has been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I would expect to see this type of behavior at a restaurant that’s not used to phone in or online orders for pick-ups than here at Panera. They’ve always had the ability for customers to place outside orders then pick[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While we were sequestered away in our own meeting room (and this is on the second floor, there are only Meeting & Training rooms on this floor and since all other training classes had been cancelled, we were truly alone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 1985 I was living in Attleboro, Massachusetts, which is right across the border of Rhode Island. Hurricane Gloria was making her way up the eastern coast line. Having grown up in the Pittsburgh area I’d never had to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…