Weeeee! Funny jumping trucks

corona lockdown day 184 and 185

 These 2 days I have been buried in email and haven't gone out much.

Yesterday James and I made a quick trip to the bank machine that he used for the first time. It was hilarious to watch him through the window in this foray into adulthood.

The COVID cases in Kingston have begun to creep up. We had a walmart employee test positive and so there will probably be a lot of hysteria at the testing center. Today the line ups were all the way around the Leon's center and it is a big center. James needs to go and get tested tomorrow to be eligible for the camp at Trenton on the weekend so hopefully that will work out and I'll update on the wait time later.

corona lockdown day 183

 Today I went to Food Basics first thing in the morning. Weirdly it was very busy. The busiest time since I've been in the pandemic. Most of their sales were sold out as well so I'm not sure what everyone was doing there! There was only one cash open so the line was a whole aisle long to get out. So I spent a lot more time in the store that I had in many month. So that was not a great experience.

Our outdoor service was cancelled due to rain and instead it was an online service instead.

corona lockdown day 182

 Today I woke at 7am because I had left my alarm on but this was ok as I wanted to do some exploring of the Rideau trail. I had carefully looked at all of the maps to find the entrance and it was good that I had otherwise I likely would not have found it. It took me about 30 minutes to walk there (I didn't bike because I wasn't sure where I was going or if there would be any bike parking (there were some signs that I could have parked at so that was ok) The other disadvantage to taking the bike means that I can't do a loop as I would need to retrieve the bike.

At any rate, I walked out bath road to the intersection point. I walked the way that it had indicated on the map and found I was following some deep red arrows  which I interpreted (I think correctly). It was kind of interesting to be a trail like this in the middle of the city. I only saw one other person on the trail and it was a jogger, which was weird as the terrain was not really jogging friendly. The first bit was pretty open- there were some additional blue trails that seemed very overgrown- they were supposed to be loop trails  but I did not try them. Then the trail veered to the right and it was much more closed in and muddy, which I wasn't expecting. The end bit was VERY overgrown and then it spit me out onto Parkway Street, then I turned onto Princess and walked home stopping at Shoppers on the way.

Then I biked to the other shoppers. Gatorade was on sale. Now just preparing for my training session at 2:30

corona lockdown day 181

 At 5am I woke as there was some animal screeching. There were dogs barking. I am not sure what happened but I did get back to sleep until 7am.

Yesterday there were so many meetings but today was a bit better, only 1 training session. I have another one tomorrow. I managed to get a bit caught up on email.

corona lockdown day 180

 a long day of preparations, email and organization.

chef's plate is on meatball week as there were 2 meatball dishes. Meatball soup today.

at the end of the day I read this with sadness as Izzy was one of my project managers

https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/queen-s-remembers-isabelle-brisson

corona lockdown day 179

 I took a walk this morning before work started and then spent the day getting everything rolling.

James went to school today as he had to fill out some paperwork. He has the first octomester off but will be returning for a final year. He saw a lot of his friends which he enjoyed.

We are now starting to work toward scheduling for the Winter term.

My amazon order that I completed on Sept 5 and that amazon said would arrive Sept 4 that shipped on Sept 6 and immediately ran into unforseen errors and may only arrive on Sept 11 arrived today Sept 8!

corona lockdown day 178

 Today was a very long day as we geared up for day 1 tomorrow. I went to Loblaws in the morning. Then biked to Rustle. There was a van in our parking lot with its door open. I don't know why I'm guessing someone had gone through it. I spent a lot of the day answering email or writing email. I biked over to see Sarah as well. Have lots of financial things to sort out for Rustle this week.

corona lockdown day 177

 Went to Loblaws first thing in the morning, then biked down to the waterfront to see how the pier was locked up. There were some scattered people by the waterfront. Nothing to worry about. There was fencing all around the pier. As I biked down there was clear evidence of some parties the night before but not like it normally was in previous years, so things have scaled back. But have they scaled COVID level back? We'll only know in a few weeks. For now Kingston is holding tight.

Rustle service was online but we are looking to try an outdoor service next week.

Had lots of work to do to get the course up and running. Things are indeed progressing slowly but they are progressing.

I had ordered from amazon- James needed a new charging cord for his phone as his current one is damaged+a new bamboo mask + some pringles. I got a notification that it shipped today. Then I got a notification a few minutes later that there had been unforeseen delays so who knows what that is about this time!

corona lockdown day 176

 Went to Shoppers in the morning and it was a pretty successful visit. I did some things around the house during the day. The laundry dried well but I had to get it in before the rain. Made peameal bacon for dinner. Liked it a lot as it is far less greasy than other bacon and it tasted good. Worked for a number of hours in the evening, still trying to get the course ready to launch! There was some party noise in the evening but that seems to have dissipated now.

corona lockdown day 175

 Today was a long day of emails and working on the course. I got the gradebook and dropboxes set up and we are almost ready to launch the course but it was a long haul and there is still a lot to do.

I did go to Food Basics in the morning and it was the best experience there so far in the pandemic as it was relatively quiet and there was more than one cashier on so I made it through pretty quickly. Even bought a bit of meat, which is rare. There wasn't much good there but they had some pepper steaks that James likes.

At the pier they have started enforcing the 9pm curfew as they said that people had not been physical distancing. So they have enforcement of distancing during the day as well, somehow.

While yesterday did not seem to be a good laundry drying day, today made up for it. There was a good breeze and sunshine.

corona lockdown day 174

 Today was a day spent mainly in front of the computer. We ran a training session which was good but in other areas I made no progress. I am hoping to make progress on the course tomorrow.

The dinner was some nice chicken with green beans and warm potato salad. It took a long time to make, but it was quite tasty.

corona lockdown day 173

 Happy 75th to my dad!

Today we were making some progress on the course. I went to Loblaws first thing in the morning and things were still pretty quiet. James and I biked down to his school to pick up his yearbook from last year. They had contactless pickup outside the school and it went very quickly. James went to a trainer today and also tried his hand at driving!

corona lockdown day 172

 Today was a day of work from dawn to dusk or rather midnight. I think I sorted out most of my enrollment issues. I took a few breaks to make meals and to mow the lawn but not much exciting.

corona lockdown day 171

 I biked downtown in the morning to drop off the Rustle deposit. Since the start of the lockdown I have never seen anyone else in this banks vestibule but today there was a lady standing waiting to be let in the branch. I was in the vestibule for less than 30 seconds. Then to return home I walked up the hill and ran into Diana so we had a chat to catch up.

Lots of meetings today. Made a stew for dinner. I was working on browning the diced beef and I slightly burned the pot so I had to take a break and wash it out. It was a very nice stew made in about an hour so I was pleased.

Then in the evening we had a prayer meeting at Rustle. That was the longest I have worn a mask. I was pretty exhausted after - I don't know if it was the mast or seeing 8 people at once that did it!