Journal

I started this day off thinking that I would stay at home. Instead, I woke up to find that I’d have to run today!!!

Quarantine Day 51. Oh boy, what a long day it was today. Main highlights: a late, 16.5-mile run from my apartment to a friend's place in Walnut Creek; and a 4-hour game night with said friend and his wife.

Quarantine Day 50. Another Wednesday, another all-hands, another round of work, then another hump day happy hour.

Quarantine Day 49. Today was pretty much a wash. More work on production testing and deployment. More work on parsing issues. I was so cooped up after work today that I had to go run.

Quarantine Day 47. The only evidence that this day happened in my life is a Strava entry for Berkeley Bowl and 3 back-to-back-to-back Zoom meetings.

A recap of Friday, May 1st. And a run report from today's Exploration.

Quarantine Day 44. The last day of April. The last day of the first full month of self-quarantine. There's been a lot of talk about how the world will be forever changed by this pandemic...

Quarantine Day 43. When writing these entries, sometimes I wonder what I'll feel when I eventually read them later -- probably years later. Curious, most likely. I'd probably just skim, reminisce, then carry on with my day. I know this because Google Photos often reminds me where I was, and what I was doing, "on this day in year ____" every morning.

Quarantine Day 42. For the umpteenth time, I woke up today thinking "Wow! Yet another day where I'm going to stay inside, work all day, join more Zoom meetings, read, write, then sleep."

Quarantine Day 41. After my half-successfully, half-fail attempt to run from home to Diablo on Sunday, I got on a video chat with Christie (these kinds of 1-1 non-work video chats and phone calls are definitely a hallmark of the Virus Age -- I've never done so many, so close before!) During the call, I took a look at my work schedule for this coming week.

Quarantine Day 38. Something I've started doing (again) these past couple weeks is establish a prioritized to-do list every morning. Ideally, I'd do this the night before (i.e. what I want to do the next day), but I've found that (a) I'm almost always too tired at the end of the night to plan, and (b) when I do make a to-do list for the next day, I almost always have eyes bigger than my mouth.

Quarantine Day 37. Compared to the Time Before The Coronavirus (and by extension, Self-Quarantine), my Thursdays seen the least change. That's because before the Coronavirus, I was already working from home on most Thursdays, at least since last fall.

Quarantine Day 36. It seems like such a long time ago since the Shelter-In-Place Order was issued across the Bay Area. But, in fact, it's only been just over a month. It's become almost a running joke to be asked "how's your day?" and answer "the same as every other day." Or, ask "what you're doing this weekend?" and get the semi-amused reply: "the same as last week! staying at home."

I met a fellow ultramarathoner a few weeks ago.