I thought I had to check the daily reports on COVID and then I realized I could download the entire historical record which a big spreadsheet that contains the data for every country in the World. Now I instead of doing a cut and paste for every country, I can automate the whole process.
I have been following the data on the COVID pandemic and developed a System Dynamics model to make projections into the future. I can download data for any country in the World and put it in my computer model and generate graphs. I developed a template report where I can cut and paste the graphs and write some observations of the crisis in different countries. Then I can send my analysis to friends in many different countries around the World.
Barb is working hard on our flower garden. The garden goes around the whole house and we have a road in the front yard on our cul-de-sac and a thru road on our back yard which is busy with drivers and walkers. More people see our backyard. Only our immediate neighbors see our front yard. So Barb is always calling the backyard our front yard and vice versa.
Barb and I watched Laura in a virtual pole competition where she did her routine on the front porch of her house in Vancouver. Barb's friend, Loretta, watched it live from Florida as well.
Barb is back playing pickleball. Now outdoors in Canada. And she is getting browner and browner like in Florida while I am getting whiter and whiter.
I have been sharing audiobooks and ebooks with Sarah from my collection. The ebooks I can email her. The audiobooks I have to upload to my Google Drive and share a link for her to download them.
Today I participated in a book club meeting with the librarians from the Florida library using Zoom. There were two librarians, myself and three old ladies. None of the old ladies had read the book we were discussing. I had listened to the audiobook.
I run all my papers through this software online to check my grammar. It keeps track of all of them and sends me a weekly report. This week it told me I used more unique words than 95% of the users.
I sent Laura a funny article in the mail about parenting tips for parents when kids are afraid of monsters under the bed. It suggested the parents needed to fight the forces of evil to the death. We had a great laugh during a video chat when we read it together.
I listen to the local community college radio station which has students as DJs. Many of them are just terrible to listen to. I was glad that the station did not have any DJs during the early days of the COVID pandemic when the college was closed. They just played music.
Barb was unable to unscrew the nozzle on the garden hose so that she could put on a new nozzle that she bought. She said she needed a vise grip or something. I said I think I have one and found the little toolbox that Grampa had given me when I moved out in the 1980s. There was a perfect vise grip in the toolbox and it worked perfectly to get the nozzle off. Barb was so amazed that I still had the toolbox and I remembered what was in it.
I often eat potato chips for breakfast if I am too hungry to take the time to make something. Today I was making instant coffee and almost put a spoon full of instant coffee in my chip bowl. I had to put the breaks on.
Barb thought the air conditioning in the SUV was broken. Then she moved the fan on my side of the car and realized the car had separate systems for the driver and the passenger and on my side of the car the heat was on.
A class-action legal case needed proof that we owned Honda and Toyota cars to get a refund on some auto parts where the companies producing them tried to fix the prices illegally. We had to prove we had owned several cars over the years. They said insurance policies were okay proof. I found a file folder in my filing cabinet that was 3 inches thick that contained all of our car insurance policies since 2000.
The fellow from Nigeria who I am mentoring sent me a file by email while we were talking and it arrived in a minute. I told him that it is crazy to think about technology.
