Good like Christine and everyone. It's important for your mental health to get outside as much as you can within the limits of your local rules. Over here we can go out for one exercise session, walk, run or cycle, per day, plus shopping. People where i am seem to be fairly reasonable about keeping two metres apart. I generally go out for a ride in the morning for an hour, and a walk 20 minutes along the river to a supermarket in the late afternoon to pick up fresh veggies etc. This morning I went for a 30-minute run on the riverside path around Greenwich Peninsula, and cycled 30 minutes each way to a supermarket in the afternoon.
The weather is still beautiful, but quite cold. There's very little traffic and the air is clean, so it's a great pleasure to be out. We are keeping our French classes going over Skype, but it's not as much fun as personal contact. I work during the day and we're well set up for home working, but my ancient personal laptop has given up the ghost so I'm having to do everything with my iPhone (my ancient iPad's not up to it), which is very inconvenient. I'm arranging to cycle in to the office next week, currently closed except for security, to pick up the laptop I have there. > On 26 Mar 2020, at 22:52, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > > We just got an emergency alert via our mobile phones that the City of Chicago > is closing down the lakefront, beaches etc, which I think is a good idea. > > I’ve been pretty busy with shifting my teaching to online. Our community > college district shifted pretty quickly as things turned, and faculty have > really risen to the occasion. This week I’ve had video sessions with > students, and I’ve been greatly inspired by students wanting to persist with > the semester despite these difficult circumstances. > > What is worrisome is finding food and supplies. I haven’t been out in 10 > days expect for a 30 minute walk in an empty park. I’m not that keen on > going to the store, but I will have to in the next few days, and, of course, > I will take precautions. Ordering online is great, but so much is out of > stock and the wait times can sometimes be a bit long, but it just requires us > to do a bit of rationing and be smart about how we use up supplies. A > constant refrain in the house is “we’ll just have to make do,” which everyone > around the world is saying. > > Also, we have some friends who are nurses, and I have some students whose > mom’s are nurses, so we’re very worried about them. There are women > everywhere in America sewing cotton face masks for hospitals. Maybe you’ve > seen the calls for face masks on Facebook. I’d love to stitch some up since > I have sewing skills, but my school work has my time pretty occupied. Maybe > I can stitch some up week after next, since we will be on spring break. > > Christine > > > > >> On Mar 23, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> >> wrote: >> >> I’ve been pretty cautious about going out, about being in contact with >> others. But today the governor of our state issued a strong Stay At Home >> order effective through April 13. Still ok to go out for food and meds but >> otherwise Stay Home. >> >> I’ve decided there is nothing else I can do, and so will try to ignore what >> is happening elsewhere and start putting together some Blurb books, catching >> up on travels I have done over the last 7 years. >> >> I do have a new camera arriving from Adorama tomorrow, a Ricoh WG-70, but I >> am thinking I will not be anyplace to fully take advantage of its features… >> >> stan >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
