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In Which I Race Before the End
Mar. 23rd, 2020 09:17 pmToday after work I rushed about to do several tasks, at least one of which would not be covered under shelter-in-place rules ... and it's now been announced that we're going to shelter in place for the whole state at midnight tomorrow.
My first stop was the bank. Part of my masterplan of the move to Hawaii was to drop back on my former full-time work with Skotos and make up for that with more time working on Designers & Dragons (and other personal projects). So, I've formed "Designers & Dragons LLC" here in Hawaii, and my last step in that process was getting a bank account set up for that. They required more of the LLC paperwork than I'd expected, but fortunately I had it all with me. So, Designers & Dragons LLC is now 100% ready to go, and I expect to start using it for my writing and consulting next month.
Next up was the hospital. My new doctor got back to me about my knee that's been hurting for like a month now and so I was able to go in and get an X-Ray. Yay, I wasn't sure I'd be able to do this for months. Though I suspect it's a sprain, strain, or tear, not bone damage, so it's likely to need an MRI not an X-Ray, but it's a start. I also have a referral to a physical therapist, and maybe that will help me out.
Third stop was The UPS Store, and this was the one that I didn't think I'd be able to do after tomorrow. We have a $60 Van Gogh print that we'd ordered for our bed room that came entirely mangled. It might have been damaged in transit, but it also clearly hadn't been put together right, because it wasn't flat. So I sent it back so that we didn't have to pay for a $60 Van Gogh print that was misproduced and misshipped.
And finally I went by Costco, because it was right around the corner from the UPS Store. I picked up some refrigerated food and non-perishables. And, I was shocked that the store was relatively empty. I'm been afraid of chaos in advance of the shelter-in-place, but fortunately that announcement came in just before I got there (not earlier in the day as I'd feared). Still, it was quite the opposite of chaos. Perhaps a result of the tourists already starting to head out?
So that was the chaotic TODO on my penultimate day of freedom. I did a pretty good job of social distancing everywhere, except when someone cornered me in the frozen room at Costco. And hopefully I got the stuff done that needed to get done.
Meanwhile, I was also distracted during the afternoon because of the eternal house sale. (How could it be just three and a half weeks since we celebrated accepting an offer? It feels like forever!) Our stager had movers come and get her crap out of our house today. (Yay!) But one of our neighbors freaked out and said it shouldn't have been done during the shelter-in-place, and the movers weren't maintaining social distancing with each other, and there would be martial law. (I believe the stager's theory is that there was an exception to the shelter-in-place for recovering her inventory, and as I've written elsewhere there obviously should be an exception for movers, and I know there is in other orders, such as Colorado.) Then the plumbers were out to start the work on the lateral sewer repair, as required by the buyer's bank. (Yay!) But two of our neighbors freaked out and said it shouldn't have been done during the shelter-in-place, and claimed the plumbers were belligerent when confronted about doing their entirely legal (as clearly excepted in the shelter-in-place order) work, and apparently harsh words were exchanged between the neighbors and the plumbers, and someone may have stepped within six foot of someone else, and so the police were called at least once, maybe twice. (Boo!)
When I say the shelter-in-place orders are creating mass hysteria, that's it. And the hysteria is so hysterical that people are attacking people doing ANYTHING, even though there are clearly written exceptions to keep our society working.
Anywho, the furniture is removed, so now we just have to hope the lateral sewer repair gets done tomorrow without any more neighbor attacks or cop arrests or whatever and if so, then we're so, so, so close to closing.
My first stop was the bank. Part of my masterplan of the move to Hawaii was to drop back on my former full-time work with Skotos and make up for that with more time working on Designers & Dragons (and other personal projects). So, I've formed "Designers & Dragons LLC" here in Hawaii, and my last step in that process was getting a bank account set up for that. They required more of the LLC paperwork than I'd expected, but fortunately I had it all with me. So, Designers & Dragons LLC is now 100% ready to go, and I expect to start using it for my writing and consulting next month.
Next up was the hospital. My new doctor got back to me about my knee that's been hurting for like a month now and so I was able to go in and get an X-Ray. Yay, I wasn't sure I'd be able to do this for months. Though I suspect it's a sprain, strain, or tear, not bone damage, so it's likely to need an MRI not an X-Ray, but it's a start. I also have a referral to a physical therapist, and maybe that will help me out.
Third stop was The UPS Store, and this was the one that I didn't think I'd be able to do after tomorrow. We have a $60 Van Gogh print that we'd ordered for our bed room that came entirely mangled. It might have been damaged in transit, but it also clearly hadn't been put together right, because it wasn't flat. So I sent it back so that we didn't have to pay for a $60 Van Gogh print that was misproduced and misshipped.
And finally I went by Costco, because it was right around the corner from the UPS Store. I picked up some refrigerated food and non-perishables. And, I was shocked that the store was relatively empty. I'm been afraid of chaos in advance of the shelter-in-place, but fortunately that announcement came in just before I got there (not earlier in the day as I'd feared). Still, it was quite the opposite of chaos. Perhaps a result of the tourists already starting to head out?
So that was the chaotic TODO on my penultimate day of freedom. I did a pretty good job of social distancing everywhere, except when someone cornered me in the frozen room at Costco. And hopefully I got the stuff done that needed to get done.
Meanwhile, I was also distracted during the afternoon because of the eternal house sale. (How could it be just three and a half weeks since we celebrated accepting an offer? It feels like forever!) Our stager had movers come and get her crap out of our house today. (Yay!) But one of our neighbors freaked out and said it shouldn't have been done during the shelter-in-place, and the movers weren't maintaining social distancing with each other, and there would be martial law. (I believe the stager's theory is that there was an exception to the shelter-in-place for recovering her inventory, and as I've written elsewhere there obviously should be an exception for movers, and I know there is in other orders, such as Colorado.) Then the plumbers were out to start the work on the lateral sewer repair, as required by the buyer's bank. (Yay!) But two of our neighbors freaked out and said it shouldn't have been done during the shelter-in-place, and claimed the plumbers were belligerent when confronted about doing their entirely legal (as clearly excepted in the shelter-in-place order) work, and apparently harsh words were exchanged between the neighbors and the plumbers, and someone may have stepped within six foot of someone else, and so the police were called at least once, maybe twice. (Boo!)
When I say the shelter-in-place orders are creating mass hysteria, that's it. And the hysteria is so hysterical that people are attacking people doing ANYTHING, even though there are clearly written exceptions to keep our society working.
Anywho, the furniture is removed, so now we just have to hope the lateral sewer repair gets done tomorrow without any more neighbor attacks or cop arrests or whatever and if so, then we're so, so, so close to closing.