Monday morning, the Ides of March, it was indeed difficult to get the kids going, but not as much as I expected. Except Colin. He woke up and immediately started reading his book again. I'd made him stop last night one chapter short of the end of a "book" (How to unambiguously refer to a section of a book that's divided into "books"?), and I think it may have been a serious cliffhanger.
He asked me to order the next three books in his series, and they were already in stock at the book store, so after lunch he joined Rachel and me on the bike to pick up those and Lydia's books, which had been waiting since Saturday afternoon. The weather was dry today, but much cooler than Friday or Saturday. We didn't have time to swing by Kerry Park on the way home, because Rachel had a class, but then Teams wasn't working, so her class didn't really happen, anyway. That seemed to be district wide, because Colin's specialist time with the librarian also didn't work.
I almost forgot to make pizza dough this morning, even after setting out the bowls. I had to go back upstairs to do it. After work, I started on the pizza, then went to Ken's for ingredients. Nicole, Lydia, and Eric came along, Eric on his bike. They all stayed on the Coe playground while I got toppings and cake ingredients.
After pizza, I spent the rest of the evening helping Rachel with another ambitious cake. I'll report the details tomorrow, or let Rachel do it, but for now I'll just say that Rachel somehow found a perfect cake for Nicole. I expect she'll be delighted. It was a lot of work, though.
The other kids went upstairs and, instead of reading, decided to organize an election for the next family reading book, which has been paused for a while since the kids were all reading their own books. We went through several rounds of voting, but didn't arrive at a clear winner, so we may have to sort it out tomorrow.
Numbers I saw today indicate that in addition to the continued gradual decline in new cases, there continues a steep drop in hospitalizations of Americans over 65, in which vaccination plays at least some role. First vaccine doses have risen dramatically, and now exceed 1.3 million per day. That's double the average from a couple weeks ago, when there were more second doses. It will take even more volume to get everyone a dose by the end of May, but it does not seem impossible, at least.
2 comments:
Try ranked choice voting. One round, one winner!
I'm not convinced there wouldn't be ties with ranked choice, too. We have a small voter pool. We could try it, but it's more complicated than approval voting.
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