sort of a silver lining
It's been a strange year, 2020. Covid-19 has prevented a lot of things: travel, restaurant meals, seeing people. Between October of last year and February of this year I was in the new house part of the week and in the old house part of the week. Then in February my husband (and our cat) moved to the new house with me, so at least we're together. But since they moved out here we've had a chance to visit relatively few people. My brother came to dinner one night in May, and a friend later that summer. Another friend in late summer (she had to wait till her dog recovered from surgery) and two more friends in September. And my brother-in-law and his wife last week. So, 7 people since the beginning the year, basically. And though I do go to work, I spend a lot of time in my office with the door shut. We have very few in-person meetings, and the ones we do have we're required to sit distanced and wear masks and so forth. So we do a lot of meetings on MS Teams. I