Quarantine - Day 14

Since we are trying to meet a deadline, today was another work day.  The day prior, I had begun to suss out a better configuration for the backup drive, although there were still bugs to work out.  Abbie’s lap top was becoming unstable and had not been backed up in months.  It needed immediate care so we spent some time with it and got it backing up with a healthy drive once again.  Once we did, we realized while chroma keying some video that all our books have green covers and disappear when held up to the camera.  I wound up reprinting covers for them changing the color of the cover to read better on video.  We completely reset our humble film studio, which turned it from a rather ramshackle space to an effective working green screen studio, and as the day wore on, we finally began solving more problems than we managed to make for ourselves and much got done.

I went out to get a few groceries, and Trader Joes was clearly getting the hang of things with people evenly spaced out six feet apart and with only so many allowed in the store at a time.  Their carts were steadily being sanitized and re-sanitized and a full crew was at work restocking.  That said, I had to go to three stores to find flour.  When I got back, I received a text from TA.  She heard John Prine had contracted the virus and was intubated in critical care.  In Chicago, there are 2,026 people who have tested positive and 16 dead.  In the state, 4,596 are positive with 65 dead.  There are 142,106 cases in the US, and 634,835 confirmed cases globally.  It has now killed almost 30,000 people.