Wednesday. An uneven night's sleep, awakening at two in the morning and seemingly staying half awake for over an hour, awakening then for good at six-fifteen again to listen to Democracy Now! until seven, getting up finally to drive to breakfast on a bright sunny morning, the weather people saying into the seventies later today. This is good. Arrived to find the two small tables I've been using in the blocked off dining area out of place and so put them back together, turned on the lights and settled in with the papers.

The two strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast (again) to finish up at a quarter after nine and set out for the car, taking a picture of the gas station and its sign, but not really registering whether or not it had changed again. It hadn't, but my thought to remember of check it driving in had obviously evaporated by the time I took the picture.

Home to take the selfie and settle in at the computer, thinking to see what the Earth Day online broadcast was up to while working on this. Climate change is a big deal with me, but I found it getting in the way of the writing and turned it off after less than an hour.

Later. More time with the news and watching stuff on the tablet, the parameters of this pandemic starting to come into focus, the need for testing and following up on identified cases, the lynch pin of getting this thing under some kind of control. The time frame for this is more than a little sobering, the modification to our lives in now measured in years. Well, back to the tablet.

Evening. Stayed up until eight to watch Midsomer Murders, one of the later episodes, more to make sure I got to bed later than I would otherwise and avoid awakening too early. Not as horrible as I usually make it out to be, finishing up by nine-thirty to then go to bed, listen to the BBC News until ten, turn out the lights and wait on tomorrow.