Quarantine Day 5: #1 Again!

So late last night, while I was home in bed. I was trolling Facebook, and this is what I read! Its a timeline game that was shared by one of my friends from middle school (Hey Kitty!). When I played, I tagged another friend of mine from when I was playing on Gaiaonline in College (Hello my Gaians! <3, Hi Shawna!) I guess it says a lot about me that I keep friends as long as I do. This is the chat Shawna and I had on Kitty's post.

As you can see, Shawna and I have found a way to chill together. On that note, my Uncle is hosting AA meetings on Zoom, my friend Jeff is partying with his friends across Zoom.

Piper's Apocolypse Peanutbutter Cookies Recipe

1 stick butter

1 cup creamy peanut butter

1 egg

1 cup sugar

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 & 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp Almond extract

1 tsp Vanilla extract.

Combine and make like you would any cookies, roll balls a little bigger than a quarter, position on cookie sheet ( a little more room in better) dust with sugar, flatten with a fork, bake at 375 degrees F for about 12 minutes.

Dinner was Chili, but shortages kept me from having diced tomatoes in my pantry, I used crushed tomatoes and it felt like I was doing battle against a moderately spicy marinara sauce with beans in it. In the end, to cut the down the marinara effect I added a package of dry onion soup mix and a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar. 3 gallons of chili with half a jar of cayenne pepper and two full jars of chili powder was too much for my roommates, not as spicy as I would have liked but too much for them, it didn't even have powdered habanero in it this time!

While I was making dinner I had the chance to chat with a friend from Highschool, Daniel Moir about a book he has in the work, and I am privileged to have been involved in his character design stage, talking him through ideas and character traits while he drew her. I haven't gotten permission to share the drawing, so out of respect, I cant.

According to Bloomberg:

Coronavirus latest:
- Tokyo saw its biggest daily virus infections on Saturday
- Iran will publish anyone that doesn't respect social distancing rules
- Singapore advises public to stay home
- U.S. is the first country to reach 100,000 coronavirus cases

And now...

Naval Hospital Ships the Mercy is in California and the Comfort has been deployed to NY to provide care to non-Covid 19 cases.

Talk has happened about placing the states of NY, CT, and NJ under quarantine.. the state governors are saying that taking that step exceeds presidential authority. Which technically it does. However, the president is listening to advise from the CDC, and protecting the country from all threats foreign and Domestic does happen to be the Job of the President. The Pandemic is definitely a threat to all of us, the question is "How long can we continue to play politics?"