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Painting and Virtual Tabletop Gaming

I've gotta say that the four-day work week feels just about perfectly balanced with the three-day weekend I just had. We should really consider switching to this kind of schedule as a society sometime.

The weather still hasn't quite been cooperating, unless you count that I needed it to rain for my early spring weed & feed mix to be more effective. Of course fortunately my partner and I got a lot of our big springtime outdoor work done back when it was warm for a week and it's not like we can really go outside anyway.

Aside from all the beautiful and adorable growth of our daughter, the biggest news of this week is that we (but mostly my partner) painted our big hallway in the color that will eventually cover the majority of our house. We really like how it turned out, which is good because we bought a five-gallon bucket of that paint so we're pretty committed at this point. Here's a before and after photo:
As far as mental states during a pandemic go, I 'd say mine is still going pretty well. I've not been looking at the news nearly as much which definitely helps, but on top of that I think I'm really getting used to this new stay-at-home lifestyle. Going out to a hardware store this past weekend was a little scary, but it was reassuring to see other people also wearing masks and keeping at a distance, especially when you consider the fact that there were a bunch of idiots standing near each other protesting the safety measures in our state. It's always good to be reminded that those types of people are in the minority.

Also, I've wanted to be a part of a tabletop gaming group for a while now but I've been too intimidated by the challenge of finding a group of like-minded people whose schedules somehow miraculously line up with mine to attempt to join or create one. Fortunately, last night that dream was realized when me and some other folks from the Vertigo Gaming Inc. team had a virtual tabletop night! We played two games, Las Vegas and Deep Sea Adventures, and had a lot of fun with it! I can't wait to do it again, potentially with even more great folks from the team! It's cool how the COVID-19 pandemic has actually brought us folks closer together through stuff like this.

And as a last-minute addition to this blog post that I've just now found out before publishing it: my partner might be going back to work sometime next week! While this is good news, financially, she's really been enjoying being a full-time mom, and of course I've enjoyed having our daughter around the house all day long even if I've been stuck in my office working most of the time anyway. It's kind of weird how often our situation keeps changing.

Stay healthy and sane!
-Ryan
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