two years!

What a day. 
I spent the morning getting my internet/phone service/television service fixed, which involved much frustration. 

To get over it and residual from yesterday I went for a walk and talked with a friend - who is having Covid for the second time because she ate dinner in a restaurant. Her Afghan friend made it out of the country and will interview for a green card soon. He's been through hell and she's going to take him to a warm beach with little drinks with umbrellas. He's never seen the ocean and he's never drunk and he wants to do both. 

Her basis for hope with Ukraine - the decrease in quality of life in Russia is not gradual, like a frog in a pot that slowly warms, but drastic and therefore upsetting, causing the frog to say oh hell no.

Then I cooked for myself. When I was a kid an Italian chef on TV said that food is love. Cooking is definitely love, and cooking for myself, with the walk and the talk, made the afternoon much better. I cooked with cilantro for the first time ever, making quesadillas with so many ingredients that it needed a weekend to have time to do it. 

And then we continued cleaning. Karen found two more holes, so tiny I can't even put bait in them. She will point them out to the experts coming Wednesday to block every entrance. The cleaning was horrible. Five more weekends like this one and we will live in a perfect, tidy, minimalist household. 

What do you do with such a difficult day?

You go to Happy Hour Driveway! Where they were celebrating TWO YEARS of surviving Covid! You drink a Party Dinosaur and get a lesson on sour ale and then another lesson on Indian Pale Ale. Samuel gets massive petting and you go home with just a bit of a buzz because you are a total lightweight. 

Russia is asking China for military aid. Can you imagine how desperate Russia must be to ask China for military aid? 

Russian television pundits are asking Putin to end the invasion!! 

My friend's workplace gave $50,000 to their Moldovan employees to help Ukrainian refugees. 

Hackers have made software to make it easier for regular people to attack Russia's IT system. "There are more than 300,000 members of the official “IT Army” of Ukraine, a Telegram group of volunteer cyber-warriors set up by the government, and an increasing number of unofficial groups. Some hackers are developing idiot-proof software for people with poor tech skills." (Economist)

Remember, tomorrow is Pi Day.