WOTC is giving away some free stuff this week, including adventures, coloring pages, and Roll20 adventures. https://dnd.wizards.com/remote/freematerial The two Roll20 adventures are Lost Mines of Phandelver and Sunless Citadel, two decent intro level adventures. Even if you never play them, getting ...

"I don't take responsibility at all" is the catchphrase for this administration.

Taiwan, who has as much contact with China as anyone, has had a total of 6 coronavirus deaths. They took decisive action in January. That's some serious organization.

Had a weird dream this morning. It was mixed first person and third person and jumped around some in time. I/she was being trained to be an onion. They worked underground and controlled society. I/she was led to an underground bunker shaped like the inside of an onion, maybe 20' across. Each onion h...

I have been medicated for almost 20 years, and it doesn't seem to help that much. At best it seems to reduce the frequency of catastrophic depths, but that leaves a lot to be desired. I have tried therapy, with similar results. When's the last time you had your meds adjusted? Your body adapts to th...

While working, I've been listening to music to drown out the voices. Working full time at home. We have a raccoon problem in the attic. I found how they got in. Now I need to drive them out first so as not to trap them in and make them super scared and destructive. Replaced the light bulb with a str...

shutdowns might have improved things. With new data, models are slightly more optimistic: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/health/ihme-updated-covid19-model/index.html This site estimated hospital usage by state and country. I don't know the accuracy but the numbers fluctuate quite a bit over time; ht...

Most of the world is just staying home, eating snacks, and watching TV. 4/20 is the most 420 time the world will ever have.

(can't believe I haven't seen more 420 jokes this month.)

Here, patients are not generally allowed to have visitors, which would help.

It could have been 40,000 deaths in Wuhan.
I don't know the source but it was linked by Dan Rather.

We are well within city limits in a thoroughly suburban neighborhood, but there is a large ditch on the edge of the property and a river with undeveloped land all along it about a mile away. The neighborhood is also ~60 years old full of mature trees. We get our share of wildlife. We have a bird fee...

Yea, the lack of consistent case exposure tracking (which would have required heavy testing early) and low level of testing means that there are lots of people are infected with no or few symptoms. For the next few weeks, it's best to assume that most people have been exposed, especially if they tra...

"And two of the hardest-hit areas in the nation — New York City and Los Angeles County — released guidance earlier this week encouraging doctors not to test patients unless they think the test will significantly change their course of treatment. That means that potentially more people in both p...

Damn, sorry. That's really insensitive to the workers.

flayed skin
dragonfly wings
silk pajamas
tips of tongues
illegal paper
dead sea scrolls
bardstock
Picardstock
woodstock

Velvet Ennui Raven.

To give a number to aspects of the shutdown, 2 weekends ago, the overall movie box office was ~100 million. That dropped to 53 million the following week. This last weekend, it was about 4 thousand. I'm not as concerned about the movie industry as other industries but the tracking was already in pla...

Only a little new info but some nice graphics on the spread: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-spread.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage&te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20200323&section=topNews&campaign_id=9&instan...

There have been enough precautions that I don't think it will be that bad, in the bigger picture. I bet there will be less than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. and only a million or so, worldwide. The economic effects of the shutdowns will ripple through for a couple of years. China's numbers went flat a...

If you're ok with subtitles, Call my Agent! (American title for Dix Pour Cent) on Netflix is fun. It's about a agency representing actors with drama and farce in equal measures. Every episode features an actor playing a version of themselves. No violence.