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Those who read glynhogen might be looking for a Part 2 of the Grand Theft Pontoon Boat incident: I hopped in the then-fully-functional boat and met them where they were stuck. Probably no more than about 100 yards from shore. They were very apologetic, told me that they'd tried calling us to ask about the boats, and while they were standing there, a different guest was coming in and told them they could just take it. They reported being skeptical but the other guest was very convincing, pulled a "tell them to take it up with me if they don't like it". I towed them back without further incident. Later, the other guest in question told me that they had intended to say something like "we're done with this boat for the day, we have it rented the whole day, so we don't mind if you use it for a little while". So big misunderstandings all around and I think the would-be boat thieves felt sheepish. We replaced the fuel line in the boat that was missing one just in time for the Other Guest to hit something or get the prop tangled up such that all three propeller blades popped out. They are made to be individually replaceable and pop out before you do serious damage to your motor, but replacing them is still kind of annoying.

Wow, I found a draft from the last time I thought "hey, I should post something to dreamwidth". Despite being a year old, It is surprisingly apt. I will simply edit in place.

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Obviously the isolation has been tough on K and T, but in different ways. K is MUCH  more social, and playing Roblox while on Discord with a very small group of friends a few times a week only takes us so far. She also is uncomfortable with much of video conferencing, especially if there's an unfamiliar person, so she's been skipping the chats with her girl scout troop because some of them were joint with other troops and once she was the only one from her own troop. Trying to figure out exactly which ones will be mostly or all people she knows, and forcing her to do just those, has generally taken more spell slots than I've had available and I have not done as much as I should.

T never really had much homework, so he has a hard time thinking of this as anything but a break during which we inexplicably force him to do school-like work. We've experimented with a rigid schedule (he did not like it), a to-do list with no specific times (he liked it as long as we didn't actually enforce it, which defeats the purpose), and now with some kind of in-between where we enforce specific slots where he can do whatever he wants off his to-do list. That's not going well either. He just wants to be able to play Roblox and watch youtube videos about Roblox all day without being made to do homework, or to eat, or especially to sleep.

I'm a bit surprised how unbothered I  am by the isolation. I worked 100% remotely from about 2001- 2009, but I would go stir-crazy if I  didn't get out and see people at least a few times a week. For the last few years I've been working in the office Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and remotely Tuesdays and Thursdays. I  expected to really miss seeing people who are not in my immediate family. But every day is Tuesday now, and I  don't find myself begging to be the one who picks up the pizza or the groceries. 

My employer has been awesome about accommodating everyone and their crazy schedules, and my job is not currently in danger despite the literal millions of dollars we lost on our annual meeting this year (we canceled before L.A. declared whatever state of emergency would have provided force majeur protection). Our CEO  is an infectious disease specialist so we're not going to be reopening the office any time soon. I  also learned recently that Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of our members, so there's that.