Everything you said was on point.  Also, it's pretty much what's happening with all the major casinos vegas on the Strip and Fremont Street.  It's all greed.  Greed, greed, and more greed.

Added to this, the issue of reopening is that infections and the situations that exacerbate them are not always predictable. I live in a county with a far lower incidence of Covid-19 than the surrounding counties. At least, that was the case around ten days ago.

OMG my MIL has the identical fear: men are going to start using the women’s bathroom. She went on and on once about how awful it was and it’ll be a big deal.

I’m fully expecting both summer and fall (Halloween, Thanksgiving, probably even Christmas) to be canceled because the Karens can’t wait to get their fucking nails done.

Yet another sad day for yet another American cultural landmark: for the first time in nearly a century, the HOLLYWOOD BOWL has cancelled the entire summer season (June-Oct) for the Bowl and the smaller John Anson Ford Amphitheater across the street. I suppose they were holding out for a truncated (perhaps Sept - Oct)…

My Dad is dying. Not from Covid19. He is blind and has dementia, and on Friday he fell over, which happens sometimes. He fractured his skull, and his brain is bleeding. He’s not a candidate for surgery, so now we just wait. He’s not in any pain, he’s mostly just sleeping.

My cat Marlowe figured out how to open doors. He would jump up and hang off the handle until it opened. First time he did it was on my bedroom door in the middle of the night. The completely closed door opened after some scrabbling and scratching, there was nobody there, and for a hot second I absolutely thought my…

Shelter Cat Update!

Snack thread!

My parents had a cat before I was born that apparently would steal runner beans from you

My dog has a great, undying, begging love for broccoli. He has an even deeper love for cauliflower. 

Our cats aren’t so bizarre as to win, but they do some weird shit.

One of my two dogs, Bella, is obsessed with any of the Bachelor franchise shows. I don’t know how she recognizes it (there’s no theme song or lead in to the show) but she will stop whatever she is doing and sprint to the living room to cuddle with me and watch the show. Once, after an especially long hike, she was…

My grandfather works in a bakery and would bring leftover pastries for all of his kids and grandkids. He does it often enough that we cant always get through them and have to throw them out. I guess the garbage can was open one day because as we were eating breakfast, my brother pointed out the window and started…

I taught my cat to roll over on command.
She also plays fetch, but the roll over is our best party trick by far.

My grandma’s dog used to love to lie in the back yard when it rained. She’d get into the mud, lie on her back with all 4 legs stiffly in the air and NOT MOVE.

Oh yes.  The other day I had to put the shades nearly all the way down because my face was washing out so badly that you couldn't see me very well on the screen.  Pale people problems.

I am pale but I guess I go outside enough in normal times for my face to not glow in the dark even though I always wear SPF. I’m frighteningly pale now. I’m not getting on a video chat without some makeup. 

I’m so pale the custom background we used for a Zoom party at work overlaid the background over my face. That was fun.

I am, for sure. Light face makeup, a little bronzer to give my face some life and dimension (Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer shout-out!), fill in brows a bit, mascara. I’ll add a little eyeliner wing if I’m feeling crazy.