That’s not moaning; it’s yawning.

At least it was just water. You earned one golden Pandemic Parenting Point.

The trick I learned decades ago with carbonara is to add pasta water to temper the eggs before adding them to the pasta. Makes it much less likely they will scramble.

Eggs in cacio e pepe? Milk? Abomination!

At the beginning of The Great Pause, my local grocery store was cleaned out of almost all the ordinary cheap pasta. Ironically, they’re often/usually out of stock on bucatini whenever I want it, but this time I was able to get several boxes plus some ditalini to stash for later.

Wyze released firmware to convert their camera to a webcam, and they’re in stock and shipping fairly quickly. There’s a bit of a fisheye effect, but the flashing is easy and reversible, plus it’s 1080p resolution, so it’s a great deal for $25.

Wyze released firmware to convert their camera to a webcam, and they’re in stock and shipping fairly quickly.…

You can even do the French press solution with cold milk, should you want to. I don’t know why you would, but you can.

The grey dog (Weimaraner) photo guy is William Wegman. He’s still around and is a talented painter, too. The rainbow cat cartoons? Are you thinking of B. Kliban? He died in 1990.

ART is Accelerated Resolution Therapy. I haven’t used it myself, so can’t speak to its effectiveness. But as a fellow anxious person, I feel you, man. Mine manifests in agoraphobia, which has been ironically funny these past weeks, as I’m sure you can imagine.

My husband is, too, and in fact we went to TJ’s yesterday on the way home from his oncology visit. If I was going to shop in person, TJ’s would be the place I would do it. Their safety procedures are about as good as they can get, provided the shoppers follow along. Most did, but a couple of young immortals decided…

I was there yesterday, too, and my experience was the same as yours. It’s the first time I shopped in person in many weeks. We were nearby for a medical appointment and since the nearest store is an hour from home, we decided to go by and stock up on some favorites. No sanitizer, but we did get toilet paper.

And yet, when I wanted to get a couple of things at Lowe’s, they were tagged “in store purchase only” (which is fine, though it implies their inventory system is having a hard time keeping track accurately) but it also meant I couldn’t even find out where in the store they would be. I had to figure out the product…

Aldi’s around where I live also offer pickup and delivery. So you can have it any way you want. They also had toilet paper when nobody else did, so they went way up in my esteem.

The link “photo of your eyes” does link to 1-800-Contacts website, where they will do the exam. However, it assumes you wear contacts and that you have a copy of your current prescription, too.

“Um, Bridge? He’s not my uncle.”

If you have a farmers market near you, they might have online options, too. The one in our town is shut down, of course, but their site links to the sites some of the vendors have set up to sell their stuff. A local U-pick fruit farm also has pickups 3 days a week, and they well out within the first hour.

Yeah, but Brooks is a distance runner, so he’ll outlast Fleischer easily.

I have an old K-Cup machine and reusable pods for those days when I can barely think straight. I use good beans and a proper burr grinder, and can manage that well enough even on the worst mornings. I save the more complicated gear (even Aeropress is a lot more complicated) for after I had my first jolt of caffeine.

I have an old K-Cup machine and reusable pods for those days when I can barely think straight. I use good beans and…

To be fair, they’re conservatives. New ideas aren’t really their thing.

I’m gonna guess that he was not, in fact, aware of that, hence his predictable lack of success.