"Signs" Of Change

Drove Rich to his new job orientation this morning. The bus from this area into Phoenix left 5 minutes early. The next would have been in an hour. Even if it hadn't already made him late, it could easily  have had its limit of 10 (!) passengers, and he wouldn't have been allowed to board. That actually seems likely because "full" buses these days don't bother to even stop once they are full unless somebody's getting off. So they go past early. Doesn't make the next one arrive any sooner - except for maybe also being full. It'll be just as much fun heading back here, though at the start of rush hour leaving downtown, I have even less hope for him securing the rides he needs, especially including a transfer.

Along Grand Ave., the shortest way be car to where he was going, there were protesters. There were a whole lot of "Jesus Saves," "Honk for Jesus,"  and "Jesus Loves Everybody"along the way. At the tail end, we saw "Jesus Heals." I guess they're hoping believing makes it so, because - you guessed it - not a face mask among the whole big bunch of them out there.

(Who would Jesus ... purge?)

Our rec centers are opening up. Today is the first day of Phase 1. Ta Dum!!!

Nobody exactly explained to us what that means besides the pools being open, not to mention what phases 2 or 3 entail. Nor when. What our club president was notified of was the need to present the governing board with a detailed plan for how we plan to keep everybody safe, with face masks, sanitizing, and distancing. So this morning our board met.

In my patio. (Social distancing was observed with only 3 board members able to attend. We didn't even have to yell, despite a stiff wind busy playing in the wind chimes.) Turned out they wouldn't even let us inside our room to do essential things like measure distances so we could plan where to allow seating and how to limit people inside the doors. We spent over an hour trying to think of absolutely everything, with a  ''number to be determined" space for after the measuring. If we can't get in until after we've gotten in....

Details cover where hand sanitizer bottles go, not allowing eating inside the club room, and what members must do when they return from eating / bathroom breaks / etc., how to mark off tables and what to do with extra chairs (which we fought for until we finally got more tables and chairs for more crowding in the club this winter. Timing, eh?) We'll be looking for keyboard covers so sprays don't mess them up, rags just for wiping tables with the bleach solution which we'll also be shopping for supplies for. We decide what all surfaces we need to wipe - or not because somebody using them will always be washing immediately afterwards to mark their progress with the stone or metal or whatever. Plus those hands will be covered with saw oil or something so they will never approach eyes, noses or lips until clean.

Right?

And yes, it does take 20 seconds to get that saw oil off. We're not used to singing for it, though, but that may change.

 We'll have to make our own signs, letting members and visitors know the new rules and that they will absolutely be asked to leave if, for example, they show up without a mask on. Or if they can't come shop in the store right now because 2 people already are shopping in it.

The meeting lasted an hour. Making sense of the details, so I could write some minutes that didn't jump around in topic as much as we ourselves had, took two.