We don’t usually get a lot of snow in the Boulder/Louisville/Broomfield area, but up in the mountains near Vail and Aspen, Colorado, they usually get plenty. This was taken at a rest area near Vail.
~ March 21, 2013, on the drive back from Las Vegas
On the afternoon of March 11, 2020, the number of COVID-19 cases in Colorado increased to 33, from 11 cases two days earlier. A week later, on March 18th, Colorado now has 216 cases.
Also, we were at 160 cases two days ago, so we increased by 56 cases in the last two days.
A side effect of the coronavirus seems to be that the local pharmacy can’t get medication in stock. “Sorry we don’t have that prescription that you ordered four days ago and need to stay alive, but hopefully it will be in tomorrow.”
(If you need a prescription refilled, order it as early as you can.)
After it was pointed out to me several times this past week that I live in a nice area, I was reminded of searching for donuts a few weeks ago. I found a Dunkin’ Donuts about twenty minutes from here that is on a direct path to Denver. Nothing about the area was nice, and the store itself looked old and dirty, and one of the front doors is closed with a chair in front of it and a sign telling you not to use that door.
I mention that because despite of how unattractive the area was, I still saw people with their laptops sitting in some booths there. It reminded me of myself about 15-25 years ago. I occasionally worked in some areas that weren’t pleasant, and I’d take my laptop and/or paperwork and sit in places like that and do my work.
Hopefully one of the morals of this story is that if you work hard, you can get out of situations like that and eventually move to nicer areas. I’m sure there are other morals to be had, but that’s what I have in mind by sharing this story.
As a brief note, late on the afternoon of March 11, 2020, the number of COVID-19 cases in Colorado have increased from 11 to 33 in two days.
Update: We increased to 77 cases by the evening of March 13, and 101 cases by noon on March 14. So coronavirus cases in Colorado are just about tripling every two days in Colorado.
Grocery shopping lately reminds me of the Seinfeld “Can you spare a square?” episode.
Late on March 11, 2020, I just took a look at the stock market. After today’s drop, the S&P has arguably gone back in time to June 1, 2018, as shown in the top image. As shown in the bottom image, you can argue that the Dow Jones (Trump’s “Dow Joans”) has gone back even further, to October, 2017.
This is happening as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been hitting the United States over the last 1-2 weeks. Here in Colorado we had 11 cases reported two days ago, and two days later we’re up to 33.
On the evening of March 9, 2020, Colorado now has 11 people with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). As shown in this image, the two most recent people have no known contact with an infected person, which is pretty scary. You can get up to date statistics at this colorado.gov URL.
On the personal front, I went to the hospital this morning, and I’d guess it was about 1/3 to 1/2 as populated as normal. When I went to have some imaging work done, the technician who was going to do the work was waiting for me when I walked to the Imaging Department, and I was in and out in a few minutes. Later at the grocery store, it was the same, maybe half as full as normal.
According to the City of Boulder, Colorado Government Facebook page, this photo from 1866 is one of the oldest known photos of Boulder, Colorado. As someone commented on that page, there are no trees shown in the area. I’m told that pretty much every tree you see in Boulder, Longmont, Louisville, Broomfield, etc., was planted by man.
It was an interesting afternoon to watch a Wikipedia entry. With the University of Colorado looking for a new head football coach, I saw this tweet saying that someone changed Steve Sarkisian’s Wikipedia entry early this afternoon (2/20/2020) to show that he was the new head coach at Colorado.
When I looked up the IP address at the bottom of that changelist — 128.138.184.70 — I saw that it was a University of Colorado IP address. But later in the afternoon it was reported that Sarkisian was staying as the offensive coordinator at Alabama and getting a raise, so his Wikipedia entry was reverted about 2.5 hours later.
And to all a good night ... a photo of a sunset over the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado, October 4, 2012.
As seen in Boulder, Colorado. :)
From 74 degrees on Super Bowl Sunday to -5 two days later. Brrr.
“Live the life you love.” As seen in Estes Park, Colorado, many moons ago.
The last two nights — January 6 and 7, 2020 — the moon shine has woken me up during the middle of the night.
Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
And all the night’s magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush
Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance ...
I had to go to a physical therapy appointment early this morning in Louisville, Colorado, and one benefit of getting up early were some beautiful views of the overnight snow, clouds on one side of the sky, and sunshine on the other.
It looks like this statue in Santa Fe is saying, “Woo-hoo, it’s a new year.”
Here’s a very touching story on colorado.edu titled, Xenna the service dog helps Navy vet do laboratory research.
“She didn’t want to die in the hospital,” Arlene said. “I promised her, ‘You’re not going to die in the hospital. You’re not going to die in here.’”
~ from this story on uchealth.org
A tub of applesauce exploded when I returned to higher altitude (driving back to Colorado from Kentucky). I’m always surprised when that doesn’t happen to my brain.
~ December 7, 2017
