There is a wonderful daily email I look forward to: AWAD by Anu Garg.
Today’s word is superbious. http://www.wordsmith.org/words/superbious.html
Certainly at least one person comes to my mind as being proud and insolent, But what really stuck with me today, was Anu’s Thought for Today: “I don’t need more time. What I need is a deadline.” Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer and conductor (29 April 1899-1974).
How true this rings now days. We’re sheltering in place and might think we have all the time in the world to git-er-dun, but if we really want to get it done, sometimes there is nothing quite like a deadline to bring the project into focus. These endless days of one after the other are all becoming some day. 
I really need to be mindful of not letting too much time melt away in these days of self quarantine. 

Easter Sunday, a very important Sunday.
Then we have Duolingo, I’ve been at it for 500 days in a row, haven’t skipped a single day.
Ta-da 🎉
I’ve always wanted to learn Spanish, now it’s finally happening.
It seems to me that my pronunciation is pretty good (but then, who am I to say). My reading comprehension is coming along. Listening and responding in a conversation? Pitiful.
I’m continuing to learn new words, though.
​I have to continue to remind myself its like water on stone: a little all the time, unceasingly will create a change. Over time there will be an effect. It may be imperceptible, but there will be an effect. That, you can bank on.
My only prob: sometimes I get a trifle impatient and want something before several eons have passed. Maybe that’s just me being childish again.

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2020-04-03, Friday
Yesterday was productive in spite of the Covid-19 crisis. I finished deconstructing the little 10’x10’ shed behind the garage. 
Work was stopped the day before because of a bat sheltering in the tarpaper on the south side of the structure. It was near the end of the day and I reckoned the little mammal would fly off overnight now that it’s home was being demolished. I put a flap of the torn 90# roofing material over his hiding spot, hoping the critter didn’t freak out before dark. After sunset, but before it was totally dark I went back and took the flap off and hoped the bat would be gone by morning. Sure enough, no trace. 
Perhaps one day, I’ll post the video of this shed’s final days. 
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​April Fool’s Day (fools, fools’?). 
We are living in the age of CORVID-19 and that is no joke. It’s an unusual time to say the least.
A young man, Avi Schiffmann, 17 year old junior at Mercer Island High School, recently wrote a program that “scrapes the web”. His program gathers Covid-19 statistics from health departments all over the globe. For his tracker view this link: https://ncov2019.live. For a great interview with this mild mannered teen go here: Democracy Now.