The Plague Diaries: Migration

The governor's shelter-in-place order prohibits unnecessary travel and forbids people to leave town in order to go to a second home, such as a vacation cottage.  Darwin and I have been bending that rule.  I go to Albion sometimes and he comes here sometimes.  But I don't go anywhere in Albion--just to our house--and I don't interact with anyone in Albion.  The same is true for Darwin here.  So it's like we have one giant house with a door in one town and another door in another.

I was rather hoping that one silver lining in this cloud of plague was that Darwin and I could see more of each other.  After all, I can work easily enough in either house as long as I have Internet, and so can Darwin.  But Max is in Wherever, so I can't just move to Albion for the duration.  And Darwin has a bunch of physical materials (giant notebooks of regulations to consult, papers that require his physical signature) in Albion which makes it awkward for him to work in Wherever.  So we still shuttle back and forth for a few days at a time.

I just came off a couple days in Albion. Later, Darwin will come here.  I don't like being separated like this, but we're coping.

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