It is a beautiful snowy day in Centralia. The view is from my office. Western Washington State is kind of a crazy place to be right now. The current count for the coronavirus for the state is 37 dead and 568 infected. Kelly and Christian in Baltimore and Boston, respectively, have both been instructed to work from home until things calm down a little. As for me, I have been asked not to visit our home office in the Boston area for the same reason. That does not change much for me. It is nice to be home with Lorena, but we get cabin fever with no one going to the store unless they really need something.

The situation does lend it self to allow me work on my PhD project and I am making good progress. Since things are moving forward nicely on the doctoral front and I have the time, I thought it might be nice to start writing again. I will try to write several times per week going forward. There are lots of changes taking place in the world right now and it will be nice to have a place to comment on those things, too.