Easiest move ever and more corona talk

Sophia and I decided to move next door to get more space. Literally next door. We went from apartment 10 to apartment 11. We started moving last night on Friday and just finished a little bit after noon. There’s still some clean-up work to be done such as furniture shopping and hanging up photos, but we’re largely complete and watching TV.

It was the easiest move I’ll have in my lifetime. It’s right on time. If I’m going to be quarantined, I’m glad it’s in my new apartment as I have a great work set-up with a view. Sophia will have the dining table to work on in the other room so we have good separation.

I’m still trying to process how everything is going to play out in the next few weeks. My best is that this will be a mandatory work from home situation through the end of April. We already know there won’t be any major public gatherings or social events, but closure of restaurants and stores will be interesting.

If this gets to the point where everything will be closed, the impact on the economy will be devastating. There will be government bailouts and stimulus packages or many businesses will not survive.

My dad runs a small travel agency. We’ve all known it’s a dying industry and his business was not going to survive many more years, but this is might be the start of the end of his nearly 25+ year old business. He’s in a fortunate position to be okay financially, but it’s still hard to think about the impact.

We’re in a fortunate position at Secfi that we may not be directly affected in our line of business, but we will undoubtedly feel the indirect impact here. I’m still processing everything and will need to start putting more plans into action.

We’re all going to need to make sacrifices for the public good in the next weeks. We’ll be better afterwards.