Palm Sunday

In the morning, I watched recordings of Good Morning, America and This Week with George Stephanopoulos as I usually do. The TV news shows were showing church services for Palm Sunday with priests and ministers performing their ceremonies for live streams without congregations. The Pope prayed in an empty St. Peter's Basilica. A local church allowed people to take communion if they used social distancing. That seems reckless to me. I usually do chores on Sunday but everything feels difficult to do now. I'm not as productive as I used to be. I wanted to do laundry in the morning but I didn't get around to it until afternoon. I didn't clean the floors. I didn't do any coding. It was mostly Facebook and TV today.

After watching the evening news, I went grocery shopping at Ralphs and Trader Joe's. There are no paper products of any kind at Ralphs. You can't bring in your own cloth bag at Trader Joe's now. They use their own paper bags only. I understand why they would want to follow that policy. They have to see hundreds of people every day and they can't have hundreds of bags from people's homes infecting the cashiers. I wanted to get in as much grocery shopping as I could before the rain starts and I think I did it. At home, I checked in with friends on Facebook and worked on this blog. I'm finding it hard to get things done. This blog is not a major work, and yet it seems to take me forever to do a single entry. I did what I could and then finished putting away laundry while watching Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks singing live from their home studio on Garth & Trisha Live! on Fox 11. I've never listened to their much, but I enjoyed the songs they performed. The last song was "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."