Coronavirus is surging across the country, and it has finally found us, or at least it almost has. Both of the kids in the high school got contact traced last week. On Thursday, Beth got a call in the morning that Missy had been in contact with someone who tested positive. She's got no symptoms, but she will be out of school for 2 weeks. So Beth went to get her, and literally 10 minutes after she got Missy home, the phone rang again. It was the school to tell her that Alex had been in contact with someone else who had tested positive, so he will be out for 2 weeks. He also has no symptoms. Both kids can go back the day before Thanksgiving, but since there's no school that day anyway, they'll go back the Monday after. Both of them are bummed, especially Missy, since a few of her friends have been out themselves and were just about to come back. So they are supposed to stay at home during their quarantine period, and they're already really bored with it.....Tuesday morning, before the contact tracing, I finally called in to a morning radio trivia contest (Fresh Out of Bed and Head to Head) on Pulse-FM, the one that we've been saying for weeks I should call in to because I always know all the answers. Well, I finally did, and I won it by answering 2 of the 3 questions before the other person did (Who won the Masters' golf tournament last year [Tiger Woods] and what was the Gilligan's Island Professor's real name [Roy Hinkley]). So being the champion, I got to play again the next day (and won again), and the next day (and won again, in double overtime), and the next day. So with four consecutive wins, I have entered their hall of fame, won a few prizes (including the controversial coffee mug, but I don't know why it's called that), and get to be on a tournament of champions at the end of the year.....We also went to Fort Wayne on Thursday, even though the kids were supposed to quarantine. Alex had a $500 paycheck from Walmart, and he wanted to be able to spend some of it. So we went to the mall, and let them shop. Alex bought a bunch of stuff at ThinkGeek. I think Missy is a bit jealous of the paycheck, because she's been talking about maybe she should get a job there herself. She can't right now, of course, and Alex is off work too. But Missy is back to her babysitting job with the small group at least, but that's only $20 every other week.....This weekend was mostly about leaves. It's been so windy lately that I didn't need to rent a big leaf blower, since the leaves were all against the fence in the backyard. But I did get a tarp and a rake and some kids and drag the leaves into a huge pile out in the back 40. Took almost all day, but then it snowed the next day, so my timing was impeccable....