Found out today that my Uncle Steve Carpenter used to play the drums in a garage band called "The Barons" in Grand Rapids, Michigan back in the mid 1960s. Found some more history on the band online the internet. His band opened for Chubby Checker at one point.
I woke up this morning early for work. Since my doctor's appointment this week, I have been going to sleep at 10 p.m. and sleeping through the night which is wonderful. I got up early this morning which is unusual for me. I guess I was excited because it's Friday.
Tonight, I won't be going to Barnes & Noble as Kay and Karen can't make it. I will have to come up with something new to fill my Friday night.
My friend Sue Arnouts and I went to the Blake Shelton concert at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids. Parking cost us $20 for the night. This is the second Blake Shelton concert we have attended. The first concert was fantastic and was about 4 hours long. Tonight's concert was also 4 hours long. It started around 7:15 and got over about 11:15. Martina McBride performed tonight, as well as two older guys that I had never heard of before. I sent my cousin Kelsey a text that I was at the concert and she said she was at the concert, too, so that made me happy.
My Mom and I have been going on period tours of the building of the new Fruitport High School that were paid for by our taxes. We went to two other tours while they were building the school so you could see how they were coming along. The school is finally completed and students have been attending the new school. I was quite impressed with all of the safety measures in the school. They made special walls in each classroom for hiding behind if there was an active shooter. They also painted the walls in the classrooms a certain color that is supposed to promote learning and paying attention. The builders really thought through everything in this project.
My Mom and I had gone shopping at the Woodland Mall in Grand Rapids. There were hardly any people in the mall. I took pictures of the nearly empty mall, as I knew this would rarely happen. I wasn't worried about Covid across the world, as I didn't think it would affect me.
Mom and I also went to the Old Goat Restaurant in Grand Rapids which was delicious.
Then, we went to the Leigh store by Talbots on Burton St. I was wandering around the upscale store. My coworker, Angie Cregg, called me on the phone to tell me something big was going to happen at work. She swore me to secrecy. We were texting back and forth. Then, the big email came out from the Administrator saying the County Offices would be closing the following Monday for 2 weeks, as the Covid disease was starting to hit Michigan and people were not sure about this new disease. At first, I thought it was so awesome to not have to go to work for 2 weeks. Another week went by and we were told only essential services would be open which included the Sheriff's department which made me so mad, as I saw all of the other departments closed. I didn't think it was fair to us. In the beginning, Angie and I worked two days a week. This happened for about 2 weeks. Then, we got further emails asking us to be at work every day, but we couldn't be at work the same time. It was one week on and one week off. Each of us had to do the other person's jobs while we were in the office and I thought there is no way we could do that with the amount of customers we had in our office. Angie was doing the Freedom of Information Requests and impounds and I was doing the criminal histories, jail files, and background checks.
We were given this special spray to spray down everything in the office which we did everyday. I still wasn't too worried about this unknown disease. On the other hand, my coworker Angie was deathly afraid of getting it, so she wanted our mail to be put in different rooms of the office each day and then we would give it to the inmates. I thought that was such a dumb thing to do. I wasn't going to spray down the mail and everything and move mail to a different room each day, but we did it for a short time.
The Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, would give updates on the TV about the number of new positive Covid cases, as well as the number of deaths.
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