Notes From All Over, Sunday Night Edition -- April 5, 2020

First item: A reader sent me this one: where do readers find these things?

Link to twitter: make sure you have the volume turned up, and if the voice you hear is familiar, you've got it: https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1246805956283039745.

Daily grocery store visit: our neighborhood grocery is in good shape. It appears it has almost everything in stock. Shelves containing essentials are 25% to 50% stocked depending on the item.

One exception: the toilet paper shelves were completely empty. But that's because a large shipment of toilet paper had just arrived and the pallets of bathroom tissue were being stacked in the aisles, with a limit of one package of twelve rolls per customer. Eggs: huge supply. Most interesting: pallets of large containers of Hershey chocolate syrup for ice cream. Why would they have pallets of Hershey chocolate? Who knows? That's a rhetorical question.

Walmart: I did not go, but our older daughter did. This is how Sophia's family is managing household supplies. Sophia is five years old so she does not participate per se.

Throughout the week, the dad, mom, Arianna (16) and Olivia (13) simply and virtually / electronically place items in the family's virtual Walmart cart. Then, every Sunday, following their evening meal which is Grubhub takeout from a top restaurant in the city, their Mom drives to Walmart to pick up the items in their cart. She says it is really, really smooth/efficient: she alerts Walmart when she is on her way -- a ten-minute drive -- and then parks in a pre-assigned spot. Upon arrival, she telephones/texts Walmart and they bring the "stuff" out to the car.

My hunch: they will continue to do this even after the lock down / quarantine ends six months from now.

Six months from now? Did I really say that? Singapore is now experiencing its second wave Wuhan flu. Remember, Wuhan flu began in that part of the world in December, four months ago, and now they are experiencing their second wave.

Winners: without question, coming out of this lock down, the winners are going to be Walmart, Target, Amazon, Costco, and Sam's Club. 

TCM: absolutely amazing what Ted Turner acquired when he bought the MGM library. Truly amazing. Still enjoying the opportunity to watch so much with no commercial interruption and no distractions. 

NASCAR: "live" racing tonight. Thirty-seven or thirty-eight drivers participating. Each driver is in a simulator and racing "live." It's actually pretty interesting. You know it's fake because the stands are packed with spectators.