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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4247255, member: 96898&quot;]Things generally start turning a bit crazy here in the SF Bay Area. The picture below shows the rice and pasta shelf in a local supermarket yesterday at 9am. Fortunately, my Central European upbringing has conditioned me to always keep large amounts of basics in the pantry anyways – for the first time in my life I think that this might actually be quite reasonable and not just a peculiar cultural tic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1084000[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The university I&#039;m based at has sent everyone home to work remotely, and it looks as though things would stay like this for a while. Last week, I have taught my first online seminar sessions. Although this worked surprisingly well, it still feels weird for me to teach in front of a screen while sitting on my living room couch instead of having face-to-face interactions in a classroom. My biggest concern at the moment really is that the research library I am using has limited its services so that it isn&#039;t possible anymore to order books from storage. This will have a serious impact on my work in the coming weeks, and I&#039;m definitely not happy about this.</p><p><br /></p><p>My wife and me had to cancel all upcoming travels well as a long hiking and camping trip we had planned for next week. Social stuff is down to a minimum. At this point, we are basically doing &quot;holidays at home,&quot; which is actually not a bad thing. Finally, we have enough time to read through the pile of books that had been accumulating, fix some things in our apartment, and just spend more quality time together. Also, I get to take pictures and write tags for some of my coins that had been &quot;in the waiting loop&quot; – the image below is related:</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1083999[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Teutonic Order, under Grand Master Conrad V von Erlichshausen, AR schilling, 1441–1449 AD, Thorn mint (?). Obv: + MAGST CORADVS QVIN; eagle shield of the Grand Master on long cross. Rev: + MONETA DNORVM PRUS; shield of the Teutonic Order on long cross. 20.5mm, 1.48g. Ref: Neumann 23.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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