Hi readers, how have you been holding up? I hope everyone out there is able to stay healthy and that any quarantines, work-from-home measures, or shelter-in-place orders aren’t getting you down too much. In Minnesota, today marks the first day of a couple of weeks of enforced shelter-in-place, with leeway for necessary activities like going […]
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