April 19th

CURRENT WEATHER

1:43 PM

46°F

Cloudy

RealFeel® 45°

Chilly

RealFeel Shade™ 42°

Chilly

The dishwasher has given out. I'm not sure whether it's the dishwasher or the electrical connection to it. The latter seems more likely, although the dishwasher did work a few days ago. I washed the dishes this morning by hand. Seems it takes less water and far less power to do them by hand. Of course, the electricity can't be fixed - there's stuff piled in front of every outlet in the house. The last electrician that came to check on the outlets that we know don't work said that we'd have to move the breakfront to get to the outlet and wiring behind it to fix the circuit. We know that's not possible. Comic books in front of the breakfront. And Steven refuses to even move them, let alone get rid of them. I wish he'd just get somebody to buy all this junk, so we could sell this wreck of a house and move.

Got an e-mail from Dr. Prior's office. There was a form online that I had to fill out. It wanted me to sign it to confirm. I touch the screen to sign, and it makes a dot, then nothing. So, I took my pen, made the dot and signed the rest of my name invisibly. I guess I'll see if that worked when I check in at the office.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics

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Essex County cases

Updated Apr 19 at 1:42 PM local

Confirmed

215,010

+77

Deaths

3,600

New Jersey cases

Updated Apr 19 at 1:42 PM local

Confirmed

2,230,972

+996

Deaths

33,343

+6