I've been enjoying thinking about our MFNG Pandemic Photo Challenge options, and noodling what sorts of subjects I might use for some of them, and I foresee that there'll be some stories to accompany my contributions.
For example, the first photo below---shot Nikon-on-Nikon with my sexy silver 45mm f/2.8 Ai-p on the D800E---fits challenge #2 (something broken) and has a story to go with it. Early in my first week of being laid off, in keeping with the principle that "it never rains, but it pours," my wife's computer overheated and died (in the photo, you can see that I removed the harddrive and the DVD-R drive for other uses). My wife's job---located in far away Toronto---depends on her possession of a working desktop computer (her laptop doesn't go well with her arthritis), and she is currently the sole breadwinner in our tiny family. Fortunately her IT guy (working from home in far away Toronto) was able to diagnose the problem, and pronounce the CPU dead. I spent the rest of the day finding a new computer, along with the necessary new monitor that had the right cable to attach to the new computer, and social-distance-buying it from Best Buy (order it online, wait for e-mail saying it's ready for pick-up, pick it up at storefront without entering store). The upside of this experience---in keeping with the principle of cosmic duality---is that I now have the luxury of a second monitor on my own desktop computer, as shown in the second photo below (same lens-camera combo).
