COVID-19 Check-in Thread
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COVID-19 Check-in Thread
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Festung Birr still holds against the invader. Last Thursday I went grocery shopping for the first time in a full four weeks. Speaking as a retiree and a recluse ... this is my hour!
----- No, it ISN'T what it is! 
Still here.
If you're going to send someone to save the world, you might make sure they like it the way it is first.
It's been a week, so here's my weekly status post. I'm still here.
Still here as well.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children 
RE: COVID-19 Check-in Thread
05-21-2020, 12:15 PM (This post was last modified: 05-21-2020, 12:16 PM by Dragonflight.)
Still here. Still involuntarily retired (haven't been able to find a job in about seven years. The minute I hit my mid-forties, I became magically unemployable, apparently.)
Went back to work this week. I am NOT used to being on my feet for the better part of 8hrs anymore.
My feet and legs are not happy with me ?
Check in time. No new news here.
"Some people are the apple of your eye. Others are just a pie in your face. Apples, maaan. Stick with them." -- Pascal (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
You'll get used to it again in a few months Norgarth.
Also, Dragonflight, being unemployable due to old age is a known thing. Even when old age is '40 year old or so'. You just get too expensive compared to somebody younger. 
I live. Still on three day work weeks, but getting by.
Haven't done a check-in for a while. Still here, everyone still fine. We're in stage 2 reopening here, which means people are starting to appear in restaurants and stores. People from L.A. Country, still in a stage 1 outbreak, are flooding across the border to eat here, shop here, and enjoy our beaches. Which is a bit of a quandry for me, because it means I don't feel comfortable picking up take-out from those restaurants now. So far as I can tell, the only thing that really changed is that people got tired of waiting.
My antivaxxer friend who caught the virus? (Or at least tested positive) She was taking care of her grandmother at the time, and being "really careful". The health officials disagreed, and ordered that the grandmother be put into a nursing home -- which is also super-dangerous, right? She didn't want to do that to her grandmother, so she didn't. A bunch of police showed up at her house -- or what they thought was her house. Turns out she had been evicted the month before, and they had already moved out. The police couldn't find them, they were on the run from the law, holed up in a rental in Ojai. But they both survived. A month later, she starts to complain to me about how the Social Security office cut off grandma's checks, and she didn't get a stimulus payment. Why? Turns out her relatives had reported her missing in the whole affair after the police couldn't locate her. "She's not missing! So dumb!" And she can't even report herself not missing with the social security offices closed. The moral of the story has nothing to do with politics. All of these are rationalized choices by an individual. People can convince themselves of anything. Maybe, if you don't ignore reality, you can survive this thing. But you might just get through it on dumb luck, too.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto
Yet, in a way I cant blame this woman... because right now nursing homes still have the highest infection and mortality rates. Shame abo0ut the money side of the situation though, but as you say, they did kind of bring it on themselves?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children
Still here.
If you're going to send someone to save the world, you might make sure they like it the way it is first.
Still ticking over. Still minimizing time out of the house.
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
RE: COVID-19 Check-in Thread
05-26-2020, 05:06 PM (This post was last modified: 05-26-2020, 06:35 PM by robkelk.) (05-26-2020, 09:59 AM)Star Ranger4 Wrote: Yet, in a way I cant blame this woman... because right now nursing homes still have the highest infection and mortality rates. Shame abo0ut the money side of the situation though, but as you say, they did kind of bring it on themselves? I'll just leave this here. Do not follow the link if you're at all sensitive or squeamish. (EDIT: Now the links points to the thread I started on Politics.) Oh, and I'm still alive.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
No change to status.
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed." (05-26-2020, 05:06 PM)robkelk Wrote: I'll just leave this here. Do not follow the link if you're at all sensitive or squeamish. (EDIT: Now the links points to the thread I started on Politics.) Kind of proves my point; especially given that it happened in Canada, which seems to be just in general better about that stuff than we are. So, if thats what happened in canada, what is happening HERE under the radar? Brrrrr.......
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children 
Still working.
Wouldn't mind a few days off mind. Probably do the same thing I do every day - sit on me arse and screen-stare - but at least it'll be my own screen. I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed. One day they're going to ban them.
Weekly check-in post. Still here, still working.
Another week and I'm still here and okay.
Had a video conference to honor a coworker who is moving into a new position starting Monday, though they will still be in our department. I have heard that the earliest I may be back in the office is 9/8/2020. That will make this period twenty-five weeks long with the eleventh week ending Friday. Our Head of Engineering emailed that all of us should take a day off from work at least once a month and we should schedule vacations even if we don't go anywhere. Kilroy
Submitted 31 model files to ADB for this months' release. I feel like my fingers are about to fall off.
But it's done. And my parents are coming back from Florida to spend the summer here, which will be nice.
That Head of Engineering is a smart man Kilroy. People need a break once in a while, and even if it's a week long vacation where you don't do anything, having the break is useful.
Of course, different people have different demands.
Another week done down here in Australia. Things are quiet, lockdown conditions are slowly being lifted, and I'm back to four days a week next week. Still a good amount of people keeping their distance from each other.
Checking in. Depressed because of the riots in Minneapolis.
"Some people are the apple of your eye. Others are just a pie in your face. Apples, maaan. Stick with them." -- Pascal (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
Still here. While there's still infections in Ottawa, the worst in Ontario seems to be centralized in Toronto right now. The overall curve is declining, so that's a good thing.
Public Transport here has announced that starting June 15, wearing a mask is no longer optional. Picked up a good mask yesterday in anticipation of that. |
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