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I think I have it.
Woke up with a little tightness in my chest, my breathing is a little different and I have a dry cough. Temperature only a little elevated, not fever, a little bit lightheaded.Could also be a combination of high pollen and a panic attack.
I am very, very scared.
Not so much for myself but for my children, and WW, and his mom, all of whom have been exposed if I have it.And I felt perfectly normal yesterday.
(1) It's the season for all KINDS of illnesses. I've had a slightly elevated temperature, a headache, lethargy, and a bit of chest congestion for weeks, which is absolutely normal for me because I have bad hay fever. Ask yourself, "Do I normally get these types of symptoms this time of year?"
(2) We keep reading that kids are overwhelmingly safe from this particular virus. Yes, there are articles saying, "Well, not ALL kids are safe," but the evidence is that your kids are in less danger from it than they would be from a regular flu.
(3) 80% of all victims suffer extremely mild symptoms. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Hang in there, and start fluids and bed rest now! I am a doctor, you know! ;-P
EDIT: And they call me Doctor Love...
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I thought you said they called you Doctor Evil.
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Absinthe for sureWill it include St. Germain?So on the one hand, it's tiresome to see this administration's overt assault on the coastal states (the $10,000 deduction cap on state + property taxes here increased pretty much everyone's taxes by thousands, and now the $1200 per person check has what seems like an absolutely reasonable, "Unless you have a high income" exemption until you realize that yet again it's targeting coastal workers who tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic).
On the other hand, it's nice to be able to help even a little bit.
We can't possibly save every restaurant on Solano; we just don't have that kind of money. So we decided to buy a bunch of gift cards to Rivoli, figuring we'd use them eventually anyway, and it would help them short-term.
The gratitude from the owner was just palpable and amazing. "It's people like you who help us keep our doors open! Thank you SO much!"
I just said, "Oh, don't worry! I guarantee we're going to use those things up."
GothBard, being GothBard, said, "Just name a drink after me and we'll call it even."
Loves me some GothBard.
FINALLY! A GothBard of my very own!
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I thought you said they called you Doctor Evil.
They call me a lot of things...
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I have a lot of nicknames, as surprising as that is.
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I think I have it.
Woke up with a little tightness in my chest, my breathing is a little different and I have a dry cough. Temperature only a little elevated, not fever, a little bit lightheaded.Could also be a combination of high pollen and a panic attack.
I am very, very scared.
Not so much for myself but for my children, and WW, and his mom, all of whom have been exposed if I have it.And I felt perfectly normal yesterday.
text sent.
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EDIT: And they call me Doctor Love...
Doctor Strangelove, maybe. ;)
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I thought you said they called you Doctor Evil.They call me a lot of things...
There are some who call him... Tim.
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There are some who call him... Tim.I thought you said they called you Doctor Evil.They call me a lot of things...
Others call him ... when they want to have a good time.
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Had a mild panic attack. Still feel like crying, but I'm putting Spyro in the playstation and I hope that will distract me.
PM sent.
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Others call him ... when they want to have a good time.There are some who call him... Tim.I thought you said they called you Doctor Evil.They call me a lot of things...
>_>
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Had a mild panic attack. Still feel like crying, but I'm putting Spyro in the playstation and I hope that will distract me.
Not "liking" because I'm an a*****e, just in solidarity.
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Gods, my kids.
NobodysHome: So, if you can't remember anything else, just remember, "Touches your naughty bits, this hamper. Doesn't touch your naughty bits, this hamper."
Impus Major: Wait, what did you just tell him, Dad?
NobodysHome: Touches your naughty bits, this hamper. Doesn't touch your naughty bits, this hamper.
Impus Minor: OK, Impus Major! You know which hamper you're going into!
NH: I just don't want to know...
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And I have to admit, there's a HUGE advantage in raising digital kids. Impus Minor just got his first work-from-home assignment back. A+.
The kids are SO used to being online and socializing online that they're just popping on, listening to the lecture, doing the homework, turning it in, and moving on, and it's more like their typical weekends so they're not even noticing the workload.
Admittedly, yesterday Impus Major was in 6 hours of lectures and THAT tired him out, but otherwise they're doing well.
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Meanwhile, we're really worried about how some of our kids are going to handle the self-isolation. I shot an email around to the other teachers with some online collaborative games so the kids might be able to play with each other, but I don't have a lot of resources for that.
Half-tempted to see about getting Roll20 going to reach out to my 5e kids, but not sure if I can herd that many cats right now.
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Gods, my kids.
NobodysHome: So, if you can't remember anything else, just remember, "Touches your naughty bits, this hamper. Doesn't touch your naughty bits, this hamper."
Impus Major: Wait, what did you just tell him, Dad?
NobodysHome: Touches your naughty bits, this hamper. Doesn't touch your naughty bits, this hamper.
Impus Minor: OK, Impus Major! You know which hamper you're going into!
NH: I just don't want to know...
....you separate your laundry by naughty bits?
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....you separate your laundry by naughty bits?Gods, my kids.
NobodysHome: So, if you can't remember anything else, just remember, "Touches your naughty bits, this hamper. Doesn't touch your naughty bits, this hamper."
Impus Major: Wait, what did you just tell him, Dad?
NobodysHome: Touches your naughty bits, this hamper. Doesn't touch your naughty bits, this hamper.
Impus Minor: OK, Impus Major! You know which hamper you're going into!
NH: I just don't want to know...
As a mnemonic it works fairly well for Impus Minor:
Hot: Impus Minor's undies and pajama bottoms
Warm: Impus Minor's shirts and socks
Technically, I'd wash his jeans on warm instead of hot, but I don't want to confuse him.
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I read the tags and then throw everything of mine or Tiny T-Rex's in normal and everything of the General and Crookshanks in delicates.
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I wash everything on warm and dry everything on low, works out well enough for me. >.>
With the obvious exception of a handful of shirts that don't go in the dryer at all.
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Gods, my kids.
NobodysHome: So, if you can't remember anything else, just remember, "Touches your naughty bits, this hamper. Doesn't touch your naughty bits, this hamper."
Impus Major: Wait, what did you just tell him, Dad?
NobodysHome: Touches your naughty bits, this hamper. Doesn't touch your naughty bits, this hamper.
Mimics are getting worse and worse, I swear.
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Dream On! Changeling the Dreaming, 20th Anniversary Edition for free today!As much as I loved the w20 and as impressed as I was by v20, c20 is the BEST of the series.
Awww,...
Aged wizzie is too slow I guess.I keep seeing these and them checking the web site, AFTER they have made it back to it's usual prices. :P
I wants free stuff! :(
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Had a second, a lot milder panic attack.
MrT made me bacon cheese pancakes. That helps a lot.
I must have the recipe.
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I wash almost everything on cold after an awful experience, and I dry everything on low, or hang it up to dry.
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I wash almost everything on cold after an awful experience, and I dry everything on low, or hang it up to dry.
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I must have the recipe.Had a second, a lot milder panic attack.
MrT made me bacon cheese pancakes. That helps a lot.
You make pancake batter. You put bacon in pan. Pour batter on top. Put cheese slices into the batter. Flip pancake.
Of course, we make much thinner pancakes.
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So...
3pm Central. Governor announces shelter from home starting tomorrow.
Guess whose office executive is finally admitting we have to send people home?
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They still haven't done anything regarding that here.
Work is still on its usual hours, which means actually on overtime (about 50-55 hours a week). Great for paycheck, not so great for community health....
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Nyarl, there are exceptions to every rule. Look at NH. He has money but is a really nice guy and not a tightwad a&%~~&+. I'm sure corporate overlords exist that aren't pricks. This just means you're the minority.
Tomatoes are amazing in every form.
Jalapenos rule, but fresh > pickled.
To those with symptoms who are scared - you will be well. I can't prove it, but I feel it in my heart, and I'll be praying for you, for what it's worth. The pandemic is bad, but most of it is panic, exaggeration, and herd mentality.
I'm not the noted worker in the mental field Freehold is, or the prayer warrior Tac is, or distinct logical mathematician with stats NH is, but I'm a friend, and if you need that, you have it.
...oh and as for other topics I'm catching up on...
...whataburger tastes like BK with better toppings, but it's not exactly epic.
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I wash almost everything on cold after an awful experience, and I dry everything on low, or hang it up to dry.
Freehold doesn't wear underwear.
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So.
Governor just got on TV saying he wants 100 percent of non essential employees at home starting Monday.
However, the Office of Mental Health just sent out an email 45 minutes before quitting time stating any program that gets money from OMH is considered "essential" and must be at work on Monday.
This is why I hate math.
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Nyarl, there are exceptions to every rule. Look at NH. He has money but is a really nice guy and not a tightwad a~%&&&@. I'm sure corporate overlords exist that aren't pricks. This just means you're the minority.
Tomatoes are amazing in every form.
Jalapenos rule, but fresh > pickled.
To those with symptoms who are scared - you will be well. I can't prove it, but I feel it in my heart, and I'll be praying for you, for what it's worth. The pandemic is bad, but most of it is panic, exaggeration, and herd mentality.
I'm not the noted worker in the mental field Freehold is, or the prayer warrior Tac is, or distinct logical mathematician with stats NH is, but I'm a friend, and if you need that, you have it.
...oh and as for other topics I'm catching up on...
...whataburger tastes like BK with better toppings, but it's not exactly epic.
Well, GothBard explained it to me really well this morning. For me, this is barely out of the ordinary:
- I normally work from home.- I don't like to go out and do things.
- My corner store is still open.
So for me, the disruption in my life is that I get to see my family more, not less. Things have barely changed for me.
Psychologically, I'm just not being impacted because nothing's happening to me.
For people who normally go to work, it's crushing. "When will life go back to normal?"
GothBard goes to San Francisco to work every day. She goes to Fremont on Wednesdays and Sundays to game. She likes to go out. She's already missed out on a concert and another event. Her life is massively disrupted, and officials are now talking about things being this way until October.
She's not afraid of the virus; she's distressed because her life has been completely upended, and there's no sign of normalcy in sight.
That made me understand why people are so upset and stressed. I just happen to be an antisocial troll for whom the confine-in-place is mostly a blessing.
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I get what Gothbard's feeling. While I'm pretty happy on my tod doing Limey Things, there is also a bunch of outside stuff I do on the regular that I would quite like to keep doing (not least seeing ALL (DE)); at the very least, I'd like a clear instruction that I have to stop doing them for a finite amount of time, however long it is, after which it'll all be (more or less) as it was before, but that ain't happening.
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Bring Out Your Dead! The End Is Here!
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So.
Governor just got on TV saying he wants 100 percent of non essential employees at home starting Monday.
However, the Office of Mental Health just sent out an email 45 minutes before quitting time stating any program that gets money from OMH is considered "essential" and must be at work on Monday.
This is why I hate math.
They do know you're not machines, right? Just because you all provide mental health services to needing people does not preclude the fact that you all must also take care of your own mental & physical health and that of your families/loved ones too.
Bosses are so anal (in the bad way) about the fear of lost productivity -- aka "I can't adequately micromanage you/intimidate you/work out my mental issues on you all when you're working at home" -- that they'd rather subject their employees (and loved ones) to the very real threat of harm/death and and subject their departments to the resulting liability. If a boss can't trust valued professionals to do their jobs when he/she isn't there, then what does that say about the work culture he/she has built? What does that say about the actual level of trust in the work environment? If the staff can do their job from home, then for f!cks sake, let them do it there; they'll be in a better headspace and likely safer physical space to perform those tasks. And for those who absolutely have to come in, they'll be less exposed to fewer potentially infected people (and conversely, less people to potentially infect) around less people.
Your boss(es) needs to understand that people in the department will become infected. It's not if, it's when. What can those bosses do to help flatten the infection curve, so that when staff become infected they will still be able to receive effective, timely treatment from a non-over-capacity medical system? If someone in the office was infected today, or yesterday, what can the bosses do to minimize exposure and slow the infection rate now? Because waiting until staff shows systems means everyone has already been exposed for 7-10 days... and then the opportunities for prevention are gone.
TL;DR: Bosses, if you can't give enough of a sh!t about your employees' lives, and their loved ones' lives, then at least have to common sense to realize that their illnesses and deaths will cost you your jobs (and possibly everything you own in civil court).
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I just want to get back to work.
So, if someone needs a stunt double I'm very good at impressions and disguises.
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Had a second, a lot milder panic attack.
MrT made me bacon cheese pancakes. That helps a lot.
You (and everyone else) are entitled to be worried, to be scared, to have panic attacks. This is real. This is some scary sh!t with which we are all trying to cope, with varying degrees of success. Your brain is just trying to process an overload of scary stimuli from an abundance of sources, and most of the few sensible valid steps we've been given don't do much (if anything) to help most of us feel like we're adequately protecting our loved ones and ourselves from this very real, but insidiously invisible threat.
You're having a perfectly sane response to an insane world.
I am glad you have Mr. T (and hopefully others) in your life who can help ease you back down and/or blunt the sharper edges. If any of us can help you*, even if it feels like it's stupid, please let us know, ok?
(* That goes for the rest of you too, ok?)
GothBard, being GothBard, said, "Just name a drink after me and we'll call it even."
Here at the CfA, there's a mixed drink named after my Eldest!
(It, of course, lacks any alcohol.)
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I think I have it.
Woke up with a little tightness in my chest, my breathing is a little different and I have a dry cough. Temperature only a little elevated, not fever, a little bit lightheaded.Could also be a combination of high pollen and a panic attack.
I am very, very scared.
Not so much for myself but for my children, and WW, and his mom, all of whom have been exposed if I have it.And I felt perfectly normal yesterday.
Hugs and prayers. And for you, too, Woran! Love all y'all FaWtLians, and know that I'm with you in thoughts and prayers! Hugs!
(Also kids tend to be quite safe, over-all. Of course not all, and of course being safe is key, but the vast majority are quite safe. We're almost living in Orson Scott Card's short story about that plague.)
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Had a mild panic attack. Still feel like crying, but I'm putting Spyro in the playstation and I hope that will distract me.Not "liking" because I'm an a*****e, just in solidarity.
I "favorite" stuff like that all the time. Consider it an e-hug!
(Now with no germs!)
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I just want to get back to work.
So, if someone needs a stunt double I'm very good at impressions and disguises.
Pearl Jam has postponed their upcoming tour (Gigaton releases March 27th), so maybe disguise yourself as Eddie Vedder (or even more like Vedder) and perform random acts of kindness/weirdness?
I wash almost everything on cold after an awful experience, and I dry everything on low, or hang it up to dry.
Yeah, after a friend's awful experience, I pretty much do this (except for hanging anything - this is Florida: you don't hang anything out you don't want creatures or plants in when you pull it back inside).
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Nyarl, there are exceptions to every rule. Look at NH. He has money but is a really nice guy and not a tightwad a#*#%@#. I'm sure corporate overlords exist that aren't pricks. This just means you're the minority.
Tomatoes are amazing in every form.
Jalapenos rule, but fresh > pickled.
To those with symptoms who are scared - you will be well. I can't prove it, but I feel it in my heart, and I'll be praying for you, for what it's worth. The pandemic is bad, but most of it is panic, exaggeration, and herd mentality.
I'm not the noted worker in the mental field Freehold is, or the prayer warrior Tac is, or distinct logical mathematician with stats NH is, but I'm a friend, and if you need that, you have it.
...oh and as for other topics I'm catching up on...
...whataburger tastes like BK with better toppings, but it's not exactly epic.
Hearts and hugs. I'm a minor-league, at best, for prayer warriors - I'm far too easily distracted and I forget things all the daggum time. But I do pray, and I love you all!
Five Guys was divine the first time I had it, but familiarity has brought it in line with most other burger joints.
You know, I wonder if it really is familiarity, or just a decline in quality. Because sometimes it still hits that very high mark it started with, but other times it just does not at all.
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I think I have it.
Woke up with a little tightness in my chest, my breathing is a little different and I have a dry cough. Temperature only a little elevated, not fever, a little bit lightheaded.Could also be a combination of high pollen and a panic attack.
I am very, very scared.
Not so much for myself but for my children, and WW, and his mom, all of whom have been exposed if I have it.And I felt perfectly normal yesterday.
I'm also hoping you are OK, and that you weren't infected. My allergies (still pretty mild, all things considered) have been acting up this past week, and the air conditioning has dropped the apartments humidity enough that the much dryer air has given me an occasional cough.
If I figure out how I broke the panic attack center of my brain, I'll let you know how I did it.*
If we can do anything to help, or even make you feel a bit better, let us know, ok?
(* Side-effects may including online-ordering whole robots, used bits of robots, custom 3D-printed new bits of robots, polymer clay for making new robot bits, paint for robots, and stress eating.)