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If I'm not working I'll eventually start getting panic and anxiety attacks, so that's where I'm at now.
Basically, too much time to think is a bad thing for me.
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Yeah that sounds like how my friend is.
I tell him to try to find something to focus on until he starts working again. My personal philosophy is to do something to improve yourself every day that you can. Last time he took to the gym and lost 25 pounds of fat.
I don't know if that would work for you or not.
Also probably a good idea to at least put some cloths on.
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Unfortunately, with the times that are a happening there are no open gyms near me, and frankly, I'm not sure I'd want to go in one even if they were.
I'll clean up the yard today and then maybe the neighborhood, we'll see.
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IF you get real desperate maybe build a room on to your house? j/k
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Yeah that sounds like how my friend is.
I tell him to try to find something to focus on until he starts working again. My personal philosophy is to do something to improve yourself every day that you can. Last time he took to the gym and lost 25 pounds of fat.
I don't know if that would work for you or not.Also probably a good idea to at least put some cloths on.
Clothes are for civilized society, which collapsed two weeks ago.
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IF you get real desperate maybe build a room on to your house? j/k
The lease wouldn't allow it.
I could dig a moat and put up a wall though (our lease allows me to do whatever I want with the landscaping as long as it's within three feet of the house.
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Yeah we are down to 6 people here period. 1 house keeper 3 desk 2 managers. Leaving the managers to fill in most of the blank. one of them is staying at the hotel with kids. Sucks for everyone. seems realtivly stable now at least. Only way I get layed off is if hotel closes.
On the plus side our customer review thing is turned off so If someone is rude to me I can be rude right back with little consequence.
So... hotels are open in your state?
Because GothBard and I just assumed hotels would be closed here in California, since I can't imagine them being considered "essential" businesses for travel...
EDIT: Huh. Who knew? Hotels are considered "essential services" during a viral lockdown. Seems counterintuitive, but whatever...
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GameStop considers itself essential.
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Well, this morning I just got a notification that the organizer of one of my weekly meetings has COVID-19, and I have two mixed reactions:
(1) With only a few hundred cases throughout the 8-million-person Bay Area, is this real, or did he just get sick and say, "I have COVID-19"?
Not the sort of thing you want to ask directly, of course, but it would be amazing with the sheer number of people around here that someone I "know" has it already.
(2) If he does have it, then I am greatly concerned for him because he's right in the virus' wheelhouse: Male in his late 50s/early 60s.
Crossing my fingers for him...
EDIT: To clarify, I don't think he's trying to be dishonest; he just tends to speak poorly. If he finds that the application isn't behaving the way he expects, his immediate statement is, "I think this might be a bug."
He has an extremely loyal team that takes anything he says at face value, so they would file it as a bug, pursue the bug relentlessly, and argue with anyone who said it wasn't a bug.
So I'm wondering whether this situation wasn't, "Yeah, I'm pretty worried. I'm sick and I have symptoms that are close to COVID-19," and his team ran with it and declared him infected. Just one of those cases where it's a distinct possibility.
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Unfortunately Gamestop's response to the above, according to employees, has been to start firing people. So kind of lose lose.
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Unfortunately Gamestop's response to the above, according to employees, has been to start firing people. So kind of lose lose.
I know many people who worked there in the past. It's not much of a loss. They don't hire full time in the first place, and enforce pushy sales quotas. It's a really s+*+ty job.
I mean it sucks to lose a job, but these folks will find a new better one when this all is done. Silver lining.
Trying to be positive.
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Unfortunately Gamestop's response to the above, according to employees, has been to start firing people. So kind of lose lose.I know many people who worked there in the past. It's not much of a loss. They don't hire full time in the first place, and enforce pushy sales quotas. It's a really s!~#ty job.
I mean it sucks to lose a job, but these folks will find a new better one when this all is done. Silver lining.
Trying to be positive.
I mean when you're right you're right.
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Well, this morning I just got a notification that the organizer of one of my weekly meetings has COVID-19, and I have two mixed reactions:
(1) With only a few hundred cases throughout the 8-million-person Bay Area, is this real, or did he just get sick and say, "I have COVID-19"?
Not the sort of thing you want to ask directly, of course, but it would be amazing with the sheer number of people around here that someone I "know" has it already.
(2) If he does have it, then I am greatly concerned for him because he's right in the virus' wheelhouse: Male in his late 50s/early 60s.
Crossing my fingers for him...
EDIT: To clarify, I don't think he's trying to be dishonest; he just tends to speak poorly. If he finds that the application isn't behaving the way he expects, his immediate statement is, "I think this might be a bug."
He has an extremely loyal team that takes anything he says at face value, so they would file it as a bug, pursue the bug relentlessly, and argue with anyone who said it wasn't a bug.
So I'm wondering whether this situation wasn't, "Yeah, I'm pretty worried. I'm sick and I have symptoms that are close to COVID-19," and his team ran with it and declared him infected. Just one of those cases where it's a distinct possibility.
There was a person last week in Lodi that was charged with causing a panic when they called in to work with covid-19 and they shut down their workplace for deep cleaning before it was found out that not only were they never tested but also had no symptoms. Surprisingly, when they were tested it came back negative and charges were filed.
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That this s~!&stain DARES to share my name fills me with an unholy rage.
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Well, unfortunately my co-worker did indeed test positive. I've never met him in person, but he was a nice enough guy in virtual meetings.
Rooting for him!
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Life in TechLand:
A while ago, I got Amazon's "cheapest" noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones so I could listen to music while working on the house. I think they were all of around $60-$70, and they've worked well... EXCEPT they don't cancel out VOICES, which is rather astonishingly irritating.
It's kind of eerie: I can hear the dishwasher, washing machine, and Impus Major going, I turn on the noise cancellation switch, and the dishwasher and washing machine go silent, but I can still hear Impus Major clear as day.
So yeah, I just Googled, "What are the best noise-cancelling headphones for human speech?" and got myself a pair. Going to ask my manager whether I can convince Global Megacorporation to shell out for them, but we'll see whether they're any better.
'Cause Impus Major is a LOUD BOY.
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On the flip side, I can't concentrate on housework unless there is noise.
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On the flip side, I can't concentrate on housework unless there is noise.
The headphones play music, which to me is preferable to listening to the kids' video games and the appliances...
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My frustration with humanity grows...
TL;DR version: Everyone saw the exception in the California lockdown for "outdoor activities", so people are flocking to parks and beaches in greater numbers than ever before, leading to massive overcrowding.
Yeah. "It's a quarantine! I'm supposed to avoid other people! I know, I'll go to the beach with 10,000 other people! It'll be outdoors, so I'm sure it'll be fine."
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On the flip side, I can't concentrate on housework unless there is noise.The headphones play music, which to me is preferable to listening to the kids' video games and the appliances...
I grew up in a house with 9 other people, if there isn't someone talking somewhere I have trouble concentrating.
It's the same with trying to nap, I can't do it unless someone else is there or I have the TV on.
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My frustration with humanity grows...
TL;DR version: Everyone saw the exception in the California lockdown for "outdoor activities", so people are flocking to parks and beaches in greater numbers than ever before, leading to massive overcrowding.
Yeah. "It's a quarantine! I'm supposed to avoid other people! I know, I'll go to the beach with 10,000 other people! It'll be outdoors, so I'm sure it'll be fine."
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Well, have a good safe evening, John.
Remember, 6'.
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My frustration with humanity grows...
TL;DR version: Everyone saw the exception in the California lockdown for "outdoor activities", so people are flocking to parks and beaches in greater numbers than ever before, leading to massive overcrowding.
Yeah. "It's a quarantine! I'm supposed to avoid other people! I know, I'll go to the beach with 10,000 other people! It'll be outdoors, so I'm sure it'll be fine."
Is the end nigh, oh great skull in the sky?
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"The apocalypse IS nigh, so that's why I'm sharpening my fighting stick and whittling all the bark off, so I'm not distracted when it happens" - Tiny T-Rex, who will do just fine after society collapses (next week).
Edit: Hilarious enough, that's unrelated to the post above as Tiny T-Rex was helping me clean up the backyard (it's a mess).
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Glad you found something to do.
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Well I just went and spent a BUNDLE on wall repair/patching and paint for the main bathroom. (It is old, faded paint and the mildew on the trim boards next to the ceiling is redonkulous. Plus there is a hole in the wall where the towel holder was 'accidentally' knocked off by Not-so-Mini-me) ;P
Plus a small, electric chainsaw, so I will be spending the next few days fixing a up a bathroom, and trimming some long-overdue limbs in the backyard! ;)
MEANWHILE,...
I wear two pairs of glasses, both bifocals, (Hey, I stare into theater lights for a living, what did you expect?!?) ;P
My 'main' pair are 2 years old, and my 'desk/PC' pair are 4 years out of date. (Long enough that both eyes used to be far sighted, and now at least 1 is near sighted) :P
So I went and got an eye exam and paid for 2 new pairs of glasses,...
they were supposed to be in LAST week, they were delayed, still not in as of Monday morning, and NOW the mall is closing, so the best I can do is maybe convince Lenscrafeters to hand them to me out of the back door. :)
WHEN they finally get here! ;P
Cant wait to get new (correct) glasses. Its been so long, it will be delightful.
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Hey CY,
If your still bored after cleaning your yard (and the neighborhood?!?)
I actually own my house, so how about helping me turn it into a small castle?
Aged Wizzie wants to be READY for when this mutates into the T-Virus and we DO end up in the Zombie apocalypse! :)
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Well I just went and spent a BUNDLE on wall repair/patching and paint for the main bathroom. (It is old, faded paint and the mildew on the trim boards next to the ceiling is redonkulous. Plus there is a hole in the wall where the towel holder was 'accidentally' knocked off by Not-so-Mini-me) ;P
Plus a small, electric chainsaw, so I will be spending the next few days fixing a up a bathroom, and trimming some long-overdue limbs in the backyard! ;)
MEANWHILE,...
I wear two pairs of glasses, both bifocals, (Hey, I stare into theater lights for a living, what did you expect?!?) ;P
My 'main' pair are 2 years old, and my 'desk/PC' pair are 4 years out of date. (Long enough that both eyes used to be far sighted, and now at least 1 is near sighted) :P
So I went and got an eye exam and paid for 2 new pairs of glasses,...they were supposed to be in LAST week, they were delayed, still not in as of Monday morning, and NOW the mall is closing, so the best I can do is maybe convince Lenscrafeters to hand them to me out of the back door. :)
WHEN they finally get here! ;PCant wait to get new (correct) glasses. Its been so long, it will be delightful.
Yep. Last year my optometrist insisted on giving me progressive lenses.
Hate them.
So this year I insisted on getting a "normal" pair, and ordered them in December. Then:
- Frames got backordered. Had to have them re-order them
- Frames came in but lenses had been forgotten. Had to have them re-order them
- Glasses arrived on Thursday, 3 days after the lockdown started. Along with a note from my optometrist that they're closed for the duration.
*SIGH*
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Well, this morning I just got a notification that the organizer of one of my weekly meetings has COVID-19, and I have two mixed reactions:
(1) With only a few hundred cases throughout the 8-million-person Bay Area, is this real, or did he just get sick and say, "I have COVID-19"?
Not the sort of thing you want to ask directly, of course, but it would be amazing with the sheer number of people around here that someone I "know" has it already.
(2) If he does have it, then I am greatly concerned for him because he's right in the virus' wheelhouse: Male in his late 50s/early 60s.
Crossing my fingers for him...
EDIT: To clarify, I don't think he's trying to be dishonest; he just tends to speak poorly. If he finds that the application isn't behaving the way he expects, his immediate statement is, "I think this might be a bug."
He has an extremely loyal team that takes anything he says at face value, so they would file it as a bug, pursue the bug relentlessly, and argue with anyone who said it wasn't a bug.
So I'm wondering whether this situation wasn't, "Yeah, I'm pretty worried. I'm sick and I have symptoms that are close to COVID-19," and his team ran with it and declared him infected. Just one of those cases where it's a distinct possibility.
A college friend of mine who lives out near the airport, and his five children (early teens through early 20s) ALL had it and are just now on the recovery side. The eldest daughter, who manages food/beverage for a hotel near the airport, got it first and brought it home to share.
This is the same friend who lost his wife suddenly last year to a dental infection after a botched root canal, so I can only imagine how scary this was for all of them. He didn't say *anything* publicly until they were out of harm's way and on the mend.
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Meanwhile, WW is freaking out about the mail, packages, and groceries, and is wiping down EVERYTHING that is brought into the house.
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Meanwhile, WW is freaking out about the mail, packages, and groceries, and is wiping down EVERYTHING that is brought into the house.
as am I.
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Lockdown it is, then.
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(I love MrT but he can not be left alone with certain tasks)
Ah, yes. The "cotton and Superglue" incident...
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Aged Wizzie wants to be READY for when this mutates into the T-Virus and we DO end up in the Zombie apocalypse! :)
Well, I-
- Glasses arrived on Thursday, 3 days after the lockdown started. Along with a note from my optometrist that they're closed for the duration.
*SIGH*
You see-
Meanwhile, WW is freaking out about the mail, packages, and groceries, and is wiping down EVERYTHING that is brought into the house.
Well he-
as am I.
But you-
Lockdown it is, then.
And yet we-
Ah, yes. The "cotton and Superglue" incident...
What di-
Gun sales are surging in many U.S. states, especially in those hit hardest by the coronavirus — California, New York and Washington.
Why wou-
bad hay fever?
Well I als-
There was hoarding today at the supermarket. No bread. No toilet paper.
B-
a big thing of toilet paper
W-
Steal their toilet paper.
Y-
While people were fighting over toilet paper,
F-
Y-
It's just as bad as Purell and toilet paper.
U-
"So, you're sure you have toilet paper in your garage?" "Oh yes, a whole stack of it!" "Wait a minute, I don't see any toilet..." *Whack!* "Good news, kids! We only need five more!".
T-
Toilet paper?
I-
Tactical Toilet Paper Roll Holder.
W-
In her defense, the painting does remind one of toilet paper.
H-
Finally, the tool we all needed for the coronavirus outbreak...
H-!
toilet paper
...
Toilet paper
...
toilet Paper
... ...
Toilet Paper
TOILET PAPER
... I think it's too late, Wizzie. I think we're already there.
EDIT: for the record, I'm good on this front. Heh.
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"Essential" my bloated server-laden thorax.
I, uh. I need to go make a Starfinder thing, now. No reason.
>.>
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Tac's quote-filled post just sent me into a giggling fit. Well played.
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You know what's nice?
Having a contractor who you can trust and who does good work.
Our fireplace guy just gave us a quote for the deck that seemed astronomical, but we asked for FSC certified (theoretically rainforest friendly) ipe, so I went ahead and pulled the trigger and then did some Googling.
Expected price for the ipe: $4-$8 per linear foot. His price: $5.43
Expected price for labor: $25-$45 per square foot. His price: $27.89
So, er, I'm paying, exactly what I should. *And* keeping my favorite contractor in business during a quarantine. *And* getting a deck that GothBard won't fall through.
Win-win-win!
(If anyone tries to nail him for violating quarantine, we'll point out that GothBard has already fallen through the deck once, so it's a proven safety hazard, and with the workers outside and us inside, I just don't see a lot of opportunity for cross-exposure...)
EDIT: Yeah, yeah, I know. Even FSC-certified ipe is iffy because you never know whether the certification is real. But I live in frigging Berkeley, and we have a local lumber company (Ashby Lumber and Hardware) that takes such things quite seriously. So I'm going to have some faith in the local people in the supply chain who should be paying attention to such things, just because of the city in which they do business.
My Youngest eating a baby carrot earlier tonight
(it was cooked, soft, warm, and fresh)
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~laughter~ Someone called Madoka Magica Sailor Moon for sadists.
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~laughter~ Someone called Madoka Magica Sailor Moon for sadists.
OMG!!!! SOOOOOO AWESOME! :-P
(Still one of my favorite-ever anime series, even if appallingly twisted.)
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~laughter~ Someone called Madoka Magica Sailor Moon for sadists.OMG!!!! SOOOOOO AWESOME! :-P
(Still one of my favorite-ever anime series, even if appallingly twisted.)
Same here even if I have only been able to watch it once.
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To all the people who have allergies during this try time, you have my sympathies! ~blows my nose while trying hard not to cough due to the pollen and pets~
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Unfortunately Gamestop's response to the above, according to employees, has been to start firing people. So kind of lose lose.
well at least in the long run they will be better off not working for that terrible company. The CEO needs his teeth knocked in.
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You know captain a moat might not be a terrible idea.