| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Not really a counter point, but an observation. The initial response from the medical community was pretty much universally - wash your hands, don't shake hands, don't touch your face.
A little later it was social distancing, and only much later wear a mask.
Oh, yeah. The medical community deserves a lot of the blame. Their initial, "Don't wear a mask because it won't help you," followed up by, "Never mind, please wear a mask because it protects other people," is a strong arguing point for the whole anti-mask movement.
at least around here the medical community was very forward about the types of masks that would be helpful versus those that wouldnt, and then immediately regretted it when they all faced shortages due to people ordering those masks for private use.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I'll wear a mask naked, sure.
Happy my birthday to you all, every FaWtL! Love you guys!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Merry Tactiversary!
Happy Birthday, TacticsLion!
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
I survived the first week of teaching.
I think.
I won't actually know for sure for two more weeks, I guess.
On the plus side, my boss sent each of us home with a sixpack, and also a growler of kombucha.
WW gets the kombucha.
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
People who have more birthdays live longer! Science!Don't go outside, that's when birthdays strike!It's good to have more birthdays. Really good. Like, you don't want to stop getting birthdays.
Exactly. A birthday is not a celebration of age. It is a celebration of survival!
Happy Birthday, Tacticslion!
|
|
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
My birthdays have always been non-events. When I was a kid, my mom would make a cake, and I would get to choose what I had for dinner. Sometimes my grandmother would visit.
I have still never had a birthday party in my life. I’ve participated in other people’s (and thrown a few), so I get the general idea.
Castle Falkenstein has been the secret hiding place of the WikiLeaks-like server for stolen police data
Finished Bloodstained, this time for reals (i.e. the full ending). There is still some thing to do, like farming materials to max the shards, though I am undecided if I will go for full completion.
This of course produces an issue... What should I be playing next?
I might have started a purge... Deleting some games I don't play anyway...
Steam seems to got stuck while uninstalling one of the games... It shouldn't be that big?
Must had a lot of small files. It got better now.
Lets give this game a try. Install.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
My birthdays have always been non-events. When I was a kid, my mom would make a cake, and I would get to choose what I had for dinner. Sometimes my grandmother would visit.
I have still never had a birthday party in my life. I’ve participated in other people’s (and thrown a few), so I get the general idea.
I will be sending you naught but the finest go go men along with a table for them to dance upon.
|
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I will be sending you naught but the finest go go men along with a table for them to dance upon.My birthdays have always been non-events. When I was a kid, my mom would make a cake, and I would get to choose what I had for dinner. Sometimes my grandmother would visit.
I have still never had a birthday party in my life. I’ve participated in other people’s (and thrown a few), so I get the general idea.
I expect nothing less.
This is giving me merry flashbacks of my bachelor night.
I will be sending you naught but the finest go go men along with a table for them to dance upon.My birthdays have always been non-events. When I was a kid, my mom would make a cake, and I would get to choose what I had for dinner. Sometimes my grandmother would visit.
I have still never had a birthday party in my life. I’ve participated in other people’s (and thrown a few), so I get the general idea.
I expect nothing less.
This is giving me merry flashbacks of my bachelor night.
I truly wish I had more money that night. There were not enough pelvic thrusts in your general direction.
Void Bastards. A funny roguish FPS/survival hybrid with cartoonish graphics. A starship carrying zounds of hibernated prisoners goes stuck in Sargasso Nebula and the ship's AI decides to awaken the prisoners, one-by-one, sending them to get the materials necessary to save the ship.
Happy Birthday, Tacticslion!
It gets repetitive quite quickly, so I don't expect to play it for long, though.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
The first act of Hamilton, as sung by the Muppets, is on YouTube.
The Swedish Chef sings "Farmer, Refuted."
Animal is King George.
The Schuyler Sisters are Janice, Camilla, and Piggy.
Yes, I *have* been going around my house singing "You'll Be Back" in Animal's voice tonight.
Happy birthday Tact!!!
Happy Birthday Tac!
Make sure to wear the ceremonial garments of your birth in public, or it won't count.
Pretty sure I've heard that one somewhere.
And here I've been wearing my Unbirthday suit!
You guys lied to me again!!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
My top technician and I had to be in the office on Tuesday due to needing to deal with both in=office equipment and getting some new laptops prepped for some remote users.
On Wednesday he told me he had to get a COVID test due to symptoms that showed up on Wednesday.
Today he got the results and he's good. No COVID.
*PHEW*
glad you dodged that bullet.
We have had similar scares (my step-son's father carpool buddy had been exposed - both confirmed negative). Several friends who are HC workers have had co-workers confirm positive (no surprise, but so far all our friends are still testing negative).
I think I am up to 10 people I know who have confirmed positive. One death, although as I think I said here before...she was 95 or so.
stay safe. be smart. wash hands. wear your mask.
Yeah, when I called in to get the warranty repair job on the fridge, I had the typical "conversation with a Texan about the virus". "Oh, no; I won't wear a mask. They're too uncomfortable, and it's too hot around here. And I'm healthy, so I don't have to worry. But I really feel bad for all the people with compromised immune systems who can't leave their homes."
Er... yeah.
If you weren't so d***ed selfish to refuse to put up with a little discomfort to help them out, then maybe they could leave their homes. Heck, if we'd all pulled together and just listened to the doctors we'd likely be in decline right now instead of in a second surge.
*SIGH*
[/tirade]
EDIT: And while I realize that at this point the most logical course of action for the U.S. is to just continue slowly re-opening and allowing the virus to run its course through our population (it's become obvious we can't handle anything requiring any more personal responsibility on the part of our populace), considering that Houston is already near or at capacity and Southern California is already sending ICU patients to Northern California for treatment, that...
You can take off the mildly for this one.
So to preface My SO volunteers at the zoo and our county or at least the one the zoo is in finally passed a required mask law for businesses. So the Zoo requires the masks now. Apparently people were complaining and talking about boycotting the Zoo for requiring masks. I just full on am sick of these people. The whole south just full of complete idiots.
Not really a counter point, but an observation. The initial response from the medical community was pretty much universally - wash your hands, don't shake hands, don't touch your face.
A little later it was social distancing, and only much later wear a mask.
My understanding with the mask thing is that they weren't sure they would have a mask for medical professionals so they didn't want everyone to go out and buy them out before they could secure them for doctors and nurses. Sounds reasonable to me.
Oh and happy the thing lion.
Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
They also have straight-up bifocal contacts as well.
I have the "blended" or "continuous correction" glasses, and they are wonderful for me. Aiymi has them and hates them. What we've found is that if the frames bend outside of perfect alignment the lenses not only can't work correctly, but they are almost a detriment at that point.
Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
They also have straight-up bifocal contacts as well.
I have the "blended" or "continuous correction" glasses, and they are wonderful for me. Aiymi has them and hates them. What we've found is that if the frames bend outside of perfect alignment the lenses not only can't work correctly, but they are almost a detriment at that point.
Yeah, my issue is that I'm a "terrific slouch". Whether working, driving, or relaxing, I am always leaning WAY back, preferably with my feet up. So I'm eternally looking through the very bottom of my glasses, leading to the least correction. Which doesn't work for computer work nor driving, which is almost all I do.
Thus, I hate them.
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
What I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) If you hold on to dynamite too long you'll blow up.
2) Do not throw grenades at bears
3) Do not shoot bears in the face with a pistol
4) And especially, Do not hit a bear in the face with a shovel.
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
What I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) If you hold on to dynamite too long you'll blow up.
2) Do not throw grenades at bears
3) Do not shoot bears in the face with a pistol
4) And especially, Do not hit a bear in the face with a shovel.
My dad learned that, when being grappled by a grizzly and you have a 38 on your hip and a garden hose in your hand, putting your thumb over the end of the hose and aiming at the bear's eye works.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
We watched Rango for the first time last night. You don't know what's been missing from your life until you hear the opening bars of "Ride of the Valkyries" on banjo.
My dad learned that, when being grappled by a grizzly and you have a 38 on your hip and a garden hose in your hand, putting your thumb over the end of the hose and aiming at the bear's eye works.What I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) If you hold on to dynamite too long you'll blow up.
2) Do not throw grenades at bears
3) Do not shoot bears in the face with a pistol
4) And especially, Do not hit a bear in the face with a shovel.
that's one hell of a random encounter.
that's one hell of a random encounter.My dad learned that, when being grappled by a grizzly and you have a 38 on your hip and a garden hose in your hand, putting your thumb over the end of the hose and aiming at the bear's eye works.What I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) If you hold on to dynamite too long you'll blow up.
2) Do not throw grenades at bears
3) Do not shoot bears in the face with a pistol
4) And especially, Do not hit a bear in the face with a shovel.
He was hosing out the cage in his friend's wildlife park.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
So... the neighbors across the street just invited me to a "Covidchella music festival", where we're somehow not going to become a viral hotspot because everyone who shows up will obey, "Please come by with your finest mask and distance."
I feel that responding, "Masks don't prevent stupid," would be considered rude...
"Oh, I can't get him to wear a mask! He doesn't like it!"
"Oh, I can't make her practice social distancing! She's a hugger!"
Pretty much every parent in the neighborhood refuses to practice even basic parenting skills ("Please cough into your elbow, dear"), so even on our walks it's a constant effort to cross the street before we cross paths with the unprotected, uneducated, "I cough and sneeze and wipe my nose with my hands and touch everything around me because my parents didn't have the energy to teach me any better," kids who are appallingly prevalent in this neighborhood.
Yes, there are a few good kids who prove it can be done. This morning on my way to the store there were two four-year-old girls in masks who saw me and promptly moved across the sidewalk to give me as much distance as humanly possible.
But the neighborhood kids? Nope. They're little virus vectors, so I don't particularly feel like putting myself at risk for whatever they happen to be carrying tomorrow (Covid or other) just to be sociable.
EDIT: To be clear, I expect parents to try, not automatically succeed. If your kid coughs without covering their mouth and I hear you say, "Cover your mouth when you cough, Dear," then at least I know you're trying. If you just let the kid spew germs into the atmosphere without a word, I get judgy.
its not a super power, but years of training. When I get up to Black Dynamite levels of power, it will be a super power.I would trust freehold with super powers. maybe not x-ray vision, but some super powers. specific ones.I think he already has one. He seems able to adjust his level of black manliness at will.Those are called Charles Atlas Superpowers.
Speaking of OPM, half the S-Class has "I trained too much" as their power.
{ponders Freehold with Doom Patrol tv show's Flex Mentallo powers...}
Headache again :(
{gently presses caplets of acetaminophen + caffeine against laptop screen}
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Happy my birthday to you all, every FaWtL! Love you guys!
Hope you have/had a very Happy Birthday, Tac.
Don't go outside, that's when birthdays strike!
Happy Bastille Day!
Read FaWtL
Click link.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
I don't know how well variable correction lens work, but if you get contacts, get one colored.
That's how I keep from accidentally switching mine (gReen lens = Right eye, cLear lens = Left eye).
Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
I don't know how well variable correction lens work, but if you get contacts, get one colored.
That's how I keep from accidentally switching mine (gReen lens = Right eye, cLear lens = Left eye).
Also, you might be surprised by how many people that know you don't notice the color change. Or that may only be the people who know me.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Happy my birthday to you all, every FaWtL! Love you guys!Hope you have/had a very Happy Birthday, Tac.
Don't go outside, that's when birthdays strike!
Happy Bastille Day!
Read FaWtL
Click link.
<silent birthday kazoo>
** spoiler omitted **
Also, you might be surprised by how many people that know you don't notice the color change. Or that may only be the people who know me.Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
I don't know how well variable correction lens work, but if you get contacts, get one colored.
That's how I keep from accidentally switching mine (gReen lens = Right eye, cLear lens = Left eye).
Honestly, I don't know anyone's eye color, except mine (and from that I can probably guess my mother's eyes)... And I think I remember color of the eyes of woman I loved for almost ten years... I would not bet my life on that, though.