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I keep seeing vaccination pics and happy musings about getting back to normal, how painful pandemic isolation has been, etc.
But I like not having jets flying overhead every 15 minutes. I like the light traffic if I have to go out. I like being here in my den and not having to drive an hour each way to client sites. I like having groceries delivered so I don't have to go to the store. I like being able to walk outside sometimes without meeting a lot of people. I like meetings on Zoom so there's no expectation I have to go somewhere. I even like wearing masks. I felt weird wearing them in the cold and high pollen air to try to avoid asthma when nobody else was wearing one. Now, they're even stylish.
If this were a movie, I'd be the villain coming up with mutations so everyone has to stay home forever. Pandemic life - this is my world. Looking forward to the deaths ending. The isolation, not so much.
It goes without saying that I feel terribly for people out of work or who have lost loved ones, etc., as I know everybody does...
I miss going to restaurants and sitting down for table service. I miss meeting friends for Happy Hour (FREEHOLD!!!). I miss theaters and concerts. I miss travel.
The rest, I don’t miss so much. Just remember, those grocery delivery services will still be around after the pandemic, and they will probably be easier to book.
And there are folks talking about how masks may never go away completely - not because of COVID but because people like you see benefits to wearing them. I, for one, plan to keep them around for allergies, and especially for cold-and-flu season on public transportation. My husband used to joke that Fall has arrived when CH catches his first cold of the season. Commuting into Manhattan, there is no way to avoid them. Since the pandemic started, I haven’t had so much as a sniffle. I don’t miss colds.
I’m reasonably optimistic that this experience working from home will have opened that possibility going forward. My company is already saying that when I return to the office, it will probably only be two or three days a week indefinitely.
So there is hope!
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I like that I can have "I hate you" face without anyone noticing.
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The worlds is a better place for my face being mostly covered.
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And there are folks talking about how masks may never go away completely - not because of COVID but because people like you see benefits to wearing them. I, for one, plan to keep them around for allergies, and especially for cold-and-flu season on public transportation. My husband used to joke that Fall has arrived when CH catches his first cold of the season. Commuting into Manhattan, there is no way to avoid them. Since the pandemic started, I haven’t had so much as a sniffle. I don’t miss colds.
Right? I catch everything that comes around - not badly, just enough to be annoying. I've been jealous of Japan and Hong Kong because masks are routine there during bouts of flu or cold. I embrace masking during cold and flu season from here on out! Besides, I made some nice ones. Not as good as Pelosi's on-point outfit coordinated masks, but nice.
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For the first time in 20 years I'm barely noticing hay fever season, and other than injuring my back I haven't taken a sick day from work in over 6 months.
No colds. No hay fever. No flu. Mask wearing has a huge number of benefits. Who knew?
(OK, OK. I knew that a sick person wearing one would prevent the spread of their disease. I hadn't made the whole, "pollen particles are MUCH bigger than the pores on a mask" connection that's made this year's hay fever season SO much nicer.)
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Allergies aren't usually too bad for me, I have a heightened sensitivity to plant toxins and I'm allergic to spruce trees but that's about it, which is good because I work outside.
And I work at a place where my handling of any plant is completely voluntary on my part.
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The worst thing about cake decorating is trying to mix icing colors that look true. Particularly since the color on the packaging is seldom what you actually get, even with the "fancy" stuff. My task today is making a cartoon Aang skin tone that doesn't look like cat vomit.
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About to go home. Have a good weekend, everyone.
Hope you're having a goodun, John :)
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Forgot - ALL (DE) also introduced me to Tio Choko yesterday, a man with a truly enviable moustache and a fine selection of hats, whose schtick is crotch-thrusting rhythmically to assorted Latin American pop classics in company with his pals, one of whom plays the accordion. You can hire him to appear at your wedding, should you so wish.
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Success! I carved a bowl in a boulder in less than half the time I assumed it would.
Which is great, because I did it on my own time. Of course now I want to bring in my own boulder from home to carve a bowl into.
Dear PBS,
I would very much like a new TV show that shows home projects made by Captain Yesterday. Call it "The New Yankeeday Workshop" or something.
Tech, to everybody, including Manager: "This is a process that takes an hour."
Manager, afterwards, to someone else: "The tech told me this can be done in 5 minutes. I'll call him and see why this isn't going according to plan. The tech is obviously doing something wrong or something."
Thanks Manager, two levels above me, for throwing my *best* person under the bus for something that is going exactly according to plan.
There needs to be a horror film about a supernatural bus that runs over as!holes that throw innocent people under the bus.
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Yeah, THIS bathroom project is the stuff of nightmares.
I just reported to Flakey Head Contractor:
- The medicine cabinet is 1" off-center from the vanity. He says this is your fault for giving him the wrong measurements. (And yes, he gave us various options to fix it and we chose to leave it as-is.)
- Last weekend I found a leak in his replumbing job that had been soaking the crawlspace and the back wall for two weeks. This was "His apprentice's fault".
- Yesterday he found that the shower valve was mis-set and he had to tear into the closet wall to fix it. This was "the drywaller's fault".
- Yesterday the dark grout bled into the white grout, as expected when you put dark on after light. This was "GothBard's fault".
- Yesterday while trying to mount the bathtub spigot, first a screw was missing (The "manufacturer's fault" in spite of the fact that he opened the box weeks ago and left it in the giant pile of stuff in the kitchen), then he found out that after going to the hardware store to get a nipple, the pipe itself was the wrong size so he'd have to go back to the store to get an adapter. ("They" put in the wrong-sized pipe, even though I'm fairly sure he put that pipe in himself.)
So mistake after mistake, all "someone else's fault", all prolonging this project ad nauseam.
Apparently around here it's too much to ask for a contractor to admit his own mistakes and fix them on his own dime.
EDIT: And it's always horrifying to do this kind of thing BEFORE the job is done, but FFS the head contractor needs to know what's going on, and EVERYONE who works in customer service always says, "Why didn't you bring this up sooner, as it was happening, instead of weeks after the fact?", so I'm trying to be a "good" citizen. Even though it's terrifying. Because if general contractor walks, I have to finish all the work myself.
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And yeah, you KNOW it's bad when you're researching Contractor's Liens.
If I lose, I lose. But I've never seen a company nor private contractor get paid for commute time unless it was explicitly in writing before. Usually it's just $0.52/mile or what-have-you.
Time will tell.
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This is why I don't want to be my own boss.
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So, because I make good life choices, I decided to share *Ascendance of a Bookworm* with my children despite the objections of my Youngest (who wanted to spend the evening - and day before it and night after it - playing our LoZ-spin-off RPG game).
By the time we finished episode two, my Youngest had this to say, "Well, I suppose, since <Eldest> wants to watch another episode, I'd be fine with it [if we watch another episode]." Note, the Eldest had not, in fact, stated that he wanted to watch another episode. When this was pointed out by me, the Youngest explained to his older brother, "No, <Eldest>, you want to watch another episode." (which he did, but that's a little besides the point). XD
Also: hello, everyone!
TL, I think you're more baelnorn territory, if you'll excuse my saying so.I'm still waiting on my lichdom to come in.I think I should like to be undead.
If that is not possible, I will settle for being made into Stagg tinned chili.
... but... but... but... I wanted a phylactery...
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... but... but... but... I wanted a phylactery...TL, I think you're more baelnorn territory, if you'll excuse my saying so.I'm still waiting on my lichdom to come in.I think I should like to be undead.
If that is not possible, I will settle for being made into Stagg tinned chili.
Be more evil, then.
It's not my fault that you're powered by positive energy ;)
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This is why I don't want to be my own boss.
If he'd started the entire conversation with, "I charge $xx per hour per person, and our day starts the moment we leave our homes," it would have been a fair bid and I would've said, "No," from the outset.
Instead Head Contractor's getting gouged outrageously by General Contractor, and I suspect he's going to try to pass the costs on to us.
I figure that someone might find that helpful.
Alas, the link doesn't work. :/
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... but... but... but... I wanted a phylactery...TL, I think you're more baelnorn territory, if you'll excuse my saying so.I'm still waiting on my lichdom to come in.I think I should like to be undead.
If that is not possible, I will settle for being made into Stagg tinned chili.
Be more evil, then.
It's not my fault that you're powered by positive energy ;)
:O
but i'm already eeeeeevil Q.Q
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So yesterday was one of those days that really make me wish I could tap out.
I had to respond to an email from a parent complaining about my class problem kid, for the third time this year, saying her daughter doesn't want to go to school because she's scared of him.
He's five. And going through a lot at home. And he's a good kid, he just has crappy parents.
And answering the email, and going back and forth with my boss about the response, made me remember that I'd overheard him the day before telling another kid that his dad hits him.
So I reported that to my boss, and she helped me make a report to the state abuse hotline, where (as my boss predicted) they gave me a case number but said there was insufficient evidence to pursue.
And after all my in-person students left, I had to give my home learning lessons, and then had to do an online prospective student interview for next year, and then clean my classroom, and finish the email for the parents, and I ended up getting home around two hours late, and then made dinner and did laundry and balanced my books and paid bills, which was fun, because WW hasn't gotten paid unemployment for the last month and they're holding it back and telling him he's ineligible but won't tell him why.
And he can't get a live person on the line when he tries to call to appeal (every day).
So, fingers crossed, we'll be okay until the stimulus comes through.
And he applied for three more jobs yesterday, but in four and a half months, he hasn't gotten called for one interview.
So I'm holding it together, and I just have to get through today and tomorrow and I'm off for a week.
But, ugh. This week can burn in a dumpster.
A bit older, by now, but I'm really sorry to hear this.
You and that kid both are in my prayers.
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This is why I don't want to be my own boss.If he'd started the entire conversation with, "I charge $xx per hour per person, and our day starts the moment we leave our homes," it would have been a fair bid and I would've said, "No," from the outset.
Instead Head Contractor's getting gouged outrageously by General Contractor, and I suspect he's going to try to pass the costs on to us.
I just meant figuring out logistics in general.
You're right for being pissed.
Can you carve the boulder dog bowl to look like a dog?With the proper tools, yes.
Is that tool the same skid-loader you can use to shave a bear?
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Is that tool the same skid-loader you can use to shave a bear?Can you carve the boulder dog bowl to look like a dog?With the proper tools, yes.
No, they're different.
These are hand held tools, though I could still shave an angry bear with them.
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Yeah, THIS bathroom project is the stuff of nightmares.
I just reported to Flakey Head Contractor:
- The medicine cabinet is 1" off-center from the vanity. He says this is your fault for giving him the wrong measurements. (And yes, he gave us various options to fix it and we chose to leave it as-is.)
- Last weekend I found a leak in his replumbing job that had been soaking the crawlspace and the back wall for two weeks. This was "His apprentice's fault".
- Yesterday he found that the shower valve was mis-set and he had to tear into the closet wall to fix it. This was "the drywaller's fault".
- Yesterday the dark grout bled into the white grout, as expected when you put dark on after light. This was "GothBard's fault".
- Yesterday while trying to mount the bathtub spigot, first a screw was missing (The "manufacturer's fault" in spite of the fact that he opened the box weeks ago and left it in the giant pile of stuff in the kitchen), then he found out that after going to the hardware store to get a nipple, the pipe itself was the wrong size so he'd have to go back to the store to get an adapter. ("They" put in the wrong-sized pipe, even though I'm fairly sure he put that pipe in himself.)
So mistake after mistake, all "someone else's fault", all prolonging this project ad nauseam.
Apparently around here it's too much to ask for a contractor to admit his own mistakes and fix them on his own dime.
EDIT: And it's always horrifying to do this kind of thing BEFORE the job is done, but FFS the head contractor needs to know what's going on, and EVERYONE who works in customer service always says, "Why didn't you bring this up sooner, as it was happening, instead of weeks after the fact?", so I'm trying to be a "good" citizen. Even though it's terrifying. Because if general contractor walks, I have to finish all the work myself.
For what it's worth if we f%+# something up then we fix it on our own dime.
Obviously that's more of an issue for other crews.
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For what it's worth if we f@!@ something up then we fix it on our own dime.
Obviously that's more of an issue for other crews.
Well, that's why I've started the conversation NOW instead of after the bill arrived. GC keeps saying, "Oh, look! This is messed up! But it's someone else's fault so I'll go ahead an bill for that!"
Over and over and over again.And if HC is anything like any other HC I've ever known, he's not going to take a bath on that, so he's going to try to charge me cost overruns for all those errors that "weren't GC's fault".
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The Riemann Hypothesis, ExplainedWell I watched it.. I don't know if I'm to addle minded or what but I still don't get it.
This may help a little, as it tackles just the hypothesis itself.
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Wait who or what are we warning about me?
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Oh yeah that thing.. at least one less hour of work..
Also don't think I'm going to let you get away with that "never do anything wrong" line.
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Oh yeah that thing.. at least one less hour of work..
Also don't think I'm going to let you get away with that "never do anything wrong" line.
How could you possibly accuse me of wrongdoing?
Oh, I can't stay mad at you. C'mere. *puckers up, waits for smooch*
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^This^^ This is exactly what I'm talking about!^^
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DOOM is repositioning the satellites as we speak.
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reading that made me so itchy. You are evil.
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Your being very liberal with the meanings of "sort of" and "Kinda".