with tokyo refund money ive scored a new media centre pc, a new laptop (both yet to arrive) and mrs mac got me a smashingly hipster bike (arrived yesterday) as an early birthday pressie for greater park exploration (its a big park)
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
I stayed at my apt for 1 night and saw my city roommate + neighbors on the roof, all carefully distanced, and they've been taking good care of each other and bonding/sharing resources. I shop for their groceries and my bf drives in and delivers them and everyone wins. It feels good to put little surprises or a bottle of wine in each person's packages.
Also I researched ear buds and got a fancy pair--which is my first non-spartan tech purchase in many years iirc. Trying to scale back on the fun stuff for now bc I have no idea how to re-enter the job market after (when?) some unspecified point but definitely looking forward to these little beauties arriving:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0404/1101/products/MW07PLUSJG_InsideChargingCase_800x800.png?v=1581695469
Also the wine store re-opened for curbside pickup. That's a plus!
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
are they as art deco as they look in that shot?
niice
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
Let's hope so! Years of using the free Apple headphones proved that their standard shape won't fit me so that ruled out ipods and it turns out the alternatives are all much more attractive.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
what a world
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
had to cancel our wedding which was scheduled for late august. both feeling quite good about it though, right thing to do, will give us extra time to save up money for it for the aspects that weren't finalized yet, and a couple important people were not going to be able to make it. otoh we postponed it a year and it may not be possible due to COVID then either, but we can cross that bridge if we have to next year.
COVID really hasn't hit that badly in my province. new cases seem to be diminishing. only circa 2000 cases thus far . the only person I know to have been diagnosed with COVID so far - my ex-wife - was only sick for a week, very mild case.
working from home I'm not that fond of, but it beats being laid-off.
gf isn't working and we're really enjoying spending lots of time together.
counting my blessings rn
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
sorry bout wedding but positives to take from it it seems
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 April 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
So — like I needed a new hobby — I basically started a record store out of my home office. Spin-clean, grade and price records while I half-listen to conference calls, & post flip-thru videos on Instagram once a day or so when I’ve done a little stack. Not quite breaking even but my collection is GROWING LIKE CRAZY (also upgrades to stuff I already have inferior pressings or beat-up copies of) for a smaller outlay. Also keeping me sane while working from home. 90% of my job is talking to people & most of it got done round the water cooler (so to speak) so the isolation bit has been challenging. Fortunately my manager doesn’t seem to care too much about productivity right now so everybody wins.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 30 April 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
Oh sick
― silby, Thursday, 30 April 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
hardcore dilettante indeed
We had to cancel our wedding and we are THRILLED
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 30 April 2020 03:53 (four years ago) link
ILX slack and hangouts have played a huge positive role carrying me through this
Deep dive into ECM records
Deep dive into Test Pressing chill lists
My yoga instructor has been posting lessons on YouTube to follow along with
Been cooking more and trying some new recipes
Getting outside more
My job and my wife's job appear to be secure
This has given me a lot more clarity on what I want to do with my life when it's all done
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 30 April 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
this seems goodhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/30/covid-19-crisis-demand-fossil-fuels-iea-renewable-electricity
The steady rise of renewable energy combined with the collapse in demand for fossil fuels means clean electricity will play its largest ever role in the global energy system this year, and help erase a decade’s growth of global carbon emissions.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 April 2020 08:26 (four years ago) link
did a zoom quiz for work and it wasn't awful at all
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 April 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
misread the thread title as 'KBP covid thread' and briefly thought I had missed out on something
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 1 May 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
{btw I am healthy, everyone I know is healthy, I still have a job despite working in the most covid-unfriendly line of work possible, and I have a fridge full of good beers)
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 1 May 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
working from home full time at full paydeep diving into boxes and files that should have been cleaned out long agomy mother seems to be healthy (if not happy) in isolation
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
j.lu that sounds like some kind of millennial bruce springsteen lyric
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
now i can't read "my mother seems to be healthy (if not happy) in isolation" in any other voice but bruce's
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 1 May 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
to the tune of Philadelphia btw
Built myself a beer garden.😂 pic.twitter.com/oKFiaiYOy3— west belfast red. 🔴🔴 (@gabshit77) May 1, 2020
I thought this should be parked here
― calzino, Friday, 1 May 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
Lol, that rules
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
finally researched and procured an IPTV service, as well as setting up the home network file server id been mulling for months- pretty close to the ideal setup now
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Sunday, 3 May 2020 02:07 (four years ago) link
Portugal beginning to open up tomorrow. Its felt on the verge of opening up for a while but then police were asking people not to sit down in the park yesterday
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 3 May 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
Seven days nicotine-free; after the initial adjustment to lockdown life, I realised that the relative lack of social triggers made this an ideal time to quit.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 3 May 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
Also: having shunned FaceTime for years, it turns out that I actually like zoom calls. Sure, there’s a performative element, but it’s a performative element that I can get with and work with.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 3 May 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
Also: we have two butchers’ shops less than 5 minutes walk from our front door - their businesses are both booming, and rightly so, because they’re both superb and more people have started to realise this.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 3 May 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
yes - that has happened with our local butcher too.PHENOMENAL news about quitting nicotine.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
An older sister of mine and her husband stopped by earlier today, after a follow-up appointment for her mastectomy last September. We hosted them outdoors, sitting more than six feet apart, wearing our masks, but it was damn good to see them both doing so well. They escaped to their car just about ten minutes before the sky opened and rain + hail poured down for 20 minutes.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
British Columbia is the jurisdiction with over 5 million residents that has the lowest COVID deaths per capita in North America + western europe. the premier is going to announce what the plans to ease restrictions will be in half an hour.
a new benefit for hospitality workers my gf can apply for just came live today, on top of $1000 she received yesterday from the province of BC, and the CERB she receives from the federal government.
finally after 6 weeks or whatever of working from home I have all the software and hardware I require to do my job. will not have to return to work any time soon.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
wfh estended thru September it looks like, and discussion at high levels seems to accept that the civil service will not return to a five day model working week
this is very good imo
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
Our “new normal” planning is looking similar
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
We got similar word from our executives on Monday. I'm making a trip to the office tomorrow to pick up a couple monitors, keyboard, mouse and docking station. I've been working on a laptop this whole time. They offered the office equipment much earlier, but the time has been slipping by like crazy.
― 🔫 (peace, man), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
- 2/3 of the way through an extremely involved and exhausting (relative to the last time) but also personally rewarding paternity leave that started the day tom hanks was diagnosed and the NBA was cancelled- read as many books in the first five months of this year as i read last year- got my instapaper queue (~150 articles that are all like 10-30 minute reads) to zero- seriously dialed in my vim configuration
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
i wasnt aware of even one bun let alone two
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
they call it Bun B
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 May 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
i remember that day so clearly! i was in class and one of my students was like "Tom Hanks has the virus!" and we all talked about it. We were still meeting for classes, but it may have been in the last two weeks.
god it really feels like 600 years ago
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 May 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
I remember that day. it was 3/11. I'd seen Overkill the night before, and I knew things were about to change, but no idea how much. the morning was normal, but that afternoon, they'd announced a crowd-less March Madness, and a crowdless Golden State Warriors game. I go to rehearsal, Hanks is diagnosed right as it's ending, and Trump has banned Europe travel.
I get to my car 10 minutes later, the NBA has cancelled their season. That was a crazy day.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
but the day before was wicked awesome! (KIP)
i don't have anything not-maudlin to say -- thinking about that day has made me so wistful about the pre-rona times
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:12 (four years ago) link
thanking u neanderthal this is ofc the kip covid thread
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:12 (four years ago) link
weather in dublin has been great and weve been enjoying cycling through the park and into a traffic-free city quite a bit
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
The Stax Records box set is doing all my KIP heavy lifting tonight, thank fuck for music rn
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
got laid off from my beloved but flailing non-profit in late December, but was soon joined at home by... the rest of the world, in a way.
my now-college age kids are home, and it's amazing. they're as fun as always to be around, but now they also actually spontaneously help around the house. they've been doing a lot of cooking but also art projects and music playin'
i'm doing a lot, it feels like. trying to keep up with a statistics course on Coursera. kinda important as my day jobs have featured lots of program evaluation and applied research, and i've always been stronger on qualitative methods than quantitative.
also involved in a research & writing project with a team of folks from around the country. i dig the work but it's *hard* (writing almost always is, isn't it?)
taking a dance class online (martha graham based), doing some "running" (i.e., walking with spurts of running every couple of blocks, and a bunch of other exercise-y things. i try to be pretty regular with this stuff, for many reasons, not least because it keeps the demons at bay.
built raised garden beds!
growing shrooms!
reading books and playing rekkids.
keeping in touch with a bunch of friends, mostly through texts and emails.
some of these projects move a lot slower than i'd like. i go into each day with a list of five things pretty big things to do and it's often the case that i can only manage one. i'm getting a little better at not getting too down on myself for this.
sad about Florian news today. Ride in Peace.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 7 May 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
ooh, VG, i'm jealous of your Stax box set!
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 7 May 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
I remember that day. it was 3/11. I'd seen Overkill the night before, and I knew things were about to change, but no idea how much. the morning was normal, but that afternoon, they'd announced a crowd-less March Madness, and a crowdless Golden State Warriors game. I go to rehearsal, Hanks is diagnosed right as it's ending, and Trump has banned Europe travel.I get to my car 10 minutes later, the NBA has cancelled their season. That was a crazy day.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 May 2020 02:12 (four years ago) link
https://www.wired.com/story/an-oral-history-of-the-day-everything-changed-coronavirus/
great oral history of 3/11 here
― Clay, Thursday, 7 May 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
9/11, 3/11, so many fuckin' 11s
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 May 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
every crew, every clique, and every posse
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 May 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
I’m still having fun making music on my dinky laptop I bought for school and we’re baking excellent sourdough bread twice a week. I’m getting up when I feel like it and still getting the same (or more) amount of work done, even with the added effort involved in supporting COVID response. My social calendar is off the charts compared to the last decade, since I can now indulge in happy hour activities without the usual 45-60 minutes of travel time to get home. I still have my job, my wife still has her job, our daughter’s teachers are engaged and keep ensuring she has plenty to do during most of most days. I am so grateful.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 May 2020 05:06 (four years ago) link