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
i don’t think neanderthal’s baby joke is getting the attention it deserves. i see you.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
idgi tbh
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
third child = pimp c
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:06 (four years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGK
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
heh if ever a pun was outta my wheelhouse ey
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link
Probably a good thing that I'm thinking "I need a haircut" for the first time in about 15 years. The fact that I'm beginning to look like Gavin McLeod is not so good.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
Lol
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
good news folks
Lmao, city of NYC thanks goddamn. pic.twitter.com/gbIxbaDflT— L😯LC😯X (@smileyniv) May 7, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
... before, after and during
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
work from home looks set to run into 2021 for us at which stage if trends continue i'll be at my 1999 weight with a mortgage deposit saved
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
When they let me out of this joint to go shopping I’m gonna buy a truckload of books and a steak dinner
― silby, Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
me, once my dad's recovered, I'm going driving to a remote location and not telling anybody where I am for a month
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
these are not kip posts imo
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
why is what I said negative? sounds like bliss to me even when we're not in a pandemic
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
#aftercovid not #kipcovid imo
wheres the covid appeals board
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
“When Tony Parsons’s new novel came out you couldn’t get hold of his book”.https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/10/could-lockdown-herald-an-exciting-new-chapter-for-the-book-trade
― Tim, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:36 (three years ago) link
here's a fun way to figure out what the fuck is making noise outside your windowhttps://birbs.glitch.me/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
neat!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
working from home means that I could have a nap on my lunch hour to help with my hangover today.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Monday, 11 May 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
that is a golden gift from the spirit upstairs that should not be underestimated
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Nah, it'll have to go before it strays any deeper into Michael D. Higgins territory
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
I'm straying deep into mullet territory
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
I feel relief because for the first time in my life I truly do not care what my hair looks like. Is it sticking up? No? I'm good.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
The excess fluff irritates me, but I'm rolling with it
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
i went from a neat pixie cut to looking like my dad in 1978oh well! if it burns someone's eyes out, i fake-apologize in advance
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
I've had the exact same Dana Scully haircut for the past fifteen years, so quarantine is forcing me to switch things up, which is probably a good thing. I might just not cut it until the pandemic is over, and then I'll finally know what it's like to have long hair.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
Finally obtaining a set of hair clippers has changed my life for the better.
Given we're going to be able to sit in the park before too long, are there any decent foldable chairs out there that are better than dad-chairs/camping chairs but more portable than standard deckchairs?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link