KIP covid thread

Pics ffs

if i remember. haven't posted to wdyll threads in yonks anyway

including: shaving multiweek-grown beard off in stages to see how one would look with various styles, eg full beard -> porn donut (circle beard) -> zappa -> dr phil or full beard -> lemmy -> horseshoe -> chaplin.

I've been bombarded the past few days with clickbait ads about men who used lockdown to grow "monkey tail" beards. Fellas, keep it positive, but do try to keep your composure.

Yes look the thread isnt a free for all either, agreed

yikes

That is not a clearly kip post, expand or face banishment from this blessed thread imo

https://i.ibb.co/1rJSyf8/Brian-Blessed.jpg

I'm trying my best to KIP right now but I keep getting into verbal aggro with arseholes who don't seem to realise a park I've been frequenting for over a decade doesn't have a dogs must be on leads rule. But the positive aspect to this post is: I was talking to another dogwalker earlier who gave me some encouragement for my hardliner "just tell 'em to fuck off" stance.

Take the positives where you can grab em these days imo

Having a fine time reading and writing a fair amount and catching up on music in a way that was impossible before.

Not traveling for work since Dec 2019, after many years of 40k+ flight miles, and pretty successfully working from home got me rethinking things big time. 20 years of renting ended on Friday when we got the keys to a place we bought.

yayyy Jaq! that's so cool.

Fantastic.

Also fingers crossed, same before too long.

Talk of three days per week from home going fwd too.

Good weather for nice strong hot chocolates (bournville cocoa powder none of yer shite)

What about green & blacks

Yes also fine its more the premix "hot chocolate" or flavoured stuff

Not that you cant get interesting flavour cocoa, mind.

But it must be cocoa, nothin with milk solids etc

belatedly realised that I can put in a holiday form for the whole of February and half of march because I've been on furlough since April 1st (barring working one week in November) and I have to use my holiday entitlement up by end of March ensuring that I get paid 100% of my wages for that time rather than 80%.

was thinking how i haven't been sick with a cough or cold or anything in over a year. which is nice.

didn't take all of my vacation entitlement last year so i have 6 weeks to take this year, not including statutory holidays and the week my work closes at christmas. if somehow, god-willing, i am able to make it back to scotland this year it will be for a whole month.

Our youngest was born last March and has never had a cold in his life.

Yeah ive a ton of hols to take before march 2021

xp Caek I also have a new one, born 3/5, and it's for sure been a weird change to the new baby experience that she has never gotten sick. Don't know if it's gonna come back and haunt her though when she eventually starts interacting with the big dirty germy world.

Grats to all covid parents obv

yeah i'm kind of dreading the "is it covid?" wave of monthly+ colds when they go back to/start daycare

i'll be vaccinated before that happens and my partner probably will be too, but yup

right, but the kids won't!

(in our case)

yes definitely, same here. honestly i am dreading the upcoming months of conversations around school reopenings, kid activities etc, because i can only assume it's gonna be quite awhile before the kids get vaxxed.

like those processes have been complicated and passionate enough as is, and folks pushing for things to be open (which sometimes includes me and sometimes not, depending on the particular circumstance) will be leaning in all the harder once the adults get vaxxed. But the kids still won't be. An impossibly complicated calculus when you combine the epidemiology, social psychology, etc, just gets that much moreso

I sympathise

But i will not hesitate to tap the sign

I busted my leg while out running near the tail-end of November and had to space out my runs for about a month and a half, which made a serious dent in my morale. I was worried I'd give up on regular exercise altogether since gym closures hit harder in unforgiving climes, but I decided to bite the bullet and order some proper wintertime workout equipment, which turned out to be less expensive than I expected. While the snow-covered terrain takes a toll on my ankles and the cold (-6 today) leaves me breathless more quickly, I've finally ascended to the rank of True Canuck by realizing that outdoor workouts are perfectly doable even in January. None of this would have been possible without covid, so... thank you, undead infectious agent.

Baby its cov outside

lol, resisting the urge to change my DN

More so inside iirc.

Japan saw 1K flu patients in the second week of Jan, compared to 800K a year earlier. England, which normally has several thousand flu patients in the hospital or ICU in early Jan, had zero new hospitalizations for the disease in the first week of 2021.https://t.co/IUEtCzN7cI

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 21, 2021

wow

An ill winds that blows no nose any good

i mean some of that is people avoiding healthcare settings (testing/treatment for anything other than covid) because they don't want to, you know, die, but that's still amazing!

So lockdowns do make a difference, huh. Whudda thunk.

Our daughter is now scheduled for her initial vaccine dose on Feb 1. We found out today! Woo-hoo!

otoh, she will also have to go to a DMV sometime soon afterward to obtain a photo ID for reasons too complex to share here. Here's hoping her exposure is non-existent, or at least minimal, while that happens.

congrats, KIP

great news re: vaccine dose at least!

I love every time someone uses the wrong word for "pandemic." Noted today: panorama, panna cotta. A++ work

Buscemic

my dad got his first shot today

Good good

The last lockdown here has been much more trying (nb still relatively luxurious and well aware) but at some stage over the past week im learning how to sit and relax in a way that i havent guiltlessly done since maybe my early teens.

Just long, peaceful weekend days over books and papers and surfing but without any undercurrent of "i should be doing more" or any of that shite and honestly its a healer

'Grats to all whose relatives are getting/got the jab.

Today's KIP in my household is that we successfully completed Dry January.

congrats to vaccine-getters

i remember feeling moments of just being-in-time back last may-june. it's very cleansing.

otm, its powerful and i need to hold to it after all this

My dad got his second!