Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 63 Amurrkin out and mostly cloudy with a predicted high of 76 and cloudy for the day. We’re havin’ a cool front! South Jawja, like a lot of other places around the country, has cancelled schools, all public events, the hospitals are either limitin’ or prohibitin’ visitation as are nursin’ homes. Churches have been asked to cancel services or offer on a limited basis. My church cancelled services but EYP did a livestream service yestiddy mornin’ and a few folks showed up for Communion, which one can sign up to do but is limited to groups of no more than six. Communion was offered from nine until eleven yestiddy, and will be offered again on Wednesday from four to six. I will assist then. I did not participate yestiddy. OYKW and I have talked and think we will semi-sorta self-quarantine as we are in the over sixty category. Plus, truth be known, we’re pretty much homebodies anyway, so no big sacrifice there. So, how’s it where y’all are? Anybody on lockdown? Has your irk been affected? Are those of you who would not listen to me now in fear because you are down to one precious roll of tp?
As for other stuff, ‘tis Moanday so we shall spiff da cave. Tonight is usually men’s night over to the church house but that ain’t happenin’ so we will have steak, baked N.O.T., sallit, bizkits and beer here at da cave. We can eat good if nuttin’ else!
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Guess who has learned to climb out of her crib! :eek: Scared the crap outta her Mama!! Looks like it’s time for converting the crib to a toddler bed. She’s not even 2 yet!!!
I’ll be semi-self-quarantined. I need to run to the credit union, but I can use the drive-thru. And I need to stop at the post office, but it’s a small one - no crowds likely. I’d also like to run to Aldi. And maybe fill the car. But not much else. SIL is off today, so he’ll wrangle the kid.
Oh, yeah, and it was THIRTY-FREEKIN’-DEGREES here this morning!!! :eek: Thus beginneth my week.
Good morning. I hope everyone is doing well, and not Coronavirused.
Not a lot on my agenda. Just going to pick up my insulin, and pen needles. One of my friends with COPD wanted me to pick up some toilet paper for him, and I told him that I’d do that. Bawahaha! I’m sure there’s none to be found in the tri-state area! Anyway, I asked him if he wanted to go with me, and he’s glad I asked. So, we’ll head out of here in less than an hour. I’ll let him look for his own toilet paper. I’m a hag, like that.
I’m making a pot of chicken & vegetable soup. I’m using turnips, instead of potatoes. We’ll see how that goes over. I love them. My daughter does not. Sooo, whatever. She can pick 'em out. I don’t care. It’s my birthday, today, and I’ll make whatever the hell I want to make. Ha!
Morning, mumpers! Life continues as normal here on the other side of the Pond. I’m at irk although we are preparing for potential closure. At the moment, we are ensuring teaching moves from face-to-face to online, and in fact the two tutors I’ve seen today both reported empty classes so far. Some of us have Uni-issued laptops, other people are using their own equipment at home so we are trialling home-working for our teams. We plan to have half the team working from home tomorrow, and the rest of us will do the same on Wednesday when Tuesday’s group are in the office.
My laptop worked on Friday but when I checked last night, it didn’t recognise my username and/or password. More later, got to go to a meeting!
Morning all. I’ve been trying to limit myself to no more than one trip a day outside, but that’s my normal schedule, so nothing much has changed. With no youth soccer to coach, my activity list has gone way down. Lots of things to get done in the house, if I ever work up the ambition to do them.
43F heading for the mid-60’s today, but cloudy and rain likely tonight or tomorrow. Oh joy.
I’ll be out and around, a little shopping(dogfood at the vet’s) and doing stuff for my mom. The library closed for two weeks, so I don’t have a job to go to. It’s cold and wet outside.
It’s frigging cold outside. Was 30 when I left for the park, 32 degrees now.
I cut the park visit short, I’m not feeling well. They got a good hour there.
I’ll be calling the doctor today to see if they still want me to come in this week. I’m pretty sure it’s just allergies: sneezing, sore throat, headache, cough, runny nose, and itchy ears.
I just got a reminder from them, so I guess they are not closing.
The only place I go on a regular basis is the park, so unless the city closes the park, I’ll still be going there. I figure it’s cold enough out there to kill any germs, and the fresh air and sunshine is good for me. It’s also big enough, and deserted enough, that nobody has to get too close to anybody else.
I’m debating ordering some groceries today to pick up tomorrow. We don’t need more than a few things, but may as well get them now. I expect at at least half the stuff I want won’t be in stock, so maybe we’ll just pick up a few things each week until this coronavirus stuff is over.
Everything I normally order from da jungle is ‘unavailable’.
There are a few things I wanted to do this week, go to the UPS store to send a package, and to go drop some stuff off at Good Will. Take some stuff to the dump. I’m on a roll getting rid of stuff and I don’t want to lose the momentum.
I’m keeping an eye on the price of silver as I have a mess of old coins I may as well get rid of.
I would be more than happy to self-quarantine as long as I could go to the barn. I’m content to stay at home. I did a store run yesterday for stuff I was really out of, like mushrooms and lemons and rice and creamed spinach and milk.
Work has p!ssed me off badly and I’ve only been here 45 minutes. I am seriously thinking of giving them a big F.U. and going home.
Blurf… I was sent a mail stating no travel. No exceptions. I am still at irk but i do expect us to close at some point. Right now there are no confirmed cases here in this county. Nona Happy Birthday.
Off today since DH had an appointment he needed/wanted my participation in. It’s bucketing down rain, so I don’t think taking in recycling is happening today. Lots of sleep SHOULD, if I have any sense.
Gotta drag myself to irk tomorrow, and not looking forward to it. The callers are not terribly rational on a normal day, and I have a nasty feeling we’ll be short-handed. There are at least a few over-60s among my co-irkers, some with chronic health conditions (there’s some overlap, but the groups are not identical), and I’m betting at least a few of the parents I work with are having child-care problems.
Me? Mostly just my usual allergy symptoms (stuffy/runny nose and . such). At least the weather’s helping that. Gotten a little compulsive about checking my temperature, since I do have a slight sore throat. Highest so far was only about a degree above my normal (still below 99F). I do get tired of worried looks over sneezes, since I live in an area where allergies are a very common thing this time of year.
Waiting for SIL to drag his ass out of bed so I can run my errands. This is what happens when a night person lives in the same household with a morning person. Tho Roxy will be ready for a nap shortly - I can put her down then go, since the baby monitor is in his room. But I would wake him anyway, considering her recent escape escapade.
Been to the IT drop-in wossname and got my laptop issues kind of sorted. I had a right faff on trying to get it connected but now it’s done the right thing. I can only see a small number of folders I should be able to access, but I think I can get by with those few.
For other things, the UK continues to barrel along regardless. I went grocery shopping on Friday, normally I’d do it online for delivery but when I looked on Wednesday, the next available delivery was Sunday afternoon. No good to me as I hadn’t worked out our weekend plans so I went to a real shop. It wasn’t too bad, busy but it’s not a time I’d normally be there. No pasta, TP or liquid soap - also no problem because I didn’t want any. I’ve done a normal weekly shop and don’t expect to do any more than that because I am sensible and considerate. Other people are just complete arseholes.
I was meant to be at a music festival this weekend, it was postponed. I read that as cancelled for various reasons not worth entering into here. I knew about this at least a week ago, so had instead bought tickets for an album launch tour date in Sheffield. That got cancelled as one of the participants lives in Prague and couldn’t get a flight out. Plan C became apparent on Thursday night last week, a venue 1.5hrs drive from us hosting six bands (one of which I’d attempted to buy a t-shirt from and not succeeded, another long story). So off to North Wales for us, the money we’d intended to spend on a hotel in Sheffield became accommodation in Wales, gig went ahead, had a fab time and met some lovely people.
This week, life promises to continue being crazy with the virus stuff. I am anticipating working from home by the end of the week. Our easter holiday has hit the brakes as our travel plan was London-Stockholm-Doha-Bangkok! I’m expecting vouchers for the flights, and potentially a refund on the hotel but at the moment we’re not concerning ourselves with re-booking anything. It’s likely to be October when we can do something that involves leaving the country so until then, we’ll just see what happens and maybe get a few days away in the UK. Assuming we’re allowed to leave the house!
Howdy Y’all! Takin’ a break from cave defilthyfyin’. I’m not doin’ (OK, we’re not doin’) anything other than the usual defilthyfication cause that includes wipin’ down surfaces in the kitchen, bathroom etc. and cleanin’ toilets, sinks, and showers with bleach (stuff in the spray bottle) so we’re anti-coronavirusin’ stuff whenever we clean. I do have to go to Walgreen’s to pick up my cholesterol (that word is so hard to spell!) med. That shall be the extent of my gettin’ out however.
Up, caffeinated and sheveled. The grocery store is still mostly blown out, but I did get enough things that I won’t being eating chicken flavored Chex soup if things go really sideways(I already had a 3 month supp;y of TP). I miss sports.
I can help hate too. I am aggravated with my irk too. One of my girls is in NC visiting her folks for spring break which has been planned forever. Now I am having to answer all sorts of questions about her mode of travel, her expected return. She left before the travel restrictions were in place. I couldn’t tell her not to go…they may tell her to stay there.
My doctor appointment has been cancelled, and not even rescheduled. I told her I was pretty sure it is just allergies and she said it doesn’t matter. She told me to call back when I have been symptom free for two weeks. I said that is going to be a long time during allergy season.
The receptionist said they are waiting to hear that the building is going to be closed, and that if I have a stuffy nose and cough I probably wouldn’t be allowed in anyway. There are people stationed at the doors to take the temperature of everybody walking in.
So, no doctor this week, I am devestated.
I tried to order groceries online, and that option is not allowed. I tried to call and got no answer. I suspect it is because they are out of so many things that there isn’t much sense in letting people order online. We are fine for about two weeks, I think, I just don’t want to cut it that close. Maybe I’ll run out there today or tomorrow, just to grab a few things. Or maybe we’ll just make do with what we have, I don’t know.
I need to make the shrimp today since I didn’t feel like it yesterday. I got too busy doing other things.
I tried to call the doggie daycare to see what their plans are. As usual, no answer, they are very hard to get during the day.
I have a damn mouse running around the living room. I told Ripple to get it and he ran the wrong way. When I get off irk and my son wakes up, I’m going to get him to help me move the desk where the mouse is hiding. I am so sick of the little f’ers. I knew I was jinxing myself when I said I hadn’t seen or heard any signs of them.
Not hating on my job, other than cursing the website, but I am irked because irk is so slow.
Back from erranding. Aldi had some bare shelves, but tons of fresh produce, so I got fruits and veggies. And eggs. And chickie tits. And a few other things.
Our Gov has shut down much of the state, except for grocery stores and a few other places deemed essential. Restaurants can only do carry out, drive-thru, or delivery. Sh*t’s getting real…
