I’m going out on a limb, JohnT, to guess that your signs were stolen by someone who’s more upset by people sharing pandemic statistics (“It’s just the flu! Stop living in fear!”) than anything else. Whatever happened, that was a shit move on someone’s part.
Yep, all of the “-itols” are bad news for people like us. When I started eating sushi, I was (unpleasantly) surprised to learn that many wasabi pastes contain sorbitol for some reason. I also used to have a co-worker who thought it was funny that I check labels for the stuff…
OMFG the good news is fucking joke. The assisted living facility has announced good news you can visit your loved ones now- I can handle getting Covid training, masking up even social distancing to a degree but make a 30 minute appointment once a week to see my parents and the fucking kicker is our visit would be monitored by staff.
Oh that will not go over well at all, dammit it’s like my folks are in county fucking jail.
One of the stations on my preset has been playing Christmas music for every holiday this year. Memorial Day? Christmas music! Independence Day? More Christmas music! Labor Day? You better believe that’s time for some Christmas music! They keep this nonsense up and I know a station that’s going off my presets.
Considering that both the transmission and fatality rate for nursing home residents is really high with Covid, I can see why they want to be ultra cautious.
The current situation sucks for everyone involved. But the virus doesn’t care.
"OMFG the good news is fucking joke. The assisted living facility has announced good news you can visit your loved ones now- I can handle getting Covid training, masking up even social distancing to a degree but make a 30 minute appointment once a week to see my parents and the fucking kicker is our visit would be monitored by staff.
Oh that will not go over well at all, dammit it’s like my folks are in county fucking jail."
Same here, but my mother’s memory care facility also wants a recent (like within 5 days) negative COVID test and a self-attestation that you’ve quarantined since the test. So I haven’t seen Mom since March except thru the window on Mother’s Day when she damn near attacked the attendant for not allowing my brother and I in. And nobody needs that.
I drop treats off for her every couple of weeks, but I can’t see her, it hurts to dayum bad when she keeps asking when will I take her to lunch, when can we go for a drive~~~~~~~~~~~
My mom was in a nursing home and died a month ago. I hadn’t seen her since March. When they knew she was close to dying they moved her to a room right next to an exterior door and let us come in through that door.
But I had a fever and didn’t pass the temperature check. I don’t know what happened, I haven’t had a fever since. I did see her from across the room. She wasn’t conscious and my other family members didn’t stay long.
This is pretty mini indeed compared to all that, but … my paychecks have been thinner the last few weeks, and I’m having a harder time chasing all the wolves away from my door - not to mention keeping track of who’s paid off, who only got “past due” paid and is gonna come howling around again soon, and who is legit about gonna cancel on me.
It’s shitty enough living paycheck to paycheck, but it’s impossible to budget when the amount paid changes unexpectedly. (We are paid less than other budtenders because we are allowed to accept tips, which have been … well, thin, lately.)
I heard the budtenders at the other dispensaries that recently opened are not allowed to accept tips and thus earn a few more bucks an hour salary instead. We suspect people are hearing “no tips” when there & extrapolating that to our location.
Plus, traffic and wait times are way down due to new competitors opening up. Ironically, I suspect that’s losing us tips as well - when people wait in a 20- or 30-car line (yes, really) they have ample opportunity to see us all busting our asses. When they drive up, get immediate service & can drive right off, it seems “easier” to them.
Salsa manufacturers, is there a reason you don’t want people to use your product? I ask because it is damn nigh impossible to get the lids off the jars. I’ve used rubber gloves with texturized grip. I’ve run hot water over the top of the jar. I’ve even held a flame up to the edges of the lid to try to loosen it. None of these have worked. I’m currently boiling some water so I can put the jar upside-down in bowl of it to see if that loosens anything. If that doesn’t work I’ll put it in the oven. If that doesn’t work, I’m just going to smash the damn thing and pick out the glass shards.
Seriously, if I ever get the lid off this thing I ought to be declared the next Queen of England. Getting a sword out of a stone would be easier.
Update: the boiling water worked. You may all now address me as Queen Catamount. My first order of business is to force jar manufacturers to make sure their lids can be removed with ordinary human strength. Those who fail to comply will be sentenced to death without mercy.
There are a million devices out there to help you open jars, but this is the simplest. It breaks the suction seal to let the jar lid open normally. I inherited my elderly mother’s, who swore by it, and I agree.
A 1/4" slotted screwdriver works just as well as any of these gadgets. Slide the tip under the lip of the top, lever up or twist until it “pops”, then unscrew it. Works every time and no special effort is required.
Your Majesty may be interested to know that Oxo, the company that makes all kinds of nifty kitchen gadgets, makes a jar opener that has been in my possession for many years and works very well. No jar has beaten it yet: