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Stay-at-Home Thread

I am definitely having trouble keeping track of the days. Hubby has been working from home; I've been hardly working at all. Almost all of our usual shows aren't on, so we've been streaming shows, so it doesn't matter what day it is. One day is pretty much the same as the next, so I don't really need to know what day of the week it is.
 
I never thought I would say this as an introvert, but there's a certain loneliness to all this shelter-in-place, social distancing, and telecommuting. To some of us, work is social life. I haven't seen many of my friends in person in a while, and while we chat via email or text, it's no substitute for face to face interactions: my coffee breaks with Diana, my Friday lunches with Stephanie and Trish, and hugging my best buddy Madge, who still promises me a birthday lunch when all this craziness is over.

The few days I see my other colleagues, we're all social-distancing, even my office crush. I have all but given up any attempt at making friendly conversations with him. I really think he's a great guy and coworker, but I couldn't even ask him to a group lunch now, even if I wanted to.

When I telecommute for a whole day during the week, I feel more exhausted at the end of the day than any other day. Like I said, I'd like to keep my home and work lives separate. I am much more productive in the office, and when I have some down time, I can think of ways to keep moving and stay active. By the end of the day, I will have walked 10,000+ steps.
 
I tend to lose track of the days when I am on vacation. In my experience it helps to build up a certain rhythm, e.g. Saturday laundry day, Monday ironing day, Tuesday flower watering day etc.

During the war, my grandparents used to dress up, light a candle and to listen to classical music on the radio. I, too, do that occasionally. It's a bit like an evening out, just that you do it at home. It's actually quite fun (unless there's an air raid, of course).
A few years ago, my sis and I had a picknick on the living room floor with lots of potted flowers around us as the weater was too bad for an outdoor picknick.
Acolleague of mine went to the extreme the other day, poured a load of sand on his bathroom floor, put in a few potted palm trees and had his beach vacation there when his flight got cancelled. I wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend it, though - sand has a tendency to spread throughout the house.
Crazy as these three substitute-events may sound, they go a long way boosting morale :)
 
Today I apparently exited through the entrance side at Walmart. Some lady came up and yelled at me.
But just like a week or so ago it was fine to exit through that door. Where I live they are supposed to be releasing the restrictions. So I can't figure out why it was fine to exit that way two weeks ago but now it's not. :brickwall:

I went into Target, the smallest TV they had was 40 inches! :(

Then I wanted to go to Best Buy, (electronics store) huge store like Walmart.
But if you want to go inside to shop, you need to make an appointment. WTH???:censored:

I have to buy a new TV blah blah blah my old one broke. :censored:

I did Walmart online, but my card was turned off. Blah blah blah long story, it will work tomorrow. :mad:

Any way I ate like 1/2 a box of crackers and half a package of cookies.
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Can't you watch TV on your computer? Over here, almost all senders stream their programme online.
When I last moved (8 years ago IIRC) I foudn that at my new apartment no cable TV is available and since the surrounding houses shield teh signal I can't use an antenna either. I need a sat dish. unfortunately, to instell it you need 2 people and I am single. So I'm still TV-less and as a matter of fact I really don't miss it at all. I think after a few weeks you'll feel the same.
And without TV one suddenly has so much time to do needleworks, paint, read all the good books one hasn't read in ages, make music or play with the pets.
I kept my old tiny TV but use it only as a monitor when watching DVDs (no ad breaks - yay! :D)
 
rhubarbodendron said:
Can't you watch TV on your computer? Over here, almost all senders stream their programme online.
When I last moved (8 years ago IIRC) I foudn that at my new apartment no cable TV is available and since the surrounding houses shield teh signal I can't use an antenna either. I need a sat dish. unfortunately, to instell it you need 2 people and I am single. So I'm still TV-less and as a matter of fact I really don't miss it at all. I think after a few weeks you'll feel the same.
And without TV one suddenly has so much time to do needleworks, paint, read all the good books one hasn't read in ages, make music or play with the pets.
I kept my old tiny TV but use it only as a monitor when watching DVDs (no ad breaks - yay! :D)
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I could do that. (Use the computer for a TV)
But I like to watch TV to unwind. If I'm painting or something, then it wakes me up more and I won't get enough sleep. Reading at night is relaxing too.
I think more upsetting than my TV breaking now, is the ridiculous hassle with shopping.
I need to make an appointment to go drop hundreds of dollars in a store. I guess they don't need my paltry business.
I think I'm just upset with all of this virus shut down stuff. Lines to get into the store. Someone standing outside monitoring the line.
My BF was inside one of the stores shopping and some lady was harassing him and accusing him of jumping the barricade and sneaking in! He said it's because they think he's Chinese.
The chick yelling at me about going out the wrong door, probably thought I was black.
I guess it's a good thing my "Chinese" BF wasn't with me, ( a black person AND a Chinese person!!!! ) They would have had the cops there on us!
 
rhubarbodendron said:
maybe as an interim solution you could listen to audiobooks? I find them very soothing and listen to them every evening (and half of the night if I can't sleep)
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I had one audio book. "Return of the Native."( it was a CD)
Alan Rickman read it.:adore:
Every time I listened, I made it about 10 minutes but would fall asleep. :lol:
I eventually bought the actual book.
I don't have very much gigs on my phone time.
And also do they even make good headphones for phones. I have only ever seen earbuds. I hate earbuds. They just hurt. :ack:

My friend was telling me how much she loves the audio books though too.
 
I spent a day making a Comedy Thor during lockdown video, in the style of the Team Thor videos done to promote Thor Ragnarok. It killed a day and was good!
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I’ve also been playing a lot of guitar and working on a comic book.
 
Thankfully we’re getting closer to the shutdowns’ shutdown. When all this started I was ranting about inconsideration of others and now I’m ranting about inconsideration of liberty. My kids are back at school. I’m back working (I’m a staff author but my publisher is back on) and people are adjusting to relative normality instead of calling the police every time they see someone at a park without a gas mask. Morrison is encouraging states to open in a 3 stage system. I’m positive.
 
My sister in law just got the result of after-infection-test #1. It's negative =) If #2 turns out negative, too, she can go back to working in a home for elderly people. Her patients kept asking after her and calling her while she was quarantined with a (thankfully only rather mild) corona infection.

I'm quite angry at distance-ignorers in my town. The other day someone almost crept into my shopping basket! Fortunately, it's going to rain today so that hardly anyone will be out. The perfect day for a shopping expedition =) And an umbrella can be used to poke people the required 1.5 meters away. :devil:
 
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There were children from five different households playing outside of our house yesterday. Our kids have only been out a handful of times. Pisses me off.

Last week at the local supermarket, where people are encouraged to stand two meters apart, a young mum stood behind me, less two meters, and her pushchair with a very small baby, right up to me.

I used to roll my eyes at all those disaster movies where some thick people do something thick and end up dead. Not any more.
 
^If we could harness stupidity, mankind would never again have an energy crisis. :brickwall:

What I find particularly enfuriating is that ot only those distance-ignorers risk their own lives (they are welcome to that as far as I am concerned) but also the lives of everyone around them. That's a deeply antisocial behaviour and should be punished mercilessly. Particularly where people expose babies and children to a possible infection. Heck, it's an attempt at causing severe and potentially lethal bodily harm, no less.

Over here some idiots protest against masks and distance rules, and claim they defend freedom and human rights against dictatorship. What they actually demand is an dictatorship of unbridled egotism. Democracy means taking care of each other, particularly of the weaker ones. And it does mean that the right of one person ends where the right of the next person starts. And human rights means the right of each individuum to not get infected by someone who won't be bothered with being decent.

Those who ignore these basic rules are welcome to leave and build their own state somewhere else (where they'll get extinct within a few months from some plague or get killed for being inconvenient to their "freedom"-demanding neighbours).

I soooo wish there was a deadly virus that specializes in idiots! Argh! I could rant on for days!
 
rhubarbodendron said:
^If we could harness stupidity, mankind would never again have an energy crisis. :brickwall:

What I find particularly enfuriating is that ot only those distance-ignorers risk their own lives (they are welcome to that as far as I am concerned) but also the lives of everyone around them. That's a deeply antisocial behaviour and should be punished mercilessly. Particularly where people expose babies and children to a possible infection. Heck, it's an attempt at causing severe and potentially lethal bodily harm, no less.

Over here some idiots protest against masks and distance rules, and claim they defend freedom and human rights against dictatorship. What they actually demand is an dictatorship of unbridled egotism. Democracy means taking care of each other, particularly of the weaker ones. And it does mean that the right of one person ends where the right of the next person starts. And human rights means the right of each individuum to not get infected by someone who won't be bothered with being decent.

Those who ignore these basic rules are welcome to leave and build their own state somewhere else (where they'll get extinct within a few months from some plague or get killed for being inconvenient to their "freedom"-demanding neighbours).

I soooo wish there was a deadly virus that specializes in idiots! Argh! I could rant on for days!
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I’m always confused by anti-lockdown protesters who wear masks. Wearing masks means they value their own medical safety but not the safety of others. Oh wait; I’m not confused anymore. They’re just selfish.
 
rhubarbodendron said:
^If we could harness stupidity, mankind would never again have an energy crisis. :brickwall:

What I find particularly enfuriating is that ot only those distance-ignorers risk their own lives (they are welcome to that as far as I am concerned) but also the lives of everyone around them. That's a deeply antisocial behaviour and should be punished mercilessly. Particularly where people expose babies and children to a possible infection. Heck, it's an attempt at causing severe and potentially lethal bodily harm, no less.

Over here some idiots protest against masks and distance rules, and claim they defend freedom and human rights against dictatorship. What they actually demand is an dictatorship of unbridled egotism. Democracy means taking care of each other, particularly of the weaker ones. And it does mean that the right of one person ends where the right of the next person starts. And human rights means the right of each individuum to not get infected by someone who won't be bothered with being decent.

Those who ignore these basic rules are welcome to leave and build their own state somewhere else (where they'll get extinct within a few months from some plague or get killed for being inconvenient to their "freedom"-demanding neighbours).

I soooo wish there was a deadly virus that specializes in idiots! Argh! I could rant on for days!
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While I’m not joking any protests anytime soon I do feel that liberty is important and there are a few interesting contradictions worth pointing out in your post.

You say democracy is taking care of each other yet your approach to doing that is to call those who disagree with you idiots, that they should be punished mercilessly and that they would be struck by a deadly virus. Furthermore you makes claims that their allegations of dictatorship come from a dictatorship of egotism yet you assume control of the state via your view and encourage them to leave the state to create a new one in addition to defining sociable behaviour as conforming to your perspective.

Is this compassion, consideration, respect for others? I think not. I understand your fearful nature but what you are proposing is not just a suspension of freedom but civil unrest and fascism. Against that, I’ll certainly take the risk of illness and I have an immunity disorder.
 
Ocanain said:
While I’m not joking any protests anytime soon I do feel that liberty is important and there are a few interesting contradictions worth pointing out in your post.

You say democracy is taking care of each other yet your approach to doing that is to call those who disagree with you idiots, that they should be punished mercilessly and that they would be struck by a deadly virus. Furthermore you makes claims that their allegations of dictatorship come from a dictatorship of egotism yet you assume control of the state via your view and encourage them to leave the state to create a new one in addition to defining sociable behaviour as conforming to your perspective.

Is this compassion, consideration, respect for others? I think not. I understand your fearful nature but what you are proposing is not just a suspension of freedom but civil unrest and fascism. Against that, I’ll certainly take the risk of illness and I have an immunity disorder.
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If I could go out, live my life, and not at all expose the risk to anybody who was not also willing to take the same risk, I wouldn't be quarantining at all. Unfortunately, that's not realistically possible. You'd at the very least have to pay all the at risk workers who have to go out to support their families to stay home, and establish infrastructure for high risk people to get whatever they need for day to day living without going out.

That's not to say we shouldn't be consulting with experts and designing ways that low risk and willing people could get out, have some semblance of normalcy, and limit the risk of exposing people to the same level of risk we routinely live with from the flu. But until we shell out for the testing and contact tracing, it's probably not going to happen.

I agree liberty is a consideration, but there's the saying "Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose". If there is no way to do it without putting lots of unwilling people in harm's way, its not only a question of liberty.
 
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