meganiwish Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 With my health condition, I'm pretty much required to be an isolate for twelve weeks. Happily, I'm not uncomfortable with my own company. I do lots of puzzles and even devise them as an income. What do you chaps get up to?
Shyheels Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) Writing a novel, reading novels, getting out for my once--per-day exercise (a bicycle ride in my case) and cataloguing my photographs (a job I've been putting off for ages). Considering starting a blog of book reviews given all the reading I'm doing. So far not the least bit bored... Edited March 30, 2020 by Shyheels
Cali Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) Working more than ever. Turn my breakfast nook into a studio. Trying to get a vegetable garden in. Cloning tomatoes currently. Beans carrots, onion, lettuce, peas, all growing nicely. The peas and lettuce are tasty. Fruit trees in blossom, gopher having the time of their life. Construction (demolition) as soon as I have time and it dries out a bit. Have to use this time to design a new house as well. And then there a million other projects to get done. Only trouble I'm sitting working remotely for too many hours each day, not enough time standing walking in heels to meet my body's needs. Edited March 30, 2020 by Cali
Shyheels Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 I've been working remotely for 25 years and, yes, it is far too easy to find yourself sitting for far too long each day. My wife who is working from home now is just discovering this. With fewer distractions and and intensity of focus the hours go and before you know it you've sat for six, eight hours without a break - not at all good for the back...
meganiwish Posted March 30, 2020 Author Posted March 30, 2020 Thanks, chaps. Is there no-one who knows how to treat a crisis like a crisis? Doing it well is my job, then the Yanks weigh in. Anyone would think they won the war
Shyheels Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 I like to think of John Jacob Astor playing poker with his fellow millionaires in the first class lounge even as the Titanic was sinking, knowing full well what was about to happen....the very definition of sang froid
p1ng74 Posted March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, meganiwish said: Thanks, chaps. Is there no-one who knows how to treat a crisis like a crisis? Doing it well is my job, then the Yanks weigh in. Anyone would think they won the war Sometimes I wonder which is harder to manage, crisis, or panic. It happened to be a good time for us to do the full garden this year too. I changed the carburetor on the tractor and tilled it... wearing elephant boots with 2” heels of course: Edited March 31, 2020 by p1ng74 2
meganiwish Posted March 31, 2020 Author Posted March 31, 2020 Oh, panic never. I don't hold with panic. Shyheels, you and I dealt with the Titanic earlier, but thank you for the effort.
Shyheels Posted March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) When I go out on my bicycle rides I find there is a markedly different atmosphere to the streets - unease, distrust, suspicion. The heavy handed, arbitrary, and sometimes blatantly illegal, tactics used by the police to enforce their own idiosyncratic interpretations of the quarantine guidelines - such as arresting people for buying Easter eggs on the grounds they are not an essential food item - only adds to the weirdness and levels of distrust. Edited March 31, 2020 by Shyheels 1
mlroseplant Posted March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020 I am not being as productive as I should be. As far as income, I just found out yesterday that I will be paid for the next three weeks at least, so that's good. I don't see us getting back to work before May at the earliest.
at9 Posted March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020 Example of truly idiotic police officer just a few miles from where I live: https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/28/bakery-threatened-80-fine-drawing-chalk-pavement-promote-social-distancing-12471130/
Shyheels Posted March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020 These are guys who should never have been given badges. Thank God they don’t have guns.
SF Posted March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020 "Bad" ones are the small, very small minority. These are LOTS of GOOD Police Officers, Doctors, Truck Drivers, Store Clerks, Plumbers, Electricians, you name it. Only hear about the few "bad" ones. Lets celebrate and thank the GOOD ones.... Smile... sf 1 "Why should girls have all the fun!!"
Shyheels Posted March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) 40 minutes ago, SF said: "Bad" ones are the small, very small minority. These are LOTS of GOOD Police Officers, Doctors, Truck Drivers, Store Clerks, Plumbers, Electricians, you name it. Only hear about the few "bad" ones. Lets celebrate and thank the GOOD ones.... Smile... sf I agree - in most cases. But over here this sort of arbitrary, indeed whimsical, law enforcement is in danger of becoming formalised - the stated policies of entire city and county police forces, not merely the activities of a few rogue cops. These police forces are literally making up laws as they go. One of our former Supreme Court justices wrote a column in a national newspaper just yesterday warning that with these guys being given carte blanch we are fast in danger of becoming a police state. Edited March 31, 2020 by Shyheels
at9 Posted March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020 Policing in the UK is different to most countries. Our cops don't routinely carry guns. Policing is, or should be, done with the consent of the community. The police are meant to be part of the community, not "other". When this relationship break down, the whole system of policing breaks with it. There have been serious problems with racism in the police. Though that problem is hardly unique to the UK. This story is disturbing. From 2 news outlets with very different political viewpoints: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/26/police-officer-robyn-williams-sentenced-unpaid-work-possessing-child-abuse-video https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11171358/senior-met-police-sacked-child-abuse-possession/
Pumped Posted April 26, 2020 Posted April 26, 2020 I am still working, employed by a company that falls under "essential". That said I am working only four days a week, but still getting paid for five. I was on the road doing sales calls, but now am an overpaid delivery driver bring parts and equipment to customers. We are not under a full "lock down" here, home stores are open, clothing stores are closed, as are bars, unless they serve food, then it is take out only. The extra day off has me doing odd jobs around the house. A bit of minor remodeling. I am replacing three windows, as soon as they get here. My wife cleaned out the hall closet, repainted and I hung new shelves. (We have been in this house for almost thirty years and the first time that closet has been painted since!) My mom called me the other day. she had a foot of water in her basement. She got it pumped out on her own, but need a more permanent solution, so I had to break quarantine and help her out, a bit of PVC and a new sump pump. I have some projects with my motorcycles in my shop. Plus the weather is finally nice so we can get outside. I might have to get my bicycle out. I am probably busier now than before!
p1ng74 Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 Went out and drove about 650 miles yesterday: I didn't anticipate getting to go in anywhere particularly nice so I just wore some dirty boots. It was a beautiful day and interesting to see how people working on reopening certain businesses. Entire permanent patios and structures have been built at shopping malls to facilitate curbside shopping. I stopped in at a restaurant that is a nation-wide chain, and corporate seems to have been very busy putting together new menus, signs, and policies, and things are pretty well thought out.
at9 Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 (edited) In the UK anyone who hasn't got a good reason to be driving far away from home is likely to get stopped by the police and fined. Two examples amongst many: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/man-stopped-police-m1-leicestershire-4023239 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-52532267 While there have been examples of overzealous policing of the lockdown in the UK the cases I've mentioned certainly deserved their fines. Example of idiotic policing which I mentioned before. There are others : https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/bakery-employee-confronts-police-officer-after-threat-of-fine-for-putting-safe-queuing-marks-on-pave-1.498565 At least I don't think we've had any incidents like this in the UK yet: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-michigan-family-charged-with-murdering-security-guard-who-was-enforcing-face-mask-policy-11983353 Edited May 5, 2020 by at9
Cali Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 You Brits have a saying for that Penny-wise pound-foolish. With the petro cost in UK what they are the pound savings he got .....
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