Whatcha doing with your isolation?
I'm going to do a mess of training tomorrow but today...
Apparently I am spending it ranting :D :
I was planning to and trying to do job applications but fell at the first hurdle because I can't get the stupid PDF to save once completed so I decided just to do a hard copy and then my printer broke. And I just spent a tone of $$ on ink. So now I'm being beyond pretty goddamn miserable :(
I did clear another elephant out of another room though. Same source as the last one, although this was a comparative baby. But my printer and unemployment woes are overshadowing any joy from that right now. Going to go for a walk to see if that helps, and double that with disposing of the last limb of the baby elephant. (dropping unused meds off for safe disposal)
I hate technology and its current inbuilt obsolescence. Have some fucking balls HP and stand by your products, even if they are a couple years old. printers should not expire.
oops sorry. now I guess I'm smiling a little at least after editing to add the first sentence :)
Apparently I am spending it ranting :D :
There's our girl!
I'm used to spending 8 hours a day alone in my house. I like it. I am accomplishing very little with all these interlopers. :(
I also just walked around my neighborhood and picked up trash. And got stabbed to bleeding point through my gloves by a vicious buckthorn as I ventured into the nature area to extract a particularly obnoxious piece of plastic packaging. No good deed goes unpunished :rolleyes:
Ranting is good, it's a healthy safety valve, and doing in the Cellar maintains more than an arm's length. Win, win. :cool:
We can get together for a St Paddy's Day concert.
http://www.dropkickmurphys.com/home/
Livestreaming at 7 pm
This house is small when four people are wandering around in it 24/7. Camping was good over the weekend. Really helped mental health, but all this being cooped up together, we have to be mindful of being kind to one another.
Today I'm smoking a corned beef brisket. Yay!
we're open, so I'm at work. me and about 20 other people watching tumbleweed blow through the showroom. This is getting scary.
I went to Total Wine and loaded up just in case they close that. Tomorrow morning, I'll hit Wegmans and get some foods. Then Home Despot to get the last pieces of molding I need to finish the hall project. Once that's done, I need to paint it. And then there's yard work...
I don't expect our store to close, but we might as well be if it's going to be like this.
All the bars are closed. Restaurants are closed. Ain't no bread. Ain't no tp.
I ain't doing a goddamned thing with my isolation.
So I isolated myself at the river and got high as shit.
Today I'm smoking a corned beef brisket. Yay!
What kind of paper did you use to roll that? and did you add some herbs?
today I may have "mended" the (fake) marble threshold tile thing (what is the name of that?) across the step up into the en-suite bathroom. It was always cracked in two places, but when I hurriedly hauled by suitcase in there for a last minute weight check as I left for Florida last month, I lifted two of the pieces clean off :( Today I cemented them back down and redid the surrounded grout, so it ain't perfect, but it's as good as it was. Will check if it's secure enough in the morning. And I ran 3 miles in a decent time.
And tried to fix my printer. Again. failed again. Beest fixed it before when this happened, but I don't know what he did and can't ask him. frustrating rather than sad, though, so maybe I'm making progress on that.... I do need a new printer most likely but I just bought and installed a new expensive on-brand cart so I'm fucked if I'll give up that easily... :D
And I tidied a small corned of clutter in my lair.
And I pruned the roses and a few other bits outside. took down some winter festive season lights.
pottering
failed on the job apps
Working. One online provider of translation memory software has offered free temporary access to an online version of their software to assist more remote working. But most of us translators are isolated at home all the time anyway ...
Me: Today I'm smoking a corned beef brisket. Yay!
Monster: What kind of paper did you use to roll that? and did you add some herbs?
Not paper foil, with beef broth and a touch of Apple Cider Vinegar.
As far as seasoning, started with a slather of Wooster sauce and stupid yellow mustered. Then I applied a rub of pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder. I used a store bought Hormel corned beef. Smoked for three hours with Oak, then wrapped in foil with beef broth to an internal temperature of 205F.
We had Reubens for dinner.
6 hours start to finish. On a 22 in Weber Kettle.
and did you add some herbs?
I bet there was herb involved.:blunt:
Herb defiantly made an appearance.
Me: Today I'm smoking a corned beef brisket. Yay!
Monster: What kind of paper did you use to roll that? and did you add some herbs?
Not paper foil, with beef broth and a touch of Apple Cider Vinegar.
As far as seasoning, started with a slather of Wooster sauce and stupid yellow mustered. Then I applied a rub of pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder. I used a store bought Hormel corned beef. Smoked for three hours with Oak, then wrapped in foil with beef broth to an internal temperature of 205F.
We had Reubens for dinner.
Want!
Come on over I got a couple of pounds left.
Electric Lettuce and Meat? Worth the risk!
Ugh. Son is more on edge than I'd realized. Unfortunate timing meant a small panic on his part (of the "oh no I'm going to be late" variety) that I couldn't come defuse because I was busy attending to his sister's doctor's appointment over Skype, and this led to him going into his room to scream into a pillow and thrash until he'd gotten it out of his system. It's a deliberate coping technique we've taught him, and worked in the short term until I could sort out his problem, but I'm not thrilled that this relatively small thing was a pillow-screaming level event.
Instead of a pillow, I go to the river and scream my bloody head off.
It works. Kinda. Sometimes.
Oof. Gonna be a long home stand.
Alas, getting my 13-year-old hooked on pot is probably not a viable option.
Oof. Gonna be a long home stand.
As of right now, most of his stress is coming from not knowing what "online school" is going to look like. We're supposed to get an email tomorrow with more information, so if we're lucky by Monday or Tuesday he'll settle in.
I feel like I've had a two month head start on all of you.
Socially distant.
Working exclusively online.
My home time is being spent alone though because Twil is still going to work.
I miss human contact. When I recently (two weeks ago, before the doors *everywhere* slammed shut) had to appear in person at the unemployment office for a reemployment plan meeting, it was kind of a joy to get dressed, have my paperwork in order, drive to an office and talk with other office people.
I "work" at my "office" each day, searching for suitable job openings and applying where appropriate. I record my work and submit my job search log each week when I make my unemployment insurance claim.
I do some chores around the house, I've had a couple projects and it's only recently been nice enough outside to do outside work. I walked around the back yard and noticed up close the effect the deer visits are having on everything green within four or five feet of the ground. Locusts come to mind.
I hear that. But loneliness was already starting to break me... :/
Today I started off with a big cry. Followed it with a whine on facebook, then got an email about a job interview by phone, so panicked a bit, watched irrelevant shit on youtube, went for a walk, did the interview. I hunted for the bits I bought to mend the broken kitchen drawers, but didn't find them so started on the beer and interwebs. My eyes still feel like I've been recently crying even though I stopped hours ago. probably I should try to go to bed earlier. Less productive than previous days. maybe tomorrow I will make up for it?
Alas, getting my 13-year-old hooked on pot is probably not a viable option.
As of right now, most of his stress is coming from not knowing what "online school" is going to look like. We're supposed to get an email tomorrow with more information, so if we're lucky by Monday or Tuesday he'll settle in.
Turns out, he's a lot like me. Apparently, we have permission to tele-meet (er somethin) for fewer hours with our folks to prevent regression. Naturally I have Frontier the worst internet provider in the country,so we'll see how this goes. I'm trying not to freak out about it, but what I love about my job is the face to face this may not be great for me. Fuck I hate being on the phone let alone facetime.
I’ve just turned leftover chicken thighs from a big batch stew into paprika chicken, chicken curry, and chicken and lentil soup, all for the freezer. Trying to have a stock of easy to cook foods in case we fall ill.
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You'll be ok, meow
Meow stop that, stoppit right meow.
I havent really experienced it so much yet. I am generally alone in my house when not working anyway, though I do usually go to mum's house at some point most days ... at the moment I am still working, which also mans Mum having Carrot at hers during the day - I was already dropping him down of a morning rather than her picking him up in the car middayish, because of her recent op. So right now the only real difference is that I drop him at the gate rather than in the house and then when I get back from work, I dont go into her house, she comes out with both dogs and she walks Nelle partway up the hill with me and Carrot then I carry on the rest of the way home - we keep a bit of distance between us while we walk now.
When our laptops have been sorted out and we can work from home, then I think I;m going to feel it. I love being by myself and often crave more time to just be on my own at home, but from a mental health perspective, I know I am better when I am going into a workplace at least some of the time.
At least i won't be bored if I am working at home - just hope the network doesnt crash under the pressure lol
lol. My internet issues may become a problem but we're working on it. Hopefully we can squeeze out just enough bandwidth.
I decided to feed on the porch for convenience. Social distancing with 10s of thousands of my closest friends.
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Whatta ya mean 10s of thousands, how many do you have, just count up the birth certificates and/or title transfers.
Today I'm smoking a corned beef brisket. Yay!
So envious!
lol. My internet issues may become a problem but we're working on it. Hopefully we can squeeze out just enough bandwidth.
I decided to feed on the porch for convenience. Social distancing with 10s of thousands of my closest friends.
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Cleansing flight or are they out and about already?
Alas, getting my 13-year-old hooked on pot is probably not a viable option.
As of right now, most of his stress is coming from not knowing what "online school" is going to look like. We're supposed to get an email tomorrow with more information, so if we're lucky by Monday or Tuesday he'll settle in.
Fire up Khan academy and say it's going to be something like this. assuming it will be something like that so you don't then have the fallout of "it's not anything like you said"
Cleansing flight or are they out and about already?
The warm weather has them out. It's cold here today but next week we're in the 50s again. They've been on the crocuses for the last week.
re isolation
I'm trying to remember the last time the kids visited and I hugged them. They've been here since them, but all physically distant while socially connected. it is weird and saddening inside.
re isolation
I'm trying to remember the last time the kids visited and I hugged them. They've been here since them, but all physically distant while socially connected. it is weird and saddening inside.
I heard a theory that the virus spread so quickly in Italy because they are such huggy family people, so you’re probably doing the right thing. But it’s tough.
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Setting up a large drumset, with lots of toms and cymbals and pedals, because I don't need to keep a "gig ready" set-up (bars are closed).
I brought a large punching bag into my room and I'm using it as a weight bench, on the floor, and lifting weights when I feel stir crazy.
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Cover all that shit with copper foil.
Refused a mtb ride with friends today. Trying to take a flattened curve seriously.
Today is smoked beef back ribs.
Aw yeah. Pete has ribs dry rubbed and waiting for tomorrow.
Gnawing on ribs... good practice for the coming famine and cannibalism.:unsure:
Like I said, I've been training my whole life for this!
I'm going to force myself into a routine.
I meditated for a few minutes today, cleaned some surfaces, tidied my work area and made arrangements for tele-meetings... I'm gonna snow ride the bike this afternoon.
Ordinarily I have very little trouble just being by myself doing not very much. Today isn't even a day I would normally be working, because it's my saturday week so I get a day off in the week. But I still feel completely at a loose end and can't settle to anything.
My house is too small for three people to be in it all the time.:smashfrea
I'm gonna snow ride the bike this afternoon.
You still have snow?
Yeah, the snow was gone but then it snowed all day yesterday.
Yeah. I saw a pretty big gobbler on the hill a couple days ago.
Arlington County Virginia has just asked homeowners to please stop it with the spring cleaning during the Coronavirus lock down.
They are being completely overwhelmed with garbage pickup, and have announce that they will temporarily suspend collecting mattresses, furniture, and appliances.
I have to laugh because it's true. On our street everyone is doing heavy spring cleaning and Marie Kondo-ing all their shit. I grabbed a nice office chair being tossed out across the street. I needed one too, because the cushion on mine was breaking down. I left the trash picked chair on the front porch in the sun for a few days before bringing it inside. It's perfect. Gives good support without being too comfortable.
I never would have thought about that but it makes sense.
I just changed the filter in the furnace.
Arlington County Virginia has just asked homeowners to please stop it with the spring cleaning during the Coronavirus lock down.
They are being completely overwhelmed with garbage pickup, and have announce that they will temporarily suspend collecting mattresses, furniture, and appliances.
I have to laugh because it's true. On our street everyone is doing heavy spring cleaning and Marie Kondo-ing all their shit. I grabbed a nice office chair being tossed out across the street. I needed one too, because the cushion on mine was breaking down. I left the trash picked chair on the front porch in the sun for a few days before bringing it inside. It's perfect. Gives good support without being too comfortable.
Yeah I was thinking all the thrift stores are going to be overwhelmed here when they reopen. Our trash collection will only take what's in your wheelie bin. Anything else you have to take to the landfill yourself and pay a fee. They don't get off the truck when they pick up.
A few years ago, my son dissembled his tree house, and neatly stacked all the lumber on a picnic table we never use. It's all rotten wood now and looks like hell, so I considered as recently as yesterday tossing it in the trash. I guess I missed my window of opportunity.
If it's clean rotten lumber, no paint or treatment, you can compost it or simply cover it with soil. It will improve the water holding capacity of your soil. If you have any yard...
So far, just dumbbells from 5-20 pounds for high reps, frequently throughout the day. But tonight I'll be setting up some higher weight dumbbells, and a couple of barbells for doing deadlifts, squats, bent-over rows, overhead triceps, upright rows, that kind of stuff.
So I went for walk yesterday round the "back" of our island. It's hard to tell which is nature's architecture and which is man-made...
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That's so cool. I love your island!
Thanks for the tour Limey, looks like a bad place to be stumbling around in the dark, I was expecting to meet one of these guys. :D
This period of isolation is no walk in the park, I can tell you that.
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Gorgeous Limey!
NYC is leaving the Parks open but closing some streets so people can walk and maintain their 6 foot gaps.
Closing parks is bullshit. Wide open spaces are the one place it's safe.
Closing parks is bullshit. Wide open spaces are the one place it's safe.
You're absolutely correct.
The PA Turnpike is only 360.1 miles long, no reason not to close all the bathrooms. :facepalm:
Parks are closed here too. I think the problem is people are tempted to bend the rules -it's a wide open space so it's ok to meet up.... and they're not very good at keeping a 2 meter distance
Today I thoroughly let myself down. I got up early to do a big tidying/sorting job, and I also planned to go outside in the nice weather. I didn't even touch the big job (yet) and I was just stirring to go out and realized it's dark already :( I haven't left the house. I've done bits of pieces of tidying and cleaning here and there -some regular/routine, some monthly, some annual... but nothing remarkable. I just applied for a job. not a career job, but can't stop just because I have an interview..... soon I will will eligible for unemployment, so I must keep trying in case I do have to try again to apply. I wanted to plant seeds in the nice weather. didn't. And I didn't pay the health insurance that's due at the end of the month and needs to go by mail. Or set up the new printer. I'm working up to doing that right now, though
I did clean the bog, deep clean the shower doors, change the furnace filter, sort out the wrapping paper and ribbon/bow stash, cook linner for myself and the boys, do two loads of laundry, about to do the dishwasher....yada yada yada worried about my distant family members, tracked daughter's progress as she moved from her apartment to her boyfriend's parent's house in the panhandle before her county locks down tonight (gonna be a fun few weeks for her there...)
procrastinate much?
printer is installed! I can do printy things
sounds normal
Upon further reflection, that does not sound normal. It's not normal.
But it does sound familiar.
The Cellar... Normal People Need Not Apply. :haha:
Today I thoroughly let myself down. I got up early to do a big tidying/sorting job, and I also planned to go outside in the nice weather. I didn't even touch the big job (yet) and I was just stirring to go out and realized it's dark already :( I haven't left the house. I've done bits of pieces of tidying and cleaning here and there -some regular/routine, some monthly, some annual... but nothing remarkable. I just applied for a job. not a career job, but can't stop just because I have an interview..... soon I will will eligible for unemployment, so I must keep trying in case I do have to try again to apply. I wanted to plant seeds in the nice weather. didn't. And I didn't pay the health insurance that's due at the end of the month and needs to go by mail. Or set up the new printer. I'm working up to doing that right now, though
I did clean the bog, deep clean the shower doors, change the furnace filter, sort out the wrapping paper and ribbon/bow stash, cook linner for myself and the boys, do two loads of laundry, about to do the dishwasher....yada yada yada worried about my distant family members, tracked daughter's progress as she moved from her apartment to her boyfriend's parent's house in the panhandle before her county locks down tonight (gonna be a fun few weeks for her there...)
procrastinate much?
You got stuff done. Just not what was on the list. You just might have some time on your hands tomorrow ...
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I just put the actual stuff on the list then cross it out. Success!
The main objective of the day, of every day, is to get through it without physical or mental injury. It's a win.
I just put the actual stuff on the list then cross it out. Success!
guilty :D
Apparently we’re supposed to be doing Taskmaster at home via Twitter.
Apparently we’re supposed to be doing Taskmaster at home via Twitter.
ORLY? :/
sounds worse than tiktok challenges
If you're desperate enough to visit Twitter for entertainment, you can look at pictures and videos of US in the other Americas:
https://twitter.com/jtfbravo?lang=en
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Apparently we’re supposed to be doing Taskmaster at home via Twitter.
I just came across this, it's great!
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...it seems that Lego should be considered an essential item.
You could fence in the North forty...
I just came across this, it's great!
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It's quite hilarious.
I'm realizing how lucky I am to live in a rural place where social-distance is easily achieved. I did run into a guy in the woods today but we chatted from a distance. He works on a cell block with a lot of old-timers. They're screening all the employees but if it gets in...
Anyway, rode with Benny and dropped a cherry today.
Cherry?
Cherry?
Like a cherry tree?
um.... that bark is nothing like the cherry tree bark I'm acquainted with.
????????
Does Benny ever get to ride along like the Big City dogs?
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(Pictured) A bicyclist and her dog pedal through the empty streets of Queens, New York, on April 5.
https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/The_Properties_of_Cherry_Wood
On a road bike I maybe could wear Benny out, usually not while mountain biking.
That's a beautiful log.:thumb:
Prunus serotina
https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/pruser/all.html
HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES :
Black cherry occurs as scattered individuals in numerous forest types of
the East (see SAF cover types listed). It is codominant in only one
cover type, the black cherry-maple type (SAF 28) found in the Allegheny
Plateau and Allegheny Mountain sections of New York, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and West Virginia [18]. In this type, black cherry is a
primary component along with red maple (Acer rubrum), sugar maple (A.
saccharum), and white ash (Fraxinus americana). Other common associates
include American beech (Fagus grandifolia), eastern hemlock (Tsuga
canadensis), sweet birch (Betula lenta), yellow birch (B.
alleghaniensis), yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), cucumbertree
(Magnolia acuminata), oak (Quercus spp.), and hickory (Carya spp.)OMG look at that Cherry! That log is amazing.
dropped a cherry today.
I'm still not sure this isn't a euphemism for something rude.... :eek:
.....way back when I was employed in a grocery store and I was responsible for printing the promo materials, there was a "cherry fest" promotion and I doctored one of the posters to say "Lost your cherry? Don't worry, we have plenty!" and put it in some department mailboxes. Poor darlings actually thought home office had sent it down and started blustering things like "Do they know what this actually means?....." :lol:
Got out of Dodge, if just for a few hours.
We Hit the trail at 7:48am. Not anyone else on the trail on the way up. Maybe two dozen when we came back down at 9:30. Most kept their distance, but some were clueless. I was prepared though. That’s the Mrs. and daughter behind me in the picture.
Recording. Multitracking. The Limey Big Band sound is being born ....
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If you are isolating with children you have time to teach them a song.
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oh not this guy he taught them it in 2011
Yesterday I replaced the A/C belt and tensioner (sp) on my truck.
Nice!
Yesterday, I put on some disposable rubber gloves, and picked up a dead bunny by our driveway by its hind paws. It was stiff as a board, and there were three flies on it. It had no signs of trauma, disease, or blood from the nose as if it was poisoned. It looked like it was a perfectly healthy specimen, except for the bit about being dead. It's a mystery to me how it died.
Anyway, I placed it in a garbage bag and threw my gloves in after it. It's in the garbage can out at the curb now.
Good times.
Will the excitement ever end.
So far, just dumbbells from 5-20 pounds for high reps, frequently throughout the day. ... [a month ago]
Progress, getting strong. Last night I did deadlifts, shrugs, bent-over barbell rows, barbell/reverse/hammer curls. Heavy enough that it was hard to un-bend my fingers, and I got nauseous from lactic acid build up.
I'm stuffing myself with food to maximize hypertrophy while my body is reacting aggressively. If/when I get too strong for my connective tissues, I'll reduce the calories and start burning off my visceral fat.
Subcutaneous fat loss is not a goal, but it should come as a result of my base metabolism increase.
Good work man. I don't have the discipline for that.
Thanks. For most of my life, it was just an ego thing. I had a naturally lean, aesthetic physique and it was gratifying to see my veins bulging out. This is the first time I’ve ever tried to "bulk up"— all compound movements, no cables/machines, and surplus calorie intake. I’m fat and strong, it's totally different.
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Thanks. For most of my life, it was just an ego thing. I had a naturally lean, aesthetic physique and it was gratifying to see my veins bulging out. This is the first time I’ve ever tried to "bulk up"— all compound movements, no cables/machines, and surplus calorie intake. I’m fat and strong, it's totally different.
Good work man, very impressive discipline.
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I'm taking up your slack.
I'm doing a lot of things.
Today, I'm using YouTube to expand my brain to include
how to use SketchUp. I plan to use it to create a plan for the shop I'm going to build.
Yesterday we cleaned up the Truck, and today we cleaned up the Car. Later I'm going to help a friend move an organ. Yippee!!!
Hammond Organ you pervert.
Griff
I'll see your felled cherry and raise you a western red cedar.
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Carry tree in wheelbarrow.
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Dig hole for tree roots.
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Plug tree into hole.
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Embrace your inner treehugger.
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Hammond Organ you pervert.
My brother's got one of those. Complete with twirling speakers.
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My Dad did too, twirling speakers and all.
