It do. Yet I repaired a crack in the basement floor that I've been staring at for 16+ years. Also ripped out some old deck boards and fixed up. Never build a deck low to the ground because if water gets at it then it's not good. I just cleared it out and added supports using leftover lumber I had kept for some reason. This part was under steps leading out of my patio door. Both these jobs had one thing in common. Both real low to the ground, meaning I had to bend and contort. Probably why I waited for the right opportunity to do both those jobs. My wife's been painting (leftovers), cleaning everywhere she can reach, even did some painting of walls. Place looks good. Without coronavirus it doesn't get done.
(Apr 16, 2020 04:01 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [...] I’m no longer a law-abiding citizen. I’ve snuck out several times. I’ve gone for hikes and leisurely drives. If push comes to shove, I’ll even put on my son’s ghillie suit if I have to. Even before this happened, I’ve never even came within 20 feet of someone in the forest. It's rare to even encounter anyone.
[...] You’re allowed to swim in the ocean but all the beaches are closed. You’re allowed to walk for exercise but all the parks and trails are closed. All the stores have closed off the isles of nonessential items. You can’t buy plants or seeds but they’re reporting that our food supply is in jeopardy. WTF?
Should the 14th day come and go, might have to investigate if there's an abandoned mine within distance renown for people getting lost in. Or if there are reports of an overly plump mountain cat that's been sighted roaming about.
Whereas Syne's supposedly got an "essential job" which narrows the risk to the current international fixation only if it doesn't involve traveling about to irregular destinations and getting into similar "Perils of Pauline" or "Indiana Jones" trouble.
(Apr 27, 2020 04:29 AM)C C Wrote: Should the 14th day come and go, might have to investigate if there's an abandoned mine within distance renown for people getting lost in. Or if there are reports of an overly plump mountain cat that's been sighted roaming about.
Whereas Syne's supposedly got an "essential job" which narrows the risk to the current international fixation only if it doesn't involve traveling about to irregular destinations and getting into similar "Perils of Pauline" or "Indiana Jones" trouble.
No fat cats here.
I just had to show my son’s girlfriend this waterfall. I really like her. If they breakup, I’ll be heartbroken.
Speaking of "The Perils of Pauline", I did see a strange character on my way down the mountain. He was pulling up his mask and he kept mumbling something that sounded like "Yes, Virginia, there is an alpha male." Syne, perhaps? Could've been, but luckily, he wasn’t able to keep up with us.
Looking at the projected curvatures for the virus, it seems we are over the worst of it globally, however it doesn't mean that it's defeated. It's still out there, it's just it's spread has slowed which is mostly down to the measures.
Saying that however some of the measures have actually not been as useful as first thought. For instance a local supermarket went to the trouble of trying to place arrows throughout the aisles in their store to direct patrons to try to reduce coming into close contact with each other. It might of looked good on paper but in practice it's a complete shambles.
One of the problems is that people are predominantly lazy. When they enter a store with a shopping list, they don't want to walk the length of two aisles to reach a can of beans, they'd rather just ignore the arrows and grab the can from the end of the aisle.
Another problem was that most of the UK's TV soaps (ones that have been going on for decades) were halted due to the pandemic, this has meant that all those drama-lama's are lost without their weekly dose of Coronation Street, East Enders, Emerdale, Hollyoaks etc. So when they arrive at the supermarket and happen to spot " 'er from three doors down" they stopped two metres apart to have a natter. Now while that might be well outside the distance of being a pathogen threat it tends to block the whole aisle up so all the people trying to move around the shopping labyrinth end up halted waiting for them to decide they'll "catch up later".
I actually preferred how one of the other stores had started operating where they would cause a huge queue outside, and only let a person in once another had left thus keeping the number of people in the building to a finite volume.
In any event, the main problem with queues is the way the virus transfers is based upon a person being subjected to the pathogen for a duration of time. In small doses it's possible that the body could defend against it but the longer your in vicinity of someone flooding the air with viral spore the higher the chance that you'd succumb.
Ideally the supermarket should be your chance to do a "Trolly Dash"... "in and out in five"
C CApr 27, 2020 08:40 PM (This post was last modified: Apr 27, 2020 09:18 PM by C C.)
(Apr 27, 2020 04:48 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote:
(Apr 27, 2020 04:29 AM)C C Wrote: Should the 14th day come and go, might have to investigate if there's an abandoned mine within distance renown for people getting lost in. Or if there are reports of an overly plump mountain cat that's been sighted roaming about.
Whereas Syne's supposedly got an "essential job" which narrows the risk to the current international fixation only if it doesn't involve traveling about to irregular destinations and getting into similar "Perils of Pauline" or "Indiana Jones" trouble.
I just had to show my son’s girlfriend this waterfall. She’s the one in the pink. I really like her. If they breakup, I’ll be heartbroken.
Urg, hate when that happens. The potential offspring-in-law that got away. Then the internal blame game:
"You know how predictably contrarian Theta-1010 is. You shouldn't have pressed the Like Button so much for this candidate."
"No, you're talking about our other progeny, Sigma-0101. Theta-1010 is capricious, capricious. That's why I had to. Had to. Couldn't take the chance of losing this one. Had to."
Quote:Speaking of "The Perils of Pauline", I did see a strange character on my way down the mountain. He was pulling up his mask and he kept mumbling something that sounded like "Yes, Virginia, there is an alpha male." Syne, perhaps? Could've been, but luckily, he wasn’t able to keep up with us.
Isn't that wild how those masks seem to encourage boldness in some? Like they're really incognito or Sam Bass the outlaw or something.
Quote:No fat cats here.
A few Big Wheels 'round here might be going under the longer this persists.
Now below is THE critter that indeed could be carrying around a significant meal bulge. Having botched the pythons, Florida is at least trying to stop the anacondas from becoming an addition to the Everglades. A green anaconda is large enough that it might be able to swallow an adult Westerner my size and more, given that deer and caiman are occasionally on their menu list.
(Apr 27, 2020 07:30 PM)stryder Wrote: Looking at the projected curvatures for the virus, it seems we are over the worst of it globally, however it doesn't mean that it's defeated. It's still out there, it's just it's spread has slowed which is mostly down to the measures.
Saying that however some of the measures have actually not been as useful as first thought. For instance a local supermarket went to the trouble of trying to place arrows throughout the aisles in their store to direct patrons to try to reduce coming into close contact with each other. It might of looked good on paper but in practice it's a complete shambles.
One of the problems is that people are predominantly lazy. When they enter a store with a shopping list, they don't want to walk the length of two aisles to reach a can of beans, they'd rather just ignore the arrows and grab the can from the end of the aisle.
Another problem was that most of the UK's TV soaps (ones that have been going on for decades) were halted due to the pandemic, this has meant that all those drama-lama's are lost without their weekly dose of Coronation Street, East Enders, Emerdale, Hollyoaks etc. So when they arrive at the supermarket and happen to spot " 'er from three doors down" they stopped two metres apart to have a natter. Now while that might be well outside the distance of being a pathogen threat it tends to block the whole aisle up so all the people trying to move around the shopping labyrinth end up halted waiting for them to decide they'll "catch up later".
I actually preferred how one of the other stores had started operating where they would cause a huge queue outside, and only let a person in once another had left thus keeping the number of people in the building to a finite volume.
In any event, the main problem with queues is the way the virus transfers is based upon a person being subjected to the pathogen for a duration of time. In small doses it's possible that the body could defend against it but the longer your in vicinity of someone flooding the air with viral spore the higher the chance that you'd succumb.
Ideally the supermarket should be your chance to do a "Trolly Dash"... "in and out in five"
Speaking of soaps, I don't know why more retro-networks in North America don't resurrect old ones to fill in the gap (or maybe some do, should that be one of my naïve blind spots). In the UK, I presume the TV soap episodes made before the 1970s had their tapes erased and reused.
Some years back RTN was replaying something called "The Doctors" in the evening, but starting with the color episodes that began in 1966 instead of back to 1963. I was slightly amazed at how such was the only thing around back then that resembled the prime time programming of today, in terms of character development and topical material. (American television, of course, was prudish and squeamish for a longer time than elsewhere -- but apparently not on daytime serials.)
I’ve started to grow my own vegetable garden and also a sunflower plant. Not much rain lately so I’m spraying them with a water mist twice per day, but they’re getting lots of sun.
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Edit Reason: Added titmice -- can't believe I forgot those Paridae.
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(May 4, 2020 05:13 PM)Leigha Wrote: I’ve started to grow my own vegetable garden and also a sunflower plant. Not much rain lately so I’m spraying them with a water mist twice per day, but they’re getting lots of sun.
I remember the pesky chickadees, titmice. nuthatches, cardinals and other finches grabbing the seeds well in advance. "Oh look: The humans have put up bird feeders in late summer, too!"
confused2May 5, 2020 01:26 PM (This post was last modified: May 5, 2020 01:30 PM by confused2.)
Everything likes sunflowers. Sunflowers are for sharing.
Lots of running going on over here. Can't say I've experienced a runners high yet - near death experience on a few occasions.
From what I understand about bird feeding etiquette there are a couple of varieties of sunflowers. One is Black-oil and the other Striped. I use the Black-oil in my bird feeders because when compared to the Striped, their shells are much easier for all seed eating birds to crack and the kernel contains more fat. The Black-oil shells actually feel soft. Not sure what variety is used more for human consumption, and I'll wager it's the Striped variety in a bag of unshelled sunflower seeds....they feel harder to me. So if you don't want the little songbirds around your feeders then present the birds with the Stripe.
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