How has the virus affected your day to day life?

[Garandman]

Took my wife to the airport this morning. Her mom is quite elderly and alone in FL and the people who usually take care of her can’t. So minimum two week trip right off the bat. Lots to fix. Wife was scared to go and scared not to go.

There are normally two and sometimes three nonstops a day BOS to JAX. Now it’s one flight, with a connection, every three or four days. There’s still a daily nonstop to Orlando. Noticed that the airline (JetBlue) seems to have blocked out the center seat in most rows: only window or aisle.

Drove to the airport. Two MSP, one cab, and us. Six people in the terminal.

P.S.

[Stoneman]

Another thing I noticed now that daughter #2 is home from college for at least the rest of the year: what's ours is hers, what hers is hers. LOL! HER ice cream, HER tortilla chips, HER fruit, etc. It's pretty fuckin' comical.

[Garandman]

Another thing I noticed now that daughter #2 is home from college for at least the rest of the year: what's ours is hers, what hers is hers. LOL! HER ice cream, HER tortilla chips, HER fruit, etc. It's pretty fuckin' comical.

We’ve run into that, times three!

So now if it’s something bought specifically for them, they have to put their name on it. “No name, fair game.”

And if they want to “reserve” a type of cookie, they have to take them out of the box and put them in a ziplock bag with their name on it.

[Stoneman]

We’ve run into that, times three!

So now if it’s something bought specifically for them, they have to put their name on it. “No name, fair game.”

And if they want to “reserve” a type of cookie, they have to take them out of the box and put them in a ziplock bag with their name on it.

Good ideas!

I now remind her every time I serve her lunch or dinner (or whenever she grabs a snack), that she's welcome to OUR food. Yeah, that goes over well and usually ends in a stare down. LOL!

[ZX-12R]

So I had an interesting run in with a SJW the other day. I have a few P100 masks left over from some renovation work I did a few years ago prior to buying a better fitting respirator with replaceable cartridges. I did a grocery run while wearing one and was berated by a woman who was yelling at me for stealing vital resources from medical personnel. It was all I could do to not escalate the situation and she eventually gave up.

[Stoneman]

So I had an interesting run in with a SJW the other day. I have a few P100 masks left over from some renovation work I did a few years ago prior to buying a better fitting respirator with replaceable cartridges. I did a grocery run while wearing one and was berated by a woman who was yelling at me for stealing vital resources from medical personnel. It was all I could do to not escalate the situation and she eventually gave up.

You're a better person than I...

[Falko]

Another thing I noticed now that daughter #2 is home from college for at least the rest of the year: what's ours is hers, what hers is hers. LOL! HER ice cream, HER tortilla chips, HER fruit, etc. It's pretty fuckin' comical.

I'm used to my son eating at school during the day. I can't keep enough food in the house, it's like having a Sasquatch-billygoat running around. I swear the dog hides while I'm at work. Everyone said a teenage boy will eat a ton, I don't remember eating that much. I cook extra food on Sunday afternoon for lunch through the week, at least 'til Wednesday. It's now all gone, in one day. The food bill alone for this shit is killing me.

[Sheppo]

How has it changed? drastically!
I work in healthcare as the director of maintenance at an assisted living facility. So get to work and get screened, Temp taken, a few rotating daily questions and a once over by a nurse. ( and not the fun kind you pervs ). Come in and start the daily disinfection of the building. Electrostatic applying a disinfectant and the going back to clean it after it sits for the appropriate time. Our residents are not confined to their rooms as we don't have any cases of COVID-19, but no communal dining so breakfast , lunch and dinner are brought to their rooms, this has basically tripled the amount of trash we need to collect and bring out. I've had to add 2 extra dumpster pickups. Every letter, package, etc has to be brought in, wiped down and set aside for 24 hours. Masks are worn 100% of the time if you are in the building. This is to protect the residents. I had to create a quarantine room, should we ever get an active case. Ordering supplies is a hassle. TP, disinfecting cleaners, wipes, gloves, PPE most of which is very hard to come by. 105 apartments is a lot of TP a week. Helping residents with window visits, facetime, skype, zoom. Leading walks of no more than 3, social distancing around the parking lot. Don't forget the daily conference calls with the state. Then going home, getting out of daily clothes in the garage, putting them in the wash, showering and putting on clean clothes, watch TV, play online, go to bed and do it all over again. I haven't seen my parents in over a month, Dad's 87 Moms 83 and they don't understand completely, I haven't seen my 15 month old grandson in the same amount of time. Facetime and Zoom arent the same, especially when he is growing so fast and my parents are declining at almost the same speed. No driveway parties, no gatherings around the firepit. I would be devastated if I was to bring the virus into work and a resident caught it. As I am sure you have read or heard when COVID-19 hits a assisted living , skilled nursing or nursing home, it hits hard and deadly. So yup life has changed and i think going forward you'll see a lot of changes made or I hope so.
So have a great day and remember to be good to one another .

[Stoneman]

How has it changed? drastically!
I work in healthcare as the director of maintenance at an assisted living facility. So get to work and get screened, Temp taken, a few rotating daily questions and a once over by a nurse. ( and not the fun kind you pervs ). Come in and start the daily disinfection of the building. Electrostatic applying a disinfectant and the going back to clean it after it sits for the appropriate time. Our residents are not confined to their rooms as we don't have any cases of COVID-19, but no communal dining so breakfast , lunch and dinner are brought to their rooms, this has basically tripled the amount of trash we need to collect and bring out. I've had to add 2 extra dumpster pickups. Every letter, package, etc has to be brought in, wiped down and set aside for 24 hours. Masks are worn 100% of the time if you are in the building. This is to protect the residents. I had to create a quarantine room, should we ever get an active case. Ordering supplies is a hassle. TP, disinfecting cleaners, wipes, gloves, PPE most of which is very hard to come by. 105 apartments is a lot of TP a week. Helping residents with window visits, facetime, skype, zoom. Leading walks of no more than 3, social distancing around the parking lot. Don't forget the daily conference calls with the state. Then going home, getting out of daily clothes in the garage, putting them in the wash, showering and putting on clean clothes, watch TV, play online, go to bed and do it all over again. I haven't seen my parents in over a month, Dad's 87 Moms 83 and they don't understand completely, I haven't seen my 15 month old grandson in the same amount of time. Facetime and Zoom arent the same, especially when he is growing so fast and my parents are declining at almost the same speed. No driveway parties, no gatherings around the firepit. I would be devastated if I was to bring the virus into work and a resident caught it. As I am sure you have read or heard when COVID-19 hits a assisted living , skilled nursing or nursing home, it hits hard and deadly. So yup life has changed and i think going forward you'll see a lot of changes made or I hope so.
So have a great day and remember to be good to one another .

Keep doing you, Shepp. You rock! Keep up the good work and keep yourself healthy.

[Stoneman]

I'm used to my son eating at school during the day. I can't keep enough food in the house, it's like having a Sasquatch-billygoat running around. I swear the dog hides while I'm at work. Everyone said a teenage boy will eat a ton, I don't remember eating that much. I cook extra food on Sunday afternoon for lunch through the week, at least 'til Wednesday. It's now all gone, in one day. The food bill alone for this shit is killing me.

My 13-year old won't stop! Which is odd because he's usually not a big eater. I usually make sure he has a decent breffis, but he refuses to take a lunch and the only day he eats school grub is on pizza day. Then we make sure he has a decent meal at night. That kid is eating like I've never seen. And it's not out of boredom really. He spends very little time indoors anyway, he's usually out & about on his mountain bike or he's fishing or making trails around the neighborhood or riding his wheeler (when we're home). I just think he hit his stride just about the time the school shutdown.

During the fall, winter & early spring months I usually make a big batch of some kind of soup or stew on the weekends which will usually last me a week of lunches. Not now. Between him and our daughter now being home, I'm lucky if that big ol' pot last a few days. I've taken to actually hiding a few single-serve containers in the fridge once it's done now. LOL!

[Falko]

My 13-year old won't stop! Which is odd because he's usually not a big eater. I usually make sure he has a decent breffis, but he refuses to take a lunch and the only day he eats school grub is on pizza day. Then we make sure he has a decent meal at night. That kid is eating like I've never seen. And it's not out of boredom really. He spends very little time indoors anyway, he's usually out & about on his mountain bike or he's fishing or making trails around the neighborhood or riding his wheeler (when we're home). I just think he hit his stride just about the time the school shutdown.

During the fall, winter & early spring months I usually make a big batch of some kind of soup or stew on the weekends which will usually last me a week of lunches. Not now. Between him and our daughter now being home, I'm lucky if that big ol' pot last a few days. I've taken to actually hiding a few single-serve containers in the fridge once it's done now. LOL!

That's funny, I started doing the same thing. I usually put the leftovers away at night and I'll make myself a couple lunches and put them in the fridge at work.

My son has always been a big eater, but he has always been on a steady growth path upward, but not outward. Now that he's stopped growing up, he's filling out and the intake seems to have increased as well. He's fairly active, but not as much as I'd like. Virtual school 'til noon, then eats, comes to the office gym to work out and get his swings in. Then home and a little Xbox with friends, homework, dinner, gives me my nightly chastising, then face times his friends until bedtime.

I'm sure your son is burning through calories being that active. Food bill well spent.

[Stoneman]

That's funny, I started doing the same thing. I usually put the leftovers away at night and I'll make myself a couple lunches and put them in the fridge at work.

My son has always been a big eater, but he has always been on a steady growth path upward, but not outward. Now that he's stopped growing up, he's filling out and the intake seems to have increased as well. He's fairly active, but not as much as I'd like. Virtual school 'til noon, then eats, comes to the office gym to work out and get his swings in. Then home and a little Xbox with friends, homework, dinner, gives me my nightly chastising, then face times his friends until bedtime.

I'm sure your son is burning through calories being that active. Food bill well spent.

Yeah, he's always been on the go. He also hit a growth spurt a bit earlier than the girls did. They were both late 8th grade/freshman year and they shot up, but it was all in their legs. It was like overnight they were as tall as Big Shirl (again, she's not really big), but it was all legs.

But this kid just all of a sudden BAM! As parents you don't necessarily notice it right away because you see the gradual increase. The other day he was making fun of Big Shirl because he's now just about as tall as her. Again, she's not much of a gauge, but the kids always get a kick out of that.

And he's already made it clear that we will someday battle for supremacy. I shit you not! LMFBO!

[e30addict]

And he's already made it clear that we will someday battle for supremacy. I shit you not! LMFBO!

I'm guessing he doesn't know about the strange factoid thread...

[Falko]

And he's already made it clear that we will someday battle for supremacy. I shit you not! LMFBO!

Mine's there now. He has 3" and 25# on me. I'm getting pretty battle worn...

[Stoneman]

I'm guessing he doesn't know about the strange factoid thread...

He knows SOME of it. I think what he knows is only fueling it!

I have taught him when the shit goes down always go for the badass first. Take him down, his cronies will crumble.

Mine's there now. He has 3" and 25# on me. I'm getting pretty battle worn...

No worries here. I'm still about a good half foot taller than him and he's got at least 100lbs to go for me to start worrying.

[Paul_E_D]

No worries here. I'm still about a good half foot taller than him

Really??! I thought you called him your midget as an affectionate term. LOL

[loudbeard]

Not a huge change other than the wife is WFH and watching the kid all day. As a result the sex has gotten rougher.

[Stoneman]

Not a huge change other than the wife is WFH and watching the kid all day. As a result the sex has gotten rougher.

so win/win?

[OreoGaborio]

How has it changed? drastically!
I work in healthcare as the director of maintenance at an assisted living facility. So get to work and get screened, Temp taken, a few rotating daily questions and a once over by a nurse. ( and not the fun kind you pervs ). Come in and start the daily disinfection of the building. Electrostatic applying a disinfectant and the going back to clean it after it sits for the appropriate time. Our residents are not confined to their rooms as we don't have any cases of COVID-19, but no communal dining so breakfast , lunch and dinner are brought to their rooms, this has basically tripled the amount of trash we need to collect and bring out. I've had to add 2 extra dumpster pickups. Every letter, package, etc has to be brought in, wiped down and set aside for 24 hours. Masks are worn 100% of the time if you are in the building. This is to protect the residents. I had to create a quarantine room, should we ever get an active case. Ordering supplies is a hassle. TP, disinfecting cleaners, wipes, gloves, PPE most of which is very hard to come by. 105 apartments is a lot of TP a week. Helping residents with window visits, facetime, skype, zoom. Leading walks of no more than 3, social distancing around the parking lot. Don't forget the daily conference calls with the state. Then going home, getting out of daily clothes in the garage, putting them in the wash, showering and putting on clean clothes, watch TV, play online, go to bed and do it all over again. I haven't seen my parents in over a month, Dad's 87 Moms 83 and they don't understand completely, I haven't seen my 15 month old grandson in the same amount of time. Facetime and Zoom arent the same, especially when he is growing so fast and my parents are declining at almost the same speed. No driveway parties, no gatherings around the firepit. I would be devastated if I was to bring the virus into work and a resident caught it. As I am sure you have read or heard when COVID-19 hits a assisted living , skilled nursing or nursing home, it hits hard and deadly. So yup life has changed and i think going forward you'll see a lot of changes made or I hope so.
So have a great day and remember to be good to one another .

Heaven forbid Sheppo gets "the 'rona" but I can see it now....

Ole Shep is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. A young student nurse appears and gives him a partial sponge bath.

"Nurse,"' he mumbles from behind the mask, "are my testicles black?"

Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, "I don't know, Sir. I'm only here to wash your upper body and feet."

He struggles to ask again, "Nurse, please check for me. Are my testicles black?"

Concerned that he might elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from worrying about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls back the covers. She raises his gown, holds his manhood in one hand and his testicles gently in the other.

She looks very closely and says, "There's nothing wrong with them, Sir. They look fine."

Doug slowly pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her, and says very slowly, "Thank you very much. That was wonderful. Now listen very, very closely:

Are - my - test - results - back?"

[loudbeard]

so win/win?

Yeah mostly but she's not letting me wear my Crocs to bed anymore.

[burnham]

I guess the biggest change for me is my work. I work from home every other week now, and when I'm there we're only working in our shop or handling trouble calls. Beyond that I fuck around at home a lot more now, doing projects with Tito. I was supposed to be in St John for a week starting Sunday, which has gone out the window. It also looks like my yearly May trip to Hatfield McCoy isn't happening. Really small changes in the big picture, and I'm pretty thankful to still be healthy and collecting a pay check.

[obsolete]

Yeah mostly but she's not letting me wear my Crocs to bed anymore.

Just feel lucky you got to be that kinky for a time.

[Jim]

Yeah mostly but she's not letting me wear my Crocs to bed anymore.

[Stoneman]

Yeah mostly but she's not letting me wear my Crocs to bed anymore.

Just feel lucky you got to be that kinky for a time.

I say hop into bed with scuba mask on and see how she takes it.

[Falko]

I say hop into bed with scuba mask on and see how she takes it.

I find the snorkel freaks them right the fuck out...