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Huckleberried

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Lazy Sunday here, so far. I don't get those but once a month, so I'm a happy camper. Little things to do today, here and there, but I don't have to leave the house to do them :)

Critters are napping, he's playing a game and I'm hanging out with you guys. Bacon cheeseburgers for dinner later on.
 

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That's just plain idiotic.
I figure more than that will not wear masks when they should.
But yep just plain stupit.

With that said I would not be the first in line for an express developed and rapid tested vaccine. But would take it after not seeing people die and such from it.

In any case they are only going to work for 3-6 months it seems... Will be similar to taking seasonal flu shots, except that corona does not seem to have a particular season...
And they do tend to cause some corona symptoms, in order to cause your body to develop antibodies.
At least the 2 main contenders in the US does.
 

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All good here. But had a crazy, crazy conversation with our real estate agent.
If you rent like we do the regs are your house has to have smoke alarms fitted and serviced by a licenced regulated company. Ok, thats good. But we got a letter from Smoke Alarms Australia saying they wanted access to them on a certain date. But, they are from Melbourne! Melbourne is in "Stage 4 State of Disaster" Lock down. We are in Stage 3. Stage 4 requires an isolation if leaving and travelling elsewhere of 14 days. But we were told a person from there was coming tommorow into our house and if we were not home they would be given our keys from the real estate and enter our home.
? Seriously!? In stage 4!? A stranger from the Covid hotspot of the entire southern hemisphere entering my home! Regardless of if we were there or liked it or not.
The real estate agent was an utter pig reading the riot act to me and even when I stated I am an asthmatic and have suffered pneumonia in the past and was a covid high risk said "Im not commenting on that, thats not my problem, they will enter!" I said " but they are from Melbourne, what about quarantine, they will be putting my life at risk!" Answer "Im not commenting on that, that is not my problem they can enter!"
So I rang the actual landlord who was horrified at what I told her I was told.
An hour later a phone call from the real estate that the Smoke Alarm entry was cancelled.
How on earth can anyone act like that has me dumbfounded.
Stay safe people.
 

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Morning!

We're doing fine here. About to close the doors, it's warming up. Too bad as I love the fresh air. Hubby is fitting the screen doors on the deck, then I guess it's time to paint. Jessie is guarding the house from bugs. I'm trying to talk myself out of taking the scissors to my hair.

stay safe and healthy :hug:
 

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I'm trying to talk myself out of taking the scissors to my hair.
I have been. Kinda don't care about it anymore. All I do is go to work, the grocery and home. The VID has us kind of house bound, mostly. Some places are open, but I'm still not all comfy with that. I figure the dog doesn't care, the cats really don't care and boyfriend has even assisted with the back of my hair, since I can't reach it ?
 

The Cromwell

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Still doing fine from covid.
Next to youngest sister's inlaw's all came down with covid from their church. Sister has not been around them and does not go to church.
And they live in a low risk area. apparently unless you go to church. A mostly rural eastern KY county. Where Loretta Lynn came from is their claim to fame :)
Just checked 49 cases in her county apparently mostly all church types.

churches and schools have always been big disease spreading points in the US.
 
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~Don~

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Great and glorious Monday VU!


I survived the weekend with the In Laws, WOOT!

Not that hard to do when I only saw them for 5 minutes, but still... they were in San Diego.


Just got home from the ENT doc... cleaned out the left ear that bothered me weeks ago. Said ear looked good, although there was some blockage and he took care of it.

Set up an audiology appointment... he asked if I had hearing issues and I responded, "What?" LOL... I am sure he has heard that a few times... I do that to the wife when I hear her ask me to do something I don't want to...

Wife: "Honey, can you reach up there for...?"

ME: Huh?

Wife: Reach for that thing right there...

ME: WHAT!?

Wife: Oh never mind...

Me: Laughing inside

I do have hearing loss, years and years of not wearing ear protection when I first started in HVAC... but its nice when to use it against the wife sometimes ;)


Family is good! I am good, weather is AWESOME today... warm up later this week, might turn the AC on


Be rad, be safe
 

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Holding here. Oddly, what a lot of you feel as "prison" from Covid is simply daily routine for me. I sit with nothing to really do except look at television. Not much of anything on to desire looking at. So, I pass out. Then, don't sleep well of a night.

I could possibly write a little. That doesn't go well though as I keep dead ending myself. What I mean is I lose interest in a store. I face the question of "so what?" Then, I realize lack of emotional investment in the story. Once that happens for me there's no point. No one wants to read a "so what" story.

Yeah, holding, another day in Limbo.
 

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Not much to report here, but today I got in that black chrome Feedlink from Eciggity.
Love it... Thx to @nadalama !!

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Made a big pot of mac & cheese with three cheeses, summer sausage, Anaheim chile, and misc. stuff last night since it's cooler now. Super creamy and cheesy so can even eat it cold when there are hotter days. Yummy.

(pic is it right from the fridge, so probably not as appetizing-looking)
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Milly is fine, being an adorable weirdo as usual.

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Yeah, now she sleeps ON the big box she likes, not just in it. ??
 

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No one wants to read a "so what" story.
I would.
"So What" by Magic Mist.
The pondering of lifes big questions!
Like ..... Do ants really wear pants? And if they do where do they buy them?
Has anybody ever really found a hens tooth and if not and they dont exist then why are they even classified as rare?
Has anybody ever really recieved a birthday present from a horse and then looked inside its mouth? And if they did then what happened?
Has anybody seen anyone actually cry when they spilt some milk? And if they did, did the person recover from the ordeal?
Has anyone really ever talked the head off of a donkey? If they did were they charged with animal cruelty, did anyone try to reattach it?
:)


Speaking of So What, so what have we come to when this is a news story. A woman cracks two eggs into a frypan to cook together and dishing them up breaks a bit of the white and freaks out that it looks like an "eerie creature". This was reported on Chanel 7 news one of our supposed top comercial stations. Really, a story on two fried eggs.
Headline was "Aldi shoppers eerie find in a carton of Aldi eggs".
What next, a breaking news headline on a thinner than average toothpick?
Oh, yeah, here's the shocking find. :facepalm:
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Im doing pretty well otherwise though :wave:
 

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MyMagicMist

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I would.
"So What" by Magic Mist.
The pondering of lifes big questions!
Like ..... Do ants really wear pants? And if they do where do they buy them?
Has anybody ever really found a hens tooth and if not and they dont exist then why are they even classified as rare?
Has anybody ever really recieved a birthday present from a horse and then looked inside its mouth? And if they did then what happened?
Has anybody seen anyone actually cry when they spilt some milk? And if they did, did the person recover from the ordeal?
Has anyone really ever talked the head off of a donkey? If they did were they charged with animal cruelty, did anyone try to reattach it?
:)


Speaking of So What, so what have we come to when this is a news story. A woman cracks two eggs into a frypan to cook together and dishing them up breaks a bit of the white and freaks out that it looks like an "eerie creature". This was reported on Chanel 7 news one of our supposed top comercial stations. Really, a story on two fried eggs.
Headline was "Aldi shoppers eerie find in a carton of Aldi eggs".
What next, a breaking news headline on a thinner than average toothpick?
Oh, yeah, here's the shocking find. :facepalm:
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Im doing pretty well otherwise though :wave:

Appreciate the clever re-framing of meaning. Can see how that may work. Not sure I can make it work though. For me a lot of the so whats you pose seem to lack depth. I'd lose interest because of that.

Sorry I feel this way. Wish I could feel differently. My medication is but isn't helping I guess. I'm still not acting like a Stepford. Which is to say I'm not all bright smiles and bubbly over the tiniest positive thing, Granted I don't get all maudlin over stuff beyond mu control now, well didn't until now. *sighs*

I'm really starting to hate myself it seems. Such the rut of living I'm in. Wish I could change it, know there's nothing I can do to change it. No matter if get work away from home or not I'll still feel this crap. No matter I write prize winning stories, still will feel this.

As my wife says jokingly but may as well be true, I'm beyond being helped. What is wrong in my case is it's all in my head physically which makes it worse psychologically. You don't change the cards you get dealt and sometimes you cannot change how you play them either.

I'm still holding though. No one would clean up behind me.
 

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I'm really starting to hate myself it seems. Such the rut of living I'm in. Wish I could change it, know there's nothing I can do to change it. No matter if get work away from home or not I'll still feel this crap. No matter I write prize winning stories, still will feel this.
Sorry to hear you feel that way mate. Wish I could say or do something to make you not feel like that.
:(
 

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Sorry to hear you feel that way mate. Wish I could say or do something to make you not feel like that.
:(
I wish you could as well. unfortunately, I know it needs come from within me. Nobody else can feel enthused for me, or the pleasure of smelling a rose. No, it needs to be me doing it. Guess I was created wrong.
 

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Appreciate the clever re-framing of meaning. Can see how that may work. Not sure I can make it work though. For me a lot of the so whats you pose seem to lack depth. I'd lose interest because of that.

Sorry I feel this way. Wish I could feel differently. My medication is but isn't helping I guess. I'm still not acting like a Stepford. Which is to say I'm not all bright smiles and bubbly over the tiniest positive thing, Granted I don't get all maudlin over stuff beyond mu control now, well didn't until now. *sighs*

I'm really starting to hate myself it seems. Such the rut of living I'm in. Wish I could change it, know there's nothing I can do to change it. No matter if get work away from home or not I'll still feel this crap. No matter I write prize winning stories, still will feel this.

As my wife says jokingly but may as well be true, I'm beyond being helped. What is wrong in my case is it's all in my head physically which makes it worse psychologically. You don't change the cards you get dealt and sometimes you cannot change how you play them either.

I'm still holding though. No one would clean up behind me.
O sweety am so sorry your so flustrated..
here you play with your hammer for a while.
an see if that can't help release some of that pent up flustration

well i would have suggested the gloves and Bag
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but the gyms are closed.
 

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O sweety am so sorry your so flustrated..
here you play with your hammer for a while.
an see if that can't help release some of that pent up flustration

well i would have suggested the gloves and Bag
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but the gyms are closed.

Bout, half could make a bag for myself here. Reckon I could hang an old crack corn bag up from barn rafters.Gloves? Nah, just bare knucks and bare feet.

100 lb of crack corn is about $12. Some old rope we got around, nuthin.

If it was just being frustrated I'd be all right. It's also feeling stick by stuff out of my hands to control. I can try choosing to look at the brighter side. Fine, I see the brighter side. I don't feel it though and won't. Not for not trying, it's just all the "normal" brain chemicals aren't there for me, never were.

Excuse my blunt example but you being normal if you orgasm likely have a very euphoric day, night. It lasts a while for you. I orgasm it's done in less than twenty seconds. I feel just "okay" for that wee bit, then it's back to somewhat not feeling. I don't get the joy of an "afterglow". Don't get me wrong, I like sex, it's just that for me it doesn't have the same omf it does for everyone else.

And then relate that to pretty much everything else in life. I don't get enthralled by much. I've lost a sense of wonder, a sense of desire really. Though I'm not sure I even had it being honest. I have to literally fake a lot. Tired of faking too because I know it's a lie to myself, a lie to others.
 
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MyMagicMist

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Not sure if it's good or bad news. Got a call from the county school board to take a multiple choice test for temp custodian work, on Thursday. Good maybe because it would be work. Bad maybe given the timing. Gee, someone has to clean up after high school kids. Will see how it goes.
 

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Well, it's fire season...we've been fairly lucky not to have a Big One just yet.

The humidity is super-low, it's windy, extremely dry, and temps that have been nice are going back up soon. So, we have a red flag warning for a huge are of this and other areas of the state.

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We're talking like 10% humidity in some areas, winds up to 20mph+, and temps in the upper 90s. Add stoopid people and well, there's gonna be lots of fires. :mad: ?
 
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The Cromwell

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This school reopened and one child infected 25 teachers

children may fare pretty well with the virus, but without teachers there is NO school.
 

Smigo

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Well, it's fire season...we've been fairly lucky not to have a Big One just yet.

The humidity is super-low, it's windy, extremely dry, and temps that have been nice are going back up soon. So, we have a red flag warning for a huge are of this and other areas of the state.

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We're talking like 10% humidity in some areas, winds up to 20mph+, and temps in the upper 90s. Add stoopid people and well, there's gonna be lots of fires. :mad: ?
Here's hoping nothing ignites there. We live in a bad fire prone area but thankfully have some of the best bushfire fighters in the country to look after us too.
Those dry windy days are a worry though aren't they.
Stay safe n well there.
 

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Bout, half could make a bag for myself here. Reckon I could hang an old crack corn bag up from barn rafters.Gloves? Nah, just bare knucks and bare feet.
I once turned up at the gym I went ready to fight that way and everyone stood there laughing at me.
Im like "What? Jack said we're fighting bear........oh...he meant.......bare knuckles!"
I still thought they pretty rude laughing at me though, I went to a lot of trouble hiring that suit!
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I once turned up at the gym I went ready to fight that way and everyone stood there laughing at me.
Im like "What? Jack said we're fighting bear........oh...he meant.......bare knuckles!"
I still thought they pretty rude laughing at me though, I went to a lot of trouble hiring that suit!
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:) Thanks for that. :) *hug*
 

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This school reopened and one child infected 25 teachers

children may fare pretty well with the virus, but without teachers there is NO school.
Yep, keep hearing that kids are ultra low risk of complications so open the schools its making them sad! Errr, yeah, but what a about the teachers and the families they go home to? Unless they are all Doogie Howser teachers then, um, derr, what do you think will be the outcome!?
Im sure that if that question was actually posed to them they would be scratching their heads and replying "err, we'll end up with child geniuses and future Einstein's!?" :huh:
 

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Yep, keep hearing that kids are ultra low risk of complications so open the schools its making them sad! Errr, yeah, but what a about the teachers and the families they go home to? Unless they are all Doogie Howser teachers then, um, derr, what do you think will be the outcome!?
Im sure that if that question was actually posed to them they would be scratching their heads and replying "err, we'll end up with child geniuses and future Einstein's!?" :huh:

Public schools here though do not generally teach children to think. The courses are rather geared to create cookie cutter obedient little "unskilled" labor people. In fact I might go so far to say public education here makes dumb, dull people.

This has been known for at least the last twenty to thirty years too. Not much has been done to attempt correcting it. The government gets what it pays for with public education. Why create people who can think for themselves and question authority? Nobody wants that, no, not at all.

Educated voters wind up voters like me. We're voters that do not vote because they see the "system" is flawed, corrupted and can not be fixed. It can be tried to fix it, sure enough though unless you wipe out some of the root causes you'll wind up back here again. And those root causes either grease enough palms, or hold no compunction against killing to protect themselves.

Everyone speaks to taking money from politics. Why not remove greed instead? Oh that's right "because you can never remove greed, it has always and will always exist". Horse shit I say, go back in time and kill the first mofo that dares b build a fence and yell "mine!" Then use a resource based economy, no one owns anything, everyone owns it all.

Eliminate dependence on oil. That would also make a lot of improvements. Ah but we cannot do that either. Bullocks I say, yet none the pity to bother hearing. it's all been "decided", all been put in place for the "greater good". How is it any good when it kills a planet we need to live on? And don't tell it wasn't known it would do that. Sorry, someone, someone in power knew.

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Excuse me, realize this might be construed as political. I see it as a bit of commentary on the human condition, intended it as that as well. Being fair I am a peaceful anarchist. Someone that sees no governing works, figures we may as well have the chaos we create trying to make order. I see no serfs and masters, only people. Beyond that I'm not posting this as political talk. Again, just seeing our shared human condition.

These are things which lie beyond my scope of control. I'm sure they're beyond the scope of many here. Simply because we can not control them does not mean we can not discuss them or lay them on the table, spades as spades. There is a lot of evil shit in the world needing brought to light. And the light only needs to shine on it to end it. Once ended stop discussing it, stop feeding it power. If it has no power then it cannot go back to being evil.

Know that seems a simple way to look at things. It works though. But again no one listens, I know.
 
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Smigo

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Public schools here though do not generally teach children to think. The courses are rather geared to create cookie cutter obedient little "unskilled" labor people. In fact I might go so far to say public education here makes dumb, dull people.

This has been known for at least the last twenty to thirty years too. Not much has been done to attempt correcting it. The government gets what it pays for with public education. Why create people who can think for themselves and question authority? Nobody wants that, no, not at all.

Educated voters wind up voters like me. We're voters that do not vote because they see the "system" is flawed, corrupted and can not be fixed. It can be tried to fix it, sure enough though unless you wipe out some of the root causes you'll wind up back here again. And those root causes either grease enough palms, or hold no compunction against killing to protect themselves.

Everyone speaks to taking money from politics. Why not remove greed instead? Oh that's right "because you can never remove greed, it has always and will always exist". Horse shit I say, go back in time and kill the first mofo that dares b build a fence and yell "mine!" Then use a resource based economy, no one owns anything, everyone owns it all.

Eliminate dependence on oil. That would also make a lot of improvements. Ah but we cannot do that either. Bullocks I say, yet none the pity to bother hearing. it's all been "decided", all been put in place for the "greater good". How is it any good when it kills a planet we need to live on? And don't tell it wasn't known it would do that. Sorry, someone, someone in power knew.

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Excuse me, realize this might be construed as political. I see it as a bit of commentary on the human condition, intended it as that as well. Being fair I am a peaceful anarchist. Someone that sees no governing works, figures we may as well have the chaos we create trying to make order. I see no serfs and masters, only people. Beyond that I'm not posting this as political talk. Again, just seeing our shared human condition.

These are things which lie beyond my scope of control. I'm sure they're beyond the scope of many here. Simply because we can not control them does not mean we can not discuss them or lay them on the table, spades as spades. There is a lot of evil shit in the world needing brought to light. And the light only needs to shine on it to end it. Once ended stop discussing it, stop feeding it power. If it has no power then it cannot go back to being evil.

Know that seems a simple way to look at things. It works though. But again no one listens, I know.
I left my school midway through my second last year. I saw teachers that were, from primary school to high school, having criminal relationships with fellow and younger year students, teachers that physically abused students, one I stood up to and I was dragged before the entire school general assembly, in front of every teacher and student by the physical scruff of my neck, and in front of them all laughed at him and said my mind at what I thought of them all in front of the entire school and staff and left and never went back. When I told my mother about it all, she knew I was no saint as a kid as in lots of ways I was a Huck Finn tear away, but also knew (and I never lied to my mum ever) that I was telling her the 100% truth, she said "I believe you, you do what you believe is right". Within 2 weeks I had a job as a laborour for a landscape garden crew and that was it. My school taught me nothing other than to hate pedos and child abusers.
Not saying that is the norm, no way, I have zero doubt there are awesome schools and teachers in more places than there are bad. But man, was mine bad, bad, bad. Some seriously sick things went down there in the 70's I can tell you.
And it was a general public school, nothing to do with religion.
 
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Out today.
I know I've been or tried to be light hearted in the last couple of days about things. And just previously dropped a bit of a heavy past bombshell post.
Today though had to go out and get some things so we dont need to for a couple of weeks as just heard, confirmed, in our small town that after weeks and weeks, covid19 is now confirmed here in our community.
At the shops was confronted by non maskers and whilst in line at a check out an older guy who kept coming within inches of me and at one stage pushing into me.
One part of me thought "why are you not wearing one you mongrel" again "why are you pushing into me and continually as I move away getting so close I can feel you breathing?"
I felt serious anger! But in my mind I stepped back and tbought. Maybe the non mask wearer had a legit reason like suffered anxiety or breathing issues, maybe the older guy who's misses told him "keep the distance" but ge kept getting closer and closer had Alzheimer's or the early stages of it and didn't raelise what he was doing. Another who as I was in the aisle walked right between me as I went to get something and looked like they didnt know I even existed, did they have eyesight problems? What if with each I told off and got on my high horse did have those problems?
I felt like saying things 100%. But thought, what if?
I felt better saying nothing. .
 

misswish

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Morning!

Doing well here. Up to 105* again. Usually I just stay in but I have an in office doctor appointment this morning. At least it's early. Hubby is busy painting, Jessie is busy dreaming of chasing bugs. She did get in trouble for clearing off the bathroom counter yesterday, glad nothing got broken!

Stay safe and healthy :hug::hug:
 

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84 F with 73% humidity here already. Went down to feed our feral cats. Didn't see them but it may be too hot for them to move.

The air conditioner here is out. Seems the outlet under it that it uses got water in it. *chuckles* Not really surprising the way things got done, and no that's not on me. I've forbidden my wife from buying another. Those who live here need to get their shit right. I don't want money we're scrimping to buy our place going into this one, as we're only temporarily here.

If that seems cruel, well, you'd need to understand how they are to know why I don't feel bad being cruel.
 

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Good evening VU!


All is well, as can be. Wife will be off the next two days and weekend... she has continuing education requirements she needs to fulfill to stay employed... she gets paid to watch a tele-conference about diabetes and takes a test upon finishing the video...

Waiting the numbers to come in for California Covid update... not your normal daily update, but corrected data update from the beginning... including said backlog.

California I think will then make Florida look good. I was always suspect of the numbers... We have just to many people for it to not of spread like wildfire, and to many fucking idiots. 40 million people at a supposed 4-8% infection rate... I'm not a mathematician... but lets call it 6% to average our low rate before reopening and supposed high rate... is 2.4 million... with only 600,000 reported... there isn't a 1.8 Million back log lol

Yeah scary shit

Hell 2.4m possible infected and or asymptomatic is greater than 14 other individual states total population.

Hell San Diego county has a population greater than 13 individual states

Mother fuk fuk...lol
 

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Happy geek moment here. ?

I just decreased my disk swapping in Linux Mint to near zero since I have 32GB of OC'd RAM and I run the entire OS off of a SSD. Really don't need the extra writes on the 'lil bugga, now do I?

Now it's using RAM for almost everything, which as fast as an SSD is, RAM is farrrr faster. And cheaper to replace. I left a small swap, just for safety, but I doub't it'll be needed.

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Fucker is flying now. :devil:
 
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misswish

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Morning!

Still doing well here. Doctor visit went ok, about what I thought it would be. Now have to wait for months to get in to see a specialist. Hubby is out on the deck, painting his little heart out. Jessie is in a catnip coma. She did help me fill a few tanks earlier.

Stay safe and healthy :hug:
 

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