Lockdown/Covid Check In
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The wife ended mandatory self-isolation so is back to work. Work is in a state of paralysis for a reason unrelated to the virus, so working through that. Have been asked to take a week off but that would interfere with my plans in a few months.
Nice day outside. Would rather be by the pool.
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Today's fitness time, walking to the cow shed to play with the newborn calves. Pretty hot today, and of course my nephew and youngest niece required piggybacking so weight training also. Very disappointed no one offered to piggyback me. On a side note, am very grateful for online communities right now. Solo isolating sucks.
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I am one of the lucky ones. Mrs Crazy and I do the same job so we have not been affected income wise. I am very introverted. Outside of work (and sometimes when I am working) I actively avoid contact with people so isolation is the norm for me.
Apart from no travel, no sport, more people on my favourite running tracks and the dentist not being able to fix my sore tooth, I have not been all that inconvenienced.
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@Mokey said in Lockdown Check In:
Today's fitness time, walking to the cow shed to play with the newborn calves. Pretty hot today, and of course my nephew and youngest niece required piggybacking so weight training also. Very disappointed no one offered to piggyback me. On a side note, am very grateful for online communities right now. Solo isolating sucks.
Always go first when piggy backing....
Sounds like the community has stood up very well, maybe a little bit on the intrusive annoying side but probably mean well...
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@Virgil said in Lockdown Check In:
@Mokey said in Lockdown Check In:
Today's fitness time, walking to the cow shed to play with the newborn calves. Pretty hot today, and of course my nephew and youngest niece required piggybacking so weight training also. Very disappointed no one offered to piggyback me. On a side note, am very grateful for online communities right now. Solo isolating sucks.
Sounds like the community has stood up very well, maybe a little bit on the intrusive annoying side but probably mean well...
Anyway, enough about you, Virgil...
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Things are improving at first few days were a fucking shambles. Ms 3 has no f's for covid while mr 10 weeks is in a similar boat.
I work for a not for profit educational research organisation. Heaps of work with govt about contracts + everything is mental with prepping stuff for when schools go online.
I'm meant to be on parental leave and working part time but online life means you get hit up heaps more. So that sucks. I'm busy trying to find work for people in various headspace, and I'm actually worried about one team member in particular. All the while trying to make hay on an IT project where I have 3 devs ready to roll with zero distractions (def a silver lining!).But overall? Kinda meh and wondering how things are going to escalate as we get deeper into lockdown 😳 I'm thinking I'll take a week of leave in week 3, just to really take a break and hang with family.
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@Smudge said in Lockdown Check In:
@Virgil said in Lockdown Check In:
@Mokey said in Lockdown Check In:
Today's fitness time, walking to the cow shed to play with the newborn calves. Pretty hot today, and of course my nephew and youngest niece required piggybacking so weight training also. Very disappointed no one offered to piggyback me. On a side note, am very grateful for online communities right now. Solo isolating sucks.
Sounds like the community has stood up very well, maybe a little bit on the intrusive annoying side but probably mean well...
Anyway, enough about you, Virgil...
I’m not bad, thanks for asking...
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Life got more difficult last week thanks to someone who lists admission to the Golden Key International Honour Society as an achievement. FML
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@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
Life got more difficult last week thanks to someone who lists admission to the Golden Key International Honour Society as an achievement. FML
Elaborate?
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@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
Life got more difficult last week thanks to someone who lists admission to the Golden Key International Honour Society as an achievement. FML
Elaborate?
Massive over reaction to a completely unrelated issue making my job more difficult, resulting in the cats wandering off and have to be herded again. Now everyone's running around like blue arsed flies needlessly doing extra administration.
The reference to Golden Key gives an indication as to this person's self perception.
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@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
Life got more difficult last week thanks to someone who lists admission to the Golden Key International Honour Society as an achievement. FML
Elaborate?
Massive over reaction to a completely unrelated issue making my job more difficult, resulting in the cats wandering off and have to be herded again. Now everyone's running around like blue arsed flies needlessly doing extra administration.
The reference to Golden Key gives an indication as to this person's self perception.
I'm just not following.
As you were.
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@Mokey said in Lockdown Check In:
Solo isolating sucks.
Yeah, I have a good friend in Auckland who just moved up there in February. She doesn’t know anybody really and to make its worse her place doesn’t have any immediate neighbours. She’s on her own with just her dog and TBA I’m a bit worried about her mental health. If we’d had more warning we’d have got her to stay with us down here for the duration but we couldn’t organise it in time.
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@JC said in Lockdown Check In:
@Mokey said in Lockdown Check In:
Solo isolating sucks.
Yeah, I have a good friend in Auckland who just moved up there in February. She doesn’t know anybody really and to make its worse her place doesn’t have any immediate neighbours. She’s on her own with just her dog and TBA I’m a bit worried about her mental health. If we’d had more warning we’d have got her to stay with us down here for the duration but we couldn’t organise it in time.
Stink story! Feeling gutted for her. In saying that, I am stoked she has a dog as that would definitely help.
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@JC our 79 yr old neighbour who we have a lot to do with (none of his family are that interested, wouldnt be surprised he he hasnt heard from any of then in the past month) who constantly amazes me with his life stories, knowledge, resilience and positivity given all life has thrown at him (healthwise} is really struggling with this.
Usually we go for 9 holes on a Saturday arvo, or he buggars off on his yacht for a couple of weeks, or just go up for a few beers and he brings out the whisky....not now, and I am a bit suprised at the turn around in his attitude, really negative and down on everything.
We have chatted over teh fence everyday since lockdown, had a beer over the fence with him and the other neighbour on the other side of his drive on Saturday too...which seemed ot perk him up for a couple of days.
He wants to do his own shopping, just to get out and about, although hasnt been in yet, we have offered pretty much every day...
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@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
@JC our 79 yr old neighbour who we have a lot to do with (none of his family are that interested, wouldnt be surprised he he hasnt heard from any of then in the past month) who constantly amazes me with his life stories, knowledge, resilience and positivity given all life has thrown at him (healthwise} is really struggling with this.
Usually we go for 9 holes on a Saturday arvo, or he buggars off on his yacht for a couple of weeks, or just go up for a few beers and he brings out the whisky....not now, and I am a bit suprised at the turn around in his attitude, really negative and down on everything.
We have chatted over teh fence everyday since lockdown, had a beer over the fence with him and the other neighbour on the other side of his drive on Saturday too...which seemed ot perk him up for a couple of days.
He wants to do his own shopping, just to get out and about, although hasnt been in yet, we have offered pretty much every day...
Sounds similar to how my parents are trying to cope. They are in their 80s but when I stopped to think about it, their whole purpose is based around being independent. They want to trot of to the gym, down to the shops, a drive up to the granddaughters etc.
Take away that ability to be independent and even though their day to day life hasn't changed too much, it has a big effect on how they think. They don't have work to fall back on and I can empathise as this is exactly how you start to feel when looking for work for longer than you wish.
All we can really do is try to keep social contact up. Luckily they do have good internet and dad is tech savvy so I might change up the phone calls to maybe a zoom doing the quiz or something. Maybe just sharing a drink via video.
If you r neighbour is used to upping off and going sailing that seems to be his way of proving to himself that he is still functional? -
@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
@Crucial yeah he is very much in the use it or lose type attitude.
As I'm 'must keep doing things cos if I stop I may as well give up'?
Had a mother in law like that. Chipping thistles up the top of the farm until she keeled over.
It's a tough one. Any jobs around the place you could ask him to do because he knows how (you can pretend that you don't)
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Well after getting married on Saturday my new wife and I are spending the first 2-3 weeks of our married life... at her parents place. I actually get along well with her folks so it's OK for now and the south coast town they live in is pretty lovely. Ask me in three weeks though and I may have a different answer.
Missing the social contact with our friends, so we are doing a HouseParty trivia night tonight. Getting it started up as a standing Tuesday night thing. We're writing the questions and the winner will host next week (Eurovision style). Just one way we are trying to keep our sanity.
But everything is pretty good considering how tough others are doing it. We both still have our jobs and can work from home OK. And being out of Sydney is a godsend.