Lockdown/Covid Check In
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@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
As I sit at home isolating it has me reflecting on my family, work and our relationship with debt and money.
Those who are working from home seem to be spending far more time with their kids, exercising together and many other productive things.
It makes me question if working 40 hours a week from 18 to 67 so you can “provide” for your family and buy the latest things is the best exchange of your finite time on this planet.
Will this crisis make some people re-evaluate how they spend their time and maybe alter some of their life choices?
Briefly. Some might trigger a reassessment about what is important in life and how best to get it. I'm sure the majority of people will forget within 12 months and be firmly on the hamster wheel again
I will reassess how much beer I need to get through a four week binge! Ran out today. I only buy cans as we can burn them on the farm and I don't drink craft beer much so I had to resort to Double Brown.
Tough damn times! Like the blimmen Eastern Bloc!
Double Brown! Not since poor uni days
Yet I would still drink that over Tui! Anyway, thoughts and prayers my way lads, as I try and get them ice cold
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I dont drink during the week...but today is Sunday, so yesterday and today are fine!
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not drinking every night is becoming a challenge i have so far failed. it's not a lot, but it's more than i used to.
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@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
As I sit at home isolating it has me reflecting on my family, work and our relationship with debt and money.
Those who are working from home seem to be spending far more time with their kids, exercising together and many other productive things.
It makes me question if working 40 hours a week from 18 to 67 so you can “provide” for your family and buy the latest things is the best exchange of your finite time on this planet.
Will this crisis make some people re-evaluate how they spend their time and maybe alter some of their life choices?
Briefly. Some might trigger a reassessment about what is important in life and how best to get it. I'm sure the majority of people will forget within 12 months and be firmly on the hamster wheel again
I will reassess how much beer I need to get through a four week binge! Ran out today. I only buy cans as we can burn them on the farm and I don't drink craft beer much so I had to resort to Double Brown.
Tough damn times! Like the blimmen Eastern Bloc!
Double Brown! Not since poor uni days
Yet I would still drink that over Tui! Anyway, thoughts and prayers my way lads, as I try and get them ice cold
Absolutely nothing wrong with a cold can of Double Brown! Beer snobs be damned
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
not drinking every night is becoming a challenge i have so far failed. it's not a lot, but it's more than i used to.
So long as I avoid the Lunch time wines, I do OK.
Pretty big job working at a desk with beer fridge within 2 metres and not going for a beer.
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@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
not drinking every night is becoming a challenge i have so far failed. it's not a lot, but it's more than i used to.
So long as I avoid the Lunch time wines, I do OK.
Pretty big job working at a desk with beer fridge within 2 metres and not going for a beer.
I'm failing miserably. Being unemployed doesn't help. You can only hike/run for so many hours of the day, and then it's into lighting the fire, cooking, sitting on the deck, none of which can be done without a beer or wine in hand.
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I'm not dealing today, which is making my interpersonal interractions far more strained. This would be easier if i wasn't actually working.
Don't get me wrong, i am glad i am, but having two parents trying to work, and occupy the kids, and try and get them used to some form of home routine, is a fucking killer.
That's before you add in the mental burden of everything being stress and worry, and no form of release to be found.
This is going to be fucking tough to get through
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That’s why we are here mate, to keep the contact going to help with our sanity. There’s members here who are in families struggling to keep the peace and keep kids from killing each other. Also members here who are on their own, let’s keep looking out for each other, keep the memes and jokes rolling in.
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@Virgil said in Lockdown Check In:
That’s why we are here mate, to keep the contact going to help with our sanity. There’s members here who are in families struggling to keep the peace and keep kids from killing each other. Also members here who are on their own, let’s keep looking out for each other, keep the memes and jokes rolling in.
Well said mate!
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@voodoo said in Lockdown Check In:
@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
not drinking every night is becoming a challenge i have so far failed. it's not a lot, but it's more than i used to.
So long as I avoid the Lunch time wines, I do OK.
Pretty big job working at a desk with beer fridge within 2 metres and not going for a beer.
I'm failing miserably. Being unemployed doesn't help. You can only hike/run for so many hours of the day, and then it's into lighting the fire, cooking, sitting on the deck, none of which can be done without a beer or wine in hand.
I immediately felt a pang of jealousy at the thought of a fire and being in Queenstown. Is it an open fire? Are you mucking around trying to cook in it?
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@Machpants they part of the tweak to the rules to allow shops to sell online?
BUtchers up here have increased t/o ten fold since Aussie Butcher and Mad Butcher closed.
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@taniwharugby Their shop isn't open, but they are commercial suppliers, so are still running. Well I hope they are I just did an online order!
EDIT Nope they are open, obvisoulsy applied to MBIE and supplied their processes and got signed up
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Dear Valued CustomersOur preference is for people to shop on-line, however, we realise that this is not an option that suits everyone. As from Wednesday 1st April, our store in Kamo is open from 7:30am Monday to Friday and will close no later than 4pm on these days. Should it be quiet or we run out of meat, we will close earlier.
If coming to shop at our retail store, we will be allowing one only customer into the store at any given time. Please wait until you are advised that you can enter the shop, as we have to sanitize after each customer leaves, before the next customer can enter the store."
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I'm not in Lockdown yet as we're still in the inbetween in Sydney, but FFS I wish I was today as my co-workers were doing my head in.
We're testing the online learning set-up at the moment and they just ignored my instructions and went about it in the least systemic way, now I have to run the tests again tomorrow myself.
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Apart from some concersn about the business. Which I dont worry about much as I cant do anythhing about it presently.
I am REALLY enjoying myself, I like my wife, kids, dog and cat so hanging out with them 24/7 is no great chore, kids are at a good age, 11 and 9 so entertain themselves. I am gong on a family bike ride every day, writing up a business plan for post lockdown, watching movies and playing xbox, plus eating like a freaking king. I think I am addicted to that Pineapple lump chocolate bars.I sometimes think I should be struggling, but honestly if I put aside the things I cannot control, I am having one of the best times of my life.
My business could easily go under. Time will tell, but no great shame in that if you do what you can and get wiped put by a pandemic recession! All you can do is make as many efficiency and sales process changes as you can in preparation for post lockdown.
I think I am aided by being naturally able to not get bored by doing nothing. I have had optional breaks in my career that have gone for months at a time, and loved all of them, plus I am kinda of an anti social extrovert anyway so a lock down is kinda bliss.
I think my happiness has rubbed off on the rest of the family as my wife who would likely get stressed is pretty relaxed as well.
But it is day 6, and none of us have Covid 19 and my business hasnt gone under, so early days. -
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Lockdown Check In:
Pineapple lump
the snifter lumps are the business!!
Your post reminded me we have some in the cupboard, so had to have a few!!
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Lockdown Check In:
Apart from some concersn about the business. Which I dont worry about much as I cant do anythhing about it presently.
I am REALLY enjoying myself, I like my wife, kids, dog and cat so hanging out with them 24/7 is no great chore, kids are at a good age, 11 and 9 so entertain themselves. I am gong on a family bike ride every day, writing up a business plan for post lockdown, watching movies and playing xbox, plus eating like a freaking king. I think I am addicted to that Pineapple lump chocolate bars.I sometimes think I should be struggling, but honestly if I put aside the things I cannot control, I am having one of the best times of my life.
My business could easily go under. Time will tell, but no great shame in that if you do what you can and get wiped put by a pandemic recession! All you can do is make as many efficiency and sales process changes as you can in preparation for post lockdown.
I think I am aided by being naturally able to not get bored by doing nothing. I have had optional breaks in my career that have gone for months at a time, and loved all of them, plus I am kinda of an anti social extrovert anyway so a lock down is kinda bliss.
I think my happiness has rubbed off on the rest of the family as my wife who would likely get stressed is pretty relaxed as well.
But it is day 6, and none of us have Covid 19 and my business hasnt gone under, so early days.how are you doing nothing? I feel like i am busier than ever? It's an endless list of prepping applications for government assistance, organising GMs to get their heads around this new JobKeeper thing, and what it means. Ensuring everything is squared away from the bank, chasing debtors (most of which are in the same boat as us), organising timelines for creditors, and just trying to plan cashflow for 6 months.
If i was doing nothing of this, and the missus wasn't working 14 hours a day, this would be way better.
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I'm not sure exactly what's happening with my work life. I'm still going to work, actual work. I'm still driving down the M1 and seeing other cars I recognise going to the same industrial area I work in. So one would assume those people are also business as usual. Yet according to the QLD city council website, level 3 conditions have now been superseded by level 4 conditions. But we are not actually in 4 four. If we were in level 4 I would be restricted to working from home. Traveling to a job I'm from restricted from attending would attract fines to both myself and my employer.
Yet I have been assured by multiple sources that we are still in level 3.
SO WHY THE FUCK ARE THE CURRENT WORKING RESTRICTIONS BEING SUPERSEDED AND UPPED TO LEVEL 4????
The miscommunication between local government and central government is making life a lot harder than it needs to be,
Edit: Mods this is in the wrong forum sorry.