Lockdown/Covid Check In
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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.
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@mariner4life The wife is a CA, so she is taking care of some of it. I am more just planning for post lock down.
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@Hooroo said in Lockdown Check In:
@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?
Nah just a log fire for heating. Could probably get some marshmallows in there I guess!
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So, in the old world, (remember that? 3 weeks ago!) tomorrow I fly to Bangkok to meet up with the wife who's taken a 8 week sabbatical from work in oz, check on our house, family and dogs, spend a week playing cricket with Gordon Greenidge, have a great Thai holiday and return with the wife on April 17 ready for work again in May. Great times!!!
But not now, no friggin way.
So, the bit that grinds my gears is that me and the wife are in different countries. Mid Feb and our plan was sound, now this.
I know many have far bigger issues, ( we've got an income and wife is doing lots of good with her family) but Jesus Christ ferners, this is one calamity that you want to share/experience with your most loved one. Even if it's all shit, the experience of traipsing through this bog without her is well and truly hurty!
And then the "when?" for international flights to resume is demoralizing. Thank God I wasn't in the room when @mariner4life was listening to that twat talking about 12 more months of this!!
So folks, do me a favour and give your loved one across the room from you a kiss or a dead leg, or whatever and pause for a minute while appreciating their presence 🙂.
Life apart in this time is a fluffybunny.
Otherwise I'm pretty well off, but what an uncomfortable itch it is to be separated in such uncertain times.
Bless you all 😘
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@mariner4life yeah, but not the shittest 😉
Take turns with you at watching for the Asian planes to come back?😃 -
Day 7 nearly done, or is it day 2868??... I have the ability to do work from home but hasn’t been a lot to do. Strangely I’m disappointed with that, on the bright side I have some sweet cars parked in my GTA V garage, enjoying the friendships forged through this great little community too..
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@Siam nice one mate. Must be weird to be apart. We have our little network of 5 together, and have decided we will keep it they way unless NZ and Australia come a travel agreement that works. If that happens , I can see a split happening, with me being here in NZ and the wife being in Aus. Kids to be split in some way. Will be weird!
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@Siam said in Lockdown Check In:
So, in the old world, (remember that? 3 weeks ago!) tomorrow I fly to Bangkok to meet up with the wife who's taken a 8 week sabbatical from work in oz, check on our house, family and dogs, spend a week playing cricket with Gordon Greenidge, have a great Thai holiday and return with the wife on April 17 ready for work again in May. Great times!!!
But not now, no friggin way.
So, the bit that grinds my gears is that me and the wife are in different countries. Mid Feb and our plan was sound, now this.
Say what? Think you need to elaborate on this ...
I've always wondered, and feel free to answer ignore ... how did somebody who spent years living in Thailand, then make the decision to live in Mt Gambier? Not the most routine of life paths!
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@MajorRage Greenidge is my jegga breakfast story and he likes a wee cricket comp we run in Thailand.
And the Gambier is a change of pace for nice family reasons. It's all been a surprising cleansing of the soul being in the Aussie countryside for a bit. -
@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?
Some good thought provoking posts on this thread over night, and I think most of them stem from this and Baron's.
I came up with the same question about 5 years ago. We came very close to chucking it all in in HK and moving to rural Devon to live near the coast. However, the place we were looking at came with a whole bunch of issues (legal, council etc - not just home repairs), and then the project just lost momentum after that fell through.
Anyway, we made a half way move in the end, and the UK political situation aside, its been a good one. I see the family for minimum 2-3 hours on weekdays and pretty much so all weekend. I work 4 days a week so don't need to break into kids time to play golf / take the car out / enjoy my hobbies. I've just changed my work situation to add more stability for less cash, although I think it's probably now about as unstable as it could be. No more evening conference calls, no more checking mails all holiday/weekends, no more market watching til midnight.
A lot less spare cash floating around obviously, but still enough to put food on the table and give the kids what they need and mostly what they want. I sometimes look at the life I used to have with a few regrets, but that then passes. I know my kids so well now - their pluses, minuses, insecurities and that is just so rewarding. I know that if I was living the old life, I'd be so envious of those living the life I have now. Grass is always greener.
So if the job goes (and who know, it could) then what to do. 42 year old guys don't get employed much in financial services now unless they are senior MD level who love the 80 hours a week. I'm not that bloke, so I guess I'll have to do something different. Either way, I try not to be fearful about it, what will be will be.
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@Godder 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?
Some will. It's an important decision for people, but one is rarely consciously thought through.
Mr Money Mustache is a lifestyle blog on high savings and low consumption to fund very early retirement. Not my cup of tea, and a lot of it is not really applicable to NZ, but it's another way of life worth considering.
Yeah Bonesetta has gone all "join the cult" on this FIRE movement, wants to retire in ten years and reckons she'll get there and drag me along with her. Sounds pretty far-fetched but hey, I'm not about to doubt the MFE.