Can't stop watching Schitt's Creek
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Mar 16, 2020 6:19:39 pm PDT #17952 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dana - Mar 16, 2020 7:00:29 pm PDT #17953 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Dallas has shut down restaurants, bars, movie theaters, etc., for a week starting tonight. Restaurants still open for drive-through, pickup, and delivery.
-t - Mar 16, 2020 8:03:40 pm PDT #17954 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Huh. City hall is closed. Didn't think about that.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 16, 2020 8:08:33 pm PDT #17955 of 30019
What is even happening?
Our town hall is closed, too.
Maria - Mar 16, 2020 8:32:56 pm PDT #17956 of 30019
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
If you can spare some ~ma, would you please send it my sister's way? We had to shut down the bar and dining room tonight, and we can only do take out. She's stressed beyond belief because we have to lay people off, and she's trying to do as much as she can to help them out, but it's never enough. I can't take any of this off of her and I can't help in any other way, so hopefully a bit of ~ma will give her some relief.
This all sucks. I hate it.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 16, 2020 9:22:39 pm PDT #17957 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I wish we could take these laid off workers and deploy them (paid) as needed and wanted by the people themselves, into the healthcare system. I bet people who work for a restaurant would be great at answering front line calls, Not so safe if they are worried, but we are prepping for disaster and I need to be doing my actual job to ensure the summer semester has students and not answering telemedicine calls and forwarding to providers. It has not come to that, but this is what we are hearing we may be doing.
Fred Pete - Mar 17, 2020 2:28:45 am PDT #17958 of 30019
Ann, that's a ferret.
Sophia, your idea makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, that kind of sense seems to be in short supply these days.
The office sent out a "clarification" of the telework policy. Half of us are required to telework at a time, rotating every 2 weeks as to who has to telework. The clarification is that managers are supposed to encourage everybody to telework that can, even if it means that 100% of a unit is teleworking.
For me, commuting with CIDP is a major undertaking that leaves me physically wiped out. So I call this a silver lining.
sarameg - Mar 17, 2020 2:53:16 am PDT #17959 of 30019
Confirmed COVID19 exposure at work, other building, couple dozen ID'd as exposed. Building closed. Good morning to you too, get used to it.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2020 4:19:43 am PDT #17960 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Our town and village municipal offices are all closed to the public, and the community center has been converted into a food distribution center (closed to the public except for drive-up food pickup).
NYU just announced the rest of the semester will be remote and all dorms and dining halls will close. What the hell are the international students supposed to do??
sj - Mar 17, 2020 4:22:54 am PDT #17961 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ugh, sarameg. I'm sorry.
We're up, we're dressed, and I'm reading emails while ltc works on the worksheets I printed up today (A St Patrick's Day color sheet), the letter 'B', and the number '1'). We have too many baked goods at the moment. So, I'm trying to decide what cooking project we can work on today.