Thanks! I've been saving for about 18 months, expecting to buy new furniture (my old dresser was from 1975), so I do have money available.
I'm all up in the law now, but damn it feels good to get my violence on.
Gunn ,'Unleashed'
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.
Toddson - Jul 15, 2020 12:29:45 pm PDT #23625 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Laura - Jul 15, 2020 5:11:48 pm PDT #23626 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Ugh. You may recall my aunt the RN had been furloughed because of her age (late 70s), then after she was home for a couple weeks they called her back to work because they were short of nurses at her hospital. Today, she is positive. Light symptoms, fevers, but her husband is even older than her with significant health issues.
She has been super careful, stripping outside and going immediately to the shower every work day. Still. Of course all the family are being tested now and she is isolating at home. Several of her kids and grandkids have had plenty of contact with her too.
DH is very upset. Mostly at her hospital for asking her to come back to work, knowing she wouldn't say no.
DavidS - Jul 15, 2020 5:27:55 pm PDT #23627 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mostly at her hospital for asking her to come back to work, knowing she wouldn't say no.
Rightly so considering her age and her husband's issues.
-t - Jul 15, 2020 5:35:45 pm PDT #23628 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, Laura. Hoping hard she is not hit too badly and doesn't spread it to anyone.
Y'all convinced me to make an appointment to give blood - there are not many open slots which is nice to see! I forgot my password to the system (I stopped donating after a series of attempts where either my iron was too low or just getting the needle in my vein was so difficult the nurse told me maybe I should find a different way to contribute) and the "reset your password" link never would send me an email with a link like it claimed it would so I eventually made a new account with my work email.
msbelle - Jul 15, 2020 5:38:38 pm PDT #23629 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Friend in TX who teenage son tested positive weeks ago after joining in some team sport practice just posted pictures of her youngest daughter at Volleyball practice. not coach or players in masks. Indoors. ?!?!?!?!
Gudanov - Jul 15, 2020 5:42:34 pm PDT #23630 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
In my right-wing twitter feed (totally passive, I never tweet) there are only anti-mask tweets and articles, not any pro-mask. Even if Trump and Fox News went full-in on masks now I don't think it would convince people. Once people have decided on something it's so hard to change minds.
Laura - Jul 16, 2020 3:41:34 am PDT #23631 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Hoping hard she is not hit too badly and doesn't spread it to anyone.
This is the mostly super right-wing branch of the family. I know that my aunt was serious with her precautions as a nurse for 50 years. I am not as confident about her children and grandchildren. I have to wonder if one of them brought it to her. They are all being tested now.
Her grandson, who lives across the street, is a boat captain who is out and about every day with many people on charter fishing trips and such.
Toddson - Jul 16, 2020 3:42:32 am PDT #23632 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I saw a comment in which someone was saying it's like a zombie movie where people are running towards the zombies. sigh ....
Laura - Jul 16, 2020 4:14:17 am PDT #23633 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
People on my Nextdoor page are arguing that the officials are lying and hospitals aren't full. Labs are lying about cases to get more money, and so forth. This one was at the hospital to have a procedure and saw lots of empty beds. Others arguing back that he wasn't in the damn ICU and yes, people are not going for elective procedures.
I actually understand the 'eyewitness' reports part. When I went to the Boca Raton hospital to have some tests done it looked like a ghost town. The lab and scan areas were empty. Yet I know from my doctors who work at that hospital that they are 100% full for critical care and can't take any more patients. They have a whole floor that is for Covid only and it is full. Nextdoor dude of course would not have been allowed on that floor.
No, I don't waste my breath arguing with these people. The most I do is click thanks to the people that post links to legitimate sources. One guy linked Breitbart as his proof! Then was all offended that others refused to listen to anything but the corrupt mainstream media.
It is a warzone out there. 99% of the time I just come here, or watch fictional television, or read.
Laura - Jul 16, 2020 4:45:18 am PDT #23634 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Black coffee:
Random work stuff. I exported my email contacts to clean it up before importing them to new mail client. How do I have 3 completely different contacts named Daniel Cohen. Also, good grief. What a chore.
Also, how bad a person am I that I wish a hurricane to hit Jacksonville during the GOP convention? Not a bad one, just a good downpour to prevent the new hairbrained scheme of having thousands of people gather outdoors in August in Florida. Enough to force them to cancel this madness.