Essential Quarantine Exemption™, Day Whatever.

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck) 03/24/2020 at 22:41 • Filed to: None

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Work: my employer is dyshemising concerns over safe working practices as “fears.” And that if anyone is worried about safely working on jobsites, to “t alk to your [supervisor] about your fears.” I think the memo also mentioned that “fears can be scary.” We are all expected to keep working but I suspect more people will start calling out soon...

Outside of work:

My wife and I have been cooking together every night since her work shut down, and she’s been “killing it,” as the youths once said. Tonight we made burgers on the barbeque, with bacon, carmelized onions, and cheddar. S ome JoJos on the side, too.

Lots of beers and food. It’s kind of been like camping, but with plumbing. Haven’t seen any friends in 10 days, haven’t hugged my mom in over three weeks. Trying not to read the news, and failing miserably.

Soooooo how goes it for the rest of you?

CB > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 22:44

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Keep up the good fight, Dr. Zoidberg.

I’m headed back into work tomorrow, people I deal with have no respect for quarantine measures, I might be buying a new car, the dog is a jerk, but all things considered, things are pretty good personally.

I too should read the news less, but I feel like I have to at this point to keep up to date with laws and measures in place.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 22:46

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Awesome. It’s raining so the water tanks are being filled, there’s fruit bread in the oven, my post lunch a pple is very tasty, the Lad is enjoying Studyladder (a home tutoring program) and I have a long list of things to do despite a world of perceived complaints...

As long as I don't watch our Prime Ministers press conferences...I'm all good. 

lone_liberal > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 22:55

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That looks all kinds of delicious! I found out today that everyone is taking a 10% salary hit to try to prevent layoffs. Our retail clients have naturally disappeared which is a pretty big hit. Luckily our mobile games clients are still solid. So no new welder with any stimulus checks, but we’re both still working so we have it pretty damn good.

Neither of us are able to visit our parents which is weird since they live so close. I haven’t talked to my parents on the phone so much in years.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 22:55

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Life’s good. Hopefully starting a new job Monday! Lots of beer, wine and time with my wife. We’ve been making every meal together.

Targa's going a bit stir crazy though.

Nom De Plume > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 22:57

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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 22:58

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2 &1/2 hour conf call. Annoyed at boss making promises that in no way can be met. Then a bunch trying to get files off the server.

Worried as family has to fly tomorrow. hoping they have empty covid free flight (s)/bus ride.

On a lighter note: I made que sadillas with chicken camelized onions, and spinich with basil olive oil, and a dash of taco seasoning .

wafflesnfalafel > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 23:16

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right - honestly, kind ran out of coping ability for bit this afternoon, then listened to my wife on the phone skillfully navigate her employer through a sh!t ton of newly mandated employment law and benefits changes so I figured I’d better suck it up. My normal clients and many of my team members I think are finally realizing this is going to be a cluster for a long time and have started to be irrational @-holes.

Those patty melts look damn good.  And did you know “jo-jos” apparently are only a PNW thing?  (Who doesn’t have jo-jos?)

glemon > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 23:26

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Looks tasty!

We made homemade chicken nachos, I have a very small repertoire of cooking skills, and all are things I make are bad for you but taste  so good.

My first day working from home, 7.75 hours spent with my laptop and our overstressed IT department setting up a virtual desktop so I can truly work from home. My idyllic ideal of getting up, not driving to work and sitting at home in my PJs did not live up to expectations.

A picture of my mom waving to the world from her front door has gone local viral.

Work is nuts, whether from home or in office, but I have to say I am kind of enjoying the slower pace of home life, less traffic and social distancing.

MrDakka > wafflesnfalafel 03/24/2020 at 23:31

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What are jo-jos?

Svend > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 23:32

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A BBQ sounds good right now.

There was a young lad on TV, his mum said about going camping and he said no, ‘we lived in tents before we made it to the U.K. and got a house, why would I want to go back to living in a tent when we have got a house with plumbing’.

I'm so sick of seeing and hearing about COVID 19, I'm missing hearing about Brexit, that's how bad it's got. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 23:34

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And for desert, Netflix and Chill. I approve of this program.

I’m getting web based lessons together for the kiddos. I use all my own gear, so have document camera, et cetera, at home, so might get good at it. The teachers who have district-issued laptops have nothing but a webcam and no admin password, so nothing but frustration. Believe it or not, I’m actually getting to know some of the students better this way than I did when we were all together. Also, I have a key to the church, so I go up to the gym in the church building in the mornings to exercise, which is better than the gym.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 03/24/2020 at 23:37

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Missus Vandura made chicken tikka masala. Outstanding.

RPM esq. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/24/2020 at 23:55

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Trying to (1) work from home effectively   and (2) avoid slowly drinking myself to death and only mostly succeeding at the first half. Cooking a lot of tasty things, though! Tonight: grilled black cod.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > RPM esq. 03/25/2020 at 00:06

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Wow that looks fantastic. And broccoli to boot!

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/25/2020 at 00:14

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Sounds good. I should do I ndian sometime, as I only have myself to offend.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > wafflesnfalafel 03/25/2020 at 00:29

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My boss keeps talking like this is going to be over in t wo weeks. are you de lusional?

RPM esq. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/25/2020 at 00:31

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Healthy!

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/25/2020 at 00:31

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I truly can’t complain. I’m not being forced to work in unsafe conditions, and I still have my full income . That said, I’m feeling anxious and restless. I’m worried about the rest of the school year, and about some of my students. I’m having a hard time shutting my brain off when it’s time to go to sleep. As I type this, my wife is in bed next to me snoring away. No t so loud that it would keep me up, if my brain would shut it down already.

I’m trying to balance working on my house with the supplies I have on hand, paying attention to my children, preparing for E-learning next week, and when I truly need to blank my mind, building some Lego. I’ve built more Lego in the last two weeks, than the previous two years.

I honestly get all of my news  from Oppo. That’s enough to spin me out, if I’d let it. I’m not much for doom and glom, but there is so much unknown right now.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/25/2020 at 00:32

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I’m doing good and still working, although I have an entire building to myself and can practice pro-level social distancing when I want to. Today I did so by doing some maintenance and grounding upgrades to remote site many miles from the nearest person. The nearest paved road was probably 20 miles away*.

I’ve also got the option of “working” from home if it came to it, as I can run the software side of the flood warning system from anywhere with an internet connection.

* except for this uncanny stretch of formerly paved road out in the middle of nowhere many miles from any other pavement. Out of curiosity, I had to know where it goes. It turns out it leads to the abandoned site of a mine that dug out about half of a basalt plug.

Bryan doesn't drive a 1M > wafflesnfalafel 03/25/2020 at 04:31

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My in-laws were shocked that I didn't know what they were talking about when they kept mentioning jo-jos.

JeffCronin > MrDakka 03/25/2020 at 09:53

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Baked potato wedges, I think it is an upper midwest thing as I never heard this either until I moved to Minnesota.

Spaceball-Two > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/25/2020 at 10:27

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Working from home now. It’s challenging with a spouse who also works and two extremely bored children

Stef Schrader > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/26/2020 at 09:14

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Ooh, what’s the pinkish sauce? Some kind of spicy mayo?

Stef Schrader > RPM esq. 03/26/2020 at 09:14

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that cod looks amazing

Stef Schrader > CB 03/26/2020 at 09:15

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Ugh, seriously about the news.