"CB" (jrcb)
10/04/2020 at 01:57 • Filed to: Working the night shift
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"CB" (jrcb)
10/04/2020 at 01:57 • Filed to: Working the night shift | 2
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Okay this photo is from Ottawa but still
With the fact that Toronto is now a hotspot, odds are good it may be another year before I see anyone again. Kind of a bummer, but I knew it was likely given my career and moving away.
How’s everyone else doing?
pip bip - choose Corrour
> CB
10/04/2020 at 02:08 |
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i had dinner with my mum last night.
:/
otherwise, haven’t seen one brother since his birthday as where he lives is in Metro Melbourne which is under lockdown.
one lives on the otherside of the country (rarely see him) and my other one lives locally but i haven’t seen him for a bit.
ttyymmnn
> CB
10/04/2020 at 02:34 |
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We live in TX, and all of my family is spread around in VA, NH, OH, and CA. I think last family we saw was in CA last summer. My mom, who is 80 years old and immuno-compromised, was supposed to come for a visit at Christmas, but will likely wait til spring. Even without a global pandemic, we only see family about once a year. Otherwise, we’re fine, but bored.
Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com
> CB
10/04/2020 at 02:50 |
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Sorry to read that.
I’ve basically come to terms that Covid has halted my career progression by at least year from what I’d had planned. I’m having issues finding solid work contracts at the moment and the last course I need to take (which I have more than enough time to do now) is still cancelled. I t can’t be remote learned and the test I need to do it in an actual physical simulator at the school.
I dunno, since the start of the year, every time I think I’m on to a win it turns up snake eyes
.
But despite the d
oomscroll,
myself,
family and friends
have been well in health
and really it’s the only
thing I seriously
care about.
DipodomysDeserti
> CB
10/04/2020 at 03:02 |
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Damn. I’ve had family members fight wars that I saw more frequently than that. And they say America is a shitty place to be a cop.
That’s rough, hang in there.
flatisflat
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10/04/2020 at 03:12 |
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Last December I bought my first house. At the end of January, my primary work contract was suddenly nixed by the client reducing my weekly hours from 40 to about 10 max. Then pandemic and quarantine in March. Then Texas got all thick and decided to try and get out and about a lot sooner than they should’ve after only a couple months and the quarantine continued. And a couple weeks ago, I got to see my cousin’s 7-month old baby for the first time -- at its funeral. I’ve seen my parents mostly to help take my Dad to the hospital on multiple occasions because one of his heart valves was starting to fail. He’s since been operated on and is recovering pretty well.
I had spent most of 2018 and 2019 travelling the U.S. and Canada while working full-time, then headed back to Houston with plans to start a coworking space of sorts. And then...(gestures wildly at everything)...all of that.
Not.the.best.year.
promoted by the color red
> CB
10/04/2020 at 03:18 |
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It’s been strange , to say the least. I live in a geographically isolated part of the States that’s been mostly spared from COVID . That hasn’t stopped the locals from clamoring for daddy Trump to tell them everything’s ok .
Geographical restrictions at my job means I’ve been seeing a girlfriend within the radius more than my family who lives outside. It’s added a strange dynamic to my love life, since we’ve had to skip casual restaurant dates and jump straight to me making dinner at her place and talking about our day.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> CB
10/04/2020 at 03:20 |
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We’ve just got back from a week on the road with my mother, visiting three National Parks that we’ve never been to and seeing parts of our State we have never seen. It was awesome.
But also tainted by self entitled bogan knuckle fuckers who thought they didn’t have to share the rest of a campsite and kept all and sundry awake till 1 am with their shitty music and spectacular use of profanity. Oh and seeing a dead guy being worked on at the roadside after he’d (apparently) fallen from his motorbike on a curve and gone under a caravan being towed in the other direction...
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CB
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
10/04/2020 at 03:44 |
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Sounds solid minus the dead guy and shitty campers.
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> flatisflat
10/04/2020 at 03:45 |
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Holy shit dude, that sounds like an awful year.
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CB
> Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com
10/04/2020 at 03:46 |
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It’s weird how it feels like we’re all in a holding pattern right now.
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> promoted by the color red
10/04/2020 at 03:49 |
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But the comfortable stage is one of the best parts*!
*not too comfortable though
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> DipodomysDeserti
10/04/2020 at 03:50 |
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Eh, I moved 3000 kilometres first for love (rookie mistake!) and agreed to a posting out here. Some rough days, but on the plus side, I get along with my family better than I ever have!
Thanks!
gettingoldercarguy
> CB
10/04/2020 at 04:53 |
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When my wife and I moved out to the pnw, somebody asked me if we had any family out here. I replied “No, quite the opposite.” He chuckled as did the others at the table. He’s the CEO of the hospital group. We have gotten along fantastically.
Taylor Martin
> CB
10/04/2020 at 07:45 |
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Oh yikes man, I hope it doesn’t get out of control (though according to Google, cases there are certainly on the rise). It’s tough to not be able to see people... which is why I booked a plane ticket home for the first week of November, because being cooped up in a Florida apartment is... uneventful to say the least.
Still, I sincerely hope your estimate of not seeing your family is an overstatement, and that you get to go home and be with them soon. It’s good to talk to them and be connected via the interweb, but it’s better to be there, even if it is 6 feet apart.
At least that’s how I feel about it.
BJ
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10/04/2020 at 08:43 |
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Same - almost a year to the day, but that’ s normal when you live 4000+ km away. I usually see my mom once or twice a year, and the rest of the family every 3 years or so.
September was a bit tough , though - my grandfather passed away and I couldn’t join my family.
Such is the cost of moving away... I’ve gotten used to it, I guess. I have remind myself that I’m lucky, though. I’ve worked with people who have immigrated from all over the world, and some of them have never been able to go back to see their families . Imagine 5, 10, or more years .
Cash Rewards
> CB
10/04/2020 at 09:25 |
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I look at the life you live with fascination sometimes. Seeing the pics you take while living in crowded washington dc suburbs is surreal. But I guess this is the downside of that. Sorry to hear this.
I saw my parents for an hour last week, wearing masks and socially distant in the backyard. They had to come up to dc from NC for some reason, and drove past to see the grandkids. We saw them last for Christmas, we'll see them next for Christmas, maybe, if we can figure it out somehow. My sister and our nieces and nephew? No idea.
shop-teacher
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10/04/2020 at 09:31 |
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Fortunately all the family I care about is within 20 miles, so I still get to see them.
Work sucks right now. I'm just trying to survive. I was up until 11 last night grading.
subexpression
> CB
10/04/2020 at 09:59 |
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I haven’t seen family in over 2 years, this year has offered me a glorious excuse to continue avoiding it . My situation is mostly the opposite of yours. They’re in a relatively low-risk area without many people and my mother’s husband has health problems. I’m in a city that isn’t too awful but that is , like most cities, full of idiots who are hopelessly incapable of seeing past the ends of their own noses .
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> BJ
10/04/2020 at 14:41 |
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I’m sorry for your loss.
I can’t imagine not seeing family for five years.
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> shop-teacher
10/04/2020 at 14:42 |
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Godspeed. My mother and sister are teachers, I don’t know how you guys do it.
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shop-teacher
> CB
10/04/2020 at 15:39 |
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Usually I like my job, but the way things are now ... it totally blows. I’ve never worked harder in my life.
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promoted by the color red
> CB
10/04/2020 at 15:46 |
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It definitely is , but as someone accustomed to taking it slow, it’s required me to get up to speed fast.