Wow, I hope this works out, what a bunch of *********, yeah, I'm sure they had a "global pandemic" clause in place ...
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Wow, I hope this works out, what a bunch of *********, yeah, I'm sure they had a "global pandemic" clause in place ...
Good on you knowing that you're not going to get anywhere starting off by launching rockets...
Hope it all works out so you're not out the money -- and can enjoy your trip whenever you finally decide it's a good time to "give France another chance" 🇺🇲 🛫 🛬🇨🇵
I've been planning a post-graduation trip to Europe this summer for a while. This was always going to be a big year for me (graduating college, starting graduate school hopefully), and a lot is being upended by this.
Always talk about a "gap year" but never mention of coronavirus sinkhole years...
I hope whatever ends up as alternate arrangements can be joyful for you, despite this coronavirus and the response/reactions that are steamrolling your original plans.
So, if you know anything about videogames or movies, you know about the concept of pre ordering. Basically you agree ahead of receiving product to pay for it, and when it comes in you are supposed to get it. It's a regular ( but despised ) practice in videogames.
And now, thanks to current events...
And earlier...
And now, thanks to current events...
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Most airlines are crediting flights for another flight later on. I expect you’ll be fine.
COVID 19 is not a death sentence. If you’re over 65 and/or serious preexisting health issues then take extra precautions. Otherwise, we will be fine.
Because of the market tanking, I can’t afford to die yet. I will need to keep working past my planned retirement.
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Then we figured, Universal Studios is probably the worst part of the whole trip in terms of potential exposure, we go 3-4 times a year, so no biggie, cancelled that today, hahaha, platinum members, Hard Rock actually said when we rebook, a whole day would on them
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Well, that was a good decision!
Disney World, Universal Studios, Busch Gardens, SeaWorld and LEGOLAND closing over coronavirus
Shortly after Disney World in Orlando made the announcement it would be closing, Universal Studios joined suit, closing its theme parks at the end of Sunday, March 15.
www.mysuncoast.com
Wow, it's like I could see into the future ...
Because of the market tanking, I can’t afford to die yet. I will need to keep working past my planned retirement.
At this point, I'll be working till I'm 92
I hope you get that sorted Huntn. Going through Delta and hotels etc. seems like the way to go. My former supervisor has a London trip coming up in late April and she confirmed travel insurance does not cover the coronavirus. I told her to talk to the tour agency etc. about refunds or credits.
One step closer to my last day with the current job being pushed up: the early morning site has closed indefinitely. Meanwhile, site 2 is waiting on the results of a remote work from home poll to determine if they should close (Um, your main offices are in California and New York)...I expect I will hear later today that yesterday was my last day of employment.
Eagerly awaiting mom, she is due to be picked up at 11:00 a.m.
Guess I will be heading to the drive through pick up window at the drug store for mom’s meds today.
Happy Friday!
Cross posting from the C-19 thread, since it's a bit off topic there, but not here ...
I *love* working at home (note that's not from home). No morning or afternoon commute, I can start at 6a, or 9a, make a good pot of coffee and drink it as slowly as I'd like, run a TV, a podcast, at whatever volume, if the waves are hitting, call it a day at 1p, take a 2 hour lunch, go into a DND mode with no concern over interruptions. Wear whatever, take a yoga break, slip out to the gym (not have to worry about immediately showering up), all while being way more effective vs. most of the people I occasionally need to interface with a various client locations
I *love* working at home (note that's not from home). No morning or afternoon commute, I can start at 6a, or 9a, make a good pot of coffee and drink it as slowly as I'd like, run a TV, a podcast, at whatever volume, if the waves are hitting, call it a day at 1p, take a 2 hour lunch, go into a DND mode with no concern over interruptions. Wear whatever, take a yoga break, slip out to the gym (not have to worry about immediately showering up), all while being way more effective vs. most of the people I occasionally need to interface with a various client locations
Cross posting from the C-19 thread, since it's a bit off topic there, but not here ...
I *love* working at home (note that's not from home). No morning or afternoon commute, I can start at 6a, or 9a, make a good pot of coffee and drink it as slowly as I'd like, run a TV, a podcast, at whatever volume, if the waves are hitting, call it a day at 1p, take a 2 hour lunch, go into a DND mode with no concern over interruptions. Wear whatever, take a yoga break, slip out to the gym (not have to worry about immediately showering up), all while being way more effective vs. most of the people I occasionally need to interface with a various client locations
Some of the personal preferences re this matter may derive from whether or not one is introverted or extroverted by nature, or temperament.
Personally, as I am rather introverted, and need privacy, something akin to silence and space in which to work, the idea of working from home holds considerable appeal.
But, this is not the case for everyone.
Maybe turn off the television for openers. Once through a news cycle s/b enough, no?
Once I've had breakfast I don't eat breakfast again all morning, even if part of me thinks I'd like to. Same with consumption of the same news over and over again on this public health crisis. I read my local paper and had the regional public radio on for half an hour, and that's enough about both coronavirus and local agriculture / hydrology reports today for me. I already know what I'm supposed to do to help avoid being "part of the problem" and it's pretty clear from a glance outside that the semiannual mud season has launched. So, on with the day.
Main thing is this: I have no control over the rest of the planet, which when I think about it is pretty great. They're on their own. And lucky for them, they don't report to me or I'd make them turn off their TVs and listen to the "news" just once a day.
This morning I switched around the racks where I keep my clothing for the current and the upcoming season. Then I sorted out some old T shirts that are going to meet a pair of pinking shears and then "volunteer" to help me mop and dry the stairwell treads after this coffee break is over.
Here comes spring: each year brings a day when I sigh and say wow, you know, I'll never again run upstairs in my muddy boots to get a different jacket before heading out to the mailbox on an almost balmy morning. Yeah, here it is again. Liar liar pants on fire...
Exactly, I wish one good thing that would come out of this all is they would finally let us work from home.Cross posting from the C-19 thread, since it's a bit off topic there, but not here ...
I *love* working at home (note that's not from home). No morning or afternoon commute, I can start at 6a, or 9a, make a good pot of coffee and drink it as slowly as I'd like, run a TV, a podcast, at whatever volume, if the waves are hitting, call it a day at 1p, take a 2 hour lunch, go into a DND mode with no concern over interruptions. Wear whatever, take a yoga break, slip out to the gym (not have to worry about immediately showering up), all while being way more effective vs. most of the people I occasionally need to interface with a various client locations
Really I feel very lucky to have been in the workforce in infotech while the general corporate tendency was still in the upswing regarding telecommuting as a great idea, and companies had not yet particularly aligned in favor of open plan work spaces and 24/7 "collaboration" on projects.
I loved working in places that gave me a cube that was "all mine" and stayed mine whether I was in the city or upstate, and I loved being able to work from upstate during the gardening season more often as time went by... rather than figure out how to fit in one or two overnight trips up during the week to pick zucchini or take the chickenwire cages off the bush beans when the seedlings had got big enough so birds were no longer interested.
And as @Scepticalscribe noted, some of us are introverts, some extroverts and maybe some of us are in the middle there somewhere. I liked being in a group while we were brainstorming a project's scope or design, and later on finally winnowing ideas down for feasibility. When it came to details of the architecture or setting up code to make stuff happen, I was happiest either parked up here with a laptop or working a shift in my cube downstate when it was me and maybe an office cleaner or security guard making their appointed rounds. They provided a little company for a two-minute break now and then, but otherwise didn't offer distractions I might have found either annoying or a good excuse to procrastinate.
I tried to make each of the cats I had up here over the years adopt those ancillary roles as I began to work remotely more and finally most of the time. However one by one they proved to be uninterested in cleaning, extremely careless about security and rather distracting when our self-assigned tasks would intersect. Bringing a grass snake into the house at 3am through the cat door (and up to my bedroom, and onto my bed!, with pride!!) was definitely over the top. So was cutting loose a gently captured salamander to run about in my library one morning while I was teleconferencing with the boss. Sometimes a cubicle in an office space started looking good to me again, with or without other human company in the picture.
I wish my sick colleagues would work from home. Instead I’ve been sat next to someone who felt warm and was blowing her nose all morning.
It could be a cold. But it could also be something else I’d rather not have.
It could be a cold. But it could also be something else I’d rather not have.
I know what you mean. A confirmed case of covid-19 is in our county and being tracked now. Since it's a sparsely populated county, the public health authorities may be able to contain spread from certain particular areas around here via a few quarantines, rather than just keep relying on mitigation measures the state has put into place and recommended.
But in the meantime, people hereabouts do begin to think twice for now about even chatting each other up at the mailboxes. Nothing has really changed for us at all... but the reality of the uncertainty about who's been exposed has perhaps become more real to us all in the past 24 hours.
This particular coronavirus most often presents with mild symptoms, sometimes with none, yet carriers can bring it to the more vulnerable amongst us. Plus it's still the season of regular flu and the common cold.
So now suddenly we realize more concretely that we don't necessarily know what we're looking at if we or our neighbors are apparently even in the best of health. It's a confusing thing to get one's head around really, to remember we're supposed to be mitigating against spread of a contagious illness, but one that can be contracted and remain asymptomatic for its entire course and leap from one to another individual.
It's why the estimates for entire countries including the USA run up to around 50-70% of the population eventually will have been infected, yet far, far fewer will have ended up with grave or fatal consequence.
The idea though is to step on exposure early so we don't see that exponential progression. Probably a bit late to the plate with that prospect here in the states, but we can all try to do our bit to minimize spread.
I wish we had the ability so I could do that. If I felt sick enough to not want to drive and/or be in the office, but not so bad I can barely sit or use the laptop, I could still work without blowing PTO.
Pi Day is almost here!!
For any fans of Take Control tech support books who didn't get an email, they're having a Pi Day sale from now til Sunday night. Of course the pitch is that the sale price is... ready? yeah not 3.14% but 31.4% off. Gimmicky, but nice. They said no special code or coupon is required to get the Pi Day prices on the selected titles, which are currently bannered atop their website.
On garlic in chocolate pecan pie, no. Even I have my limits. Waiting for that recipe though... I'm out of pecans but can fix that eventually... assuming pecans don't become as popular as TP and bottled water.
if you're a middle aged Japanese women reading this ... please invite me
Me, at the office, now, as I am deemed essential in the support of the fight against you know what.
(Pic is actually HAK at the end of the Vietnam War)
(Pic is actually HAK at the end of the Vietnam War)
Looks like a bit of paper work to catch up on? and no computer? - you are going to need help
Looks like a bit of paper work to catch up on? and no computer? - you are going to need help
no computer = no emails = no meeting notices!!!