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On a different topic: I've been reflecting that being poor makes me want to chain smoke and eat candy. The quarantines are just underway and my son is sick with something, I'm not sure what.

A few months ago I moved to San Clemente, CA. But I left my car in New Hampshire because of dire and unusual circumstances. Walking to the grocery store in this town isn't impossible and for most people it wouldn't be a hardship. For me, I have to ignore the fact that I am sick with cancer and arthritis. Happily this isn't difficult for me. I'm 62 but I still blurt out "Awesome!" or "Excellent!" and I sit cross-legged on the floor when I watch television. I'm a heterosexual male but I'm just discovering my sexuality and it's entirely possible I'm other things as well.

I'm also reflecting that I wasn't the best father when my two kids were growing up. Yet I had the chance to move to California to live near my children and get to know them again, and I took it. I don't have a long life ahead of me but there's plenty of time to become happy, to make other people happy, and to do good things.

Strange beyond strange, I am sharing this for the first time on a Macrumor's forum. I know it will make things better although I'm not sure how.

Take care and best of luck.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
I swear, I once listened to a discussion between two ladies, I guess in their 30's, arguing about a fundamental question that I can summarize as follows: "Is Beyoncé a Queen or a Goddess?". Still remember it. I was at a frozen yogurt place, with my kid. The two were also loud and quite serious about it, almost fighting I'd say. I wanted to die.
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I'm 35 but not once has this thought ever crossed my mind. I've had a lot of crazy things cross it but never this. Right now I'm thinking about if I want to eat ramen, if it's too early to take a shower, being sweaty is uncomfortable, cleaning the ceiling is an interesting feat, and I love the lavender smell of my Swiffer.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Are we really at the point in which celebrities are called "my queen" by their fans?!?
(prompted by an article on CNN...)
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A goofy, harmless distraction. That said, my fan glee generally flows toward characters, and I compliment the performers or author/artist behind the character if possible. This way, I distance myself from the actual person and enjoy their talent instead.
 
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kazmac said:
A goofy, harmless distraction. That said, my fan glee generally flows toward characters, and I compliment the performers or author/artist behind the character if possible. This way, I distance myself from the actual person and enjoy their talent instead.
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This might explain my liking of anime. It's about characters, rather than actual people.
 
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Zenithal said:
I had to look up who Beyonce was. I'll see myself out.
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When I was a university teacher, a student referred to Darth Vadar (in what was actually a very good term paper) - in a term paper, and - never, ever, having heard of him, let alone seen the movies, I had to ask my brother what or who he was.

"He's the baddie in Star Wars," replied my brother succinctly, which made clear the analogy the student was drawing in his essay.
 
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Going to see my doctor this morning for a routine checkup. I’ll be interested to see what precautions the clinic is taking these days. It’s a small rural health clinic in southern Virginia.
I’ll also be interested to hear what my doctor has to say about all this.
Technically, given my age, I’m at risk; but with no underlying health conditions, I’ll probably be fine.

The largest concern is helping to care for my SO’s parents - 95 and 86 years old.

And the economy.
 
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First online class with our spring semester students now all returnd home to the US (and one in India). Was nice seeing all their faces again, although the platform our school uses, WebEx, has been a bit buggy. Well we didn't have video/audio so we had to use chat with the prof while I was on the phone to IT in the US trying to get it fixed. No surprise the increase in traffic is causing the bugs - it was fixed and we had some interaction though a lot less than before (this group was very active in asking questions) it must be strange for them too.

In any case I will look at alternatives proposed by the group lik Zoom and Google Hangouts in case this craps out again. Thankfully it will only be once per week. I suppose though I can't use my work email with Google Hangouts?
 
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When I was a university teacher, a student referred to Darth Vadar (in what was actually a very good team paper) - in a term paper, and - never, ever, having heard of him, let alone seen the movies, I had to ask my brother what or who he was.

"He's the baddie in Star Wars," replied my brother succinctly, which made clear the analogy the student was drawing in his essay.
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:eek:You’re dead to me!
 
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So I met with my doctor this morning. My blood pressure is up a bit. Not surprising, given my level of stress. He wasn’t particularly worried about it. I told him I’ll take more walks and start meditating again. He thought that was a reasonable approach.

I was interested (and encouraged) to hear him say that the majority of what hospitals (in most of the US) are seeing is a higher than normal influx of patients with the flu, and some with seasonal allergies, who are afraid they have COVID-19. In other words, it’s really fear that’s driving the overwhelming of medical facilities here, for the most part.

He also said that the treatment, in almost all cases, for flu or COVID, is the same: stay home, stay away from other people, and treat the symptoms, until you recover. Of course if you’re having tightness in your chest, shortness of breath, or a high fever, then seek medical attention.

He believes that the mortality rate in the US for COVID is much lower than is being portrayed in the media, as there is no widespread testing, and some of the test kits that are available have a significant chance of yielding a false negative. Since we don’t know the denominator of the equation, calculating a reasonably accurate death rate is challenging, at best.

Makes sense to me.
 
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On my mind: "just when I thought I was out they pull me back in"... winter returned overnight with a snowdump of a little more than they predicted. I thought I was back in January there for a second when I glanced out the window early this morning.

Sigh. Just in time for the trash haul routine tomorrow. Well maybe it will turn back to mud season!

File under the joys of Spring in the mountains. Locked down or otherwise it's a trip.
 
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While we've been very SIP'ed, only a 20 minute off peak grocery trip every 4 days or so, yesterday, we took a nice little cruise, top down, mid-70s, sunny, traffic reasonably light - up A1A, through some back roads, stereo blasting - it was liberating :)

We've been trying to continue on other things as schedule, this morning we got another lumber order delivered, we should be sitting on at least the rear main deck in a few days :D
 
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I never thought a few months ago that I'd soon fondly miss my banal life.
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It's actually very important. Our "banal" life is in reality the result of thousands of years of work and sacrifice, and it's the result of our own life.
Heck, I miss complaining about traffic!
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Third iPP Pro 12.9" keyboard gone. It's incredible how much this product sucks and keeps breaking. I don't use it even that much.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
It's actually very important. Our "banal" life is in reality the result of thousands of years of work and sacrifice, and it's the result of our own life.
Heck, I miss complaining about traffic!
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Third iPP Pro 12.9" keyboard gone. It's incredible how much this product sucks and keeps breaking. I don't use it even that much.
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That’s bad. Not exactly cheap either.
 
This is pretty excellent, I saw that Bandcamp, which is a digital music distro site, more for unsigned artists, etc., they do a 10-15% fee, the rest going directly to the artist (seems reasonable given the tech/staff/infrastructure requirements). Anyway, last Friday they did a "no fees" day, 100% doing to the artist and had $4.3M worth of sales on one day.

So awesome.
 
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Oh, I'm not surprised. I didn't know who Swift was up until a year or two ago. Don't listen to her music and don't plan on doing so, but I'd say I'm on the up and up with young folk now. Or I think I am.

Situation in Florida isn't seemingly improving. Worried about the masses' health there. Nice knowing you, @D.T. You'll always be in our memory.
 
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Just experienced a wave of nausea. Must resist the urge to throttle someone off a mountain top.
 
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