Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Beer can]

I still tear up.

When me and DW both said it feels like yesterday she about started crying.

 

[electrycmonk]

Partner made brownies today. D&D tonight - my characters are in a swamp filled with undead trying to break an evil crystal that's making the undead. One player has a secret mission to keep the crystal safe. None of them know that the crystal is secretly a phylactery, a gemstone with the soul of an powerful necromancer lich. And that the necromancer is actually the giant dinosaur skeleton that the undead village is built around. A dino-lich if you will.
I slept poorly and we haven't gotten to play in two weeks so we'll see how this goes.

I miss D&D..... (Deep sigh)

 

[electrycmonk]

And as an update on our local district..... Just got a email from them, effective immediately, the Middle(jr) & high school are closed & switched to full remote learning. As both school had at least 1 more kid pop positive this weekend. All extracurricular activities have been cancelled for "at least tomorrow" while they do a thurough contact tracing....

I have far less than 100% faith in the district to do this honestly as the last 10 years of crap we have delt with from the district administration have taught us otherwise.....

 

[SnapdragonQ]

And as an update on our local district..... Just got a email from them, effective immediately, the Middle(jr) & high school are closed & switched to full remote learning. As both school had at least 1 more kid pop positive this weekend. All extracurricular activities have been cancelled for "at least tomorrow" while they do a thurough contact tracing....

I have far less than 100% faith in the district to do this honestly as the last 10 years of crap we have delt with from the district administration have taught us otherwise.....

I know the feeling...

 

[electrycmonk]

On a completely different topic.
Our water well..... File this under the "who'da think" catagory.

So as a recap:
1) it stopped working the previous Sunday night.
2) Monday started vinegar cleanse
3) we'd started to do purge. Not working. Did troubleshooting I could think of and then call our well folks.
4) Friday he's finally able to come test it himself. Yup, gotta pull it. Said Saturday morning 1st thing. (Turns out he was already flustered with a client he was headed to after check ours)
5) it's almost lunch time and I call to see if they are alright - turns out the brand new pump he installed Friday failed so he was busy running the DOA pump back to fort worth for replacement and would be over when done with this client (3 times they had to pull it up before finally getting it to work right.)
6) they show up about 2-ish..... Discovered the reason why it's was showing voltage but, no amps sent down the hole.....

He has seen the pipe bulge up like a baseball bat a few times over the years from the pump overheating.... He was surprised to see the pump not still on the end of the pipe.

He was very pleased with how good I had been caring for the well & that the vinegar cleanse had done such a good job the last few years on the outside of the pipes.

Also discovered the check valve was dead & the power cable had lost its water tire status & water was bubbling outta the seperate wire strands.... So..... New power line down the hole, check valve, pump and motor.
This picture shows the 15+ years of buildup inside the pipe from the silica sand and minerals in our water.

Currently in hour number 4 of purging the milky mix from the well.

So I fully expect to be doing laundry & dishwasher before too much longer.

 

[electrycmonk]

I know the feeling...

Thanks. My Better-half feels extremely vindicated in watching this play out and having decided from mid summer that the girls would be full remote to start and delayed the Athletics stuff for a good few weeks to watch and see. (I was totally onboard with this logic too).....

 

[Folly's place]

Yesterday i attended a funeral, a very sad event, held outside under a tent. However, probably 140 or so people attended, including a large group of fire fighters and police, co-workers of one of the parents involved. Maybe 30% of the people present wore face masks, and lots of hugging went on, and it wasn't anything like a 'social distanced' event. I stayed out of reach, wearing my mask, and didn't attend the dinner planned at a restaurant afterwards.
It's hard to do the safe thing, given the circumstances, but I do hope more illness doesn't come out of this. Why? Just because people know each other, and it's a very tragic death, does it make sense to ignore the pandemic? I don't understand...
Mary

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I miss D&D..... (Deep sigh)

You can actually play online very effectively through Roll20. Have you heard of it before? It works really well and it's how we're hosting our campaign.

 

[sourland]

The reality is that all are vulnerable. Things may appear somewhat better, and some think, "it's gone". It isn't gone, and won't be for a long time.

 

[electrycmonk]

You can actually play online very effectively through Roll20. Have you heard of it before? It works really well and it's how we're hosting our campaign.

No I have not heard of that sight before....

Working on giving myself time for "me" ain't easy. With everything else going on....