Are you at home going ever so slightly crazy?

Are you a key worker going ever so slightly crazy?

Living life are you going ever so slightly crazy?

Then this is the thread for you! Tell us your highs lows and anything in between.

To start us off I have the pleasure of training some of the new people who start at the sortation center i work at. This involves manual sorting of items that are pretty heavy. Over the last two months only three people have stayed on. The rest did one shift and never returned.

This might make me appear to be a bad trainer (definitely) but i think it has more to do with having to carry stuff weighing 20-30KG for an entire shift (8-11hrs)and now with COVID, the issue of working in very close quarters with other people.

So, to end this post, how are you my dearest Setizens?

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The short answer is very bored and I miss happy hour at the neighborhood pub.
I've been retired for almost 12 years and this last year I remodeled my house so I have been comfortable.
There are many who are much worse off.

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I can't say that I'm going crazy, but I am missing LLB's and Friday nights at the pub which looks like I'll be missing for a couple of more months yet. :-(

On the bright side, the $'s that I've been saving by the pubs being closed have been redirected into several other projects around the place. ;-)

Other than that, retired life in the highlands down under hasn't changed all that much after years of drought, 4 months of bushfires (and breathing in all that smoke) and then flooding rains, so what's a little COVID-19 on top of that?

Cheers.

The upper left coast now has killer hornets, this truly is like living in a bad science fiction movie.

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2020/05/those-murder-hornets-theyre-not-here-but-heres-what-to-do-if-you-see-1.html

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Work has several Covid-19 positive cases waiting on ice.

And how are you coping? I'll let you know when they are gone and new ones aren't taking their place.

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@Betreger and Wiggo Yeah I miss nights out with my drinking chum. On the good side of that she lives just a minutes walk from my place so I gave her my other PMR radio so we can chat while having a few at home :) And with it being Saturday night that's what I'm doing as of the time of this post, she says hello everyone:)

@Gary Yikes, hope you haven't caught it off them.

@Betreger Thanks for the pic of the murder hornet, the only thing I can think of is fire. Lots of it. And then add some more. In fact add all the fire you can just to be sure.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/gb1lmc/brendas_beaver_needs_a_barber/

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From this coming Friday I can have 5 of my drinking buddies around instead of the current 2. :-)

Cheers.

Well maintain the social distancing and with a bit of alcohol steralise stuff and jobs a good 'un.

Cheers :)

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Eek!!! We are STILL locked down....


Eek!

Eek!!

Eek!!!

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My local living area is under “semi” lockdown. Some businesses are starting to have limited reopening. I didn’t feel the lockdown because of being one of those “Essential jobs”. Going to work everyday with some covid changes is all I have to do. Just wish Walmart was open when I got off work. Just getting essentials is a bit more difficult at 4:15am for now. I hope there is no to almost none second wave of this covid as they predict. So everyone try to keep healthy in body and mind.

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We are in semi-lockdown too. Private companies that can comply with distance rules continue. There are many official bans for specific businesses: restaurants, bars, aquatic centers, fitness centers, gyms. Public administrations, authorities, schools, universities have locked their employees into home office. As a non-essential, for me it's home office, home school, home kindergarten within our (now way to small) flat in a large apartment building. Oh, and authorities closed all public playgrounds in Germany for many weeks. City children could only play in front of buildings, in backyards, which increased the noise level considerably, stressing the retired elderly. At least playgrounds were reopened last weekend. And we had an easy time compared to Spain, where children were locked up for weeks at home, not allowed to leave the house.

Home schooling and motivating an eight-year-old to do his maths with toys nearby isn't funny (parents blood pressure...). Good news is schools begin to reopen, but in complicated phases. At first only graduation classes in elementary and high schools, later the younger ones. In our state, authorities decided to divide classes into small groups that are alternately two days a week at school, 3 lessons per day to maintain 1.5 meters distance everywhere. There are one-way stairs, floor lanes, differently marked zones everywhere... and in the school yard. No animal fences so far ;-). Other federal states reopen elementary schools five days a week with a full schedule and enforce isolating classes completely from one another instead (changed class times, break times, rooms, etc.). They don't even try to enforce distance rules for 6-10 years-old within a class. While in the next city, 30 km south (state border), schools and kindergartens will be back to a full schedule starting tomorrow, we have to continue home schooling for another week, then we'll start into the two days per week phase which lasts at least until summer holidays. That is a huge problem for many families here, because in Eastern Germany in particular, both parents are usually employed, often full time, and are therefore dependent on kindergarten, school, and after school care... Oh and the last Covid19 case in our region occured a month ago, while there are continuously new cases beyond the border in the neighboring county. Crazy times. Whatever...

I'd rather be locked down than sick, being sick is no fun [...].

[EDIT:] And I'm very, very, very happy not to have monster hornets here. This photo bristles my neck hairs. Horror.

"Too Hot For Work"?

A Russian regional health ministry confirmed that “a disciplinary sanction was applied to the nurse of the infectious diseases department who violated [uniform] requirements...

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Naughty nurse. :-)
I thought the aim is to keep patients blood pressure down.

New medical test to check the living from the to dead to notice.

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My local living area is under “semi” lockdown. Some businesses are starting to have limited reopening. I didn’t feel the lockdown because of being one of those “Essential jobs”. Going to work everyday with some covid changes is all I have to do. Just wish Walmart was open when I got off work. Just getting essentials is a bit more difficult at 4:15am for now. I hope there is no to almost none second wave of this covid as they predict. So everyone try to keep healthy in body and mind.

Yeah there's been a few changes at the place I'm at.

The good:

(i)Separate entrance and exit at start/end of shift.
(ii)2 meter markers all over.
(iii)Plentiful hand sanitizer.
(iv)Bathrooms cleaned waaaayyyyy more often.
(v)We got surgical masks this week.
(vi)Signing paperwork that says you can work side by side or back to back no problem. If you're facing each other you have to be two meters apart.

The bad:
(i)The separate entrance is ignored by the people who work "upstairs".
(ii)When entering and exiting the shop floor you'll get an earful about maintaining social distance. Other than that, nothing.
(iii)Nobody's tried to get drunk on it yet :(
(iv)I'm actually happy about that and i shouldn't be.
(v)Including myself a total of three people are wearing them correctly. And my ears hurt.
(vi)Egads.

And of course, to end with some entertainment :)

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Well it looks like my half finished social distancing project back porch is going to stay half finished a bit longer while this wind blowing in off the snow further down south hangs around. :-(

Currently it's 6C (feels like 1C) outside at 10:15am AEST.

Cheers.

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Well I now have 2 self supporting posts coming out of the concrete at the shop's back door now, but damn I can't take that working below my ankles much anymore. Also after doing the dyna bolt holes for the house's back door awning/porch posts without hitting any reo would you believe that the 1st hole for each of today's posts I did? So instead of requiring a 1300mm crossbar I now need a 1305mm piece :-(

Luckily I still have to cut that piece yet and I can do that in tomorrow morning's sunshine at the front of the shed. :-)

Once that's done I'll have to ease off a couple of dyna bolts and pack under a couple of the post brackets to bring them perfectly upright N-S due two them being on 2 slightly different level and angled slabs, but they're perfectly upright E-W and level across the tops, then once that's done the crossbar can be fitted and then I'll install the batten support strut on the driveway side, but this maybe as far as I get tomorrow.

The house side support strut will take some time longer to fit as this is where I have to do modifications to 2 parts of the guttering system to accommodate the awning/porch, but I have a fair idea on how I'm going to handle that while relieving more pressure from the house's still overloaded original stormwater outlet to the street. ;-)

Anyhow I'm going to enjoy 2-3 more beers now while the old body locks up. :-/

Alcohol sales surge during pandemic, lockdowns. Here’s what people are drinking

Alcohol sales for the past three months have grown by 27%, CNN reports.

Off-premise sales of spirits have risen 32%, while wine sales have increased 26% and beer sales are up 17% over the same period in 2019, according to Wine Business. Americans spent $1 billion on beer over the Memorial Day weekend.

Or, as one analyst put it, “every night is Friday night for people,” Bloomberg reported

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