How are you today? The daily check-in thread

[evie]

Happy new year!

[The_Ficus]

Happy new decade!

[Scout]

Happy New Year! How are you going to celebrate?

[CD]

Happy New Year to All!!

[technically the new decade of the "Roaring Twenties" doesn't start until 2021]

[Phil]

I celebrated like I usually do; some reading, and an early bedtime.

You?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Phil wrote: "I celebrated like I usually do; some reading, and an early bedtime.

You?"

Same here, pretty much. Our whole neighborhood was quiet as titmice.

[Scout]

I'm actually doing pretty well. Gardening, reading, crocheting, watching movies. How about you? Are you missing social interaction, going to restaurants, etc.?

[Félix]

It's not a major change pour moi. I admit I spend a lot of time around the house normally. As the old blessing/curse says, "May you live in interesting times."

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I was fine until a CVS employee today came right up to me and asked if he could help me. They have markers on the floor near the self-checkouts where customers are supposed to stand 6 feet apart - which is great - and then this muttonhead comes up 6 inches from my face.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Félix wrote: "It's not a major change pour moi. I admit I spend a lot of time around the house normally. As the old blessing/curse says, "May you live in interesting times.""

And how is Chuck Hagel doing? Well, I hope.

[Félix]

Lobstergirl wrote: "And how is Chuck Hagel doing? Well, I hope.

I hope he is as well. I haven't seen Chuck since he left the Defense position, and of course not since I relocated out of the condo in Omaha four years ago. Last encounter was late one night when he and his wife Lilibet couldn't get their door unlocked for some reason and we had to scare up our new HOA president to use his master key. Secret Service guys were always around when Chuck was on the property. They would usually park their black Suburbans facing the front door.

[Cynthia]

Félix wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "And how is Chuck Hagel doing? Well, I hope.

I hope he is as well. I haven't seen Chuck since he left the Defense position, and of course not since I relocated out of the condo ..."

Oh, I forgot about Hagel. I forgot a lot of things that happened a week ago. I still can not believe the Iowa Caucuses were in February. It seems like years ago. And Sanders finally had the smarts to drop out. Incredible times.

[Scout]

I feel your indignation, LG. A little over a week ago, I was standing on my X behind a nurse wearing scrubs. Had she just come from the hospital? No way to know, but she turned around with no warning and came within inches of me to put something back on a shelf, then saw my reaction and mumbled something about needing to put it back, but no apology. For heaven's sake!! A nurse!!

[CD]

Eating, sleeping, exercising (walking a lot), and as usual talking on the phone. Less actual work remotely but that may be a good thing. Seems less people playing with the machinery of technology means less things need to be 'attended to' or re-engineered. Strangely at the moment people are finally paying some attention to what they're suppose to be doing.

Mhhmmm?

Have concerns that when this is all over and done with less employees may be needed.

[CD]

Now have sunk to the level of texting "gesundheit" across the house when someone sneezes.

[CD]

I am rearranging the kitchen. Not at the moment obviously. It appears I have stumbled into a large block of time with less to do than usual. (I hope I haven't jinxed it!) So I'm going to work on the kitchen being set up more for daily cooking and not as much for specialty and holidays.

Lots of moving frequently used pots and pans to better spots. Rearranging the cutlery and kitchen tools. And moving the canisters off the counter . . . FINALLY!!

The espresso machine is going to the storeroom. I have a French Press and a new fangled single cup type of coffee press that take up a lot less space. The machine and all the accessories are using counter space I want for other things.

Otherwise life creeps along and I have avoided virtualized retail therapy. OK, OK, I bought a few items on Amazon. They were needed and probably would have been purchased online anyway.

Hope all are healthy and sane. STAY HOME!

Aloha

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Finally got my internet back today after my modem/router got fried by lightning or something four days ago.

I also inaugurated a new mask on my daily walk. It's a little too big and kept slipping down. I need to maybe put some darts in it or something.

What I really want to do is walk around wearing this...

[Laurin]

Been home since March 13, with only a couple of trips out for necessities. Life is weird.

[evie]

I am sitting in bed at 8:30pm and feeling drowsy. I have just worked for 7 days straight. I am too old for this shit.

[evie]

CD wrote: "Now have sunk to the level of texting "gesundheit" across the house when someone sneezes."

Ha ha!

[Cynthia]

evie wrote: "I am sitting in bed at 8:30pm and feeling drowsy. I have just worked for 7 days straight. I am too old for this shit."

I feel this. What a time. Hope you can get some rest, Evie.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

For anyone who is sick of seeing the American prez and v-prez's mugs - some visual relief.

[Scout]

Cuteness is very important.

[CD]

Considered rearranging the fridge magnets. Thought better of it. Needed to cut up a tree limb that feel overnight. THAT turned into tree trimming. I'm done for the day.

[CD]

From the Darth Vader Spring 2020 Collection.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

And....looting in my neighborhood today. Some storefronts smashed. As a result all the grocery stores and drugstores are shut down. I happened upon a peaceful protest at the end of my long walk (I hadn't known it was there). But apparently at the edges of the peaceful protest, on the other side of it, people were attempting to ransack. We have a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. The whole public transportation system (buses and trains) is now shut down by the mayor's order, which has never happened before.

Sigh.

The looting only hurts the innocent people - store owners, store employees, housebound or elderly or sick people who now can't get groceries or their prescription drugs until the looting stops.

[Cam]

Anyone home? Hello! It doesn't appear people are "checking in daily" on here. (no action since May 31, 2020)....boring.....

[Cam]

(I wonder if Clark is still around--I remember he liked some of the music from the Lawrence Welk show)...

[Phil]

He's here. If you're ever looking for Clark, check the "what are you listening to" thread.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

If you'd told me a year ago that Trump would be impeached not once....but TWICE.....I don't know that I would have believed you. I probably wouldn't have.

[CD]

Lobstergirl wrote: "If you'd told me a year ago that Trump would be impeached not once....but TWICE.....I don't know that I would have believed you. I probably wouldn't have."

So to complete the Trifecta, will there be jail time? Or exile?

I vote for impoverishment (we're getting there) and he has to wear a paper hat for a for years. But do you want a side of fries with your Trump burger?

[Scout]

After four years, I think it will be Biden wearing a dunce hat. A caravan heading our way because of his campaign promises, which he's trying to tell to go home and wait. Good luck on that. They're holding him to his immigration palaver. Can't wait for them to get here. Gas prices going up, taxes soon to follow. What's next? Uniting the country after a second impeachment? Lol

[CD]

We have a President.

[[deleted user]]

CD wrote: "We have a President."

I know… I'm starting to get dewy eyed for the days when self-important doofuses like CNN's Van Jones cried on national TV on Election Night 2016, wringing his hands over what he was going to tell his children the next morning, or Chuck Schumer weeping on the Senate floor.

C'mon! There's no crying in politics!

[CD]

I need a break, my desk is a mess this a.m.

ARGHHHH!

Thank you, now you may return to your regular scheduled programming.

[Cam]

I'm having fun "decluttering" my house this weekend.

[CD]

How are you? I'm pretty damn good for a wintry Monday!

[[deleted user]]

Just sold an equalizer on Facebook Marketplace.

[Cam]

Phil wrote: "He's here. If you're ever looking for Clark, check the "what are you listening to" thread."

thanks!

[[deleted user]]

Cam wrote: "Phil wrote: "He's here. If you're ever looking for Clark, check the "what are you listening to" thread."

thanks!"

There's no hiding, is there?

[[deleted user]]

Cam wrote: "(I wonder if Clark is still around--I remember he liked some of the music from the Lawrence Welk show)..."

Still here. My parents used to watch Lawrence Welk every Saturday night. It was on pretty early in the evening so all the old-timers could get to bed at a decent hour. He had a great band, if you happen to enjoy polkas.

Thing is, now I'm one of those old-timers.

[Scout]

And the Lennon Sisters. My family also watched Hee Haw, with all those old country singers. And the Culhanes, sitting on the porch doing absolutely nothing with their hound dog. My parents and I still say we're Culhaning when we're taking it easy.

[Phil]

Every once in a while I read some of the old threads, from back when the site - and the group - was hopping, and I wonder what people are up to now. Like RA. Where did he take his randomness when he strolled out of TC?

[Scout]

Maybe to the private group?

[Phil]

Scout wrote: "Maybe to the private group?"

Nope. He never went that way.

[[deleted user]]

What a night. Caught a 16-inch largemouth on a chatterbait, had a big pike break off cut my line (memo to myself: next time use a steel leader, dummy!), and then fell in the lake.

Not one of my finer moments.

[evie]

Enjoying my first haircut since April 30th! No hairdressing during lockdown!

[Phil]

Dr. Detroit wrote: "What a night. Caught a 16-inch largemouth on a chatterbait, had a big pike break off cut my line (memo to myself: next time use a steel leader, dummy!), and then fell in the lake.

Not one of my fi..."

Did your friends catch it on video? I'd pay to see it.

[Jaye]

Dr. Detroit wrote: "Cam wrote: "(I wonder if Clark is still around--I remember he liked some of the music from the Lawrence Welk show)..."

Still here. My parents used to watch Lawrence Welk every Saturday night. It w..."

My grandmother used to put Lawrence Welk on when she babysat us. We'd sleep on the pull out couch. Then she would tell us we could stay up as late as we wanted.
10 min in we would ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Nowadays i find it brings me back to those less complicated times so i watch it occasionally as a de-stresser.

[Cynthia]

Phil wrote: "Every once in a while I read some of the old threads, from back when the site - and the group - was hopping, and I wonder what people are up to now. Like RA. Where did he take his randomness when h..."

Hey Phil. I keep up with RA on Facebook. He's doing OK, still teaching, in a relationship, has his ups and downs, like all of us. He's a pretty interesting guy.