Agreed with our friend here.

Well here we are in the middle of hurricane hell again. Man I hate hurricanes ruining my October! >:[

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Oct 8 2020, 02:28 AM

I notice that while checking weather earlier today. Its trajectory places us on the fringe of its area of impact. By that time it has greatly weakened. Combine the two and we'll likely not notice it passing.

I shouldn’t complain. The folks in coastal areas and a bit further inland will have it waaay worse than I will. Still though, I hate hurricane season!

<nods> For me its tornado season, spring in my neck of the woods. My county is in the state's 'tornado alley', and has the state's second highest tornado death count during the period from 1950 to 2019.

I too, live on the northeastern fringe of Tornado Alley, where the Plains run into the woodlands to the east. We have tornado sirens here, and tornados is my Force Majeure nightmare. (Fire was my Dad's, and I'm sure drowning/floods were others')

I too, hate tornado season. The only thing I notice about hurricane season is all the rain we get - especially with Gulf hurricanes . . .

Urgh.






GAAAAAAAH !!! Urgh!

Started working from home (WFH) last week. It's interesting. Not as busy as I had hoped, but that will change after the big announcement next week Tuesday. I'm sure that will keep us busy almost all the way into the holiday season.

Here are some things I like about it:
1. A regular schedule I can plan things around - my days off are Sundays and Mondays, and I work half day Tuesdays (the other four hours are supposed to be with my Store, but atm there is nothing to do) and full days Wednesdays through Saturdays. I start at 10 am, so that means if I get up at 6:30 am every morning, I have time to do a little ESO before starting work. I can even run to Panera's for my coffee!

2. Commute is AWESOME! No traffic, very short. I literally pivot from my personal iMac to my work iMac and my keyboard table is large enough to take both keyboards and mice and rolls with me.

3. Even though I'm working from home, I'm not alone. There is a Slack channel (Slack is kinda like in game chat - it's an app we run on our work Macs and we share channels). I can DM my WFH managers with scheduling conflicts or workflow questions, and there is a main (very busy) channel dedicated to helping us with questions or issues related to customers, with experts on standby to look up and answer questions.

What I don't like about it is sitting in this old chair for so long. The seat padding's about gone, and the back is the wrong angle. It's an executive chair, meant for leaning back and putting your feet up on the desk. That was fine when I first bought it, back when I still had the horses and would spend up to four hours a day at the barn. But now it's no longer supportive, and when I need to sit and type, I need a back that's upright, and arms that are adjustable enough to slip under the keyboard table and still support my elbows.

That leads me to a fourth thing I do like about this new role: A NEW CHAIR!!!! My work just reimbursed me $100 towards this beauty. It won't arrive until the end of November, but I'm pretty excited about it. I've talked to several gamers and it comes highly recommended.

WOO HOO, a new chair! My new Daughter-in-law has a similar chair that she is extremely happy with. Hers is black with a red racing stripe down the seating area; and looks like it has just a bit more padding than your new one coming; (hers was made for gaming; not business, lol) but hers is the same style/shape as that one. She loves it. I sat in it once when she first got it, VERY comfy.

Rider, I'm so glad the WFH arrangements seem to be agreeing with you. Sounds like you have a good employer.

I too am in the market for a new puter chair and will anxiously look forward to your impressions of your new one after it arrives!

How did I know it was a secretlab chair?

Expensive as crap but I hear good things about them.

Natural disasters suck. Hurricane and tornado season suck.

Luckily we don't have that stuff here.... just mountains of fluffy white bull in the winter.

There's a public-service radio station out of Memphis I sometimes listen to while on the road. Today, returning from a weekend errand run, I could the beginning of a discussion on a C19 symptom I was not previously aware of: Brain Fog. Among other things, sufferers find it hard to maintain focus any length of time. They think and therefore act more slowly than normal. They often forget things. When talking, they stop mid-sentence when not being to remember words. Some mention having their job performance suffer due to it. One said she was eventually let go.

I hear this and think, "Oho! That's me in a nutshell!!!!!!! Only, I've had these symptoms for decades. Those who read my posts (I don't blame those who don't, they're a mess.) will remember that I've alluded to the brain fox/mist any number of times. (I also recall two incidents during which it worsened.)

Not much point to this post, other than that I found the radio broadcast fascinatingly relatable.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Oct 13 2020, 05:19 PM

I have to say, for someone who claims to suffer from brain fog you're remarkably clear, Decrepit

Oddly, this is one of my less foggy days. (Thus far. It likely won't last much longer before fog again sets in.) In any case, I can take my time composing these posts. Sooner or later I usually (but not always) grind out something that is at least somewhat readable.

That's because COVID-19 is not a respiratory disease, like influenza or the common cold. Rather, it is a hematologic disease, where it has a dramatic impact on blood flow to various organs through its effects on the cells of the immune system. This explains the wide variety of signs we see in patients infected with COVID-19, and raises very disturbing questions about long term effects of the virus. Scary stuff, indeed.

"Blue for the virus, green for the anti-virus"


-Resident Evil (first movie)


Gives me the vibes here

Well dang it. My County just went from blue (stable) to orange (WARNING) in terms of COVID-19 risk.

My mother and I were thinking of going grocery shopping at the neighborhood store during Senior Citizen Hours (7 - 9 am Tuesdays) next week, mainly for her sake. She hates the online shopping experience. It's been difficult for her to adjust to the new way of life these days.

On the plus side, so far my weekly COVID tests are still coming back negative. And my WFH has been fun fun fun - more fun than I thought it would be Yesterday chat was very busy, and I was double chatting all morning with customers, flipping back and forth between two customers and keeping their conversations going. I'm glad for all the hours I put into playing ESO - keeping track of three guild chats and two PM threads at the same time was far more challenging than this.

Haha! Rider, as you were relaying your WFH chat skill, I instantly recalled how adept you are at managing ESO chats.

We (Mrs. Treydog and I) are also in one of the "hotspot" states and I have limited my activities as much as possible accordingly. Work requires face coverings and temperature checks for for anyone entering- including those of us who are there on a daily basis. I try to do the grocery run relatively early in the day.

Glad your WFH is going so well and that your "multi-threading" skills are helping with that. Better still that you are enjoying doing it. Best wishes to you and your mum.

And here I am in a country barely doing much at all. ><