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« Reply #1500 on: April 12, 2021, 01:55:11 pm »
A few nice smaller lakes like that around here with lots of trout.  It's usually enough of a chore just to bush-crash your way thru to them - dragging a kayak sounds like an even bigger chore.  Kudos for the dedication.  The trout fishing seems to be that the lakes are so full of them you can't get your gear down to the bottom where the bigger ones lurk. There's to many little shish-ka-bob sized one's that take the hook on the way down. 

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« Reply #1501 on: April 13, 2021, 10:48:28 am »
We will be under house arrest.   :(
Don't perpetuate the rhetoric.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #1502 on: April 17, 2021, 07:30:15 am »
Not getting better.

I keep thinking we're through the worst of it but no.

Now Joan is teaching from home and Easy is out of daycare, because we don't want him to get a variant.

So it's the family submarine of last winter all over again.

Let's hope for some good weather.

Oh, and I get a colonoscopy this week 😕

How's everyone?

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« Reply #1503 on: April 17, 2021, 10:18:06 am »
My wife is getting one of those in a couple of weeks...my urologist want's to stick a camera in me too.

We're all good otherwise, I got to watch a dozen very active killer whales the other day, two transient pods and a huge usually lone male were all together socializing for a couple of hours.

Today I'm making a barrel garden. I'm going to plant it with strawberries and herbs.

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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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« Reply #1504 on: April 17, 2021, 11:23:59 am »
Wild strawberry vs grocery store strawberry.

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« Reply #1505 on: April 17, 2021, 11:25:59 am »
So... who won?  ;D

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« Reply #1506 on: April 21, 2021, 08:45:23 pm »
Oh, and I get a colonoscopy this week 😕
 

Massive polyp.  I'm worried.  The nurse told me afterwards not to worry but the doctor seemed in a hurry to get out of there and didn't say goodbye, which is unlike her.

I'm worried.  Follow up in a few days.
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« Reply #1507 on: April 22, 2021, 01:10:53 pm »
Massive polyp.  I'm worried.  The nurse told me afterwards not to worry but the doctor seemed in a hurry to get out of there and didn't say goodbye, which is unlike her.

I'm worried.  Follow up in a few days.

Sorry to hear, Michael. I hope it's benign.  I wish the best for you.

Not getting better.

I keep thinking we're through the worst of it but no.

Now Joan is teaching from home and Easy is out of daycare, because we don't want him to get a variant.

So it's the family submarine of last winter all over again.

Let's hope for some good weather.

Oh, and I get a colonoscopy this week 😕

How's everyone?

Struggling. I have been working from home for the past few weeks as our management is worried about the rapid rise in case numbers here. The intention is to protect the production team at all costs, because if we have an outbreak that shuts production down for 2 weeks or more, it would be financially devastating to us. So they're keeping as many of us as possible at home. I miss being in the office.  It's one of the few things that is keeping me sane during all of this.  Summer-like weather here over the past while has been a godsend.

Lindsey is not doing well either. Getting hired for her ideal job was the first time she has seemed like herself in months. Seeing it ripped out of her hands just a few days later felt like some kind of plot twist that a sadistic author would have come up with.  She's sinking into depression and I feel powerless to help.

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« Reply #1508 on: April 22, 2021, 01:22:09 pm »
Don't perpetuate the rhetoric.

Yeah, Michael! Don't perpetuate the rhetoric! It's not "isolaTION", it's "isolaFUN", okay?  You're not "shut in", you're "enjoying quality time with your wife and son."  It's not "house arrest", it's a "staycation", okay?

The last thing we need is malcontents spreading the false, harmful, debunked idea that isolation is stressful or hard on people's mental health.  If you keep saying stuff like that you might find yourself on the receiving end of a "wellness check". Understand?  Turn that frown upside down... or else!

Kimmy is what happens when entitled millennial memes come to life.

We're apparently now at the state where people are "entitled" for wanting to see their friends, date, do activities in groups, or go to work.  Wrap your collective heads around that.

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« Reply #1509 on: April 22, 2021, 01:23:05 pm »
Well I got my first dose of AZ today. I am invincible.
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« Reply #1510 on: April 22, 2021, 01:25:03 pm »
Well I got my first dose of AZ today. I am invincible.

It didn’t take....   I can see you just fine.
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« Reply #1511 on: April 22, 2021, 04:24:06 pm »
Sorry to hear, Michael. I hope it's benign.  I wish the best for you.



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Hoping for the best here as well Micheal.


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Lindsey is not doing well either. Getting hired for her ideal job was the first time she has seemed like herself in months. Seeing it ripped out of her hands just a few days later felt like some kind of plot twist that a sadistic author would have come up with.  She's sinking into depression and I feel powerless to help.

Is the job on hiatus because Covid restrictions or gone altogether?
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« Reply #1512 on: April 22, 2021, 04:34:04 pm »
Is the job on hiatus because Covid restrictions or gone altogether?

They're not planning to open in the foreseeable future. The owners have sunk some amount of money into this, so I think at this point it's a matter of figuring out whether to bail now or hang on in the hope that they aren't throwing good money after bad.

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« Reply #1513 on: April 22, 2021, 05:05:32 pm »
Work has slowed to a crawl, I'm leaving what few hours exist to the younger crewmembers that are struggling harder than us. Our own spring bookings have evaporated, again, but it's clear the desire to get out again is strong. We kind of take the view we're sacrificing our spring so we can save our summer.  Like last year...pop up after the lockdown, recoup a little before hunkering down again and wait for the wave to pass smoothly underneath instead of building and breaking overhead.  Obviously we missed the hunker down again part and now we're paying for it with another wave that looks more like a tsunami. Maybe this time we'll get it.

I'm still impressed with the fact that the experts initially told us 18 months or this Sept until we even develop a vaccine and here we are getting jabbed in April. Too bad the experts couldn't do something about the politics and ****.

On a more inspiring note I took an animal rescue and care expert out the other day to rescue an eagle in distress. The eagle was spotted early yesterday morning flapping around on the ground after a fight with another bird. It apparently made its way across the bay to the base of its own tree where we captured it.  It was a big animal and was bundled up in a sheet and into a cage aboard the boat and off to the animal shelter within a couple of minutes of arriving on scene. I'm looking forward to taking it back home once it's healed up.
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« Reply #1514 on: April 25, 2021, 02:10:55 am »
My kid just came to me out of nowhere...

MOM!

What is it?

I think I'm trans.

Oh, ok, how long have you known?

About a month.

Oh ok. (eye roll in my head)

Ok?

No, I mean, cool, I guess there were some signs.  Wait, I thought you're bi, is that gone?

No, I'm bi and trans, you can do that.

Of course.  Well, cool.  I always wished I could be a dude, but I'd be really short.

Seriously, that's your concern? 

No, I just didn't know what else to say.  I'm happy for you and support you.  The son I never had.



I would've been more supportive, but somehow I don't think she's really trans.  And if she is, cool.  Short or whatnot.