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Post by DarknessFish on May 12, 2020 20:18:31 GMT
It's all been a pretty miserable experience, really. I've been working throughout, my wife's been working ridiculous hours producing NHS reports, and we've been trying to home-school Tom, too. That's been a real strain, he's even lazier than I was at school. Yet I've been trying to get him to knuckle down and work, and my wife think's it's better just to let him coast through and not do too much, and that's been the source of additional tension and arguments. I'm also completely sick of being in the house, I'm useless at lockdown. I keep heading out to the countryside, and even the beach this weekend, just for walks to clear my head, but I'm still stuck in the same house and garden for the majority of the time, and it's doing my head in.
I've run out of things to cook (though home-made tortillas are bloody lovely, as it turns out), and though cooking is one of my greatest pleasures, I'm sick of being in the kitchen, because that's also where I do my work throughout the day. So I'm spending 12 hours in the same bastard room. Pubs need to open, so I can go for a walk, have a pint, and have a meal. It's all I want.
On the plus side, I've decided to start ordering music online, and I've rediscovered my kindle and cheap classic literature. On the downside, everything is shit and everyone needs to fuck off.
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 12, 2020 21:31:47 GMT
We're into lockdown since the last weeks of March, so nearly 2 mos. A friend texted me and asked how I'm doing. I texted back that I'm pretty anti-social and having no problem at all.
That was a month and a half ago and still no problem. I take a walk before lunch. My ex lives two miles away so I walk with my son half of the way and then I split off and he goes over to her house to do schoolwork and comes back to my place at 4 pm or 5. I plasy guitar for an hour or so, here and there.
I'm lovin' it.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 12, 2020 21:33:22 GMT
It’s times like this I’m very glad I live alone
Chin up, DF
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 12, 2020 21:34:39 GMT
Yeah, seconded, DF.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 12, 2020 21:50:50 GMT
I can't complain really. I'm not in a situation like DF or many others.
But I've been thinking just how little I actually miss the social aspect at work. To the point where if I never saw nearly all of them again I wouldn't give a flying fuck.
is that sad? Just the way it is? I do miss my close friends but that's it. at the same time being forced to go into work gives me a bit of discipline and restrictions that is healthy for me. Less Sunday night drinking etc.
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Post by Sneelock on May 12, 2020 22:54:36 GMT
we had some people over this weekend. first visitors we've had in a while. the nice thing is how easy it is to hang with people you really like. I'm sure they hung around longer than they planned. I think interacting with others is important — you know, like a nutritional requirement or something. I can fiddle around by myself without getting bored for days but being around good people really charges my batteries.
i'm a tired old fuck and I need my batteries charged now and then.
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Post by tory on May 13, 2020 10:59:00 GMT
Thinking of you DF.
I've had a bit of a low in the last day or so. A lot of pressure over training right now and I'll fully admit I think I get sucked into arguing on the internet a bit too much. I like arguing - it's good for the brain in many ways, but I've reflected a bit on it and think I might have to haul it back a bit now. It doesn't really achieve anything - we're all biased in our own way and there's very little worth I guess in being able to convince someone of your own argument in that you can "convert" them etc.
Perhaps we should have that Zoom call - people's faces are far more worthwhile than text and avatars.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on May 13, 2020 14:43:25 GMT
Hang in there DF.
Aside from drinking entirely too much alcohol, I'm not having too difficult a time during lockdown (which has just been extended to June 2nd). We have no kids and our house is just large enough that we have our own separate areas to do whatever we want in without it being an inconvenience for the other - B has her gym upstairs which she's been using with remarkable dedication and I have my soundproofed music room in the basement, as well as a small office with a door that opens to our back yard (I just wish it would fucking warm up soon - I'm getting really tired of this chilly weather we've been having - it snowed the other day!! In May!!).
My job is dependant upon me actually being in the office/photo studio where I work, so I haven't been doing anything that resembles work in quite some time, but I'm still getting paid as though I were, for which I'm incredibly grateful. I emailed the boss the other day to let him know that I'd be happy to help out in any other capacity if they need it and he asked if I'd be willing to scan several boxes worth of un-digitized archival material related to the auction house, so that's something I'll be starting on in the next few days which, although tedious sounding, will at least give me something to do to pass the time.
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 13, 2020 14:56:24 GMT
Speaking of DF, I don't know how the families with small kids are doing this in an apartment complex. With our kids, we had our house, and at least you could go into the garage, backyard, front yard, or somewhere else for a few minutes when the kids got too much. I'm only half facetious when I say I wonder why there aren't more murder suicides of families with toddlers and babies here. There are two families in my section that have two kids, each - two or three year olds and babies. I'd go fucking insane.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on May 13, 2020 15:47:50 GMT
It's all been a pretty miserable experience, really. I've been working throughout, my wife's been working ridiculous hours producing NHS reports, and we've been trying to home-school Tom, too. That's been a real strain, he's even lazier than I was at school. Yet I've been trying to get him to knuckle down and work, and my wife think's it's better just to let him coast through and not do too much, and that's been the source of additional tension and arguments. I'm also completely sick of being in the house, I'm useless at lockdown. I keep heading out to the countryside, and even the beach this weekend, just for walks to clear my head, but I'm still stuck in the same house and garden for the majority of the time, and it's doing my head in. I've run out of things to cook (though home-made tortillas are bloody lovely, as it turns out), and though cooking is one of my greatest pleasures, I'm sick of being in the kitchen, because that's also where I do my work throughout the day. So I'm spending 12 hours in the same bastard room. Pubs need to open, so I can go for a walk, have a pint, and have a meal. It's all I want. On the plus side, I've decided to start ordering music online, and I've rediscovered my kindle and cheap classic literature. On the downside, everything is shit and everyone needs to fuck off. I hear ya. May be time to stare into the abyss: 24hr of Merzbow, Vitamin D, and some light therapy.
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Post by DarknessFish on May 14, 2020 12:38:47 GMT
I feel pretty embarrassed that my whinging has had what feels like genuine sympathy, can you get back to treating me like the scum I am, please? We've got two incomes and a healthy child, just tell me to fuck off next time.
Anyway, I've got something much more serious to comment on now. You think you know someone, but then lockdown puts things in a whole new perspective. I'm thinking of getting a divorce. For days now, my wife has asked me to take a yoghurt out of the fridge, so that it's warmer by lunchtime. I mean, that's just fucked up, isn't it?
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Post by ~ / % ? * on May 14, 2020 16:56:34 GMT
Hate to see this devolve into warm beer + warm yogurt =cold heart(s)
Yogurt cultures are warmed to make yogurt in an incubator, probably because we think of it as a diary product rather than a living probiotic, we think it must be refrigerated. Refrigeration holds the bacteria in probiotics in suspension. Allowing it to warm up theoretically allows it to come alive. Allow your heart to warm.
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Post by DarknessFish on May 14, 2020 16:58:45 GMT
That's your name down in my book of petty disagreements, too, weirdo.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 14, 2020 17:07:53 GMT
Serves you right for listening to shite music you lefty cunt
I hope the yoghurt curdles.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 18:10:05 GMT
Give your wife a treat and put the yoghurt in the microwave for a few minutes. She'll love it!
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