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That's what Michael Jackson said.

I have mixed feelings about WFH. We can’t run a lab that way and although I manage the group, I still like to get my hands dirty. I come in 5 days a week usually. I could WFH 1-2 days a week, and have here and there if I had somewhere I needed to be at 4 in the afternoon and couldn’t get home without leaving early. I let my lab folks wfh here and there if they are doing some sort of analysis they can do remote or working on their lab notebook all day. But by and large a science enterprise like ours works best on site. Fir the rest of them, eh. I used to get pissed they were home and we were here, but the caf is easier to get in and out of, your bit running from meeting to meeting in conference rooms. It’s all on Teams. I dunno. I feel bad for the businesses that relied on office folks to make a living. THRY JUST NEED TO DROP THE GDamn masking!!!!

I was in HD Sunday. 2x4’s we’re $6.99

I'm on an open floor with 80 seats. There are maybe 10 of us up here on a daily basis. Everyone else is still home on Zoom. There's a guy across the floor I'm looking at right now. He's probably 50 feet from me. N95 on. Meanwhile, I'm typing this with a 3 ply surgical fogging up my glasses. All of us full time, 5 days week lab people who have been here since this shit started were wearing them pulled down a little so we could actually breathe. Some Sally hybrid who works up here 1 day a week complained and the mask police come around every so often now.

From your mouth to my employers ear. We cant even wear cloth masks that are breathable. 3 ply surgical or N95/KN95 only. But we can congregate in the lunch room, eat 2 feet part, but damn well better put them back on when you go back to your desk at least 7-8 feet way from your co worker.

Meanwhile, I'm still masked up at work 8-9 hours a day with no end in site. Maybe I should just tell them I'm done doing it since I want my last hours before Putin nukes us to be mask free?

Just started here. Holy crap!

Still kinda wimpy here. Maybe 4-5 inches. Hard to tell with all the wind. See what happens as the day goes on, but so far, ……meh.

Eh. Depends on where the district is. My son is a freshman and he’s had a pretty normal year except for the masks. Been in school everyday, fall football went off without a hitch, homecoming dance, etc. Had a remote day last Friday instead of a snow day. He goes to a multi town vo tech highschool. Right now they have 22 active cases out of 1500 kids and staff. Meh

That sux man! Hope your family gets home ok. We went back to masks in July. We were out for about 6 weeks at the end of May. That 6 weeks was awesome. But honestly we only wear them past security. Once we get upstairs we pull them down once we get to the desk. And we eat together maskless in the lunch area, so eh. We refuse to wear them in the lab. Almost 2 years of glasses fogging up is enough. We still only have about 25% of people coming in to work onsite. It’s still like a tomb and I’m sure next month might be even less people. Actually I kind of like it. As long as school stays open I’ll be happy. My kids were in school full time, football season went off without a hitch, the boy started every game at strong safety, and both kids had straight As. And nobody has had Covid in my house that we know. And House says one more year of this, maybe 18 months. Happy new year.

1/8 is down to $45

Nope

My local Burger King has a sign up for $17 an hour. No takers. I asked the manager when I was in there today. But a whopper is $6.20! I got 2 whoppers, 2 whopper juniors, and 3 fries and it was almost $30.

What’s up bitches? House is back in the house where the fook is my snow? Looks like July out there!

I also said I have a fireplace insert and I cook with it too. I have a pool heat pump too. Basically a big boat anchor. They don’t work on the ends of the pool season when you really want heat. And they use more electricity than touted.

I have about the same. I have a 400,000 btu heater. I own my tanks. I have 2, 150 gallon tanks. I fill up maybe 4 times a year but I also have a fireplace insert. I get heating price for the gas which generally runs around $1.80 a gallon. I spend around $1800 a year for gas. With the heater we use the pool from early May into October. Heater was $1800 and I installed it myself. I bought my tanks. Cost of the install, final heater connection and permit was $2000. If you have natural gas it’s much cheaper to install. And natural gas cost less than half of propane on a btu basis.

My brother got both his snipped out from his Tundra while he was in a restaurant a couple weeks ago. Happened in Dallas.

Uh, no

With Marylin Chambers. But I date myself.

I even stacked my lounge chairs up on the pool deck, took the umbrella out of its stand, moved the deck box under cover, and got 15 gallons of gas for the Ginny. Not to mention I got to drag the generator back down to the shed. Gonna need a hellava lot of snow this winter to burn that much gas in the Ariens.

I’m gusting to 12, maybe 15 at times

Big nothing here in my part of Worcester county. I’ve seen worse afternoon thunderstorms produce more wind and rain.

Little rain and a light breeze here.