Scarlet Pimpernel

Gorgeous out today! Took a nice walk in the Audubon nature center near where I'm at. Much nicer than the cold wind yesterday. Family up in Cleveland got snow on Friday! May freakin' eighth! Unreal. Enough to coat the grass a decent amount from what they said.

C'mon, must be holding a beer off camera! Bet @nw baltimore wx has a hidden selfie cam right there on the bottle...click and drink!

Just remember to wear a mask when you go for your cemetery-side pickup!!

C'mon! Don't even try to defend that abomination you posted! That's like equating jay-walking with running someone over!!

Don't forget the sunscreen. And where's the tropical drink?? (ETA: Do you make sure to stay 6 feet under??)

Amen! A filthy martini, plenty of olive juice!!

Make it a dirty martini...add some olive juice as well!! Yummmm! Oh, and don't forget, one should always eat the olives first. Don't want to drink on an empty stomach!

Maybe @WxWatcher007 should open up the Panic Room early this year. Would it be considered an "essential business"?? It sure is during the winter, I'm sure there's a loophole his well-paid bony lawyers will find to allow summertime reaping!

Time for another then! What a meeting!

Maybe we can open it up if comments remain 6 minutes apart. Temporal distancing, to better clean up useless posts. And to enter that thread, all users must come in with waders. Because it could get very deep in there, ya know!!

As I sip (chug?) my wine this evening, I'm reminded of that wise saying, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!" Truer words were never spoken!

Oh, and please please please do not serve that in the Panic Room next winter!

Yeah that was bad I know! After copying that image @H2O posted the other week to my phone, I then bleached it with @Mrs.J's recipes to make things safe again!

Since the COVID thread is locked (ironically on lockdown?), I'll re-visit some controversy here. Never forget, never repeat!

Fios finally came to where I'm living (suburban DC), at least finally in my apartment complex, about 2 years ago. What a huge difference that has made! I was using DSL right before that...seriously (yeah, I know!). Thank goodness we've got Fios now, with 3 people using the wireless with laptops (plus phones). It would have been really slooow if we still had to deal with DSL.

Wow...I don't know how they plan to do something for those who don't have internet, or really slow internet. MoCo did a similar thing with chromebooks, if you didn't have access to a computer they'd loan one of those to you. For awhile, they supplied pickup for paper assignments or lessons as needed, not sure if they're still doing that. I know a few schools here also have the meal pickup.

Well, glad to hear he can at least stay in touch with the one friend!!

My daughter is a junior in HS this year, and she's pretty well motivated too. Agree that it's definitely less than 100% of what they'd normally get in regular classes. She's even said that herself. I might go more with your 75%, from what I can tell in what she's doing, but that's just a guesstimate on my part. While there's a decent amount they can do "virtually", you certainly cannot get everything. Including a lot of 1-on-1 if needed, or collaborative type projects. I imagine tests and grading are more lax too, just due to the nature of being remote. I'm still waiting on if or how the AP exams will be given this year (that's a nationwide thing though).

Any way your son might possibly be able to see any of them perhaps sometime during the summer, if things are OK to do that by then? Or if he'll see any of them next year?

Thanks for the update @mappy. I am not surprised that the rest of this school year will remain virtual. At this point, the previous date of May 15 would only be ~4 weeks before the end of the year anyhow and I guess they've been doing OK with the distance stuff for the most part. Not perfect, but it seems to work at least for older students (just going by my own experience). Also, I'm sure trying to pack every school in the state with a ton of students would be a bridge too far in terms of "gradually" opening things back up. Hopefully by fall, maybe students will be able to return. I know my daughter in a lot of ways just misses having others around, socializing, etc. with them.

Ever stop by the main discussion threads during the winter? Snow becomes a proxy for politics! Just kidding! Seriously though, you're right...some of the stuff in the COVID thread has gotten even worse than the ugly commentary when winter events fail!

Good to hear! I'm doing fine, on mandatory telework which has worked out OK. I can imagine it's very odd seeing DC so quiet right downtown. Where I'm at, it's rather quiet as well. Kinda nice, actually. At least I've had a chance to get out with the camera and take many photos through all this...a sort of passion of mine. I still kind of owe you (and I'd like to do it anyhow) a photo either morning or evening when the sun is lower, of the marble bust of MLK at that memorial. I've walked by that in the past when the light was hitting it just right. I'm not actually sure if memorials and parks are open at this point...and I don't much care right now to Metro downtown. But, depending on how things go this summer, it's a goal of mine! I don't think the statue is going anywhere!

No idea how it all became political/partisan, really...oh well! But there is some good information in here to be sure, in spite of some of the sniping. Good to see you Randy...I hope you are doing well these days, despite all this going on!