I've been going a little nuts out of boredom after the governor shut down schools, thus making me unable to work. More so, after the governor ordered essentially a state shut down and issued a stay a home order.
To try and stay somewhat sane I've been watching a lot of movies, repeatedly checking my work email and see if more sub teaching gigs are available when schools are supposed to reopen.
Smoking pot.
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Fennel seeds left over from last year, & we've had an unusually mild winter, so I got started early...
It's a bag of about a thousand, so I've been planting maybe five to ten each day over the last few days so I don't run out all at once......
Also took my camera out today & took some pictures of a couple spaces I want to clear, a couple privets I want to cut down, & a few stumps that need killing.
My neighbor also gave me a few new plants that produce purple flowers, & I need to figure out where I want to put them.
Sometimes I feel a bit antsy but I'm far from going nuts (I think). I'm staying home for the next 18 days, followed by 3 days work then 5 days home.
I also watch movies and I'm online quite a bit, and I'm texting or video chatting with the family on my cell phone. And yeah, I've been also cooking much moree than usual.
I need to find my Zoom H4n Or the microphone capsules for my Zoom H5 & rethink that notion I had for a home voice over studio I've always had...
I also need to find the title to my '82 Honda Urban Express, & get all the spare parts together so I can sell it..... I've gone the moped route & didn't like it, & would like to find a cheap 250-450.......
I'm running seven classes from home, online, grading papers and doing ZOOM meetings with my students and co-workers.
When I'm not doing that, I walk outside on my place, play with the goats, and watch a lot of YouTube and bad movies.
Doing craft-type projects for my wargaming, playing board games and listening to music.
Still able to work. But making YouTube videos of Intellivision game reviews at home.
Playing videogames like crazy, and finished working on my third book. This is pretty much vacations to me.
Playing video games, binge watching some tv, going to work
Working from home Monday - Friday.
Playing board games (solo or with my wife)
Reading (books and comics)
Watching movies
Actually, the same stuff I did before the pandemic . . .
other than curtis being home all day, our lives haven't changed much. he's into his second week of furlough now, and is going on a weird cleaning binge, which i greatly appreciate, lol! tomorrow and friday we'll finish cleaning out the flower beds. :cheers:
Beer, heavy metal, movies.
I just taught a 45 minute ZOOM lesson to my 8th graders. SO fun!!!
I miss those guys so much, though. It's nice to see their faces, but not being in the room with them sucks.
Quote from: indianasmith on April 07, 2020, 11:32:47 PM
I'm running seven classes from home, online, grading papers and doing ZOOM meetings with my students and co-workers.
When I'm not doing that, I walk outside on my place, play with the goats, and watch a lot of YouTube and bad movies.
You have goats? That is awesome. One of our neighbors had goats and I used to really delight in feeding those guys leaves. They wer really friendly. (Unlike that llama they had though... that guy was an a***ole!)
I'm still lucky to have 1 of my jobs... I got cut back.
but for now...
I'm playing video games and fixing up the car
I made this pipe out of an old sink faucet-
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^ thats pretty good
I wake up at like noon everyday, do a few uber rides. I'm not making much money, normally I can do like 25 -30 dollars an hour riding yuppies around Boston but its much much less now. doing it more out of habit than anything.
I got this poster in the mail yesteday- I added color and hung it up on my computer room door today!
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Quote from: RCMerchant on April 08, 2020, 08:09:04 PM
I made this pipe out of an old sink faucet-
(https://i.imgur.com/IOfcpR9.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/vVYDvyf.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
:buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
I'm impressed
^ Desperate times call for desperate measures! :twirl: I was out of papers and couldn't find my pipe.
Tiana found this 3 years ago digging to plant flowers on the side of the house.
I used blue pipe tape on top- there's a split. It could be used as a carbarator- but I taped over it to make the fat section of the pipe be a chamber. The faucet handle on the bottom works. You can narrow the intake of smoke- like a rifle- or just shotgun it . I generally shotgun, myself. I'm going to improve on it. I'll get some muffler repair, and seal the cracks. I'll get some metal screen to replace the piece of tinfoil I have in the bowl poked with a sewing pin.
I'm working on my transcription project - newsreels - as well as my book.
I'm actually feeling a little like Matt Dillon in Wayward Pines when he asks Terrence Howard "How do I get out of here?" and Terence replies "You don't." :buggedout: :buggedout:
Lately, I washed and waxed my car. Then (pre full lockdown) it rained like muddy sludge, so I had to wash the car again.
Been catching up on pending projects, looking into new clients that can operate within economic lockdown, and finding the time to exercise, clean up the garden, sort out the garage... Oh wait, those are the things I've been doing to put off doing work, hahaha.
Eight house cats.
One laser pointer.
Cats DO hunt in packs!
Yesterday, I cut down two privets that I cut down last year.
This year, I'm trying stump killer.
Today, I need to chop up an awful lot of debris........
cerb, if all else fails, drill a hole in the stump and dump in red devil lye. that was what it took to finally kill the lilacs at my dad's house.
Quote from: chefzombie on April 10, 2020, 06:44:25 PM
cerb, if all else fails, drill a hole in the stump and dump in red devil lye. that was what it took to finally kill the lilacs at my dad's house.
TNX 4 the tip!
I drilled holes in them yesterday before using the stump killer...
I spent most of today trying to cut up the branches small enough to fit into a couple lawn & leaf bags, but I still have a ways to go, & discovered a few more stumps in the process....
Riding my bicycle around the area.
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Gave myself a quarantine haircut too. Shaved it all off. That way it'll be a couple months before it's ready again and by then hopefully I can get a regular haircut.
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 10, 2020, 07:52:15 PM
Quote from: chefzombie on April 10, 2020, 06:44:25 PM
cerb, if all else fails, drill a hole in the stump and dump in red devil lye. that was what it took to finally kill the lilacs at my dad's house.
TNX 4 the tip!
I drilled holes in them yesterday before using the stump killer...
I spent most of today trying to cut up the branches small enough to fit into a couple lawn & leaf bags, but I still have a ways to go, & discovered a few more stumps in the process....
you're very welcome! all of us kids had SERIOUS allergies with the lilacs, so did my momma, and he cut them down for like 5 year after they bought the house, and they grew up BIGGER every year. he got so disgusted that he figured he'd try the lye, and it worked, they never grew back.
it worked on the yew hedge at my grampa's house in kansas too, and the invasive red cedar.
Quote from: chefzombie on April 10, 2020, 09:05:57 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 10, 2020, 07:52:15 PM
Quote from: chefzombie on April 10, 2020, 06:44:25 PM
cerb, if all else fails, drill a hole in the stump and dump in red devil lye. that was what it took to finally kill the lilacs at my dad's house.
TNX 4 the tip!
I drilled holes in them yesterday before using the stump killer...
I spent most of today trying to cut up the branches small enough to fit into a couple lawn & leaf bags, but I still have a ways to go, & discovered a few more stumps in the process....
you're very welcome! all of us kids had SERIOUS allergies with the lilacs, so did my momma, and he cut them down for like 5 year after they bought the house, and they grew up BIGGER every year. he got so disgusted that he figured he'd try the lye, and it worked, they never grew back.
it worked on the yew hedge at my grampa's house in kansas too, and the invasive red cedar.
Do you guys have any advice for burrs? They're all over my yard and my big goofy dog keeps getting covered in them. We've been trying to tear them out for years but I think we're just pruning them and making them stronger.
As for what I'm doing to stay sane? Trying to think ahead of the things I will tell myself "I wish I did that during the pandemic!". So we're trying to work on our bathroom but I've realized there are no nice & affordable bathtubs that fit in a 58" x 33" space. I'm also fortunate enough to be locked up with a family and dogs that never give me a break.
yupper, sure do! VINEGAR! fill up a spray bottle and douse those suckers every day for a week, they'll croak off and the vinegar won't hurt your grass. i recommend white vinegar so the dogs won't try to eat them. :cheers:
I started playing DARK SOULS II again. I've only done one full playthrough of the game and enjoyed it immensely.
Looking forward to tackling it again!
I started reading 'Julia' by Peter Straub. So far, it's excellent.