@Acadian: Oh, so sorry you lost Acadian Sr.! He's been in my thoughts a great deal lately, especially now that I'm dealing with my mom hitting 85 and starting to show age related issues - she is more frail, it takes her longer to do housecleaning, etc. She has severe vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa, and has moderate hearing loss that is only partly alleviated by the cheap hearing aids she got a year ago. I'm glad you got to see him not so long ago, he sounds like a special guy. You have been blessed to have had him as long as you have, and I like to imagine him living on in you, much as Acadian lives on within Buffy.

Sorry to hear about the senior pilot Acadian. I guess he's off to fly with Greg Boyington and the rest of the Black Sheep in that squadron in the sky. May we all live as long and interesting lives as he!

Thank you, friends. Though his mind remained sharp, the darn body kept forcing more and more limitations upon him. Mostly, I'm glad that he is now free of those limitations.

Thanks a lot, Decrepit. Maybe now you don't feel so old


Yes, no more limits for Acadian Sr. Not even the sky

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'Today is the 16th of Sun's Dawn, a holiday celebrated all over Tamriel as Heart's Day. It seems that in every house, the Legend of the Lovers is being sung for the younger generation. In honor of these Lovers, Polydor and Eloisa, the inns of the city offer a free room for visitors. If such kindness had been given the Lovers, it is said, it would always be springtime in the world.' - UESP Lore

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Oh! How nice of Oblivion Buffy to pop in! It has been far too long!

Happy Valen-heart's Day!

D'AAAAAWWWWW!!! Oblivion Buffy!!!! Thank you for the gift, Buffy; and Happy Heart's Day to all of Chorrol!!!

Woke up this morning and having coffee and sausage for breakfast.

Giving myself my sixth IgG infusion as I type this today. I've been doing this every two weeks on Sunday for the past three and a half months. Tomorrow I go back to my immunologist and we'll see how much this has been helping. I still feel about the same, having trouble with reflux and mucus (both nose and lungs, ugh). But I did notice that when I got my cold right before Christmas, I bounced back from it within a couple of days. That is a HUGE improvement over last winter, when I would be out for two weeks just getting over it.

With the novel coronavirus going around (at least two in the Chicago area), I've been very diligent about washing my hands at work. Also, my company instituted a new cleaning policy for the duration - wiping everything down twice daily with 70% isopropyl alcohol, which does a lot to ease my own mind about potential exposure. Now if I can just keep those unvaccinated kids away from me . . .

As I am typing this, I am mere seconds away from a cup of coffee and my sixth (6) for the season

I've been watching that count slowly rise.

I'm glad I have a job where I take 14.000 steps per day or I'd be rolling by now

Well, it would be prudent to avoid exceeding max gross takeoff weight - whatever that might be for a crow.

Is that an English or an African crow? Or perhaps Scandinavian?

If work life ever slows down, I might get back to actual life.

I'm so happy to hear you kicked that cold out so quickly; because I remember how you were suffering from everything just a year ago! I hope the improvements continue.

Doorknobs and shopping carts are the absolute worst places for germs to spread during flu season; don't be afraid to use a tissue/paper towel/or surgical gloves when outside your home. You can't afford a flu with your lungs!







In honor of your indulging yourself on sweets; I ate a piece of cake today, lol.









WOO HOO! That would mean a long (and well deserved) vacation coming!

This is for Treydoggie:


Weather in Tennessee:

Winter is at 6am. Spring starts at 10am. Summer is at 2pm and Fall is around 4:30ish. Dress accordingly.

The reverse happened for us yesterday!!

On a more serious note: I've been watching the novel coronavirus since it first broke out in Wuhan (old habits die hard; I followed emergent diseases as a veterinarian because I understand how such things spread and affect various areas). Because of my respiratory disease and immune deficiency, new diseases are of great concern to me. I was pleased when my employer instituted additional cleaning/disinfecting protocol globally (they are a global corporation) as soon as China imposed travel sanctions over a month ago. I even saw addition cleaning crew in my store hired just to wipe down every high touch surface (doors, tables, chairs, etc) through out the entire workday, and we ourselves began wiping down all the electronics in the store with 70% alcohol twice daily. I felt safe while watching the spread of the novel coronavirus to the US, and even though as of yesterday Illinois has 46 cases (one in my home county and four in the suburb just down the main drag from my store). Today as I was preparing to leave for work, I got a text from my manager: the stores in my area, including mine, are closing down for two weeks. The best part? We all STILL GET PAID for our scheduled hours! So while I'm concerned about my 85 year old mother and myself becoming infected, I'm VERY proud of my employer's response to the pandemic.

Here's positive thoughts to all of us here at Chorrol coming through this alive and relatively unscathed.

Congrats on being in a relatively good situation (all things concerned) during this mess! I too am concerned for myself, due to age and health issues. Ironically, I'm being scheduled for repeat visits to a big Clinic in my area, for what I feel is a non-essential health concern (sleep apnea, which I'm pretty sure I don't have). These are to take place within the next several weeks. Seems to me this poses an unnecessary risk of being exposed to C-19 for something not a life-or-death matter. But what do know?

Made an emergency trip to Wally World yesterday to pick up OTC meds needed in case i catch the virus, after receiving an email on the subject from that same clinic. Glad I went when I did. Their OTC med shelves had been hit pretty hard. Sadly, I didn't think to buy t-paper, not realizing it is now in great demand. As of now, I've one full roll and a partial roll. Hope there's some in stock when I make my next grocery run this coming Monday. It dawns on me to regret that the US has never taken to bidets.

Stay healthy everyone!

Sleep Apnea actually will kill you if left untreated. It damages your heart, brain, organs = and takes your health down in so many areas at once that it can cripple your health in short order; and the damage it does is irreversible.

That said, I agree with you that it isn't a good time to be doing the tests. I hope both you and Haute both take extra precautions with your health!

My unscientific, not-a-doctor-nor-do-I-play-one-on-TV advice is....

Stay home if you can; read Chorrol; watch Netflix-Prime-YouTube; play video games.

In all seriousness, stay safe, everyone.

Quite difficult to make pallets from home..

Good advice though and keep those paws washed!

I'm home this afternoon instead of at a cafe write-in. Allergy season is not the time to count on that sneeze really really just being allergies.

Don't think sneezing is on the symptoms list. It's a lung infection, not a head cold.

Still, staying home is a good idea.

I don't know that....AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

Sakiri, I just noticed your sig and I have recently become obsessed with that song!

That band is great.

^^

Anyone got some toilet paper?

My home state is about to go on lockdown tomorrow. I've ordered pet food and cat litter from the pet store, and I am ordering alcohol from the local Binny's all to be delivered. We're good on TP, but are down to one egg. Should I hatch that egg and try to get the little chick to lay more eggs for us?

Can't you just do what Rider did and order some kitty litter from the pet store?

Yep we are also on lockdown. I had to run to the store to get some cat litter (which of course resulted in me spending $120 because I saw other useful things) and the ladies in front of me in line had no idea about that being a thing.

Late last night, my friend who works at a poke restaurant brought me a literal tub of Thai tea.

No lockdown here. In fact, Anders Tegnell has decided we don't need to do anything.

[sarcasm]
I feel so safe!
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And so even though we're on lockdown, we're still allowed to go to the store and all that. I needed some turtle filters and I passed by the local skate park.

Which is packed. As usual.

Still going to work, even as our management keeps sending out emails about how much they "value" us.

I figure most of the rest of folks around here are huddling in their toilet paper fortresses, clutching their guns and guzzling Diet Coke....

I was one of those people "too essential" to work from home until last night. When my boss called me and told me not to come in. I still work, just from home now. The rest of my company has been doing that since last Friday. I think it is because someone tested positive at the site. But of course they are not going to tell us that. I know one of our assembly plants was shut down today because someone working there tested positive. I honestly learn more from watching the news and just looking around with my own eyes than I ever do from my company itself.

It is like two years ago when we got hit with a serious virus (the computer kind). Our data centers have good enough security that we kept it out. But our plants do not. That would cost money after all. So they were hit hard. I think it was ransomware, and I think the company paid. They refuse to acknowledge anything ever happened.

I consider myself fortunate that I work for a company that ACTUALLY CARES. The very same day our CEO sent out a letter to that effect, I was told to stay home and collect leave of extreme conditions pay for the two days the store stayed open on limited support (order pickup and tech support only). Now the company is paying me for scheduled time even though I’m at home. My manager told me after the store reopens, if I still didn’t feel safe with my health issues, I could continue collecting extreme conditions pay. She would approve it all.

I know that’s not the norm, and I am very lucky to have this job with this company.

Yeah I got some of the White gold, Dixie Tea .

I got an email a bit ago saying I'm supposed to be going back to work on the 30th because education is deemed essential. But there will be no students. So I'll be a tutor, with no one to tutor. And this school is a low income demographic and the kids do not all have their own chromebooks anymore, so it's not guaranteeds to be online help. I guess I'll find out what exactly I'll be doing then 🤷🏽‍♀️

That is so kind of them!!!





Now I won't be able to get that song out of my head, lol.





Aw, that school needs donations for those children that don't have laptops so they don't get behind their class on their school work.

In other news, the migration board needs my passport for my citizenship application. Yay.

They had them last year but middle schoolers + hormones + curiosity + internet was causing too many issues, so they decided not to send the laptops home with the kids this year. I'm wondering if part of my job for April will be getting the laptops to the kids because now they aren't coming back until May 5th.

Yeah, they have to have some way to keep the kids on schedule for their graduations. There have been several schools running their classes online since this happened and they realized it was going to be an extended shut down; but there has to be a program in place for children that don't have access to the internet, too.

Hopefully this means you'll get permanent status!