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Another one here who feels fortunate not to have caught it yet (as far as I know), despite two close calls in the last few months. In May my son brought it home from school, eventually infecting both my wife and daughter. We were a COVID household for almost three weeks, but I managed to...

My family has been dealing with COVID for the first time over the last two weeks. My son brought it home from somewhere. Ironically, he tested positive on the day the WHO ended the world health emergency. Three days later my wife tested positive and three days after that my daughter tested...

Same here. We’ve been using them lately. My daughter (6th grade) had three separate close contact notices just last week and I was cleaning out my Mom’s garage with help from a neighbor a couple weeks ago and she tested positive 2 days later. So far, knock on wood, all our collective tests...

Kids’ school district decided this morning that they need a negative Covid test result to go back to school on Monday. Thanks for the heads up district! So now we are waiting in a long car line to get the kids tested. 90 minutes in and only half way through the line.

We are halfway through our second set of 100 KN95 masks purchased from that bonafidemasks.com website. Quite pleased with their quality and they also have child size for the kids (cloth masks).

Same for my wife and I. We went to the matinée showing on Monday in a Dolby Cinema theater with recliners. There were 15 people in an auditorium that seats 180. The ”Welcome Back” intro was nice.

We are two weeks out from our second shot today. Celebrating by hosting a family dinner with other vaccinated adults (and 4 unvaccinated children, can't wait until they can get their vaccines too).

Great news Robert. Must have made your Christmas morning. :dancing-banana-04:

Thinking about you and yours Robert. Hoping for the best.

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Re: the app. If the data are stored on gov’t servers, do you really trust them not to access it, given the recent DHS Portland experiences?

After several family discussions, both kids are signed up for distance learning this year. Their school offered a choice between a hybrid, on campus model and a distance learning model. The hybrid model split the in-person students up into a morning and an afternoon cohort. Both models have...

My wife and I are thinking about getting cutouts. Would be fun to see yourself out there and you get a tax deduction.

We ordered a bunch of tawny port bottles from total wine.com for delivery this morning. We got base, 10 year and 20 year from several different makers with the hope we’d have fun comparing and contrasting over the next few weeks. Anyway, one of the 20 year old port bottles was leaking from the...

Yeah, LA actually had the cleanest air of any urban area in the world a few weeks ago. It’s also been interesting reading about areas in India where they can see the Himalayas for the first time in 30+ years. And blue skies in China. There was an article a while back where the reporter asked...

A few weeks back, I had a hard time convincing my 85 year old mom that the social distancing directives were indeed necessary. I spoke with her and she said she’d been good but in the next sentence she said she’d been to see Onward in the theater with my brother and his family. She then said...

I had a dream last night where I could see the coronavirus. In the typical way of dreams, this did not make me feel better but rather massively more anxious.

I retired last year and one of the things I’ve wanted to do was upgrade my home theater equipment. I’d been researching my upgrades since last August and I placed my orders in January just before things went south. I’ve had contractors in and out of my house installing things. First round was...

My wife bought an oculus quest with the goal of keeping the kids amused while we are stuck at home. So far so good after Day 1 with lift. It’s too bad job simulator doesn’t pay by the hour.

I just have a bit of a fringe in back which I shave with a razor twice a week.

Not often I’m thankful for being bald...

My bidet seat installation didn’t go so well because I was missing a gasket. I called Koehler and they have the part on its way to me, but it probably won’t be here until Monday. Luckily we still have two working toilets in the house.

I know. Funny that we can find a bidet toilet seat but we can’t find toilet paper.

All our local parks and nature preserves shut down 2 days ago because people had been gathering there in numbers too large to enforce social distancing. We have been going to our local botanical garden to get exercise every day. It is rather large, with a perimeter lap a little over a mile in...

My afternoon project is to install a bidet toilet seat. It’s been sitting in our package quarantine zone in the front entry for the last couple of days so should be okay now. The hope is that this reduces our family’s TP consumption - we have about a week’s supply left from our pre-shutdown...

Two carts?