Shut down leisure activities-what are y'all doing to pass the time?

[Kee]

Gambel's quail. We have 3 separate coveys on or around our property

We used to love watching them when we lived in Tucson. The mom with her chicks would walk single file on our cinder block fence, jump down to check out what had fallen down from the bird feeder. Instead of scratching with one claw, it looked like they were running in place, using both legs.

 

[kh54s10]

I work in a big box home improvement chain.. I will let you guess which one. Life is as normal I avoid large gatherings but everything else is as normal. In fact the last couple of weeks at work our sales have been way above normal.....

Life goes on.... for now.....

 

[matt_m]

For someone with staff, it's challenging to keep tabs on everyone's productivity, but on the other hand, I feel that this is not the right time to bust chops. I certainly want my boss to give me space, so I'm following suit.

We had a "town hall" meeting this afternoon and this theme came up a lot. Thanks to the openness of our management more than a couple people admitted distractions from families suddenly at home, home schooling, anxiety, internet issues, etc causing them to be distracted and working weird hours. I know personally I've suddenly jumped from trying to leave after a roughly 9 hour day to 10-12 hours but my productivity has not increased.

 

[OleBrewing]

Honestly my life style hasn't changed a whole lot. work is still open but with a higher awareness of sanitizing and shifted lunch breaks. other than that I go to the grocery store on weekends and do the normal shopping. there was a spurt of panic buying here but that has pretty much been it, grocery stores are still pretty well stocked. ND is adapted to a week shut down with blizzards etc. we will see what happens when there is more time tacked on.

 

[Deadalus]

Brewing and gardening. Planted 50 strawberry roots(?) this evening. I need to get 30 more to complete the bed.

 

[McKnuckle]

Man, I wish I could feel the relative normalcy that some of you are experiencing. As of today, March 25, there are "Stay at Home" orders in only 9 states: CA, NY, IL, CT, NJ, LA, OH, DE, MI.

For those of you not living in one of these places, you are probably still impacted. Your kids might be home; your workplace might have restrictions or even be closed... There is likely some prohibition on public gatherings, but not very disruptive ones for some people. The full effect hasn't hit you yet. Count your blessings (for now).

A Stay at Home order means you may leave your home only for essential reasons like buying food or medicine. Thank goodness we are still allowed out for walks or exercise, alone or with a family member. And the police don't seem to be checking randomly on people in cars, or arbitrarily hassling anyone, but I have noticed that they are out monitoring citizens' behavior in my suburban area.

The progression of these restrictions from here on out is uncertain. A lot depends on whether people comply, and if/when the infection rate eventually slows down. And my gut says that what we're enduring now in those 9 hard-hit states is going to find you, sooner or later, in the other 41. I sincerely hope I am wrong.

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw, Massachusetts has been in state-ordered shut-down since the 23rd...

 

[Deadalus]

I think you missed a few McKnuckle
https://www.channel3000.com/these-s...at-home-orders-heres-what-that-means-for-you/

think just MN is upcoming in that list. They all vary to some degree.

 

[mullet6577]

Man, I wish I could feel the relative normalcy that some of you are experiencing. As of today, March 25, there are "Stay at Home" orders in only 9 states: CA, NY, IL, CT, NJ, LA, OH, DE, MI.

TN (as of yesterday if I haven't completely forgotten what day it is) has issued a "safer at home" order. Basically a nicer way of saying keep your ass at home. I work for an "essential retailer" but am lucky enough to be able to work from home.

We picked my daughter up from college last Thursday, I've not left the house since we got back. I've made some beer, done a little bit of yard work, and a little bit of actual work. Other than that, I've been essentially bored out of my mind and reminded that there is NOTHING on TV during the day

 

[Deadalus]

Man, I wish I could feel the relative normalcy that some of you are experiencing. As of today, March 25, there are "Stay at Home" orders in only 9 states: CA, NY, IL, CT, NJ, LA, OH, DE, MI.

For those of you not living in one of these places, you are probably still impacted. Your kids might be home; your workplace might have restrictions or even be closed... There is likely some prohibition on public gatherings, but not very disruptive ones for some people. The full effect hasn't hit you yet. Count your blessings (for now).

A Stay at Home order means you may leave your home only for essential reasons like buying food or medicine. Thank goodness we are still allowed out for walks or exercise, alone or with a family member. And the police don't seem to be checking randomly on people in cars, or arbitrarily hassling anyone, but I have noticed that they are out monitoring citizens' behavior in my suburban area.

The progression of these restrictions from here on out is uncertain. A lot depends on whether people comply, and if/when the infection rate eventually slows down. And my gut says that what we're enduring now in those 9 hard-hit states is going to find you, sooner or later, in the other 41. I sincerely hope I am wrong.

My mom (NJ) got told to go home when she was parked in her car. She (77) and my step-dad (83) went for a drive and parked somewhere down the shore in a parking lot and they were reading in the car. Normally she said that lot is crazy full. The police officer asked them what they were doing. She said reading. He told them to go home. I told her she should have said they were necking. Then she said she should have said they were having a quickie.

She wasn't mad though, she says she might have missed the last announcement. They're both home now isolating. Reading and playing games on their tablets. She has a some outside plants to take care of too.

 

[OleBrewing]

The schools are shut down. Wife working at home. But will get daughter out fishing once ice melts. I am glad to live in lower population. I couldn't imagine the big cities.

 

[BruceH]

I work in a big box home improvement chain.. I will let you guess which one. Life is as normal I avoid large gatherings but everything else is as normal. In fact the last couple of weeks at work our sales have been way above normal.....

Life goes on.... for now.....

I was talking to another retired friend today. Lots of people painting their houses while on mandatory downtime. It's only March!

 

[BruceH]

The schools are shut down. Wife working at home. But will get daughter out fishing once ice melts. I am glad to live in lower population. I couldn't imagine the big cities.

Is that Jamestown ND? Home of 2lb Yellow Perch?

 

[OleBrewing]

Is that Jamestown ND? Home of 2lb Yellow Perch?

Yep. There are some football's here.

 

[grampamark]

 

[corkybstewart]

The schools are shut down. Wife working at home. But will get daughter out fishing once ice melts. I am glad to live in lower population. I couldn't imagine the big cities.

My wife works for the school system here, so she's off until April 6 so far, but in all reality, she's probably done for the year. That's nice because she's still paid full pay, and she doesn't have her 90 mile commute on a beautiful but wildlife infested highway. We live 13 miles from a town of 10,000 so it's very, very quiet out here except for the calls of the birds.

 

[McKnuckle]

I find it interesting that some of you seem to have schools closed, and no instruction is happening. Here in NJ, our schools are closed but we have online distance learning from 8-12 every day. It's not literally a "school's out for the summer" situation!

 

[corkybstewart]

I find it interesting that some of you seem to have schools closed, and no instruction is happening. Here in NJ, our schools are closed but we have online distance learning from 8-12 every day. It's not literally a "school's out for the summer" situation!

My wife is a school nurse so she has online meetings but doesn't participate actual learning activities.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I find it interesting that some of you seem to have schools closed, and no instruction is happening. Here in NJ, our schools are closed but we have online distance learning from 8-12 every day. It's not literally a "school's out for the summer" situation!

We don't have specific hours where there is teacher-led online instruction. It's basically self directed (or parent directed).

 

[BruceH]

FWIW www.duolingo.com is a nice way to pass some time and learn a few words and phrases in another language. It's free.

 

[kh54s10]

De[ending on the parents, many kids will be better off home schooling than they would be at public school.

 

[OleBrewing]

School in Jamestown ND was set up the first week for online stuff. The teachers took their spring break and first half week to get it done. Granted I don't think it's the highest curriculum but the governor set a deadline for submittals of curriculum for end of March. We will see how it goes.

 

[day_trippr]

My youngest kid matriculated out of the local school system in 1998, but even then the system took advantage of existing smack in the middle of a technology-oriented population (eg: a crapload of people here worked for Digital Equipment Corp at one time or another) with connectivity-oriented education opportunities. So it was no surprise to learn from my next door neighbors with two middle grade boys that they have a daily curricular-oriented regimen driven by the school via the web, complete with daily interactive sessions. Sorta like a class-wide Skype. Must be a riot.

These times are a bitch to have kids in school at any level. I don't envy the parents because someone still has to hover at home, but at least the kids are managing without losing a ton of progress...

Cheers!

 

[corkybstewart]

FWIW www.duolingo.com is a nice way to pass some time and learn a few words and phrases in another language. It's free.

Maybe, but very few parents are equipped to really teach a wide range of subjects. I had a homeschooling neighbor (one child had serious health issues) they did a phenomenal job. The mother of another friend did a horrible job schooling her youngest, basically all she did was claim to homeschool her so that she didn't have to go to school.

 

[BruceH]

Maybe, but very few parents are equipped to really teach a wide range of subjects. I had a homeschooling neighbor (one child had serious health issues) they did a phenomenal job. The mother of another friend did a horrible job schooling her youngest, basically all she did was claim to homeschool her so that she didn't have to go to school.

We had a neighbor who home schooled her kids. Ours were close in age but went to public school. The lady next door was busy all day long teaching curriculum and entertaining her kids. I wouldn't of been able to do it.

I stuck with the simple things like basic math and reading. They really enjoyed learning to read. Now they are independent adults and still talk about reading "Go dog go" when they were little, lol.

 

[corkybstewart]

We had a neighbor who home schooled her kids. Ours were close in age but went to public school. The lady next door was busy all day long teaching curriculum and entertaining her kids. I wouldn't of been able to do it.

I stuck with the simple things like basic math and reading. They really enjoyed learning to read. Now they are independent adults and still talk about reading "Go dog go" when they were little, lol.

I thought I was replying to Kh54s10

 

[BruceH]

I thought I was replying to Kh54s10

Lol, I have nothing better to do at the moment anyway.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

My youngest kid matriculated out of the local school system in 1998, but even then the system took advantage of existing smack in the middle of a technology-oriented population (eg: a crapload of people here worked for Digital Equipment Corp at one time or another) with connectivity-oriented education opportunities.

Hmm... Were you also part of that industry? We might know some of the same folks...

Maybe, but very few parents are equipped to really teach a wide range of subjects.

That may be true, and I think this whole mess is going to screw a bunch of people. They're going to realize that the substitute teacher (themselves) is a moron ;-)

But to be honest, I think I'd be capable of teaching my kids anything up through high school curriculum. For my own kids (youngest is 1st grade, oldest is 6th grade), it's basically wiffle ball.

 

[day_trippr]

Yes, I worked for Digital from 1980 through 2000 (including the Compaq then HP eras) when I was poached by Stratus.
I was in the Memory Systems group for most of that, then got snapped up by the Midrange Systems group for the rest.
Worked in Shrewsbury (SHR), then Marlboro (MRO) then Parker Street (PKO) then finally the Mill (MLO) on 5-5.
Worked with some talented people (and a lot of nitwit managers) and picked up almost a dozen patents along the way.
Heck of a ride...

Cheers!

 

[LittleRiver]

... a crapload of people here worked for Digital Equipment Corp at one time or another...

You've dredged up some ancient memories....I can almost remember the key sequence required to get a DEC PDP11/70 to boot.