MHZ, black hole is a perfect description! For instance, got nowhere yesterday, no one is answering the phone and websites get you nowhere. So glad my tax dollars go to this.......
Stevendabudgie, you bring up an excellent point about the asymptomatic cases. I only have the one area of Florida I can speak of but it is the largest hospital in that state and ranked in the top 10 in the nation for various departments. Their ICU's are near full capacity BUT that includes 1 unit that has been close to full of COVID patients since the beginning and 1 more that is nearing capacity now. The news implies Florida is being overrun with COVID due to the numbers but, obviously, not in the hospitals (yet). One can only assume that these numbers are highly asymptomatic then but they are not reporting that. My daughter says their biggest problem right now is a staffing shortage due to self-quarantine. Apparently, a lot of staff have been exposed though she doesn't know where (beaches, work, etc). It's nothing they can't handle right now but, if those cases become symptomatic.....yikes! I love your travel ideas. Up until my kids were grown, we spent a lot of vacations at national parks or beach destinations in the US. When they were old enough, the hubby and I started to hit islands (I'm a beach baby!). Now that my kids are fully grown and have an income, we are starting to plan the big ones. Of course, this year would've been the start and you all know how that is going! I have high hopes of hitting a lot of areas in Europe when we can, Australia and a few more islands. And I WILL get to a bday celebration in Montreux someday even if we hit the area this year!!!
Katy, glad I'm not the only one that felt intimidated on queenchat! I haven't spent much time on there but, each time I feel like that and do prefer our less "detail oriented" discussions here lol! I saw that discussion on the outfits and my head started to spin a little ;)
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Oh Steven, I really hope you get to come and see some of the US! It is SO beautiful....the Rocky Mountains are amazing, it just takes your breath away. Yellowstone is gorgeous too, just seeing Old Faithful erupting is a thrill, and there are mud pools all around it. The wildlife you can see will amaze you too. I was really fortunate as a kid my parents took my brother and I on vacations and drove all these places, we didn’t have much money so we camped in a tent the whole way. They are the best memories! From childhood my dream was always to live alone on a mountain top with a horse farm! I still aspire to that, I really am a hermit, lol! I have returned as an adult so I could fully appreciate it, and I still love it just as much.
I have been many places, outside the US, mostly because of my work. I went to Germany many times and I love it there. Berlin is lovely, that is where I went for work. But I did visit the southern part in Bavaria, my son was in the army and stationed at (pardon me as I butcher this spelling) Grafenwoer. We visited him a few times and that countryside is so pretty. We drove around to Amburg, Nuremberg, and Munich, saw some of the old castles and even got to a Christmas market which was fantastic. I could easily live there. Now that I am retired, I wish I had taken advantage of the trips I had for work, and had gotten out to see more sites. My trips were always so full of work though, and with jet lag it was hard to work up the energy. I should have forced myself!
Amidds, it is interesting that the hospitals are not completely full in your part of Florida yet, when I listen to the news it sounds like they are all bursting and at emergency status. The news just isn’t as straight forward as it used to be, I would like to have Walter Cronkite back! : D
I have been many places, outside the US, mostly because of my work. I went to Germany many times and I love it there. Berlin is lovely, that is where I went for work. But I did visit the southern part in Bavaria, my son was in the army and stationed at (pardon me as I butcher this spelling) Grafenwoer. We visited him a few times and that countryside is so pretty. We drove around to Amburg, Nuremberg, and Munich, saw some of the old castles and even got to a Christmas market which was fantastic. I could easily live there. Now that I am retired, I wish I had taken advantage of the trips I had for work, and had gotten out to see more sites. My trips were always so full of work though, and with jet lag it was hard to work up the energy. I should have forced myself!
Amidds, it is interesting that the hospitals are not completely full in your part of Florida yet, when I listen to the news it sounds like they are all bursting and at emergency status. The news just isn’t as straight forward as it used to be, I would like to have Walter Cronkite back! : D
What a day....
I was THRILLED to finally get my Guitar World magazine with Brian on the cover! I've only had time to glance at it...looks like there are a lot of pages dedicated to Brian, so that's exciting.
Was also happy to read Thor and Lee's update today. Things are moving along. So looking forward to their book...I don't care when it comes out!
Finally...I just found out today that the agency I work for has to reduce our hours due to some complicated stuff that has to do with our grant (I work for a not-for-profit agency that is largely funded through grants) We will be in some kind of Work-Share program. Not sure what it all means yet... except a smaller paycheck. Our hours could be cut anywhere from 20%-60%. We will find out next week. This could last for a couple of weeks...or months. Nobody knows.
I was THRILLED to finally get my Guitar World magazine with Brian on the cover! I've only had time to glance at it...looks like there are a lot of pages dedicated to Brian, so that's exciting.
Was also happy to read Thor and Lee's update today. Things are moving along. So looking forward to their book...I don't care when it comes out!
Finally...I just found out today that the agency I work for has to reduce our hours due to some complicated stuff that has to do with our grant (I work for a not-for-profit agency that is largely funded through grants) We will be in some kind of Work-Share program. Not sure what it all means yet... except a smaller paycheck. Our hours could be cut anywhere from 20%-60%. We will find out next week. This could last for a couple of weeks...or months. Nobody knows.
Oh wow Rainbow, sorry to hear about your job. Is this due to the pandemic?
I was excited to read Thor's update too! Progress! I wonder if this is the first time the guys have gotten together this year. I hope they can enjoy the time!
I was excited to read Thor's update too! Progress! I wonder if this is the first time the guys have gotten together this year. I hope they can enjoy the time!
Steven, Thank You for the concern about my daughter I will try to post here a little more often since I won’t be on twitter after my experience with the adult photographer pervert lol. I didn’t realize how crazy people are a guy messaged me wanted me to take some pics for him .Since I’m in a wheelchair I thought that would detour him . Well it didn’t he said from the waist up.I said well how old are you clients he said not over 30. I laughed I told him I’m 47 dumbass sorry can’t help you. He then says oh but I thought you were much younger okay then I have to get rude and it wasn’t nice from there on. He was probably some old fat bald dude wacking off on the other side of the screen lol.Some sick people.
Rainbow, I’m sorry about your job too! I hope things soon resolve themselves. The place where I used to work before I couldn’t work anymore had to let all their car salesmen but 2 go and a fleet of cars returned because they just aren’t selling cars.Its tough on everyone we aren’t alone that’s for sure my prayers are with you and yours.
Rainbow, so sorry to hear about your job!!! I hope everything works out! I suppose we could say at least you're working but, really, those platitudes don't help when your funds get cut :( I just read a story about a guy in California that applied for unemployment in early March and got denied because they can't verify his identity. Apparently, the driver's license, utility bill, passport, birth certificate and lease weren't enough proof so he gets nothing and is suffering tremendously. Thanks government!! Umm....that wasn't very encouraging was it? Sorry, I'm just getting so sick of how many people are getting the short end of the stick.
I was excited to hear the update from Thor!! I know he has no control over the situation but that book has become one of the bright spots of this year for me and I'm very anxious to see it!!
Anyone interested in a Fl COVID update: talked to my lovely, overworked daughter yesterday. She said they are just now seeing effects from the uptick in COVID patients. Interesting thing is, they are mostly asymptomatic, undiagnosed patients. Small verification of our previous conversation speculating over this exact thing. So, what's happening is, they have 2 units full of known COVID patients but the hospital hasn't had to flip any other units over and those units are being used for their intended purposes (NICU, PACU, Labor/delivery, etc). Now, however, the patients coming in for other reasons besides COVID are being tested (SOP) and coming up positive at an increasingly higher rate. The worst part of that is, the healthcare workers may/may not be utilizing all the PPE assuming these patients are COVID free and may have been exposed. Of course, this brings up the question of "why aren't you always using the PPE as a matter of protection?" and I guess it's a balance between conserving the supplies so they have them when they need them vs. being overprotective. Just shaking my head.....
I was excited to hear the update from Thor!! I know he has no control over the situation but that book has become one of the bright spots of this year for me and I'm very anxious to see it!!
Anyone interested in a Fl COVID update: talked to my lovely, overworked daughter yesterday. She said they are just now seeing effects from the uptick in COVID patients. Interesting thing is, they are mostly asymptomatic, undiagnosed patients. Small verification of our previous conversation speculating over this exact thing. So, what's happening is, they have 2 units full of known COVID patients but the hospital hasn't had to flip any other units over and those units are being used for their intended purposes (NICU, PACU, Labor/delivery, etc). Now, however, the patients coming in for other reasons besides COVID are being tested (SOP) and coming up positive at an increasingly higher rate. The worst part of that is, the healthcare workers may/may not be utilizing all the PPE assuming these patients are COVID free and may have been exposed. Of course, this brings up the question of "why aren't you always using the PPE as a matter of protection?" and I guess it's a balance between conserving the supplies so they have them when they need them vs. being overprotective. Just shaking my head.....
Amidds, I totally agree let the man have his money unemployment isn’t much anyway but it’s a lot when you have nothing. Our government can be so twisted I was watching something on tv last night and the government was paying welfare benefits for a family equaling 100,000 dollar salary job. Their housing was paid for and food on top of that. They had 2 kids already aged out of the system and they had kids on welfare that was paying them over 60, 000 a year. I know in a lot of states this doesn’t seem like a lot but in my state this is a lot of money and people work actual jobs for these amounts of money. But our government won’t help a displaced worker that’s shameful and in California he will be lucky if he doesn’t end up in a tent. I heard it’s very expensive.
Amidds, I feel your frustration. My county just went to mandatory masks and people are fighting it. It's gotten ridiculous and almost scary to go out because you never know when someone is going to lash out. I had a check-up visit with my doctor yesterday and he told me not to go out for any reason because infection is on the rise here. I told him grocery shopping was my only outside activity and he told me that was fine, but to get there early and get in and out quickly which I was already doing. I might have mentioned that I haven't seen my oldest son since Christmas. He and his family went to visit his in-laws in Florida in May so we were waiting two weeks when they got back before seeing them. For whatever reason we didn't get that visit in and now they are going to Gatlinburg, Tennessee for a quick vacation . Are you kidding me???It's so hard for me not to have something to say about all of the decisions they are making.
Steven, I went through the photo album I made when I was in Germany and almost nothing is labeled! What could I have been thinking? Apparently I expected to remember everything and I now know how foolish that was. Our friends lived in Glasshutten, so I know we saw that town and also Frankfort. We visited other friends in Hamburg. Based on a postcard of Heidlebiurg at the beginning of one section of the album, we were there, but none of the sights we saw are labeled. There is a castle and a lot of churches. i know that doesn't tell you much. We saw one old town, Rothenburg, that had a lot of Christmas shops. It wasn't exactly a Christmas market that MHZ mentioned, but it was lovely. I have a lot of German Christmas decorations that I got while there. I have great memories of the visit, I just don't know exactly where I was some of the time. ( Eye-rolling emoji here.) I think I'd be a much better traveler now.
Steven, I went through the photo album I made when I was in Germany and almost nothing is labeled! What could I have been thinking? Apparently I expected to remember everything and I now know how foolish that was. Our friends lived in Glasshutten, so I know we saw that town and also Frankfort. We visited other friends in Hamburg. Based on a postcard of Heidlebiurg at the beginning of one section of the album, we were there, but none of the sights we saw are labeled. There is a castle and a lot of churches. i know that doesn't tell you much. We saw one old town, Rothenburg, that had a lot of Christmas shops. It wasn't exactly a Christmas market that MHZ mentioned, but it was lovely. I have a lot of German Christmas decorations that I got while there. I have great memories of the visit, I just don't know exactly where I was some of the time. ( Eye-rolling emoji here.) I think I'd be a much better traveler now.
Why are people driving in their own cars with gloves and masks on their faces?????
Chevy, do you know what you were watching? I don't doubt you cause it sounds like the government but I'd be interested in sourcing that. There is so much good to be done with all that money that flows through politicians fingers.....
Katy, I can't even say anything negative about your son since I am obviously planning a Paris/Montreux trip and my daughter is (maybe) coming home next week. I really get the need to do something that alleviates the stress and hopefully everyone is really careful! That being said, I still have no gone anywhere unless it's a necessity. Heck, I'm still paying the extra for GrubHub so I don't have to run in a restaurant on the nights we don't feel like cooking. I am a very (ahem) frugal person so, that should tell you something! Re: your pics - I did that a couple of times and it killed me. Now I obsessively mark the pics as soon as I get them. My kids laugh but I learned that lesson!!!
Guess what? Bet you all thought I'd forget about the Beatles stuff! I remembered! Unfortunately, my memory is a little off cause I only have 3 Beatles items left. The rest of the box I have is all Dr. Who stuff. I will post the pics of the three items and if anyone is interested, DM me and I will mail them to you. And if anyone is interested in Dr. Who stuff let me know as well (mostly books and picture discs). Oh, and don't laugh at the quality of the pics, I literally had to go in our semi-dark crawl space for these. Best part is....every time I go up there, I hit my head on the light fixtures! My hubby calls me Calamity Jane lol.
Katy, I can't even say anything negative about your son since I am obviously planning a Paris/Montreux trip and my daughter is (maybe) coming home next week. I really get the need to do something that alleviates the stress and hopefully everyone is really careful! That being said, I still have no gone anywhere unless it's a necessity. Heck, I'm still paying the extra for GrubHub so I don't have to run in a restaurant on the nights we don't feel like cooking. I am a very (ahem) frugal person so, that should tell you something! Re: your pics - I did that a couple of times and it killed me. Now I obsessively mark the pics as soon as I get them. My kids laugh but I learned that lesson!!!
Guess what? Bet you all thought I'd forget about the Beatles stuff! I remembered! Unfortunately, my memory is a little off cause I only have 3 Beatles items left. The rest of the box I have is all Dr. Who stuff. I will post the pics of the three items and if anyone is interested, DM me and I will mail them to you. And if anyone is interested in Dr. Who stuff let me know as well (mostly books and picture discs). Oh, and don't laugh at the quality of the pics, I literally had to go in our semi-dark crawl space for these. Best part is....every time I go up there, I hit my head on the light fixtures! My hubby calls me Calamity Jane lol.
Guess it will only let me do one at a time....
Amidds, It’s called benefits Britain life on the dole it’s on utube. I was just so annoyed beyond words.