Shelter From the Storm! (Bay Area on House Arrest!)

[edwardofhuncote]

How did I not know that, Ken?!  Wow, congrats on the timely retirement, and amen to quality time with the Alembics. I took my Virginia Class 1 Waterworks Operators exam with the Sacramento Manuals. Sooo long ago. I thought about dual liscensure once, but after I got into membrane filtration it swallowed up all available RAM.


Good for you. 

[cozmik_cowboy]

Congrats, Ken!  Retirement is the best; I wish I'd done it 30 years earlier.

My biggest problem right now is the library is closed!!  Just started a revisit of Urusla K. LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy (I think I was in high school the last time I read it); after I guess I'll be up in the attic going the boxes of stuff that I don't have room on my bookshelves for (hmmm - wonder if I still have The Stand...............)



Peter

[kenbass4]

Greg, not your fault, I really haven't been posting much the last several years, and you're a relative newcomer compared to me ( I was in the club before Bill!). I've been more of a lurker lately, but hey, I'll have more time after next week!
Peter, yeah, if I could have retired 30 years ago and still bought the Alembics...

[David Houck]

...  I'm retiring next week! Not going to be taking any trips but will get quality time with the Alembics

Congrats!!!

[pauldo]

Ken I am very happy for you and rather green with envy... good one on ya!

Peter - LeGuin is one of my favorite writers she reached a level that was transformative for me.  My introduction to her was during high school, my brother and I finished some "recreational activity" and went inside to find The Lathe of Heaven was on TV!  Immediately after went to the library and got the book.  Earthsea is epic.

Paul (who has been meaning to revisit Asimov's Foundation series)

[lbpesq]

In the club before me, Ken?   Heck I’m a newcomer compared to some other regulars.  This is just a great place to hang out, so many of us never leave.  Retiring?  Congrats.   I don’t think I’ll ever be able to retire but, to be honest, after staying at home for most of the last 1.5 weeks, I think retirement would drive me nuts! 

Bill, tgo

[kenbass4]

Paul, yeah, I just pulled Foundation off the shelf myself.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Foundation is 3 books from Earthsea on my shelf - but I'll probably go to the end of the shelf and give The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings yet another go before I turn to Isaac.


And if this really stretches out, there's always my great-grandfather's Harvard Classics (also known as the Harvard 5-Foot Shelf; 50 volumes of, well, classics, closely related to Hutchins & Adler's Great Books).  I've been to get to those since I was a teen - even before I went to a Great Books-based college.
Peter

[peoplechipper]

I'll have to check out Earthsea sometime but I already have about 40 books in the hopper to read; just finished Agency by William Gibson, part of a trilogy with The Peripheral...excellent books and I can't wait for the third book to be released; he lives here in Vancouver and if he doesn't hurry up I'll protest at his house and make him feel uncomfortable or something.

haven't read Foundation in some time but I liked it and always remembered 'violence is the last resort of the incompetent'...Tony

[edwardofhuncote]

One thing I added to the bugout bag, for in case I get locked in here at work - a couple good books that were Christmas gifts from [victoriaofderby]... I never seem to find time to read them when I'm at home, or when I do, this weird thing happens where I start uncontrollably falling asleep.    On our daily tag-up text yesterday, she was reading some Tolkien thing... that girl is weirder than me! 

[keith_h]

My county's stay at home order goes into effect at 5PM today. A couple of other towns and counties that make up our metro area have also put them in place. My guess is it won't be long before the Governor locks down the state. It won't affect my wife going out as she has to go to work each day for equipment checks required by the health code. The local law enforcement agencies involved said while they don't intend to give out citations or make arrests but that will use stops for aggressive teaching of offenders whatever that means. 

One of the county rules is no groups or gatherings of people except immediate family. It's a sure sign the Northerners have taken over as every Southerner knows immediate family includes grandparents, aunts & uncles and cousins out 3rd once removed. If you add it all up that can easily break 100 people, 200 if you're married.   

On another note the wife found out yesterday that hourly employees who work for Child Nutrition won't be paid for the shutdown unless they have sick time they can use. She let her employees know this yesterday and she is holding a meeting with them today to go over it all. For some reason I don't think she is going to be in a good mood when she gets home after the folks beat her up about no pay for two months. Especially when they find out other school employees will. The problem goes back to Jim Crow where the state made a law that school systems cannot support child nutrition programs and if they have them they must be self supporting. The result is the school districts created wholly owned non-profits to run the food programs. If there is no money coming in there is none to go out. 

[hammer]

We go on lock down tonight at 11:59 pm here in MN, but for only two weeks (as if that's going to improve things). We have essentially already done two weeks as the Univ. of MN went to distance learning right after spring break and they've locked us out of our buildings.

Crazy times....I'm now feeling something is missing if I don't have a headset on and I've got my spouse texting me things even though the rooms we are using as offices sit right next to each other.

Interesting how people are looking at the "shelter at home order" differently. We've got a good percentage of the populace cleaning out grocery stores this AM, while my undergraduate students are planning one more night of partying at each others apartments (they are keeping liquor stores open as "essential businesses" so I'm not very optimistic that the partying is going to stop any time soon).

Stay safe and if you've got an Alembic you've got all the company you need. I'm thankful that I'm now to the point where I can almost play a different Alembic each day of the week.

[cozmik_cowboy]

They're saying that wearing a mask and gloves is enough to go to the grocery store.  That's a lie.


Everyone else had clothes on.

Peter

[StefanieJones]

Greg, not your fault, I really haven't been posting much the last several years,

Sometimes not saying a lot is better than saying a lot.. or something like that. >.>

Anyway, working from home here. It's good in way, but there are more bad points than good.   I haven't been out of the yard since i started at home. Hopefully that's enough to keep from infection.

[sonicus]

 My friends in Italy , in a band called Corte di Lunas  seem do be doing it on FaceBook and working around the latency issue , They are calling it  #STAYBRAVE PROJECT .  I am friends with a few of the band members.  I really love their music .