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The CoronaVirus WTF are you doing with yourself while being isolated thread

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purbeast0 said:
You buy your weight stuff after all of this stuff happened or you had it before? Did you get it on craigslist or from a store?
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I actually bought it after, at the beginning of this week (ordered bench on Amazon on like Monday I think, it's coming tomorrow).

I went to Meijer, where I normally shop (it's a Michigan store, more or less like a Walmart), and got 25 and 30 pounders but the 20s were all out. They actually had some in but you could tell a lot were gone. Then went to Walmart and they had a decent selection and so was able to get two 20s there.

I first looked on Amazon but the prices were insane, I'm guessing maybe due to the weight from shipping. They were twice as expensive as what's in the store. Craigslist I didn't think of but I wanted them immediately lol. Not sure if any would be available and plus I wouldn't wanna meet someone and catch teh AIDS.
 
WelshBloke said:
I'm having a beer.
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I work from home, so business as usual.
When I was single, I once proved to myself that I could stay at the house a full month without leaving by stocking up on food.
 
I'm currently updating my skillset. I'm learning marketing online. I've been working on my online business on the side and want to grow it to something sustainable. I'm a teacher assictant so currently I'm out of work. I could be out of work for sometime TBH. I also want to teach ESL online. I'm currently looking at doing this as well. I'm reading, listening to personal development books. Going to be taking a financial course as well. What I don't want to do is sit around and watch YT, Netflix and play video games all day. Things are going to change in a big way for us. And, much of it is going to be negative. For example, states are going to be strapped for cash. That's going to affect local school districts. There is probably no way around this. If you have a pension you should be very worried. We were just in a bull market, and we had a difficlt time funding pensions. What do you think is going to happen in a bear market? In a recession, of god forbid a depression? States are going to have to make drastic cut backs. This is not the time to just sit back if you're young. Learn something useful that you can leverage so when this is over you'll come out in a much better position. If you haven't yet, do a written budget ASAP. Cut out every non essential item if you can. Well unless you're a millionaire. 🙂

I look at it like this. It's better to overreact and face the situation that we're currently in. If this blows over and everything goes quickly back to normal (doubtful) then awesome. You've just put yourself in a much better position to take advantage of this situation. OTOH, if this really is a game changer you're going to be in a better spot than most people. You'll be able to adopt quickly to the circumstances and act while people around you are having a difficult time because you took advantage of this time in solutide.
 
Hunkering down at home. Here at home we have decided to add a letter to all our spoken words. Today it's A. Yesterday it was V and before that it was Z.

This has resulted in puzzled looks and hysterical laughter.


AI Awonder Ahow Along Athis Ais Agoing Ato Alast?
 
Number1 said:
Hunkering down at home. Here at home we have decided to add a letter to all our spoken words. Today it's A. Yesterday it was V and before that it was Z.

This has resulted in puzzled looks and hysterical laughter.


AI Awonder Ahow Along Athis Ais Agoing Ato Alast?
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Wait til F day. 😀
 
purbeast0 said:
Went to put together my "shelf" tonight and my f'ing wood glue is so old that it was all dried up and shit. CVS didn't have any and HD around here is only open till 7pm so it was too late. Got my nail gun all out and shit too. I hadn't even used the one nail gun I am going to use lol. Will have to run to HD tomorrow but I think they are only open noon to 7pm.
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CVS sells sniffing glue now? How progressive.
 
Number1 said:
Hunkering down at home. Here at home we have decided to add a letter to all our spoken words. Today it's A. Yesterday it was V and before that it was Z.

This has resulted in puzzled looks and hysterical laughter.


AI Awonder Ahow Along Athis Ais Agoing Ato Alast?
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(H) Arcadio...izzat you?
 
IL Gov is going to issue a shelter-in-place order this afternoon. Guess I won't be making any non-essential trips anytime soon.
 
Played Halo: CE with some buddies last night for the first time since probably before I could legally drink a Corona. Otherwise just working non-stop. A lot of my friends work as teachers and have kids so they are bored as fuck.
 
Dropping weight.

Since we've stopped going out about a month ago and been eating healthy with our groceries, I stepped on the scale this morning at 186.6lbs. I'm 6'2''-6'3'' so not overweight, but I definitely had a little bit more than I should have had weighing in between 192-200lbs the past year with minimal gym activity.

I'm not really looking to put on more muscle mass at this point in life, so if I can get down to 180 it'll the lightest I've been since college. With potential food shortages and rationing it may just happen. Plus I've actually been more active lately doing pushups, situps, playing Beat Saber for 30-45 minutes every day, doing high rep workouts with my wife's 5lb weights, and strolling the little one. I guess in some way I'm trying to prep my body the best I can in case we do end up sick.

Other than that, a few hours of WFH (nothing new, been doing this for over a year now), and Doom Eternal now.
 
Almost finished with my "shelf", waiting to dry and put a few nails on then one more piece for the back board.

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It will make a lot more sense when it's all done and seen in context of the arcade cabinet lol.
 
purbeast0 said:
Does that mean you can't go out AT ALL? Or you can only go out for food and essentials?
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You can go out, no law against it. Can still go to grocery store etc. It's basically how I have been living for the past week. Only difference is my office will probably shut down entirely so I will have to work from home. I have been lucky that i have an actual office so I can shut my door and not be in contact with anyone at work.
 
Going to have to snow blow at some point and take the garbage bins back to the side of the house.



At some point I should continue with my vapour barrier in my crawlspace, maybe today, but got up kind of late. Did the insulation a few weeks back. This is a project I had been slacking on for a long time, finally continued.





Got word that we are getting closer to the possibility of working from home soon but other than that this is just normal time off for me. I just have to stop slacking and actually do something with it.
 
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