It's surreal living through this. I live in Northern Virginia, gonna be at home for at least four weeks because schools are shut down and I'm a teacher. Just spending time with wife (who is also a teacher), learning how to code, and trying to avoid every other person in the world.
How’s everyone doing?
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There is just no closure to the season. That is what is killing me. No selection show Sunday. No filling out brackets Monday. I feel like I watched a 2 hour movie and left the theater after 1:30. I swear the pain of losing in the tourney is better than not knowing. Except maybe 2015. I’ll never get over that game.
Seriously? You watch CNN? I don’t watch any news lately, cause all they all talk about is Corono. I am sick of hearing about it.
Svengoolie will be better next week when Dracula comes to town(thought I was the only one that watched that show.)
He takes me back to my childhood. I'd really like to see him have Elvira as a guest for a show. Not only is she a hoot, she's hot.
Sports are what they are, but I am far more afraid of what control the government is going to have on us. They are already putting curfews on people. Shelves are empty, and I just laugh. Although, in a month, I won't be laughing anymore, because I will legitimately run out of toilet paper.
To be honest I’m feeling very alone and isolated. I live alone, and I am taking the advice of our health care experts and not socializing especially since I’m over 60. I’m a social animal, we all are. I want to go out and do things with friends. And now that I shouldn’t I want to even more. I’ve always been like that. Telling me I can’t do something makes me want to do it, but there are lives at stake. We’re all in this together. Given how many seemingly think this disease is a hoax or politically motivated I fear being such an open and free society we will end up with a staggering number of cases and deaths. That scares me because I’m at higher risk of falling into that latter category. I touch base daily with friends and family, and we have social media like this board where we can interact without physical contact. I’m rereading my favorite King novel, “The Stand” much of it set in Boulder. If your familiar there are at least some similarities to current events. Anyway thanks for asking OP.. Everybody stay safe, and may God be with us all.
I’m an introvert, so I’ve been preparing my whole life for this social distancing. Though admittedly it is a bit lonelier now since I started my new job where everyone on the same floor as me is apparently a mute.
While I miss sports, it’s nice being able to catch up on TV shows I’m behind on and starting new ones.
While I miss sports, it’s nice being able to catch up on TV shows I’m behind on and starting new ones.
How about some stories? Some of your life experiences you could share with us. It's great having family and friends to talk with, but maybe if you share some stuff with us that we could maybe laugh and joke about or might correlate to our life experiences then it will help with some of that loneliness(fresh eyes so to speak). Best wishes to you and yours.
And yours. You mean like having once been detained and interrogated by the then East German military while currently holding a top secret Q clearance, and being involved in the then classified cruise missile project at Sandia Labs? Though I doubt that’s an experience few have had. I’m just a boy from the deepest, dark hills of eastern Kentucky, Harlan, but my life lead me to places I could never imagined growing up there. That is an experience I suspect many from those mountains can relate to.
Thank you.
Fascinating. After reading your response I found this. I've only read about half of it, but that's more because I want things to do while we have zero sports to watch.
https://www.wired.com/1995/10/sandia/
Well....****’s gotten real in my neck of the woods.
The Governor of PA today ordered closure of all nonessential retail businesses in Bucks and Montgomery County. The state wine and spirits stores are closed until further notice.
My daughter’s restaurant job in Philly disappeared as the owners decided to close Saturday with no notice or pay to staff. She just started another part time job in a plant shop but that only pays her $10 an hour and that won’t cover her rent.
Instead of concentrating on protecting the most vulnerable people and improving testing and treatment for this virus - which is probably gonna make a lot of people sick and a few people dead, no matter how long we shut down everything - we are about to wreck our economy and throw millions out of work.
If you this this isnt gonna affect your job, you are probably wrong.
The Governor of PA today ordered closure of all nonessential retail businesses in Bucks and Montgomery County. The state wine and spirits stores are closed until further notice.
My daughter’s restaurant job in Philly disappeared as the owners decided to close Saturday with no notice or pay to staff. She just started another part time job in a plant shop but that only pays her $10 an hour and that won’t cover her rent.
Instead of concentrating on protecting the most vulnerable people and improving testing and treatment for this virus - which is probably gonna make a lot of people sick and a few people dead, no matter how long we shut down everything - we are about to wreck our economy and throw millions out of work.
If you this this isnt gonna affect your job, you are probably wrong.
I truly do think im depressed because of this. Watching Kentucky is my escape from what all I've went through both recently, losing my mother to cancer, and the trauma I experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan years ago. I look forward to every game like crazy.
I love, i mean love the SEC tournament. I haven't been since 2010 with Cousins last second tip in to go to overtime. That was the greatest fan atmosphere I've ever experienced. Had already bought my tickets and hotel room. I really needed it in my life. That's why I said I truly believe im suffering depression and it's scary.
I love, i mean love the SEC tournament. I haven't been since 2010 with Cousins last second tip in to go to overtime. That was the greatest fan atmosphere I've ever experienced. Had already bought my tickets and hotel room. I really needed it in my life. That's why I said I truly believe im suffering depression and it's scary.
I hear you, my friend, and am sorry about your mom. I lost my mom last August. The last intelligible words she whispered to me were, "Is Benny gonna make the Steelers?" Lol. That is so mom. After dad died in 1972, mom made a football field out of cardboard and would move the football as she listened to Cawood. She and I would get together for March Madness, so I have been a little melancholy anyway. It is a tough time, but we will be ok.
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I am thinking lots of folks feeling similar as you are friend. The fluidity of the situation is hard to grasp.
Traffic was light today heading into the city.
The I66 toll was $4.75 when I crossed the Beltway at ~ 8:30. It is usually ~$25 to $30 at that time on a Monday.
Tonight would have been my 8-man draft. We go to a local spot, get beers and wings, and 8 people draft 8 teams for March Madness. Lots of fun, and you get a mix of high seeds and low seeds.
Tomorrow was St. Patricks day, would have gone to the local Irish pub with friends and family. Listened to some Irish Pub music.
Thursday and Friday were no-work days, for obvious reasons.
Bummed is an understatement.
Tomorrow was St. Patricks day, would have gone to the local Irish pub with friends and family. Listened to some Irish Pub music.
Thursday and Friday were no-work days, for obvious reasons.
Bummed is an understatement.
Continuing to work today in a Central Ky automotive factory. It is somewhat bizarre to to hear all of the warnings and advice to social distance/stay home etc. yet it is business as usual here.
I live in western Ky and life is going on as usual. This is blown way out of portion and people are stupid. TP not in stores in large cities. What are people going to do with TP eat it ? My computer went down and went and got it fixed today and everyone just laughs at all the dummies out there.
Like most of you i miss the Basketball games. Life goes on as i just overlook all the idiots.
Like most of you i miss the Basketball games. Life goes on as i just overlook all the idiots.
Wife and I went shopping yesterday and our Walmart still had a few rolls of toilet paper left. We have some so didn’t buy any. Should we expect some kind of special recognition for our duty? I’m expecting at the least a phone call from Hoarders-R-Us.
Freaking out, not about the virus or contagion, but about our society’s inability to rationally deal with this. I work in the financial industry and watching the market collapse for no rational reason is just heartbreaking. Just an unnecessary result that will impact many more lives than this virus.
just finished Memorial Day and I have three more Flynn books to read interesting author but if you guys haven't heard of The Eyes Of Darkness written by Dean Koontz in 1981 in that book he predicts that there will be a worldwide pandemic in the year 2020 from Wuhan China
I browsed over that article, but I know the place intimately, I worked there 8 years. Sandia prides itself in hiring the “best and brightest”. No wait that can’t be me, but it was. The place exist to keep us ahead in weapons technology of those who would seek to threaten us and our way of life. Through a long series of events it turned out that my nation came to call on a once shy and awkward boy from Harlan to provide “Exceptional service in the national interest”, Sandia’s motto.
I answered that call.
So you got an AR15. How about a cruise missile that can deliver a massive megaton nuclear bomb up your butt with pinpoint accuracy. Those are the kinds of weapons you play with at the Labs.
https://www.sandia.gov/about/index.html
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Coping without sports finally. I’m now out of shock about the abrupt end to college basketball season.
I’m an introvert by choice. You don’t have to tell me twice to stay home. I’m fortunate to work for a company that placed everyone on mandatory remote work until further notice. The extroverts are freaking out. I’m just living like normal. Lol.
I’m an introvert by choice. You don’t have to tell me twice to stay home. I’m fortunate to work for a company that placed everyone on mandatory remote work until further notice. The extroverts are freaking out. I’m just living like normal. Lol.