In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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I think I'm going to go out to the grocery store in a while.
See what stock levels look like around evening time. It's been a while since I've been outside the house.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
BRENDA, you sound as if overall you fared this past winter a lot better than when you were living in that dank, dark room. Good for you! Do you have a hobby, or could you develop one? Work and mahjong played an important part of your life, and this lockdown may last for over a month.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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I have. I've got my writing and I am making a start on going through family photos. Got another frame that I want to do up and hang. I'll be alright. Friend here in BC checked in with on the phone for a bit. So that was good.
Might make me get on the phone to the one cousin I am in contact with in Alberta. She's in one of the high risk age groups being in her early 70s with underlying health issues. Nothing dramatic but arthritis runs in my family bad on my dad's side.
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I'd say my experience shopping today was an eye-opener, but I'd be lying.
But it would be an eye-opener for people who have been panicking.
I was able to buy at least one of every single thing I normally would buy when I made my normal trips there. Every single one. Including milk, which had been out of stock even first thing in the morning a week ago. Also, coffee of every variety was stocked on the shelf when I lucked out on the last container of it last week when I went.
5:00PM and they even had some paper towels, toilet paper and soap left on the shelves. They weren't full, but they weren't empty either.
It seems the hoarders have gotten their fill, and hopefully the opportunists get a real good buggering over this and get stuck with a bunch of inventory they have to spend the next 20 years using themselves when nobody is willing to pay their black market prices because stores are quickly going back to their normal levels of goods.
The end of the world is not coming. Once the panic dies down, life will eventually return to what we used to know. Maybe some things are changed a bit, but it will more or less be like it used to be and at least half the dummies will forget it even happened a few months later.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Oh that's right, silly me! I forgot about your writing! That's a GREAT hobby to have! And family photos ... wow, for me they bring up a lot of memories.
SIGNY: BRENDA, you sound as if overall you fared this past winter a lot better than when you were living in that dank, dark room. Good for you! Do you have a hobby, or could you develop one? Work and mahjong played an important part of your life, and this lockdown may last for over a month.
BRENDA: I have. I've got my writing and I am making a start on going through family photos. Got another frame that I want to do up and hang. I'll be alright. Friend here in BC checked in with on the phone for a bit. So that was good.
Might make me get on the phone to the one cousin I am in contact with in Alberta. She's in one of the high risk age groups being in her early 70s with underlying health issues. Nothing dramatic but arthritis runs in my family bad on my dad's side.
Glad you're checking up on your relatives. I was just in touch with one of my sisters ... she lives in a much lower-risk area than I do, and yet it seems that her grocery stores (for example) are taking this MUCH more seriously than where I live, enforcing the 6 ft distance, even in the checkout line, and her county health dept is going to set up drive-thru testing today, if I got that right. LA County is such a fustercluck, they don't know if they're housing the homeless or providing for illegal immigrants or protecting health or fostering political correctness. Competing goals, lack of clarity. Oy.
Well, anyway, I think we should just keep tabs on each other too.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:People's pantries and fridges are full, and except for the fact that more people are cooking at home so there will be an overall increase in demand, I'm assuming that we will reach steady-state soon. I'm assuming the shelves will once again be restocked, if not by this Wednesday then by next.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd say my experience shopping today was an eye-opener, but I'd be lying.
But it would be an eye-opener for people who have been panicking.
I was able to buy at least one of every single thing I normally would buy when I made my normal trips there. Every single one. Including milk, which had been out of stock even first thing in the morning a week ago. Also, coffee of every variety was stocked on the shelf when I lucked out on the last container of it last week when I went.
5:00PM and they even had some paper towels, toilet paper and soap left on the shelves. They weren't full, but they weren't empty either.
It seems the hoarders have gotten their fill, and hopefully the opportunists get a real good buggering over this and get stuck with a bunch of inventory they have to spend the next 20 years using themselves when nobody is willing to pay their black market prices because stores are quickly going back to their normal levels of goods.
The end of the world is not coming. Once the panic dies down, life will eventually return to what we used to know. Maybe some things are changed a bit, but it will more or less be like it used to be and at least half the dummies will forget it even happened a few months later.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#STAYTHEFUCKHOME
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They had signs up at the Aldi saying something along the lines of "adhere to social distancing" with a figure of a stick person like on (male) bathrooms with "6ft" under it and arrows pointing both ways.
You can tell that people have their hands full with real life stuff because a month ago the Twitter Mafia would have been RAGING!!!!! that the signs only showed the male stick figure and weren't inclusive. 
Nobody was enforcing any of that though. There's only 2 or 3 employees there, and a rent-a-cop always on duty who's toughest duty every day is trying not to fall asleep standing up.
That's good too, because the day they militarize the cops on duty and have armed people actively pushing people away from each other and/or start ticketing people for standing too close to each other is the day I never shop at Aldi again.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
People's pantries and fridges are full, and except for the fact that more people are cooking at home so there will be an overall increase in demand, I'm assuming that we will reach steady-state soon. I'm assuming the shelves will once again be restocked, if not by this Wednesday then by next.
Yup. That's what I've been telling everyone I talk to. My friend was pushing me to buy up all the coffee I could since he knows I can't live without it. I told him that the supply will catch up with the demand once the hoarders have their fill.
They very well might be back to normal levels as early as Wednesday here, given how high the stock levels were as late as 5:00PM on Monday. More than half of the stuff was practically full, and a lot of it that was empty is probably just because they haven't gotten any of that particular item in a few days (keep in mind that most of these places receive their inventory based off of last years sales for items on the same day, usually with a 2-5% extra boost, so they probably don't have the ability to actually specifically order stuff they're short on since it's all computerized and automatic these days).
The cashier (the same one from last time) was having a much better day. You could see it on her face. I didn't have to cajole a smile out of her this time. :)
I might go back in a few days and pick up some random thing I could stand to have one more of just to scope it out again and see what levels were at.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Oh that's right, silly me! I forgot about your writing! That's a GREAT hobby to have! And family photos ... wow, for me they bring up a lot of memories.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SIGNY: BRENDA, you sound as if overall you fared this past winter a lot better than when you were living in that dank, dark room. Good for you! Do you have a hobby, or could you develop one? Work and mahjong played an important part of your life, and this lockdown may last for over a month.
BRENDA: I have. I've got my writing and I am making a start on going through family photos. Got another frame that I want to do up and hang. I'll be alright. Friend here in BC checked in with on the phone for a bit. So that was good.
Might make me get on the phone to the one cousin I am in contact with in Alberta. She's in one of the high risk age groups being in her early 70s with underlying health issues. Nothing dramatic but arthritis runs in my family bad on my dad's side.
Glad you're checking up on your relatives. I was just in touch with one of my sisters ... she lives in a much lower-risk area than I do, and yet it seems that her grocery stores (for example) are taking this MUCH more seriously than where I live, enforcing the 6 ft distance, even in the checkout line, and her county health dept is going to set up drive-thru testing today, if I got that right. LA County is such a fustercluck, they don't know if they're housing the homeless or providing for illegal immigrants or protecting health or fostering political correctness. Competing goals, lack of clarity. Oy.
Well, anyway, I think we should just keep tabs on each other too.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#STAYTHEFUCKHOME
Yeah, I've got stuff all over the place around here writing wise that is.
When I say family photos it's not just pictures of me, my brother or my mom and dad. I am talking about picture of my grandparents meaning my dad's mom and dad. And those photos are from before the 1920s. Even found a couple of what would be classified as documents: one from 1906. An invitation to my grandad to a Robbie Burns dinner at a Gentlemen's club either in Medicine Hat or Calgary. Can't remember which. That's important because there were a lot of immigrants from Scotland in the area at that time. Also this was a time of "No Women Allowed" and secondly even if she had been allowed into the club being half-Indian, she wouldn't have been welcomed.
The second document is a thank you and welcome home notice from the mayor of Medicine Hat that was for my dad. Thanking him for his service to his country and community by fighting in WW II.
I've got a photo from my mom's side that is old and must be from Ireland. It's heavy so could have been tin-type. Have no idea who in the photo is related to me but it is a group of men by a stone wall. Maybe a couple of feet high. That would put that photograph into the 1800s.
So, I am talking old, old, stuff.
I said I'm thinking about it.
Alberta seems to be supply wise okay, I think. Here in my corner of BC, some stores are marking on the floor where to stand and such and people are obeying pretty well.
Ran into my old landlady today, she said there is some mail for me at the house. Have to go and pick it up then make sure to get a change of address to the place.
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Rain today.
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Went out today and got some laundry soap which I need and a small package of toilet paper. Though I saw people in Walmart with big packages but I couldn't find any in the store. Small was all that left on the shelf and even then not many.
But the fact that I saw some and such is a good sign.
Maybe things are going to slowly start settling down up here. And I mean supply wise. Couple of restaurants have closed and only doing things like "Skip the Dishes". That was the local Wendy's and Dairy Queen.
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