MAY we stop the quarantine and meet for Coffee and Tea?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.

'Tis 30 and sunny. High of 59.

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are hot.

'Tis 32 and sunny. High of 63.

Slim

[Major 2]

Thank you ....having Rye toast with my cup,

Waiting to hear from Del ....

[litl rooster]

Thank you for the Coffee Slim- not sure on breakfast yet.

[Delmonico]

Waiting to hear from the people in space suits. 

Pull up to next tent, put vehicle in neutral and do not roll up window until told.

No new test, put in long Q-tip, got choice of nostril, insert till in comes out arseholl, twist for 10 minutes. 

[litl rooster]

Coffee is brewing. Not sure about breakfast. I'd go to Waffle House but they haven't reopened yet.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.

Rain overnight.

If you haven't seen it yet. https://fox6now.com/2020/05/13/wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-safer-at-home-extension/

'Tis 48 and mist. "Cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 69F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph."

Slim

[Major 2]

Though I can sympathize with Cabin Fever, have  it myself....
I still think it is premature to mingle in crowds, and I'll continue to stand down in May & June.
Rumor is shows are rescheduling for July & Aug,  the venues are reopening in June ... I might be back in the shop then.

Disney is reopening at the end of the month, hopefully no ramp up of WOO HOO Flu and we can get back 
   

[litl rooster]

Thanks Slim, Seen that earlier.


I am a "at risk" person but have thought we have run the Ppe and stay at home to death. It is time to hit restart.  Half of the people worked and the others sat around and made videos and went to Walmart. I think we have been duped. Just my humble opinion and you'd give me a buck for it I could get a large WaWa coffee.< love there coffee

[Delmonico]

I'm still taking the middle ground, a problem yes, but over hyped, from where I'm sitting I see it as too many of the not at risk stayed home and too many of the true at risk didn't.  What little I've been to the store I see the old pharts working and others report the same thing.

[Major 2]

I agree on the hype ..... I agree it is serious .....

I do believe we should  STOP the lay the blame BS ....  lets work together to solve the issue for all of us worldwide

[Delmonico]

I agree on the hype ..... I agree it is serious .....

I do believe we should  STOP the lay the blame BS ....  lets work together to solve the issue for all of us worldwide

What fun would that be?

[Delmonico]

Well they did it I got a Smartphone to make them all happy, now I hate everyone

[Dave T]

Del, I'm still dodging that bullet (smart phone) so everyone hates me! (smile)

Dave

[River City John]

Dentist office is opening for appointments so they rescheduled a cleaning that was cancelled in March.
Explained the new procedure for Covid-19 reopening. No books, magazines nor toys for the kids to play with in the waiting room, only two patients allowed in the office at a time. I needed to arrive exactly at my appointed time and call from my vehicle to let them know I was there.

Call from my car?

I said I hoped they had good hearing, as it will be kinda strange to see this old, fat man screaming at the building from inside his car.

Not everyone owns a cellphone.

[Delmonico]

Had one since 96, I get too far out in the boonies sometimes and most places you can get a signal, ain't made no lonely walks down gravel roads in a long time.  Insurance gives us free road service as part of the package, those pickup tires are big and heavy, cell phone is better than a farmer jack and cordless impact wrench.    

[Silver Creek Slim]

Dentist office is opening for appointments so they rescheduled a cleaning that was cancelled in March.
Explained the new procedure for Covid-19 reopening. No books, magazines nor toys for the kids to play with in the waiting room, only two patients allowed in the office at a time. I needed to arrive exactly at my appointed time and call from my vehicle to let them know I was there.

Call from my car?

I said I hoped they had good hearing, as it will be kinda strange to see this old, fat man screaming at the building from inside his car.

Not everyone owns a cellphone.

This is similar to the procedure for the chiropractor.

Slim

[Professor Marvel]

Well they did it I got a Smartphone to make them all happy, now I hate everyone

I was dragged kicking and screaming into the stupid smart phone some time ago, when work provided phones were switched to stupid smart only

It DID NOT come with a written instruction book. Only online help which required web access, which until the phone is set up , you don't have.

I spent the first two weeks trying to figure out how to answer the damn thing. Turns out one has to put the finger on the red spot and swiftly drag it to the edge of the phone...
apparently this is called "swiping" which to me means "stealing" but is apparently intuitively obvious to the gen-x children doing the software now. Further garbage includes context based menus, which change depending on what yer doing, and features or switches buried in mAny layers of choices.

They are almost ok as Barbie and Ken sized-computers, butlousy as phones.
The S hit the Fan when Mrs Marvel and I were separated during her short hospital stay, and she couldnt consistently work her Stupid smart phone.

Worse, i had tried to set up the magic voice activated helper AI thing so she could just SAY call marvel and it would. Workedfine at home. Turns out the piece of sheiss requires internet to work! Great idea in an emergencyout on the road, or .... in the emergency room....

So today I pulled pin and bought a factory refurb kyocera cadence 4g flipfone for her , should be here in a week, and I ama gonna hack it to unlock it and force a sim card to work on our regular phone plan. It beats buying a diy educational android cellphone kit and building one, or forcing her into a cheapshit payasyougo burner phone.

The big boys like verizon need to realize they are losing a ton of money from the greyhairs that are happy to buy a flipper from The AARP magazine...

I will let you all know how it works out. These damn phones need to be "open to answer, close to hang up" easy.

Maybe ill start an underground company for this crap...

Yhs
Prof fricken mad

[Major 2]

Mine aggravates the LIVING bejesus out of me 

every few days it wants you to down load a new fricking update...and when you do the dam thing does something contrary .

Like now ... it will notify me ( via beep ) there is a Tic Tok  just for me.... I don't want it, I didn't ask for it,  but there the hell it is....

Some nonsensical  stupid arse  video loop , if I try to delete it shows me another video and another... ad nauseam

I hate it 

[pony express]

I still have a trac fone flip phone, and as far as I'm concerned, it's still got TOO many functions. Don't need a camera. And if it just has to have a camera, can't they put the control button somewhere besides exactly where your thumb goes when you pick it up? Almost every time I open it, I have to turn off the camera. And on the opposite side from the camera button is the volume control. Can't they put that somewhere that's covered up when the phone is closed? If there is ANYTHING else in the same pocket, I'll invariably hear a constant 'Beep....beep.....beep...."with every step.

All I want from the thing is to make or receive a phone call, no camera, no internet, don't even care about texting.

Rant of the day officially over now.