COVID19 Down Time Activities
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Al Smith
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It wasn't my intent just a general statement pointing fingers at no one .I've found out one thing though some of you guys are really ouchy about things -----and I'll just leave it there .Except if you would be so kind as not to mention my name with regards to A-Site I would greatly appreciate it .Thank you in advance .
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And locked down..Just to go out for the necessities of life. Oh and exercise once per day We are allowed.
I did that. Got up at 3:30, had some morning time to myself. Started biking 5 miles to the yard at 5:45. We drove an hour and exercised on the saw 'till 4:00.
Drove back and biked back up the hills.
Falling partner dropped it on me on the way home saying he was going to talk to management about his concern about us being in the truck together for 2 hours a day? I said that is your choice if you don't want to. He can get a wage grant up to 80% as they just announced for self-employed this afternoon. I guess I have to learn how to drive on the left side of the road real soon.
I told him I would move to the town for the job and ride my bike their. Haha. The company would save money that way anyway.
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My covid days are pretty relaxing being I’m retired. But the other day I was working on a friend’s saw with no spark. And since I had one just like it, and the wife was out and about, I tried my hand at baking. The infamous blue coils of Pioneer.
She called on the way home when I’d been baking for 2 hrs. There was a hint of grease or something in the air from the oven, so I started up the George Foreman grill from dinner that hadn’t been cleaned yet. Got the coils down to the basement and by the time she pulled in there was a fair bit of grill smoke in the house so the oven wasn’t noticed. She berated me for trying to burn the grease off my little grill, but in the long run, it was worth it. 2 saws running now, and will try the 3rd tomorrow.
Thanks George!
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She called on the way home when I’d been baking for 2 hrs. There was a hint of grease or something in the air from the oven, so I started up the George Foreman grill from dinner that hadn’t been cleaned yet. Got the coils down to the basement and by the time she pulled in there was a fair bit of grill smoke in the house so the oven wasn’t noticed. She berated me for trying to burn the grease off my little grill, but in the long run, it was worth it. 2 saws running now, and will try the 3rd tomorrow.
Thanks George!
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Took my rifle to the range on Tuesday and found out all the ranges in Australia are closed. Also found out I needed another rifle case, so on Wednesday after a medical visit, I stopped by the gun shop to pick up another rifle case.
I decided to also get a couple of boxes of .22. The lady behind the counter said that ammo was selling faster than toilet paper. Funny about that, all the ranges are closed...
The wife commented she could use some hand sanitizer. So I went into the bathroom and emptied a little sample squeeze bottle of hand lotion and filled it with 'methylated spirits' (95% ethanol). When I gave it to her, she asked if it would work. I told her it would work better than the overpriced 60% ethanol hand sanitizer.
I decided to also get a couple of boxes of .22. The lady behind the counter said that ammo was selling faster than toilet paper. Funny about that, all the ranges are closed...
The wife commented she could use some hand sanitizer. So I went into the bathroom and emptied a little sample squeeze bottle of hand lotion and filled it with 'methylated spirits' (95% ethanol). When I gave it to her, she asked if it would work. I told her it would work better than the overpriced 60% ethanol hand sanitizer.
Agent Smith
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We also need to start learning self sustainability and growing our own food. Its easy to put in a vegetable garden. Get in touch with your local farmers for meat. Support them and not these corporations. Get away from all this processed chemical ridden foods
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Let the ducks run free today. They don't venture far. Also made two jars of elderberry syrup this afternoon
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We're just over half way around this area we're rebuilding fence on. After working in the shop till 1400, we cleared the briars off of what was the worst place yet.
I'm cut all to hell. But....I ain't got the virus yet.
I'm cut all to hell. But....I ain't got the virus yet.
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On that cooking I actually like to .I made a beef roast today with potatoes and onions .I'm not a wuss but I can sew also .I can also rebuild a bulldozer ,make a fair woods ported chainsaw and rebuild an automatic transmission if I have the parts and enough time .On the cooking there is not a Smith male in my family who can't cook .For that matter my two sisters who are retired nurses probably know more about automotive repairs than most men .They aren't good cooks .
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I actually had a girl over one time (before I was married), who after inspecting my my apartment at the time, gave e a confuse look, and inquire if I was gay!! I'm sure I had a hell of a look on my face when I asked her why the hell She'd ask a question like that? Her reply was: Well, you've got a nice place, it's clean, you have nice stuff, you're in your twenties and it looks like you actually know how to cook? I told her that I wasn't aware that a straight guy couldn't possess those traits!! LMAO. I've always loved cooking, as I enjoy good food, and I'm to cheap and/or broke to pay for it, so I learned how to do it myself. The irony's of life.
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You and everyone else I know that are in health care are in my thoughts Dustin. Stay safe brochacho
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My state just closed non-essential businesses, the DOD and DHS have determined that my employer is essential, I'm thankfully able to work from home.
You guys sawing and splitting wood be extra careful, with how packed some of the hospitals are already getting. The last thing you want to do its become a trauma patient right now. You're going to end up laying on a folded up blanket in the hospital parking garage holding your fingers you cut off with the splitter in a bag for hours. And probably aren't going to end up being able to get into surgery to have them be reattached.
You guys sawing and splitting wood be extra careful, with how packed some of the hospitals are already getting. The last thing you want to do its become a trauma patient right now. You're going to end up laying on a folded up blanket in the hospital parking garage holding your fingers you cut off with the splitter in a bag for hours. And probably aren't going to end up being able to get into surgery to have them be reattached.
Al Smith
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A word to work in a very safe manner is very timely in this situation we are in right now .Good advice-----I'm ahead of that game as I've done almost nothing .
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Welcome to my world.
I'm mostly sequestered. Hopefully it's my allergies that are making me a bit ill now that Ireland is waking from it's winter slumber. Let's hope anyways.
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You be safe Mr.
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~WBF
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Read a text when I woke up a 3:00 this morning. Saying no work due to the coronaviris from management.
Due to my work partner refusing to ride in the truck together...all of the sudden he claims moral high ground one hour after the gov reached out to the 5,000,000 self employed
Company sent one of the workers home but my partner was sick and went back to the truck and sat on thus & fri.
He walked into the office and instantly got kicked to the outside. WOW!
Company told me to go ahead with what I suggested and find accommodations close what I can bike or cab to. Moreover: My invoice was denied and found out that my cheques are only 2/3 but with piece work insensitive...but with a co-op with him.
I found that out on Thus morn & he 'quit' Thus night.
This goes way back in the boxing wold.
It was the biggest insult If a Man did not show up to fight another Man. That was
the worse you could do to a Man is not fight him because that Man needed you to make a living.. If you had a broken hand or ribs then you showed up and likley would crumble. RESPECT! "Quit to fight another day" as they say in the boxing wold.
'Somebody' once again will work next to me and will be broken physically. The mental part is on them. We will be back to square one.
Due to my work partner refusing to ride in the truck together...all of the sudden he claims moral high ground one hour after the gov reached out to the 5,000,000 self employed
Company sent one of the workers home but my partner was sick and went back to the truck and sat on thus & fri.
He walked into the office and instantly got kicked to the outside. WOW!
Company told me to go ahead with what I suggested and find accommodations close what I can bike or cab to. Moreover: My invoice was denied and found out that my cheques are only 2/3 but with piece work insensitive...but with a co-op with him.
I found that out on Thus morn & he 'quit' Thus night.
This goes way back in the boxing wold.
It was the biggest insult If a Man did not show up to fight another Man. That was
the worse you could do to a Man is not fight him because that Man needed you to make a living.. If you had a broken hand or ribs then you showed up and likley would crumble. RESPECT! "Quit to fight another day" as they say in the boxing wold.
'Somebody' once again will work next to me and will be broken physically. The mental part is on them. We will be back to square one.
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