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2020: One Day At A Time, We Will Achieve!!
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Helene - me, too!!!0
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Have I ever admitted DH's baby brother is a rabid cheeto fan?
Today's gem reported to me by DH (I haven't talked to baby brother in decades): covid will disappear after the election. I want to scream - drive over to Gettysburg hospital and talk to the ER docs, you ________
The son has gone back to school; the daughter's living at home and working at a grocery store.
Wife is high risk.
They run a business that involves selling stuff at public events like craft shows.
Where has our public education failed us?
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You can’t choose your family. My nephew and his wife voted for Trump in 2016. They think Tony had Covid in March but he couldn’t get a test so we don’t know for sure. I don’t discuss politics with them so I don’t know if they’re voting for him this time. I hope not but who knows. His father usually hosts Thanksgiving but I doubt that will happen this year. We’re still trying to figure out a safe trip to FL. If we can’t stop in NJ for Thanksgiving, I’m looking at hotels in DE or MD. It has to be a distance we can manage to drive in a day. From there, we’d drive to my brother’s house in SC and visit him a bit to recover from the drive. We’d still have to figure out the next leg of driving. He’s driven to our house in a day. It took him 12 hours. I think we could drive 8-9 hours but 12 is a stretch for us.0
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Helene - I was going to ask you if you're going to Florida. 12 hours would be a terribly long drive!
A friend of mine whose husband travels for business says she vacillates between serious worrying and trying not to think about it. He's currently in Nashville.
I've already decided to stay here for Thanksgiving. We usually take dad to a restaurant but I'm not going to risk it this year.0 -
We stay in the same hotel chain every trip. We stayed in two places coming back and I felt safe with their precautions. I really don’t want to spend a winter here. We are watching how things are going down south to figure out the best time to travel. We normally leave around Thanksgiving but we’re flexible about travel dates. We could bring food with us. We’d choose pit stops carefully.0
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Helene--I have had 4 hotel stays and have found each one of them was on top of it with the precautions, etc. I have never had an issue with food purchased via a drive thru or the way it was handed to me at the drive thru. We can't hide out forever but we can use common sense to avoid situations that might create problems.
With the exception of Tennessee, all the restaurants had booths and tables blocked off to prevent use for social distancing. I was happy to leave the Pigeon Forge area despite how much I enjoyed it. The restaurants there apparently believed wearing a mask was sufficient to "social distance." All the tables and booths were filled with people. For that reason, I decided to get one of our state's free Covid tests a week after I returned.0 -
It may be COVID fatigue talking, but I honestly don’t think traveling by car is that risky. Hotels have stepped up their sanitation procedures, so as long as you minimize your time in common areas, wear a mask, maintain social distancing, and use hand sanitizer after touching common surfaces, I think you’re just about as safe as you are at home or when you have to leave home to run errands. Several of my friends and family have traveled, staying in hotels along the way. They didn’t report any issues at all. They were careful to choose motels with outside entrances in order to minimize having to be in common areas and made liberal use of hand sanitizer when stopping for gas or restroom breaks, etc., but otherwise traveled pretty much as normal. Just my 2 cents worth.0
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You all are in line with my thoughts about auto travel. We’ll be in minimal contact with other people and we mask up and maintain social distance. We’ve had no problems with drive thru orders. We’ve only eaten indoors once back in May before we left the island. They had tables marked off and were only able to use 25 % capacity in phase one. I’ve eaten on out door patios at least 10 times, always distanced from other tables. I don’t see us eating indoors any time soon. So I think we can do it safely.0
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Trump Mocks Joe Biden: If Elected, ‘He’ll Listen To The Scientists’
The president apparently thinks that’s a bad thing.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-will-listen-to-scientists_n_5f8d04dac5b67da85d1f86c2
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This year is the 40th anniversary of the year we quit our jobs in central PA and moved to Baltimore. That means it's also the 40th anniversary of my first day of my first job in the employee benefits industry. (I have colleagues who weren't even born.) I don't know if it's that or if it's COVID or if it's a combination but I've been spending a lot of time when driving or lying in bed going down memory lane.
I think sometimes about something Lin-Manuel Miranda's dad says on the Hamilton documentary when Lin asks him why he left Puerto Rico. His dad says something like "I always felt Puerto Rico was just too small".
I grew up in a town of 500 people. My only two requirements in a college were that it be in PA (for in state tuition) and that it be in a city. (Hence, Pitt.)
Probably the only thing that could have taken me back to central PA after graduation was DH.
But eventually he realized that all his bosses at the Carlisle PA hospital were barely older than he was so there was no real future. And I came to hate teaching. So we quit, packed up everything we owned and moved!
(We adopted our first kitten a week before we moved. Our late white grouchy Linus. Cost us our security deposit because of course our nosy landlady noticed.)
I confess I've never had a minute's regret about moving. (I do sometimes wish there had been some counseling at Pitt so that I'd never have gone into teaching in the first place. I was a small town girl; the only thing I knew to do with a math degree was teach.)0 -
Disliking teaching is another thing we have in common. I graduated college in 1970. There were no jobs to be had so I did a stint subbing. I’d go home every day with a headaches. People had always told me I’d make a good teacher because I was a good student myself. I never had any career counseling either. We were newly married and I used to complain to DH about how I hated teaching. He told me to quit and find something I liked better. I might have suffered through it if not for his support. I started working part time as a library paraprofessional and loved it. I decided to get my Masters and spent 40 years as a librarian. And it was my dream career. We moved from CT to MA in 1990. I got a job as a library director on the Cape. I moved because I wanted to live near the ocean. We also live near the ocean in FL.
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It’s interesting that we all changed careers somewhere along the way. I graduated from high school in 1972 and for financial reasons was not able to go to college so I got a job as a policy typist for an insurance company. I continued with various clerical jobs and eventually ended up as a legal secretary at the time I got married. That’s when I started taking college courses at night, planning to eventually go to law school. But then I took Intro to Psychology and I was hooked. I did go to the college guidance office and took some tests and they indicated that either law or psychology would be good choices for me, so I chose to pursue psychology. After 2 1/2 years of working full time and taking classes at night I was able to quit working and go to school full time. I finally finished the bachelors degree and immediately went on to grad school for my masters. I finished that and then the only job I could get was — wait for it — teaching psychology courses at the local community college where I took night classes. I actually enjoyed teaching, but really wanted be counseling people so I only taught for about 3 years.0
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I’m betting tRump pulls out of the last debate. I just saw on Twitter that the debate commission has announced a new rule that if either candidate interrupts the other during their time, the one who interrupts will have their mic silenced for 2 minutes. He’s also complaining about the debate topics, which his team had previously agreed to allow the moderator to choose.0
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Helene - being a librarian sounds wonderful!
Helene/Jean - I did substitute teaching........one day...... LOL! One year I was home for Christmas vacation.0 -
It’s interesting that we all changed careers somewhere along the way. I graduated from high school in 1972 and for financial reasons was not able to go to college so I got a job as a policy typist for an insurance company. I continued with various clerical jobs and eventually ended up as a legal secretary at the time I got married. That’s when I started taking college courses at night, planning to eventually go to law school. But then I took Intro to Psychology and I was hooked. I did go to the college guidance office and took some tests and they indicated that either law or psychology would be good choices for me, so I chose to pursue psychology. After 2 1/2 years of working full time and taking classes at night I was able to quit working and go to school full time. I finally finished the bachelors degree and immediately went on to grad school for my masters. I finished that and then the only job I could get was — wait for it — teaching psychology courses at the local community college where I took night classes. I actually enjoyed teaching, but really wanted be counseling people so I only taught for about 3 years.
And she ended up teaching! LOL!!!!!!!
That's great that you found something that you really clicked with.
I really lucked out that my first job in Baltimore paid for law school and my last master's degree, completely. (All I had to do was work 7 days a week for a decade, sometimes 24 hours a day.)
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I went to Pitt as a Spanish major, believe it or not, with the intention to go to graduate school for library science. In high school we had a native of Puerto Rico as our Spanish teacher. Her birthplace was her sole criteria. We finished part of the first year book in two years but I didn't realize how little we learned.
At Pitt I was tested and put into Spanish 2. I worked and worked, got an "A" and was put into Spanish 4, where they handed us a novel written in Spanish. Somewhere in my parents' attic there is probably still a book where every work is translated laboriously by hand. I got an "A", concluded those people were idiots, and switched to math. I got involved in that, including student teaching, and graduate school for library science went by the wayside.0 -
My student teaching happened my last semester of college. I had planned to teach high school but the only student teaching opening was junior high. Big mistake. I went to a Catholic high school and was a rule follower. One of my first days, a student told me I’m not doing that and you can’t make me. The supervising teacher told me I was too nice. Her advice was to act like a drill Sargent and don’t smile or be nice to them. I got through it but I would have needed a personality transplant to follow her advice. My favorite part of being a librarian was that people came in because they wanted to be there and I liked the one on one interaction. I loved finding information they needed or suggesting authors they might enjoy. It was really the career I was meant to have and I ended up in it by accident. Community college teaching sounds great. Most students were probably adults who were in the workforce before getting a degree. They would be there by choice unlike junior high students.0
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My first job was working in a Sheriff's Office while going to college. Trust me, that was an interesting experience. After college, I worked one year as a teacher in a city school. I wasn't crazy about teaching but I did see what the counselor did, so I went back and got my counseling degree to work in schools and was also licensed by the State as a counselor in private practice after passing a national exam. I spent 32 years as a counselor, retired and then began subbing as a teacher. The difference between being a regular teacher and a sub is like night and day. Lucky subs don't have to develop lesson plans, attend meetings, etc. All they have to do is implement crowd control and the teacher's lesson plans and materials left for the students and usually you don't face the same class day in and day out.0
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As a result, the United States is not in a good place, and achieving near containment of the virus — as South Korea (441 deaths), Australia (904 deaths), Japan (1,657 deaths) and several other countries have done — is impossible. We can, however, still aim for results akin to those of Canada, where there were 23 deaths on Friday, and Germany, which suffered 24 deaths on Friday.
Wow, we've failed dramatically!
I just read an article about a woman whose dad spent 36 hours in ambulances and waiting rooms at numerous hospitals as they tried to find someone to admit him after a serious fall at a nursing home.
As that article says, our hospitals have historically operated near full capacity. It's not like they were all sitting around empty, hoping for COVID patients.0 -
Older voters worried about safely getting to the polls next month while dodging the coronavirus will have a stylish, unconventional transportation option: A free limo ride, courtesy of funeral homeowners in Baltimore and around the country.
Local funeral home directors say they hope to transport up to 21,000 people in Baltimore to voting booths for the Nov. 3 election, part of an effort by the National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association to offer rides to as many as 300,000 people nationwide.0 -
Many of the foreign countries are shocked at the number of deaths, etc. in the United States. Many of the countries idea of quarantine was more stringent than ours.
Australia, early on, closed its borders and would admit only its citizens returning home. Those had to spend 14 days in a hotel room with no possibility of leaving it. Food was left outside the door. A large fine of several thousand dollars was automatic for anyone caught sneaking out. When a second wave hit the state of Victoria, the fine was increased along with jail sentences. Here people complain about masks violating their civil liberties.
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-08-04/australians-in-victoria-face-20000-fines-for-breaking-new-strict-lockdown-rules0 -
Under an actual leader, this would be a very different experience. The families of the hundreds of thousands of American who have died or been (probably permanently although I realize the scientists aren't sure yet) disabled by this disease must be appalled.0
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DH read something about a shortage of canned corn so he's got 4 cases coming from amazon. Navigating him working only a few hours a week? No comment.0
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It seems like there are two different tracks for packages at the post office. Group 1 travels and arrives without complications. Group 2 goes on walkabout. I'm a little surprised they are still making tracking public given the embarrassing journey some of these packages go on. I've got two right now in group 2 - one from minimus.biz and one from bariatric pal.0
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I am at the point I am considering ordering the week ends off plan from Nutrisystem again. I didn't mind the food and it was convenient. I am off to the city at the Walmart there to pick up my monthly grocery order. That is 65 miles one way, but they carry foods I like. I am debating what the Winter might be like and if I will have problems getting some food items especially from the local grocery.0
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I am at the point I am considering ordering the week ends off plan from Nutrisystem again. I didn't mind the food and it was convenient. I am off to the city at the Walmart there to pick up my monthly grocery order. That is 65 miles one way, but they carry foods I like. I am debating what the Winter might be like and if I will have problems getting some food items especially from the local grocery.
You certainly have unique shopping challenges! I could literally walk to the local Giant if I had to. There's also an asian market in walking distance. And if I was feeling really frisky a 7-11.
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"Most Presidents Who Lose Deal With Shame. Trump Could Have To Deal With Prison.
Winning a second term could put him beyond the reach of many of the possible charges, thanks to statutes of limitations that would run out."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-loss-prison-statutes-of-limitations_n_5f8f5353c5b62333b23ff0a0
We can only hope.
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It is a real shame that Melania had to call off an appearance because of a cough. Shame that the President couldn't share his magic cocktail with her. I loved reading the comments on the NBC News FB post about it.0
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Two of my sisters don’t believe Trump was ever sick. They think he faked it so he could brag about how he beat it. I’m sure lots of people share their views. I think he had it and that it was worse than he let on. He certainly wasn’t humbled by his experience. The superior medical treatment he got was above and beyond what most people would get. How many times have we seen scoffers on TV who ended up getting hospitalized and then warning people that Covid is no joke. Not the tactic that Trump has taken.0
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