kastein posted:

I dunno about that, I just checked the numbers on worldometers and the worst days of last March (right at the end, pointed out here) were barely approaching the best days in months right now, which are probably only this low because the last two days were a weekend with low reporting as usual. We've just become desensitized by mass deaths.

Applebees Appetizer posted:

That's a huge red flag man, just saying.

Rhyno posted:

Took my dad to some exams today, while driving home he basically admitted (under the effects of sedation) that he'd cheated on my mother years ago and now I'm very annoyed with him. They divorced 12 years ago but he was referencing events from 20 years ago.


Ugh.

Liquid Communism posted:

Yeah... not really. It's going that quickly in some places, but the state governments in the GOP-controlled flyovers are dragging their asses like mad, which is going to keep travel unsafe that much longer.

T-Square posted:

Had my first real “in-law” experience yesterday. My fiancé’s mom has been coming over to spend more time with her since she doesn’t likely have a lot of time left. I’m posted up on the dining room table for work, which is otherwise completely unused, and on Monday she came over and they both sat at the dining room table for two hours chatting as if I wasn’t sitting right in front of them while trying to work.

Then yesterday she came back over and immediately started grilling us about how we’re handling her finances after she passes, the unanimous decision is that whatever she has left will go to me, and we both decided to just set up a Payable on Death order with her bank. Queue her mom for some reason trying to get us to do anything but that and basically arguing with me about it. Then she moseyed on into my kitchen and made lunch for my fiancé and herself and sat at the table where I’m working again and they both ate lunch in front of me. Thanks for asking if I wanted any!

StormDrain posted:

Good thing I started looking for work because today's email of new jobs includes the same role at my company. A sliver of hope that we procured more work, mostly certain I'm done here soon.

It's the same service and agent that I worked with. I kind of want to call her. I worry that might hasten things and end my ability to milk out a couple more paychecks.

64bit_Dophins posted:

Sometimes I think US women just like British/Aussie accents because they want to be taken away to a country with free healthcare and some semblance of social support network lmao.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

They were taking the piss, fella.

64bit_Dophins posted:

I got a great performance review at work and I am getting a raise I just don’t know how big it’s going to be yet. The negotiation is going to be another call two weeks from now. So that’s good news/exciting!

shy boy from chess club posted:

Looking at SSDs for the music gently caress around computer. Are there any to avoid or look for brand-wise? It'll probably be 5g-1t. I just ordered 8g of ram for it today so it should run pretty good soon. I just got done putting a fresh Win7 on it.

Also got an adapter to try to see what I can get off my old iPod HD. It failed but hopefully I can get it to run long enough to get all the music off. It probably has so much stuff that I forgot I had. I think it was almost full at 40gigs.

shy boy from chess club posted:

2.5 since it has a 4 slot holder in there already. I may do some video on it too if it does alright when I try some editing on it if that matters on the HD speed. From what I saw they were like 400-500mb/s no matter what brand and I'm not a power user or anything so I could probably just get the best size/price.

Darchangel posted:

Thanks, I'll take a look.
Somehow we made $10K more this year, which offset the withholding adjustments my wife made to her W2, we think. Speaking of, have you *seen* how they do the W2 now? You can't just follow a little checklist and then say # withholdings. No, they expect you to know how much you will make next year, with this over-complicated calculation - which specifically said that we should only make the withholding adjustment on ONE of our W2s. Thanks for that. Also, we're getting charged $10 for not withholding enough taxes. gently caress. You. IRS.

Kilonum posted:

RIP Paul Walker posted:

My dad died this weekend and I’ve been sucking at work so much during his end and afterwards that I probably need to find a new job. I was hoping work would be a nice distraction but it’s the opposite of that.

Sorry to be a downer, but I wanted to share with the mostly-anonymous internet (also I know at least a couple people on this forum who have met him over the years).

gently caress dementia.

Also I hate Ohio and can’t wait to get back to Oregon.

meatpimp posted:

poo poo, if you didn't feel sad, THAT would be the problem. I'm sorry for your loss.

And I'm sorry for your being in Ohio. It's not all bad, but man, NE Ohio is pretty close.

meatpimp posted:

There's really nothing in NW Ohio other than corn fields and wafting Indiana smell. At least you aren't continually bombarded with lake effect weather like NE Ohio.

mariooncrack posted:

Southern Ohio is bad too. Can confirm.

meatpimp posted:

I was going to add "other than that one place with the car plant," but didn't.

T-Square posted:

4/5 people on my team including me were hired on last year to run payroll for a lot of people and assist with the transition to a new payroll platform which is happening at the end of this month, and so far throughout our training that has been mostly useless, it seems like a lot of our responsibilities are being farmed out or automated. The last like three weeks our group chat has been everyone stressing out about getting laid off. I’m trying to stay positive, but man, whatever it is I did to whomever to deserve all of this poo poo, I’m fuckin sorry okay, can I have like one singular thing in life go well? TIA.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Just saw an alert the local Emergency Serivces are offering free sandbags for a rain event tomorrow.

I live in the mountains.

How much rain are they expecting?!?!?

64bit_Dophins posted:

I started working out yesterday and realized that my body has basically atrophied through this whole Covid lockdown. I'm starting with 10min of cardio and I plan on working up by adding 5 minutes on the treadmill each day this week. Next week I plan on trying to lift.

Seriously though I imagine a lot of other people are in the same situation. I've never been so out of shape in my entire life and honestly it's pretty shocking.

RIP Paul Walker posted:

People kept suggesting I look at houses in Parma. Glad I decided to leave Ohio instead.

cakesmith handyman posted:

Today's my son's second birthday under lockdown. poo poo sucks yo. Even he doesn't know what he wants so we got him a couple books, models, Minecraft swag, going to make the best pizza tonight and put a movie on, can't do much else. Sounds kind of pathetic when I type it out.

Modus Man posted:

I feel your pain there, my daughter’s 6th birthday was in the beginning of lockdown so we had to explain to a 6 year old why she couldn’t have any friends or family come over to celebrate with, and how sure we were that her 7th birthday would be a normal birthday party... gently caress...

devmd01 posted: