OT - How are you spending your time “social distancing?”

dmourati

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

Article on food safety:

https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavirus-a-comprehensive-guide.html

Cornholio

saluki2007 said:

What’s the benefit or pooping outside versus in the toilet which is likely right next to a shower? I guess you could rub your butt on the grass like a dog with worms. 

GATraveller

But are they changing gloves after each money exchange and bag hand off? That's the stuff I worry about more than their temperature. 

Legume

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

I can only imagine the screaming about privacy here if someone tried to institute that.

nolaegghead

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

Chef: 37C

Thermometer type: Rectal

Cornholio

Lit said:

Cornholio said:

Took my son out for a “trail” ride, still getting his feet wet. 

Check for a local skate park. We have a really cool park that has a great section for younger children and it’s free. Been taking my kids since my boy was like 18 months. 

My son was on a Spherovelo (little balance bike with balls instead of wheels) before he could walk then a balance bike. Got him his current Early Rider belt drive bike when he was 3 and he learned how to ride that by the time he was 3.5. Most his friends that are older than him have 30lb training wheeled bikes from Walmart which are counter productive to learning. 

Now his sister has moved from the Spherovelo to his old balance bike. Hoping to have him on a mountain bike by next summer so he can start hitting some bike parks like Snow Summit and Mammoth. 

I just meant he is getting his feet wet with trails that have any climbing involved. Skate parks with kid friendly areas are definitely good for building skills. Looks like you’ve got a little shredder there. 

Here’s my daughter on a neighborhood cruise yesterday. Being stuck at home has really pushed her riding with all our outside time.

Canugghead

nolaegghead said:

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

Chef: 37C

Thermometer type: Rectal

Thermometer brand: Wireless Meater with WiFi 

Cornholio

Canugghead said:

nolaegghead said:

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

Chef: 37C

Thermometer type: Rectal

Thermometer brand: Wireless Meater with WiFi 

I guess that’d be better than a coworker using a Thermopop every time. 

thetrim

This is the best I’ve seen so far. 

thetrim

This is the best I’ve seen so far. 

thetrim

I started cooking my bats and making sure they’re all at 160 internal w my Thermapen.  

nolaegghead

Cornholio said:

Canugghead said:

nolaegghead said:

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

Chef: 37C

Thermometer type: Rectal

Thermometer brand: Wireless Meater with WiFi 

I guess that’d be better than a coworker using a Thermopop every time. 

"Thermopoop"

Ozzie_Isaac

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

I like my chef at a nice medium rare.  Say 125 prior to resting.

BTW, I received direction from work to not make light of COVID-19, so I apologise if my way of dealing with stressful situations, i.e. with humour, offends you.

shtgunal3

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

There’s something about folks in hazmat suits bringing out the food that makes me not want to eat it.

GATraveller

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

I like my chef at a nice medium rare.  Say 125 prior to resting.

BTW, I received direction from work to not make light of COVID-19, so I apologise if my way of dealing with stressful situations, i.e. with humour, offends you.

Was it just you or a company wide policy? It'd be awesome if you got singled out.
I, for one, appreciate gallows humor. 

Battleborn

Day 6 and the natives are getting restless. Kids are starting to bicker with each other. Had to give them manual labor to work it ot of them.

WeberWho

My wife asked if we could dig out the PS2. Which I honestly didn't even know we had here at the house. I thought it might be back at my parents house or one of my sister's had it. 

Sure enough it didn't want to work after years of sitting in a box. Next thing I know I'm two hours into tearing apart a PS2 trying to figure out the error disc reading. I was fortunate enough to get it back up and running once again. I cleaned the lens and adjusted the tracks on the dvd player which was giving me the error disc reading. 

My wife can play PS2 now. This makes me want to go find the Nintendo 64 and see if I can get that going for some James Bond action!

kl8ton

WeberWho said:

My wife asked if we could dig out the PS2. Which I honestly didn't even know we had here at the house. I thought it might be back at my parents house or one of my sister's had it. 

Sure enough it didn't want to work after years of sitting in a box. Next thing I know I'm two hours into tearing apart a PS2 trying to figure out the error disc reading. I was fortunate enough to get it back up and running once again. I cleaned the lens and adjusted the tracks on the dvd player which was giving me the error disc reading. 

My wife can play PS2 now. This makes me want to go find the Nintendo 64 and see if I can get that going for some James Bond action!

I think you need to get out the N64. I need to find some legit Nintendo controllers with tight thumb sticks.  I bought some knock offs and they are terrible. They make bond impossible to play.  

WeberWho

kl8ton said:

WeberWho said:

My wife asked if we could dig out the PS2. Which I honestly didn't even know we had here at the house. I thought it might be back at my parents house or one of my sister's had it. 

Sure enough it didn't want to work after years of sitting in a box. Next thing I know I'm two hours into tearing apart a PS2 trying to figure out the error disc reading. I was fortunate enough to get it back up and running once again. I cleaned the lens and adjusted the tracks on the dvd player which was giving me the error disc reading. 

My wife can play PS2 now. This makes me want to go find the Nintendo 64 and see if I can get that going for some James Bond action!

I think you need to get out the N64. I need to find some legit Nintendo controllers with tight thumb sticks.  I bought some knock offs and they are terrible. They make bond impossible to play.  

Oh for sure with the controllers. I always felt that the N64 had the most comfortable controller. 

The N64 is around somewhere. We pulled it out a few years ago as my wife was talking smack on how she could beat me in Wave Race. I proved her wrong. 

FarmingPhD

@WeberWho @kl8ton - too funny, my wife and I had the same conversation about pulling out the PS2 last week.  Bond Everything or Nothing has a pretty good team mission set that was pretty fun to play together, we would have to play on easy these days.  

Botch

Somebody said:

My wife asked if we could dig out the PS2. Which I honestly didn't even know we had here at the house. I thought it might be back at my parents house or one of my sister's had it. 

When I was still in grade school I got a box of plastic dinosaurs, between 2 and 5" long.  I played with them for years, and included the 3" WWII plastic fighter aircraft that Dad brought me from his business trips (had a P-40, a Zero, some Messerschmitt, and a bomber or two).  I was entertained, for years.
Are there any video games that let you team up dinosaurs and WWII fighters?  Asking for a friend (he's imaginary too, but he hates me).  

Ozzie_Isaac

GATraveller said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

I like my chef at a nice medium rare.  Say 125 prior to resting.

BTW, I received direction from work to not make light of COVID-19, so I apologise if my way of dealing with stressful situations, i.e. with humour, offends you.

Was it just you or a company wide policy? It'd be awesome if you got singled out.
I, for one, appreciate gallows humor. 

This time I was not singled out by the policy, but I did get an honorable mention by my department manager.

I did get a company policy once.  I used to honk and wave every morning at protesters outside my company.  After a week a policy came out to not engage them.  My supervisor at the time pulled me aside and said I needed to pay special attention because I was the reason! 

Battleborn

Ozzie_Isaac said:

GATraveller said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

I like my chef at a nice medium rare.  Say 125 prior to resting.

BTW, I received direction from work to not make light of COVID-19, so I apologise if my way of dealing with stressful situations, i.e. with humour, offends you.

Was it just you or a company wide policy? It'd be awesome if you got singled out.
I, for one, appreciate gallows humor. 

This time I was not singled out by the policy, but I did get an honorable mention by my department manager.

I did get a company policy once.  I used to honk and wave every morning at protesters outside my company.  After a week a policy came out to not engage them.  My supervisor at the time pulled me aside and said I needed to pay special attention because I was the reason! 

Your company sounds like a police department. You have a failed career if you don't have a policy with your name on it before you are done. 

Legume

Ozzie_Isaac said:

GATraveller said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Eoin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Some of the restaurants around here are going to great lengths to exercise care and reassure people that the take-out is safe.  Curb side pick up only, masked workers handling the food with gloves, all sorts of extra precautions.  I have no idea how much if any is actually effective but the effort is notable.  I suppose they feel like they don't have a choice if they want to keep people buying their food.  

A journo here showed what the Chinese were doing for take out. The temperature of the chef, the packer and the delivery person were taken and written on the bag.

I like my chef at a nice medium rare.  Say 125 prior to resting.

BTW, I received direction from work to not make light of COVID-19, so I apologise if my way of dealing with stressful situations, i.e. with humour, offends you.

Was it just you or a company wide policy? It'd be awesome if you got singled out.
I, for one, appreciate gallows humor. 

This time I was not singled out by the policy, but I did get an honorable mention by my department manager.

I did get a company policy once.  I used to honk and wave every morning at protesters outside my company.  After a week a policy came out to not engage them.  My supervisor at the time pulled me aside and said I needed to pay special attention because I was the reason! 

This is funny, I’d say too bad they killed that with the protesters, but it really wouldn’t be a good story if they didn’t do anything.  You’re just building your brand there.

We created a channel in our dept MS Teams are just for covid memes.  No spoken rules, but everyone has been avoiding the normal HR triggers like politics, race, etc.  I can only share about 25% of what I get on here.  It’s been good for morale, we’ll see on day 28 and if any of our own or their families get sick.

speed51133

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I like my chef at a nice medium rare.  Say 125 prior to resting.

BTW, I received direction from work to not make light of COVID-19, so I apologise if my way of dealing with stressful situations, i.e. with humour, offends you.

what kind of place do you work at that gets protesters?

Lit

Cornholio said:

Lit said:

Cornholio said:

Took my son out for a “trail” ride, still getting his feet wet. 

Check for a local skate park. We have a really cool park that has a great section for younger children and it’s free. Been taking my kids since my boy was like 18 months. 

My son was on a Spherovelo (little balance bike with balls instead of wheels) before he could walk then a balance bike. Got him his current Early Rider belt drive bike when he was 3 and he learned how to ride that by the time he was 3.5. Most his friends that are older than him have 30lb training wheeled bikes from Walmart which are counter productive to learning. 

Now his sister has moved from the Spherovelo to his old balance bike. Hoping to have him on a mountain bike by next summer so he can start hitting some bike parks like Snow Summit and Mammoth. 

I just meant he is getting his feet wet with trails that have any climbing involved. Skate parks with kid friendly areas are definitely good for building skills. Looks like you’ve got a little shredder there. 

Here’s my daughter on a neighborhood cruise yesterday. Being stuck at home has really pushed her riding with all our outside time.

That bike your boy is riding is pretty cool what is the brand? My boy started riding a 12” bike with training wheels at 2.5 and a couple weeks later once he could pedal the training wheels came off. Only downside is he couldn’t reach the ground for 6 month so or so to stop so he would brake and fall over. He’s a little over 3 now and rides the skate park on this little bike but I need to get him something like your kids soon.

TideEggHead

Trying to figure out this whole work from home thing with a 1 year old running around and a mother in law who can’t stop talking... quarantined in the bedroom at the moment, home office set up... Oh any yes, that is definitely whiskey not coffee...



My plan B is set up the camper in the backyard, phone hotspot for internet, and more whiskey.

TideEggHead

Also made some Mediterranean chicken skewers yesterday afternoon! 

ColtsFan

Anyone else like vacuum their floors 20 times a day now?

fishlessman

ColtsFan said:

Anyone else like vacuum their floors 20 times a day now?

why would one do that