Quarantine of the Day
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- i_monk3
Every day feels like Friday or Sunday now.
- https://www.youtube.…webazoot
- https://www.youtube.…Krassy
- It’s like an endless Monday. Weekends never really come.monospaced
- +1 endless mondaymaquito
- Besides, I was starting to feel really comfortable with lockdown, and last week I realized I’m having trouble concentrating.maquito
- you dont work?milfhunter
- I do work, but it doesn't feel like real work days – hence Fridays.i_monk
- sted3
- badassKrassy
- thats goodBluejam
- Might be just me but I cringed the whole way through.scruffics
- Watched it yesterday. The end is funny, the rest is a bit too posed and too cliché (like the woman catching the laundry basket). Jumping from roof was fun.SimonFFM
- @scruffics not just you. As a bmxer, all mountain bikers and trials types are kooks to me.garbage
- i mean, i don't do BMX or anything like that but i did land a kickflip less than 15 years ago. that's enough to let me have an opinion on this, right? :)scruffics
- lol most certainly, especially when your opinoin is spot on.garbage
- @scruffics that justifies everything :)sted
- nocomply4
I'm in a very similar situation to mg33.
My wife and I run a web design and digital communication business together. We've got a 5-year-old who is scheduled to start kindergarten in the fall, and a 2.5 year old who was going to an in-home day care.
Now we're trying to run a full-time WFH business while simultaneously doing 24/7 child care.
It doesn't work.
We can't work at the pace we used to, which is ultimately going to affect our bottom line. Then there's also the bigger question of will we even be able to sign up new work in this pandemic?
The uncertainty there is a significant stress, for sure. We're lucky that we've got projects to work on right now, who knows what 1, 3, 6 months out holds?
When I think about how much it sucks for my wife and I as parents, I think about our 5-year-old and how it sucks for him even worse. It's depressing. He should be free, not on lockdown. He's an extrovert. He absolutely needs socialization and time with his friends to thrive, and he's not getting it.
There have been so many challenges and tough days, but I feel bad complaining when we're all still healthy, we have a roof over our heads, and we have enough food to eat.
There have been a couple of silver linings though. The biggest one is how great of friends our boys have become. In our previous lives they spent their days apart since they couldn't go to the same school. Now they're together all day, every day and they're totally best friends. Our 2.5 year old has learned SO MUCH from his older brother in the past 6 weeks. He's like a totally new person with all his new words and mannerisms. It warms my heart. But it's seriously all I've got right now. And every parent knows that you also need time away from your kids to be at your best, which we're obviously not getting.
- Hang in there, your kids may well remember this fondly as a good time with familyGnash
- Hang in there buddy, mg33 and the rest of the QBN parents here. I can’t begin to imagine what your’e all going through.Ramanisky2
- Trying to count my blessings every day. :)mg33
- Thanks all!nocomply
- Hang in there. A whole generation of children are going to have this on them forever.monospaced
- mg335
Six days so far with drastically reduced news consumption. No DrudgeReport, no conspiracy forums, just the occasional Apple News article as a recap of the day. It's great.
I should have started this weeks ago, but got up and took a walk for a mile this morning to start getting in the same distance I do walking from the train to my office downtown.
Got out of the house yesterday to take a drive with my family; my wife hadn't been in the car in six weeks, I've been the only one driving and we're only getting groceries delivered now.
Doing some serious daydreaming about buying a small weekend place on some water in southern Wisconsin in the next few years. Something that's under 2 hours from where we live. I'd love to have a place like that now to go on the weekends, maybe a little land, build something prefab / modular, head up there on Fridays to unwind and disconnect and go hiking and fishing and stuff. Mentioned the idea to my mom in Texas over the weekend, and now she and my stepdad are thinking about moving closer to us when he retires in two years. Would be nice to have them close as they get older.
- A very close friend of mine who I visit every year has a house on a lake in Wisconsin. Love going there in the summer.Ramanisky2
- Hell yes!nb
- You really don't ever need to look at Drudge Report. Unless you work directly in politics or newsmedia or gossip, there is nothing there worth reading.nb
- That's nice Ram! We go to Door County once in a while, went just this past October. It's a bit long of a drive - 3-4 hours from where we are north of Chicagomg33
- I really like the terrain and wooded aspect of it though. That's what I want, some natural privacy, nothing in a regular neighborhood.mg33
- I've been to Mercer before, too, it's way too far but just amazing up there. Lakes everywhere, heavy forests, clean air.mg33
- Lake Sinissippi Wisconsin.
https://i.ibb.co/Qbm…Ramanisky2 - Lake Sinissippi Wisconsin
https://i.ibb.co/b3Z…Ramanisky2 - nice post.MrAbominable
- grafician1
- yawnutopian
- Also not his home. He’s a multimillionaire probably living in a fancy apartment/ houseNBQ00
- he got married toografician
- he's also in Massive AttackKrassy
- That's just a rumor and most likely not true.NBQ00
- I find it absolutely amazing that in the year 2020, someone can keep their identity anonymous for this long. That's the real genius of Banksy's work.utopian
- why is it most likely not true?ArchitectofFate
- Banksy's overall work and aesthetics in my opinion...are on its best day "blasé" and that is be generous.utopian
- The Massive Attack guy rumor. It's just a rumor. There have been many rumors.NBQ00
- ^ the rumor is that it's a rumorKrassy
- trashMaaku
- fun!Nairn
- Bansky once offered a print to me for £300 back in the day before he was big time - told him that was too pricey..Beardy
- Did he also hang out with you and went to have a few beers together?NBQ00
- @Beardy yeah, that happened to me too that same day, but he offered it to me for £200Krassy
- @NBQ00 @Krassy - straight-up. I never met him in person, was all email. Talking years ago.. I thought, 'fuck paying £300 for a stencil'Beardy
- ..it's my claim to fame. That and taking a crap beside Jarvis Cocker from PulpBeardy
- ^ like common peopleKrassy
- Years ago? Banksy seems to have been famous since like over 20 years?NBQ00
- Ramanisky25
- boomer pants?pango
- Hard pants.PhanLo
- Haharobotron3k
- Are people not showering and getting dressed?i_monk
- Bennn7
- „Imagine no possessions... it‘s easy if you can.“NBQ00
- ^DRIFTMONKEY
- Ramanisky22
- Reading this illiteracy makes me want to pass a microplane grater over the whole length of my face.Continuity
- @Continuity: don't touch your face!MrAbominable
- ^ LOL!!Continuity
- Is cornteen the cannibal version of corn beef?lemmy_k
- Can't beleive I had to Google that.webazoot
- Search twitter for 'Colon', you'll laugh your spleen out.monoboy
- LOL ContGuyFawkes
- Continuity3
'Coronavirus Survey Results: 42% of Employees Drinking While Working from Home'
https://www.fishbowlapp.com/insi…
'Advertising and marketing agency employees had the highest percentage of employees answering with Yes, with 49.14%.'
According to W&V (advertising industry trade paper in Germany), it breaks down further to:
• Senior Art Directors: 63.9%
• Account Managers: 63.6%
• Designers: 57.1%
• Creative Directors: 56.5%
• Senior Vice Presidents: 54.8%
• Associate Directors: 40%
• Account Executives: 36.1%- work interrupts my drinking at homeMrT
- Wonder if agency folk's cocaine supply is as good as usual. Surely that's what keeps the ideas flowing?PhanLo
- A friend of mine says her weed guy is having supply chain issues. So I'm guessing the it's the same story for blow.Continuity
- hello!maquito
- and nobody who watched Mad Men is surprised.ETM
- Krassy6
- That's going to be an Old Fashioned with some bite.Continuity
- 3ishTurboslacker
- kingsteven5
- BEER ME LISA!kingsteven
- https://www.youtube.…nb
- Wish we could put a hammock on our balcony.i_monk