Thanks. I'll try to get my energy up to post tomorrow. I'm feeling pretty blah over everything. I just found out my sister and brother in law are pretty screwed from all of this. He worked his butt of to open an audiology clinic a couple years ago and was fiiiiiiinally starting to see profits. They are even almost done building a house. Now he has to close his business until this is all over since his patients are typically over 60 and it's high risk to them. So he has to try to find work stocking shelves at safeway and their house is probably going to have to be sold before they can ever move in. I'm really stressed for them. It totally sucks.

Also, your sister is unfortunately right to be worried. My mother in law is a teacher and was told it's quite likely our schools will have to close for the rest of the school year.... Everything sucks!

Stay safe and healthy everyone. The wife and I are in self-isolation right now. Could affect my posting rate.

Thanks Colin. You too. Honestly, I'm a bit depressed right now. So many people are losing their jobs over all this and I'm really stressed about what that's going to do. There are so many people around here who will be in dire straights and though my husband's job should most likely be secure, I feel incredibly bad for everyone. It's hard to motivate myself right now. I think I'll try to pull myself together and post next week. Right now I'm just drained.

I don't know what to say. Take it easy, look after yourself and loved ones. I can wait. I think the only thing we can have now is patience.

Hey folks, just wanted to check in and let you know that my first kid was born last week. She is currently in the NICU and will be for awhile. I’ll try to stay active but obviously this has sapped a lot out of me. I’ll post when I can and keep folks updated. Thank you.

Congratulations!

Congrats!

Wow, that's huge! I hope she gets out soon and major congratulations to you! Naturally I completely understand if you're hit and miss on here. That's the beauty of being in your own thread though. No one is waiting on you!

Thank you everyone. I really appreciate it.

Man! I just got a ton of my grandpa’s old sheet music today. Some is as old as 1880! I wouldn’t be surprised if Penny’s song were in there somewhere!

So very cool!! Some songs are actually valuable, especially if the music is original printing.

Nice.

Could be. I looked up music-hall tunes from the era, found a list of them and something with wind in the title that could fit. But when I tried to find more about it, it turned out that was the only website on the internet that had it. So much old stuff is still not on the net, just on paper somewhere.

It’s true! There’s still a ton of knowledge not available online. Thank goodness for books and things!

In other news, today there is an 80 percent chance my husband is going to quit his job. So that’s fun...
We’ll be ok though. We have savings and he has some mad skills in IT and cyber security so he’ll figure out something else. I just need him to work someplace that isn’t going to give him a heart attack in five years. His health is deplorable! Today he and his boss are going to HR to finally try to take down their director because he’s a tool and he sucks. Should be interesting!

I’ll be posting later today.

Let us know how it goes!

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. And everything that's happening to your country. :( I hope you all stay safe and do well over there.

Thanks! Yeah, it’s been a hellish year. In January I sprained my ankle, February I think Australia had those wildfires and of course covid began overseas. Then march everything went on lockdown and my aunt got diagnosed with cancer, I think april is when the murder bees showed up. In MY state of course. Thank heavens it’s not bad yet, end of May all the race stuff and now it very well could be jobless june! On top of that, my cat is going through her first heat and is driving me bananas! Haha! Wow, just, wow. Oh well, a lot of other people have it a lot worse.

On a happier note, do you guys realize that this fall will mark the 7th year we've been playing this? That's crazy! Poor Penny and Ian. Talk about a slow burn romance! Hahahaha!

In reply to Artemis (msg # 276):

Don’t forget wide spread rioting and civil unrest. Also June is Jumanji Level 6, aka Hurricane Season.

Seven years! I think after this, Penny might have to move things forward. ;)

The bushfires hit their peak over December/January, and were finally stopped by February. But we can look forward to them again from September on. :(

I completely missed those murder hornets. That just shows how many crises we've had this year. Right now, the US police and army brutality is just so shocking. I'm afraid for all my friends in America.

Yeah. Life pretty much sucks all around right now. You should look up the murder hornets if you haven't seen a picture of them yet. Absurdly big.

As far as my husband's job goes, he's waiting to officially have conversations with everyone for one big showdown. Basically he's talked to HR and they are supposed to have a zoom or in person meeting with him, his direct boss (who he loves), his manager (who he hates), HR and the CEO if she can be bothered to actually come. It's a huge gigantic mess. The idiots in charge are probably going to be stupid enough to not meet my husband and his boss's demands and in doing so, half or more of the IT team are going to quit in solidarity because they all hate the manager too. It's that bad there. My husband will quit by the end of the week if they don't give them a new manager or try to postpone the meeting again. So after this week, we'll probably be jobless. Yikes!

We have a good savings and he's got mad skills so we'll probably be ok, but I'm having flashbacks to when we were first married. The day after our honeymoon (if you could call it that) he lost his job and we had to live on my piddly pet store job for five months before he could find anything. We had 60 bucks in the bank when he got hired at his current job. That was twelve years ago, but the stress and memories come rushing back like yesterday! At least this time we're significantly better prepared. We had saved up a decent chunk of money to do house renovations that got put off thanks to the virus. So now we can use that money to live off of instead and just ignore the ugly floors, hahahaha!

Phew, thanks for letting me vent on here guys. I don't want to admit to my husband that I'm a bit scared for this sudden change in life, but I also support him completely. I've been telling him to rage quit for years.

Oh damn. I wish you two the best of luck with everything.

Ditto what Penny Said.

I am SO glad I put everything on my sheet. “Vial of Healing Liquid” will come in really handy right now. ;-)

Thanks for the support. So far things are looking awful. He has a big meeting today to say his peace but the higher ups seem not to care about IT’s concerns. Stupid idiots. At least he’s going to get to tell them what he really thinks today and he’s going to be professional but he’s not holding back. Therapeutic! I fully expect his last day to be sometime next week though. We have really good savings, so we’ll be fine.

Today is my husband's last day. He's taking a week off or so, so my posting will be hit and miss since we finally get to spend time together. Seriously, he's like a whole different person!

I do plan on posting later today though, after I'm done with a client :)

In reply to Artemis (msg # 284):

Good different? I hope!