So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

[tango]

There is NO toilet paper in the stores in my area!

I found some for sale. 12 small rolls for $14.99 - I don't need it enough to pay that.

 

[tango]

Got a load more sanding done, fiddled with my wife's laptop some more and found it seems to have enough stuff from uninstalled programs from the previous owner to confuse it, but not enough to work. So I need to go into "seek and destroy" mode to find and get rid of whatever is going on.

By now my sander should have had chance to cool off so I can go do some more in the room. The floor is really starting to look good, I just need to figure the best way to cope with a couple of slight steps between floorboards. They aren't big - maybe 1/20" - but are big enough to form splinters which isn't good for feet. I'm planning on using the room as a guest bedroom, so don't want splinters in the floor!

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Sick again. Resting and coughing. Taking pills and downing all kinds of liquids. Very thirsty. Called out of work for the last couple of days that I was scheduled to go in.

 

[Lamb]

I found some for sale. 12 small rolls for $14.99 - I don't need it enough to pay that.

My husband had gone during lunch to a store near where he works (in a different state...I can't go there because of the stay at home orders or I'll get fined $500) and said they had none. He went back this morning during the Senior Citizen hour for shopping on his way into work and said there was some and that the seniors were the ones hoarding them!! He grabbed two 6 roll packages even though the limit was one. It made up for his 2 trips to that store.

 

[tango]

My husband had gone during lunch to a store near where he works (in a different state...I can't go there because of the stay at home orders or I'll get fined $500) and said they had none. He went back this morning during the Senior Citizen hour for shopping on his way into work and said there was some and that the seniors were the ones hoarding them!! He grabbed two 6 roll packages even though the limit was one. It made up for his 2 trips to that store.

I can't help wondering if there are two things there. Seniors may "hoard" them on the basis it's harder for them to get out and, if news is to be believed, they are more vulnerable to the effects of the virus so they'd want to go out less. Then there's the question of whether seniors genuinely need more paper - people who suffer digestive issues are more likely to go through more of it. I've known a few older people who have had to plan their days around how their digestion is likely to cope. The kind of people who routinely carry Imodium and spare underwear are probable the same people who buy extra toilet paper every time they get the chance.

Just for good measure if people lived through any period of rationing they may have a mental trigger that prompts them to get some while they can. I don't know if the US had rationing after WWII but the UK did (so I'm told, I'm not old enough to remember!)

 

[Lamb]

I can't help wondering if there are two things there. Seniors may "hoard" them on the basis it's harder for them to get out and, if news is to be believed, they are more vulnerable to the effects of the virus so they'd want to go out less. Then there's the question of whether seniors genuinely need more paper - people who suffer digestive issues are more likely to go through more of it. I've known a few older people who have had to plan their days around how their digestion is likely to cope. The kind of people who routinely carry Imodium and spare underwear are probable the same people who buy extra toilet paper every time they get the chance.

Just for good measure if people lived through any period of rationing they may have a mental trigger that prompts them to get some while they can. I don't know if the US had rationing after WWII but the UK did (so I'm told, I'm not old enough to remember!)

A friend of mine came up with the idea of stores handing out coupons or vouchers for people to obtain those high need items. I like that because it actually puts a limit on things where the check out people might be afraid to enforce!

 

[Lamb]

My dad called and told me (after posting on FB) not to condemn the senior citizens who are hoarding since he's on his last 100 rolls of toilet paper and his last 80 paper towels! Before my mom died she would bring home toilet paper and paper towels at almost every shopping trip!

 

[Naiwen]

Good morning all, had about 12 hours sleep last night, having my usual breakfast and my morning coffee.

 

[tango]

A friend of mine came up with the idea of stores handing out coupons or vouchers for people to obtain those high need items. I like that because it actually puts a limit on things where the check out people might be afraid to enforce!

Sounds an awful lot like the ration books of old.

Truth be told shops shouldn't be introducing rules if they aren't going to enforce them. The other day at a store local to me there was a sign on the door saying masks were required to enter. About a third of the people in the store weren't wearing masks. Then at the checkout we found about a quarter of the checkout staff weren't wearing masks.

I'm extremely skeptical of whether masks do anything useful at all - my thoughts are they are preparing us for something else - but when the sign says you're not allowed in without a mask and a substantial number of the staff aren't wearing masks it all seems rather pointless.

 

[tango]

My wife and I tried a new diner today. Takeout - they aren't allowed to serve people there - but the food was good. We had planned to try a different place but the guy who answered the phone couldn't have been less interested, so we decided to give the money to a place that at least wanted to take my order.

Then this afternoon I did some more floor sanding. I think I tripped a thermal cutout on my sander so decided to let it cool off for a bit. I could really do without about five of these things so I could cycle them, but at $250 a pop that's not a sensible option. I'm wondering whether renting a floor sander would be a good idea, it's just that I've heard a few things about them either being extremely unforgiving if you make the smallest mistake, and some of them just don't bite into the floor much and you end up standing on them to get them to do anything other than just skip over the surface.

I've got about half of my floor sanded right back to bare wood now and smoothed off. It's been a slow process because there's a lot of scraping to do to lift varnish and stain, but the floor underneath is really starting to look nice now a lot of it is visible. A lot of the middle looks like it was never finished at all, it just faded and aged after 80+ years of sunshine. Sanding it strips away a dull gray surface to reveal an almost golden brown wood underneath.

 

[tango]

My dad called and told me (after posting on FB) not to condemn the senior citizens who are hoarding since he's on his last 100 rolls of toilet paper and his last 80 paper towels! Before my mom died she would bring home toilet paper and paper towels at almost every shopping trip!

My wife's late aunt had stockpiled all sorts of things. Toilet roll, toothpaste, soap, tinfoil, all sorts. I have no idea why. We like the toothpaste she accumulated so took it after she died. I think it took us something like four years to use it all. If I recall we gave a dozen rolls of tinfoil to friends who could use it. She lived on her own but still had dozens of towels, many of which looked almost new. We kept enough for our purposes and gave several boxes of them to a local shelter.

I think she panicked with all the chatter about doomsday coming because of the millennium bug, although with the benefit of hindsight I think she also had a bit of some kind of dementia so may have forgotten how much stuff she already had and kept buying more.

 

[Naiwen]

Good night all, been doing about an hour aroma therapy and music therapy, meditating and doing yoga till dinner and heading to bed tonight.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Had a telephone interview with my doctor and I'm going to make an appointment to get tested for Covid- 19 tomorrow. I've got some antibiotics to help deal with my symptoms in the meantime.

 

[Lamb]

Had a telephone interview with my doctor and I'm going to make an appointment to get tested for Covid- 19 tomorrow. I've got some antibiotics to help deal with my symptoms in the meantime.

Feel better soon! Let us know when you receive the test results. Take care!

 

[tango]

Zoom meeting with some friends last night. It was fun to catch up with them. Not a great night - no idea why - so feeling a bit sluggish today. I'll most likely get my walk in before it rains, then do some sanding. Got another Zoom meeting this afternoon with some other friends. Since they can't smell me remotely I don't need to be cleaned up, which is handy because I'll want to do some more sanding of the floor before and after the meeting.

 

[Lamb]

Zoom meeting with some friends last night. It was fun to catch up with them. Not a great night - no idea why - so feeling a bit sluggish today. I'll most likely get my walk in before it rains, then do some sanding. Got another Zoom meeting this afternoon with some other friends. Since they can't smell me remotely I don't need to be cleaned up, which is handy because I'll want to do some more sanding of the floor before and after the meeting.

I'm enjoying Zoom meetings that I've been attending and it's nice that once your 40 minutes are up you can just log in again and get 40 more.

 

[tango]

I don't like Zoom anywhere near as much as meeting in person but sometimes it's the best there is. It's nice to see someone's face as well as hear their voice.

Curiously this morning while my wife and I were walking we bumped into one of the friends we virtually met with yesterday, who was also out walking. So we stopped and chatted a while longer. Talking in person is so much better. I'm really looking forward to when all the silliness ends and we can go back to something more sensible.

 

[Naiwen]

Good morning all, had about 12 hours sleep last night, breakfast is my usual and my morning coffee.

 

[Krissy Cakes]

I'm just listening to music.

 

[Naiwen]

Good afternoon all, sipping a hazelnut latte and white jasmine tea. Lunching on leftovers with orange juice. Doing aroma therapy and music therapy till dinner and off to sleep tonight.