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the_siobhanHow the fuck is it September?
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Work gave company laptops to our entire department, which should hopefully help with some of the slowness and clunkiness of working remotely. I had to go into the office yesterday to pick it up, so while I was there I cleared out my desk. I mean, I don't know that I'm going to be moved when this is all over, but I also don't know that I won't be - and given how much money the bank has sunk into moving everybody into work from home this year I'd be pretty shocked if some bright spark didn't look at the cost of leasing all that prime Toronto real estate and think you know....
Man, I can collect an awful lot of crap if you plunk me down in one spot for a couple of years.
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The vacation time that had originally been set aside for the much-lamented Australia trip is coming up. Axe and I have been trying to figure out how to rearrange the house to fit the new-to-us furniture, and well, the paint has 8 years (I think? Maybe?) worth of dings in it so we're going to use a week to repaint and defrag. And hopefully throw out more stuff. (Where does it all come from? I swear there is one of those cornucopia horns somewhere in this house, but instead of food it spits out coloured markers and old videotapes and ripped jeans and rusted screws and wicker baskets and boxes of envelopes.)
After that Axe is going to the US to visit the girlfriend. I think he's off his wick - not so much because of the visit, but because he's only allowed to enter the country by air. If he could drive down he could make the entire trip without contact with a single other human being, but instead he has security, waiting rooms, taxis, and of course being stuck in a box with however many people for a half hour. Twice
Once he gets back he has to quarantine in an AirBnB for two weeks, because there is no physical way for him to do it here. I'll be dropping off his computer and some groceries once he gets in. Maybe a cat, if the landlord says it's OK.
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I woke up at 3 AM this morning and could not get back to sleep no matter how hard I tried. So now I'm at work. I feel like somebody threw sand into my eyes.
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Long weekend coming up, very tired wahoo.
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Work gave company laptops to our entire department, which should hopefully help with some of the slowness and clunkiness of working remotely. I had to go into the office yesterday to pick it up, so while I was there I cleared out my desk. I mean, I don't know that I'm going to be moved when this is all over, but I also don't know that I won't be - and given how much money the bank has sunk into moving everybody into work from home this year I'd be pretty shocked if some bright spark didn't look at the cost of leasing all that prime Toronto real estate and think you know....
Man, I can collect an awful lot of crap if you plunk me down in one spot for a couple of years.
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The vacation time that had originally been set aside for the much-lamented Australia trip is coming up. Axe and I have been trying to figure out how to rearrange the house to fit the new-to-us furniture, and well, the paint has 8 years (I think? Maybe?) worth of dings in it so we're going to use a week to repaint and defrag. And hopefully throw out more stuff. (Where does it all come from? I swear there is one of those cornucopia horns somewhere in this house, but instead of food it spits out coloured markers and old videotapes and ripped jeans and rusted screws and wicker baskets and boxes of envelopes.)
After that Axe is going to the US to visit the girlfriend. I think he's off his wick - not so much because of the visit, but because he's only allowed to enter the country by air. If he could drive down he could make the entire trip without contact with a single other human being, but instead he has security, waiting rooms, taxis, and of course being stuck in a box with however many people for a half hour. Twice
Once he gets back he has to quarantine in an AirBnB for two weeks, because there is no physical way for him to do it here. I'll be dropping off his computer and some groceries once he gets in. Maybe a cat, if the landlord says it's OK.
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I woke up at 3 AM this morning and could not get back to sleep no matter how hard I tried. So now I'm at work. I feel like somebody threw sand into my eyes.
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Long weekend coming up, very tired wahoo.
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Date: 2020-09-02 12:43 pm (UTC)But as you say there's still the security, waiting rooms, taxis etc.
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Date: 2020-09-02 12:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-02 11:31 pm (UTC)I went back to my office for the first time since March a couple/few weeks ago, I don't tend to accumulate a lot of stuff since transport both ways is always by bike, but I'm in an odd headspace about my steel toed Docs. I left them there since that's what I bought a new pair for, but leaving expensive boots just abandoned for months... not that I have anywhere to wear them. I should clean and polish all my at home boots at some point, could be good meditation.
Best of luck with this round of de-crufting!
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Date: 2020-09-02 11:40 pm (UTC)Just me being practical here: does he have travel health insurance? A hospital stay could be a disaster.
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Date: 2020-09-03 08:12 am (UTC)My mother isn't well but I can't really go to Canada until I don't have to quarantine when I get there, because otherwise I'd had to take a load of unpaid time off work. (Or stay up all night to work and I don't think I can make that fly).
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Date: 2020-09-03 12:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-03 02:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-03 02:53 pm (UTC)https://www.ontario.ca/page/ohip-coverage-while-outside-canada
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Date: 2020-09-03 04:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-04 05:11 am (UTC)Same, my mother is in Florida. She was hospitalized for two weeks with double pneumonia, likely COVID (but with a negative test, which is puzzling), and I couldn't do a damn thing about it.
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Date: 2020-09-04 07:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-05 04:49 am (UTC)One of the things that worries me is that people here seem to be so disinclined to take precautions unless they are explicitly told to - I walk along Queen St about once a week and getting unmasked people to give me enough space makes me seriously consider carrying a pike as a fashion accessory. If the airports don't have security enforcing rules about distancing, I worry that people just will not do it.
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Date: 2020-09-05 02:27 pm (UTC)I'm convinced the only reason we have an office is the bottom has fallen out of the market, otherwise, my chairman would have sold.
Man, I can collect an awful lot of crap if you plunk me down in one spot for a couple of years.
Since starting this job in '15 (and facing a redundancy in '15) I've kept almost nothing on my desk. I could never go back and feel OK. It's been nice.
After that Axe is going to the US to visit the girlfriend. I think he's off his wick
Same. I mean, who would want to go to that shithole? Now? I can't understand why he can't drive. I mean, in a sensible nation I can, but not in the US.
I woke up at 3 AM this morning and could not get back to sleep no matter how hard I tried.
Same. But I got up and sugar-soaped my kitchen.
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Date: 2020-09-05 02:31 pm (UTC)I found the airport security pretty strict about masking and hand sanitizing everywhere I went. They surely are in the Toronto airport. Also, they would step right in front of you when you got on and off planes to remind you to keep your mask on, and tell people to put theirs on if they weren't.
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Date: 2020-09-27 02:54 pm (UTC)Update: it appears to have been struck down in court.
https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-s-move-to-scrap-out-of-country-health-insurance-was-wrong-court-1.5120524
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Date: 2020-09-27 03:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-27 03:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-27 03:42 pm (UTC)