Cold Miser

Pathetic indeed. Most neighbors won't be on board with this, but some will.

Well, if you live in Boston and next week decide to have Thanksgiving with more than the legal amount of people, the police may be called to your residence. Nothing like clogging up the 911 infrastructure to report on too many people dipping into the gravy. ...This will easily bleed into Christmas and New Year's as well, where I think lockdowns will ultimately be in place by then in some regions. Good ole' Marty Walsh:

I agree. mid to Late 2021 was always looked at as a long shot. Edit: I am talking total normalcy. We may have concerts and events, but mask wearing will be commonplace next year.

That Thanksgiving bit was the most unfunny thing I think I've heard in a while.

My daughter's college campus in Rhode Island is hard core with the mask wearing. I went down there last week to take her to lunch and every kid walking around outside had masks on. EVERY ONE OF THEM. The covid cases are some of the lowest when it comes to college campuses (There was a parent briefing back in the late summer discussing the measures that the school was going to go through to deal with the virus, and it was pretty extensive and thorough). When the cases come along they are dealt with swiftly. I am not sure what that mean by "swiftly), but you don't hear about them again after a few days. (It is Rhode Island so maybe there's a mafia thing going on. )

Whatever was in that tweet was so horrible it was removed.

lol. Stick around my friend. You ain't seen nothing yet, especially if futility comes to fruition over the following weeks and beyond.

We ripped pretty good in Killingly and Brooklyn. Lost power for 6 or so hours. Was a nice quick hitter.

FYI:

...Let the melts begin.

Time to put the bus back in the garage. But, man that Dakota's look.

Was 90+ last time I checked.

In March it was in the 20's.

It could happen, but it would be very different and subdued. I was in Worcester last week for dinner, and it was just a very strange vibe. If we did it, we would have to literarly be sitting at tables, probably no more than 5 or so to a table, and the tables would be separate from each other by more than 6 feet. No standing around in groups.

I literally finished it on the last day before it went from 9 to 6 parts (I think June 09) If I didn't finish it when I did I would have had overlap and would have had to take parts over again. It would have sucked more than it did.

A bit late to the party, but having kids was/ is great. Me and my (now ex) wife had both of our children at our early 30’s. I am 50 now and my daughter is 20, and my son is 18. Those early years of wonder and excitement with children are amazing…The toddler years through 12 or so. Unfortunately for me I went through a prolonged dark period that I think prevented me from really taking full advantage of some of those fun time periods. I did my best, and I think that both of them turned out o.k. As far as the work aspect goes, for the most part I think many of us are not completely happy with the work choices we have made. Juggling work choices and family are not easy, and if you are stuck doing work that you are not happy with it makes the journey tougher. Many times it is too late…We are sent out on the conveyor belt of college…work…family, and before you know it, decades have passed by at warp speed, and you find yourself feeling unfulfilled, and wondering what just happened, where did the time go, etc. As noted here, some people don’t take that path. They are able to go down that less traveled, back woods, tree filled slope, and find happiness (with or without kids/ family). That was not my path. For me, work 9-5 and family seemed like the mission that I had to accept whether I wanted it or not. I don’t regret it, but I do wish there was a bit more guidance, particularly on the working front Right after college we moved to DC, and lived there for over 3 years. The plan was always to make it back to New England to be near family, so when the time was right we came back and lived outside of Boston. Right on schedule we had kids, and kept moving forward at a breakneck pace. Architecture was not the best choice for me, but I took the grueling 9 part exam, and am licensed. Like most professional fields of work it is nowhere near asglamorous it seems. There was even a point where I thought I was going to break away from it... I have always wanted the simple life of owning a small pub, or bed and breakfast type of establishment, but it just was not in the cards. After my brother died in 2004 my wife and I embarked on a 3 month northeast tour to find bed and breakfast that we could own. The journey was unsuccessful, and ended with us moving from the Boston area to Connecticut. I often wonder about these types of choices, and how things would be different if I did this, or did that. The choice of having kids is a HUGE one, a game changer. For some it is not the right move. I am extremely happy that children are a part of my life. Other life choices not so much, but if I went back in time, I would still have children.

distance gym class = just as close to useless as you can get.

The wife is currently getting her PHD in the medical field, and her brother works for Moderna so there is they are pretty tied into all things, virus related. She seems more hardcore than he does, but I fear that the whole thing will take its toll on the kid in some form. Facetime meetings, and one 3 hour visit this summer, but that has been about it as far as communication between my girlfriend and her nephew.

Melina told me that your gym teacher's are pretty much doing hardly anything. What a joke on-line gym class must have been prior to the "hybrid" this week.

My girlfriend's brother has a 5 year old son and he has been in lockdown since March. I think, with the exception of going into his tiny Boston backyard, and a few walks to the park he has really only left the property a handful of times.

Yeah. They talked about using the floating holiday but voted against that as it would just be "moving one day to another" and that it would not be an original day off. For now it is an added holiday. (15 holidays now)

I just learned today that where I work, Juneteenth is going to become a work holiday starting in June, 2021.

Yeah. I get that.

Not bashed from me. The alternative may be National Guard handing out food rations at the end of your street for many weeks at a time while everything continues to unravel and fall apart at the seams. "most mindful" is the key to your statement.