COVID 2020 - keeping sane on the home front: food, activities, etc.

I'm still going to work, but the rest of time I'm home and not venturing out. I added some new equipment to my pain living room including a Bosu balance ball and a yoga mat. My biggest hassle is the corporate guys who are telecommuting who keep coming up with new ideas they want to discuss. I'm the chief engineer, my day normally revolves around making sure equipment is maintained and running, but these days I focus on keeping the plant sanitized to help prevent and spread of a virus. No occurrences in the county so far.

Finishing a crazy 4-day trip flying this evening. Last leg is an “evacuation” flight from Punta Cana to Chicago. Carrying nobody in and getting people out before our international flying shuts down tomorrow evening.

Assuming I get home I have some serious bike maintenance planned this coming week. Maybe some Zwifting too.

Maybe cleaning the garage with old toothbrushes. Probably lots of cleaning around the house.

My Ireland-studying daughter got home early Wed morning and I hugged her like nothing else mattered.

My research lab is powered down and everyone is safely at home. My Persian grad student is celebrating their new year and her Iranian family and friends are all asymptomatic.

The undergrad program I manage is online with a minimum of panic and anger.

I slept peacefully last night for the first time in a week. I did great yoga this morning. Tree, even on my weak leg, was particularly satisfying.

I had a brandy with breakfast.

I’m doing a series of strengthening exercises for muscles associated with my knees and shoulders. Everything was getting loose and impinging and scraping and grinding. All of the exercises are lie or stand this way and move this limb that way with this or that small weight repeat 12 20 50 times.

I find that just the counting is quite relaxing.

I can highly recommend watching Wagner’s Ring Cycle on the Met Opera app. Particularly the most recent versions with the crazy movable stage - called The Machine - that gets used in each part. Watched Die Walkurë last night. That Brunhilde. What a voice.

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Checking tires for slices, using some ShoeGoo to patch them, adding fresh sealant in the tubulars and preparing two tires for eventual service...you know the drill...first coat of glue and stretching on the spare rims. I still scratch my head when a tire states 27mm on the sidewall and weighs in at 25mm. Not my Vlaanderen though...27mm on the nose. I call my observation and statement regarding the tire width, picking fly shite out of the pepper. I.e., looking for things to do relieve some stress.

Watercolours? Some of Picasso's best work was while in Nazi occupied Paris essentially under house arrest

Try this:

J.S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 / Sviatoslav Richter ( 1969 ) - YouTube

Or this

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Try this: >J.S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 / Sviatoslav Richter ( 1969 ) - YouTube<

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Amazing how minimalist and modern Bach often sounds. High school math teacher of mine used to say, "One day someone will work out the mathematics of Bach and the universe will stand still."

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Getting a chance to work on my modified “Japanese” style workbench. Rough layout above.

50 mile mellow ride, followed by a long walk with the family, followed by 30 minutes of lifting in the garage gym (so glad I bought that squat rack), followed by lunch and now to sit on the patio and have a couple beers. I'll spend my mornings getting fit and my afternoons getting fat.

Matt, I might make that into a Tee Shirt " I'll spend my mornings getting fit and my afternoons getting fat. "

I'm really liking a daily nap. About 8 hours after I wake up, 20-30 minutes does the trick.

Just a heads up - if you are sequestering yourself in the outer doors of nature, ticks don't know from social distancing. And they are now out (at least Columbia County NY) trying on their new legs. And the ones in your pants.

Tiny to small size. Fast as fck. On a mission. Beware.

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Just a heads up - if you are sequestering yourself in the outer doors of nature, ticks don't know from social distancing. And they are now out (at least Columbia County NY) trying on their new legs. And the ones in your pants.

Tiny to small size. Fast as fck. On a mission. Beware.

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So the Corona with Lyme joke from a couple weeks ago is already not-funny. Great...

Just managed a Zoom call with four of my six best friends from growing up with assorted of our kids running into and out of the frame. 30+ years this group has been together. Will probably manage all seven of us on the next one. Got to “meet” my buddy’s three week old daughter- they live near Reno so not seeing them in person anytime soon.
Technology can be a wonderful thing.

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Getting a chance to work on my modified “Japanese” style workbench. Rough layout above.

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Walnut top??!

We are finding ticks on our dogs already and are putting those ridiculously expensive collars Bayer makes on them.

I am cutting firewood and Pine trees and today will have a humongous bonfire, burn season having been extended and snow in the forecast.

Well the state of TN as legalized curbside booze pick up-you can now go to your favorite Mexican restaurant and get the FishBowl margarita to go- I can’t possibly see how this could go wrong?

Our governor is squarely focusing on business-

Walnut top??![/QUOTE]

Yep. We took down a huge walnut 2ish years ago. Chainsaw Mill and plenty of space in basement got them down to 9-10% moisture. I’ve got a good variety of slabs. Hopefully a dining table later this year is in the mix.

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