Kevin's Watch

Cord - thank you. She isn't getting
Any relief from the meds. So the
Doctor is trying something different
Tomorrow. I suggested morphine ,
But she seems opposed.

Cord Hurn wrote:

Avatar wrote:Yeah, I'm a bit over this lock-down thing myself...

--A

I'm still sneaking out and hiking trails in the desert during times of the week when few are using them. And, when somebody comes along on one of those trails, I step off the trails and give other humans a wide berth, while trying to be careful not to step on any rattlesnakes hiding on the ground while I'm avoiding being physically close to people. (I have always believed in social distancing when it comes to me and those rattlesnakes!)


One thing this COVID-19 pandemic has changed about me, is that I'm fine with not shaking hands with people anymore! There's other ways to project friendliness besides shaking hands, after all! Say, maybe I'll just kiss everybody! If that isn't a good alternative, then I can just give the "I'm listening to great heavy metal music" sign to everyone! Or maybe, from now on, just a simple "wave" will do!

I'm all about the air hug these days when I see people I really like.

Other people get a dorky big wave rather than a handshake.

I decided I am NOT getting up at 2:30 again, ever in my life. Well, I can do it for a day and be all right, but day 2 I am useless protoplasm. Irritable cranky protoplasm.

sgt.null wrote:Cord - thank you. She isn't getting
Any relief from the meds. So the
Doctor is trying something different
Tomorrow. I suggested morphine ,
But she seems opposed.

Can she ice? I hate ice, but it does do a job on injuries.

The more phine the better...

Meh...it's uh...Thursday. My internet has been so slow these last few weeks it's not even funny.

--A

Well, government announced last night that a slow "phased" easing of the restrictions will begin as of 1st May, so that's good news I guess.

--A

deer of the dawn wrote:

sgt.null wrote:Cord - thank you. She isn't getting
Any relief from the meds. So the
Doctor is trying something different
Tomorrow. I suggested morphine ,
But she seems opposed.

Can she ice? I hate ice, but it does do a job on injuries.

She seems to be sleeping with the new med.
Our freezer is not food, so ice is iffy. We will
See how she feels upon waking.

Cag -- Love and virtual from Batty, MagickMarker and me. Hang in there, dude.

Sarge -- please give Julie a gentle hug for me.

Everybody else --

We are doing fine. All three of us have introvert tendencies, anyway, so sheltering in place has basically been SSDD for us, with the exception of never being able to find certain things at the grocery store (arrggh).

MagickMarker and I began working from home for our respective jobs on March 13. She continues to work from home, but I'm now on a two-month sabbatical. I was sufficiently fed up with my job and the commute that the first couple of weeks at home felt like a gift. Then it went back to SSDD 'til last Thursday night, when I packed up the firm computer and the firm iPhone and shoved them to the back of a closet.

I had a whole list of things that I was going to do during my sabbatical -- visiting museums and taking car trips to visit people -- but that's all out the window now, of course. I have enough craft projects backlogged to keep me from being bored, but it's going to be a different sabbatical than I'd planned. Thank the gods I hadn't planned a dream trip or anything.

I am still planning to go to to Santa Fe in late May/early June. (Jenn, Rigel and danlo -- heads up! ) Gonna take Amtrak there and back. I bought the tickets a year ago so I could have a roomette for the whole trip, because I am too old to sit up in coach for two nights straight, even without the virus complicating things. I've gotten a slew of emails from Amtrak - they're still running my route, but they recommend that you wear a mask in the stations and on the train (presumably I can leave it off while in the roomette). They're doing room service for meals. And I'm staying at the timeshare, so that should be fine.

The reason I need to go is to look for an apartment in Santa Fe, because I'm planning to retire from the firm July 6th. Although I've told them that if we're shut down so long that they can't recruit for my position, I'd extend my departure *as long as I can work remotely*. Our lease here is up at the end of July and I don't want to sign another one here. The attorneys I work for are on board with my proposal, but I hadn't heard back from Secretarial, yea or nay, before I went out on sabbatical.

I suppose I could tour apartments virtually and sign a lease long-distance, if it comes to that. I can cancel Amtrak without penalty, but it would suck to waste the week at the timeshare. Their availability for the rest of the year is pretty much nonexistant.

So! Lots of stuff up in the air these days. I'll be retiring in July or maybe not; I'll definitely be moving to NM but I don't know exactly where I'm living yet.

(Yes, Av, I know -- since I'm on sabbatical, I have no excuse for not checking in at the Watch. I'll do better. No, really, I will.)

Life is boring so not much to say. I spend quite a bit of time in queues these days - one way of getting some fresh air I suppose. Have done a bit of gardening but our new dog, Rosie, keeps digging everywhere I weed so I'm going to put everything in pots and cover the soil with wood chips.

Ali, I do envy you going to Santa Fe. I'd love to visit but don't think I'll be crossing the Atlantic again. I still proudly wear the hoodie I bought in the dime store in SF and the T shirt I bought in Flagstaff.

Av and Stevie Cags and Sarge (for Julie)

I'll be back anon.

Its been quite a roller coaster of a ride my past month .. and not sure if relief is in sight

Im feeling a tiddly widdly down atm ... bit sad, a bit forlorn .. a bit blue

Well I guess I just gotta suck it up .. and I will of course but allowing myself to roll with grief atm.

aliantha wrote:I am still planning to go to to Santa Fe in late May/early June. (Jenn, Rigel and danlo -- heads up! ) Gonna take Amtrak there and back. I bought the tickets a year ago so I could have a roomette for the whole trip, because I am too old to sit up in coach for two nights straight, even without the virus complicating things. I've gotten a slew of emails from Amtrak - they're still running my route, but they recommend that you wear a mask in the stations and on the train (presumably I can leave it off while in the roomette). They're doing room service for meals. And I'm staying at the timeshare, so that should be fine.

You know, I was laughing so hard my eyes started poppin' - think Arnie in Total Recall
- and for a second it felt like real insanity.

Great stuff!!!

Hey everyone.

Came back coz Cag mentioned on FB to me about his prognosis. Knew if there was some place I could find out more it would be here.

Cag, BIG love to you. I still remember back to those days of my roadtrip with Lucimay. Probably the most wonderful thing that's ever happened in my life (that and having Son of Seareach). You and Carla were fabulous hosts, and karaoke night was a blast. I've never forgotten your sense of humor. Often wish I could do it all again, come and meet your kids. So, you're in my heart, and I'm always here if you need someone to vent to.

As for the rest of you: the world's kinda gone a bit crazy, eh. I've thought of you all when I see the numbers for different countries. I hope you're staying safe!
Here in Oz we've been lucky. It looked like things were going to go pearshaped, but some how we've managed to contain this beast and our case numbers for the country have been under 20 for several weeks now. I feel blessed. Who knows what the future holds, but at the moment things look okay for us.

Take care. Much love, Sea xoxo

Wow so great to see you Sea And so many Watchers coming home

Hugz Cags

Seareach, you are a welcome sight!! I'm still in Nigeria, where we are just beginning to mount the curve, and locked down as much as Nigerians can be locked down (which isn't saying much).

It's hot just sitting at a desk typing. 90F, 24% humidity (just high enough to make you feel it). Google Classroom is my life right now. I miss the pipsqueaks.

So much to be grateful for, though. We have a home to live in, more food than we really need to be eating, a degree of internet, and though the power's been off since yesterday we are running a generator so the food in the Fridge doesn't spoil. I've lost only one friend to COVID-19, two others survived, lost one to cancer (Cancer, you suck!!! ), my kids are okay, and we're okay.

You all okay?

aliantha wrote:(Yes, Av, I know -- since I'm on sabbatical, I have no excuse for not checking in at the Watch. I'll do better. No, really, I will.)

I'll hold you to that...

Iolanthe wrote:I'll be back anon.

Better be...

Seareach wrote: Came back coz Cag mentioned on FB to me about his prognosis. Knew if there was some place I could find out more it would be here.

Sheesh, that's what it takes to get you to visit? I will not speculate on what would be required to get you to stay...

--A

Folks, I love you all dearly. In special sincere, and a few of you in weird and naughty ways. I am so honored that more and more people keep dropping in for me. It blows me away and makes me feel so unworthy, but that's what kind of great folks you all are.

Sorry I have been out of the loop here lately. Seems I only get a little bit of time in between appointments and work, and it is "Facebook or Kevin's Watch?" But the appointments have been overwhelming lately in the home stretch.

I think I will create a separate thread now to catch everyone up on what I'm up to. I'm trying to decide on a title for the thread and I can't come up with a good one, so I think I'll go full Eeyore and call it Cag's Depressing Cancer Thread to keep everyone away.

But I will try to keep with the humor where I can. I'm sure some days will be more upbeat than others, and I'll probably use this as a springboard to launch a blog that I'll steer others toward eventually, when I can find the time to do that. Anybody have any free blog site recommendations and advice?

Null, I hope Julie is finding some type of relief. Masturbation through the pain sometimes works for me, but isn't for everyone. And I hope you are handling things well too. My wife Carla is the caregiver right now, and is definitely having problems keeping it together. Cheers!

If you don't care about having a "site," look into medium.com, or the old stand-by, blogger.com which is a bit more traditional.

--A

I went with Blogger, but am so far overwhelmed by design options and an attempt to pretty-fy the sucker. When really all I want to do is get the writing knocked out. I know it will be a one time thing, but it is things like this in games like The Sims that I hate dealing with. Give me the pre-arranged house, and show me how to knock down walls to expand later, but let me get to the fun part right away.

If all you want is basic-basic, Cag, for gods' sake, don't let anybody talk you into a Wordpress site.

I've used Blogger for years. It's fine. I also cross-post some things on Medium. Lots fewer settings there, plus a bigger innate readership.

Erm, me? Fine. Took the car in for an oil change on Thursday and the mechanic informed me that my inspection sticker had expired at the end of March. Which shows you how often I've driven the car over the past six or eight weeks... Anyhow, they inspected it for me and everything was fine.

Spent the early part of the week sorting through some of the stuff in the storage closet. I managed to reduce 10 file bins of documents to 4.5. Then as an encore, I sorted through three boxes of stuff I brought back from my mother's house when we did the final clean-out, and got it down to one tote plus a stack of crafting magazines. I feel quite accomplished.

Watched a thing tonight -- Neil Gaiman interviewing N.K. Jemisin, live from their respective homes. It would have been held at Bard College in NY if this had been normal times, and I wouldn't have gotten to watch it then. So there's that. She's just been on tour (or "on tour", probably) for her latest book, from which she did a reading. Sounds like it's lots of fun.

Yeah, that's why I thought of Medium...no prettifying really needed.

Me, meh. I don't even have the energy to explain the mehness right now.

Will see how I feel later. Could go either way.

--A

Cags I have a mate who uses Facey to blog his passage through his cancer. Some posts are long, some short, like you he brings his own brand of humour to his god awful journey. We end every exchange with FUCK CANCER

Also dude ... you might need to get way more comfortable with peeps loven your lilly white ass

In actuality it is never about worthiness. Even though we can be irrefutably judgey shits lol its just about YOU.

However, lets look at that WORTHINESS thing. The worth of a human is determined by its collective , the community ... those you interact with and that IS what it is ... and it is clear we here love your weird

And you ARE worthy lol of every love and concern expressed.



Take care dude ... and fuck cancer