My pharmacy has Haagen Dazs BOGO this week. We usually get our ice cream from one of two local dairies, which are superior to the mass-market products. But they’ve been closed down, so HD is an acceptable alternative. Maybe H can bring ice cream too?
It’s amazing . . . no masks, no TP, no cleaning supplies. Lots of chips, cookies, candy. Maybe we’re all going to die lazy, fat and happy?
Perhaps something in a WWII surplus aviators’ silk?
I’ve seen two pictures of you. I know what you look like. Somehow my imagination persists in seeing you as the tall, rangy Brit ambling across the moors, pipe clenched between your teeth, a small dog running at your ankles, and a gleam in your eye. Don’t spoil this for me. grin Tell the missus my image of her is similarly appealing.
It could go with my Christmas elf’s hat which, round the edge, reads "Bah! Humbug!!
Wear it with my Christmas elf fuzzy pants? Yes, you read that right . . . little elves in Christmas hats on fuzzy pj bottoms that mom bought me this past holiday.
Talked to a friend that I’m starting to miss miso and kimchi, she told me that the Korean or Japanese supermarket in Paris start selling in FB. One of them sells with an excel file downloadable from their dropbox listed on their Facebook page. Need to pay cash upon delivery, one can email back the form by email, but the challenge is the need to buy at least 100€. Quite amazing how business tries to adapt without online shop.
History repeats itself. In the 1980s a customer built a huge Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet for one of the yacht provisioning services in the British Virgin Islands. Their business took off with the increased convenience to customers. You knew what you were going to spend ahead of time and on delivery you got a copy of your spreadsheet back with notes for substitutions and shortfalls. It was a little clunky but remember it was 35 years ago. We dialed into a BBS to get a copy and print it and fax it down. grin
Time to boil or get bottled water?!
There was a bottled run that coincided with toilet paper hoarding here in Houston.
Same in the UK, although it didnt last as long as the toilet paper one or, indeed, the ongoing flour problem.
Toilet paper is in stock, flour nearly (not all the brands, but good enough). Liquid soap or cleaning agents, still empty shelves.
Lotus 1-2-3! Good times!
N95 masks! It’s hard to breathe through a bandana.
Don’t get me wrong; I feel fortunate, but find it hard to breath through various N 95’s as well. 10 minutes and I’m having a "panic attack ". Not really, 'cause I know what’s happening, but in some ways I imagine that’s what it’s like.
I can’t help but remember the time I tried scuba diving off a small boat in Turks and Caicos and was seriously trying to choose between seasickness and drowning.
Same here, tried once. I can’t imagine for those who has respiratory problem, need definitely a better and improvement, maybe something like an oxygen inhaler and mask combined invention?! Another thing is, I don’t know if these masked episodes will become more and more frequent in the future.
I suspect so. Or, at least, more folk wearing one more regularly. Even before this virus, it seemed that whenever I watched a TV news report coming from, say, Japan, you’d see quite a number of people wearing masks on the street. I’ve presumed it’s something of a cultural thing and I can see it becoming more popular in other countries.
I think it was often heavy air pollution causing the wearing of masks? I’ve seen it on occasion from news reports in China and India.
In Japan, masks were already commonly worn by folks who had a cold or cough. This was always intended to prevent spreading the germs, not to protect oneself from other people’s germs, and was the done out of courtesy to others.
In China, however, masks have now become common because of the awful pollution. Around big cities there has been constant haze, even on better days, so the masks are meant to filter the air (though not sure how effective they are).
My reading is that this would be the reason for Covid related mask wearing. Although I think wearing a mask is a practical visible reminder to others about distancing.
Maybe after a while, everybody will get used to that. And masks will be a fashion accessory as well.
I will add there is also the allergy to pollen in the cherry blossoms flowering period in spring.
