Lockdown/Covid Check In
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@barbarian mate, i cannot begin to understand what you guys in Sydney and now Melbourne (a-fucking-gain) are and have gone through. I do remember the initial 8 weeker-last year and how fucked that was. That you guys are doing it all again, with no end in site is actually heartbreaking.
My son is in high school. I couldn't imagine him missing a massive block of even year 7 to "home learning" and not being able to play sport with his mates. My boys are going to crack after missing the next two weekends.
Compared to you blokes, my shit is a breeze.
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@barbarian mate, i cannot begin to understand what you guys in Sydney and now Melbourne (a-fucking-gain) are and have gone through. I do remember the initial 8 weeker-last year and how fucked that was. That you guys are doing it all again, with no end in site is actually heartbreaking.
My son is in high school. I couldn't imagine him missing a massive block of even year 7 to "home learning" and not being able to play sport with his mates. My boys are going to crack after missing the next two weekends.
I'm so lucky on the children front. My boy is just three months old and this lockdown is serving as a sort of paternity leave. My wife is loving the extra help and I get to be around for more of his early moments, which is nice.
I can't imagine how tough it would be for those with older kids.
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@barbarian said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@barbarian mate, i cannot begin to understand what you guys in Sydney and now Melbourne (a-fucking-gain) are and have gone through. I do remember the initial 8 weeker-last year and how fucked that was. That you guys are doing it all again, with no end in site is actually heartbreaking.
My son is in high school. I couldn't imagine him missing a massive block of even year 7 to "home learning" and not being able to play sport with his mates. My boys are going to crack after missing the next two weekends.
I'm so lucky on the children front. My boy is just three months old and this lockdown is serving as a sort of paternity leave. My wife is loving the extra help and I get to be around for more of his early moments, which is nice.
I can't imagine how tough it would be for those with older kids.
if my son was in Year 12 i would probably be joining the loons in the street with a placard
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
if my son was in Year 12 i would probably be joining the loons in the street with a placard
TR Jnr is Yr 11 (I think thats what it is, form 5) and talking to teachers (teachers talking to others around NZ) and his math tutor, they say so many kids are still struggling from missing out on stuff last year so is having a knock on effect to this year.
So can only imagine how hard it will be for kids in other countries that have had thier schooling disrupted so much more in the past 16 months.
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4.5 and 18 month old here - as long as childcare is open things are doable, but it was farking hard to be working from home with them around, with the added bonus of my industry/area going mental since the lockdowns.
Covid has hit during the most chaotic period of my home and work life. I was already struggling with an unrelenting work schedule and Covid has amplified that. I think there is an awful lot of understanding talk and policies around, and some of it is genuine, but the same pressures to get shit done are still there, even if hidden behind a wellbeing veneer. -
@barbarian you’re doing a pretty amazing job bro. Holding down a job, being a dad, supporting your missus. Things that might seem like every day stuff, but cannot be sniffed at in these uncertain times.
That’s not to say that even when we are putting forth our best effort we don’t experience the highs and lows, emotionally and physically.
After lockdown 5 in Melbourne was announced I was pretty emotional about it because one of my daughters (just turned 11yo, grade 5) who had just got back into the swing of going back to school again was going to be taken out again and then all the readjusting would have to happen in two weeks. Lockdown 6 then happens and earlier this week she can’t help but feel excited about going back to see her friends at school, lockdown extended and yesterday was a tough day for her. Nothing I can do about the situation other than love her, talk to her, encourage her.
Sometimes things simply do not work out the way we think - relationships sour, kids get depressed, jobs are lost, businesses go under, another lockdown, families can’t be visited, loved ones are lost - things that are sometimes outside of our control. Something my old man taught me back when I was going through a challenging time, resilience isn’t about not experiencing the bad things in life, but maintaining a positive outlook when there are a thousand reasons not too.
Not always easy but I believe that each day there is a chance to put it to the test. Sometimes it’s during a walk outside or quiet moment at home, or an epiphany like moment that @mariner4life had that we can reflect on our life and make a choice.
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@act-crusader beer wine and bbq help
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@act-crusader Great post. Thanks. Best wishes to you and your family.
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@barbarian said in Lockdown Check In:
@act-crusader Great post. Thanks. Best wishes to you and your family.
Thanks mate.
Been watching the Sydney situation closely and it’s pretty tough. Stay safe mate.
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@act-crusader Nice post, really positive and it does help thinking that way.
Life throws all sorts of curve balls at us all, how we deal with it is what counts. I have a few myself at the moment. Emotional rather than things that I can completely control. I don't like not being in control. It makes me very uncomfortable. Things that are just outside the normal scope of life. In good ways, and some not so much.
Kia Kaha guys.
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@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@act-crusader
beer wineDiet Coke and bbq helpNot a drinker, but I agree 😎
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@act-crusader said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@act-crusader
beer wineDietCoke and bbq helpNot a drinker, but I agree 😎
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Lockdown check in day one:
- Built a new workstation for the first time in almost a decade. It works. Well.
- Got approval to do some work that's taken most of the year to successfully line up.
- CS injection for the knee.
- Started renos in another room of the house.
- Played with the puppy.
- Pizza and malbec for dinner.
- Watching the rugby.
Beautiful day where if I was allowed to leave the house I'd have gone for a ride, but can't have everything I guess...
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week look up....but not for long
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Day 7 of self-iso. Yeah no different than any other day really.
Can confirm the vaccine seems to work though - I was sitting pretty much next to the chick that is the reason for self-iso and her story to the table about a wedding she went to lasted my whole fucken 3 beers, yet here I am, negative.
Don't have covid either.
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@pakman said in Lockdown Check In:
@nepia said in Lockdown Check In:
@r-l As with others all the best!
It's been good to have a non Polish female voice on the Fern so you'll be missed.
I'll even schedule the latest season of The Handmaid's Tale into my viewing list in your honour (when it comes to one of the myriad of steaming services I currently have access to).
It’s dark. At Episode 8, and the pull of the black vortex is only getting greater.
June being dragged strongly on to the dark side.
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@r-l said in Lockdown Check In:
@pakman good ay!!! Seen the whole series,last ep is hmmmm.
Blessed day. Up to 8 in UK. June rousing the handmaids in exile to feelings of revenge. Healthy to let anger out, but feel she’s in danger of being defiled by it…
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@r-l said in Lockdown Check In:
@pakman I'm all for letting anger out! She's had a hard time
Totally agree. That’s healthy. But if it gets to the point where you become obsessed by the desire to hurt others you yourself are diminished.
She needs some counselling.