WTF-Beta

@Bernard thank you!

Fortunately we both got the flu and Covid vaccines already (in mid-Sept I believe).

I am supposed to go to a conference on Friday, Thursday and Saturday are to be the travel days, my colleague is driving. I’ll contact him today to consult.

As I see it, the options are: 1) don’t go. 2) go and wear a mask in the car. 3) go and we both wear a mask in the car (if I go, this would be my preference). Presuming I don’t get sick of course.

Ugh, what a hassle, this is kind of an important trip. I really do not want to miss it, but I would hate to make him sick, or get sick while there, or have Mr SK get worse while I’m away…

This is why I’ve spent 6 years masking, is to avoid situations like this.

Phooey.

@Rontuner So presumably it’s connected to… the internet? what year is it?

Metal

@Bernard I didn’t know that wind up clocks can’t go backward… well maybe I did but I forgot.

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@kluurs said:

Phooey - I managed to avoid it by following your plan. Hope it works for you.

You mean, you avoided in-home transmission from your spouse? That’s encouraging!

Thanks @wtg !

Good grief!

@AdagioM thank you!!

Mr. SK returned from Japan a few days ago not feeling super great and then yesterday was sure he was getting a cold. Today I got one of those OTC test kits and it says he has Covid.

Neither of us has ever had Covid before. Ah well, it was a nice run.

He’s not feeling super bad so far. And he got the vaccine (as did I), so hopefully it will run its course and stay mild throughout.

Now let’s see if I get it. Since yesterday we’ve been sleeping in separate rooms and masking when we’re in the same space. But for the first two days he was home, we didn’t do any of those precautions. Time will tell.

@RealPlayer said:

Seven, counting a wristwatch, and not counting the microwave which is often unplugged anyway. We leave it at 88:88.

@andyd those are lovely!

@daniel apologies, I don't like watching house videos

We all have a lot of clocks don't we!

This thread is a reminder that I really need to start working on this for us…

So we have this ridiculously big back yard, the outside location shouldn’t be an issue.

But there are so many options, I feel like I’d need to take a week off from work just to figure them all out and figure out which ones would be best for us…

@Bernard said:

Fourteen, but a few will not be started up so probably around 12.

Ok you win! that’s a lot!

Another thing I forgot is our outdoor lights, which are on a timer. I think they’re supposed to adjust automatically, but if memory serves, last year, I had to adjust them manually.

@kluurs holy cow! That’s a crazy huge number! also sounds like fun.

In the end, we only had the two groups. There are some families with kids in the neighborhood, but we are at the end of our street. And we didn’t have decorations up earlier, so those factors might be part of it.

Oh, and our immediate neighbors next door have two daughters but they are away, and our across-the-street neighbors don’t have kids.

So maybe I could have predicted this, but we had more last year so I wasn’t expecting our turn out to be this low.

There are two places in town (not our neighborhood but along the commute to work) that do amazing Halloween displays, one with a huge selection of those massive balloon characters, very very cute, young kid-friendly. The other is the scary kind, with giant skeletons, a skeleton dinosaur, a scarecrow man that looks like its must be 10 feet tall.

I wonder how many visitors those places get.

@jon-nyc I always forget about the car!

Actually our alarm clocks have the DST button too, thankfully!

Smartphones and laptops will update automatically, but how many clocks do you have to change manually?

We actually have a lot. The microwave, three wall clocks, four alarm clocks… some wrist watches. I think that’s it, but it’s like 9 or 10!

We’ve had two groups so far, and one of them was three boys not in costumes (they looked to be maybe 13 y/o and seemed sheepish!)

There’s only 10 minutes left.

Phooey!