Me either.

I mean, I didn't do those things before, but it's a sacrifice I will continue to make. :D

I get anxious just thinking about it. My wife and I went to Aldis this morning and spilt up our list to get done faster and minimize our exposure time. Five minutes in, my wife found me and said she just wanted to leave. I can't say that I blamed her one bit.

I live in a suburb of L.A., about 25 miles north of downtown. The thing about California is the oil companies always gaff us mercilessly and many people believe the high prices are due to high tax or winter blend fuel or something.

Why did she want to leave? Was it crazy busy? Last week we shopped and it wasn't bad.

Wear a fenestrated mask? Can fit a drink stir type straw through it.

I saw gas for $2.09 at WaWa this morning. I don't think it's going to get much lower because of taxes and other fixed costs.

I think Philly taxes are the highest in the nation, higher than California yet your gas is always at least $1 less than ours. Plus, we use a lot of domestic crude so the rip-off is even more ridiculous.

Someone told me they saw a woman with a hole cut in her mask so she could smoke.

I wouldn't say it was crowded but it is a smaller Aldis than most. I think it was the customers picking stuff up and then putting it back down, that sort of thing. I saw some pretty egregious examples of behavior that go against all of the CV guidelines and she must have, too.

Off for some outside garbage miles. Might even stop for a pic or two. :lol:

Here in DC surroundings the lowest I’ve seen is $1.999. I’d lose my ***** if it was less than a buck in this area :injured:

Lovely word selection :thumb:

I quite enjoyed MoAlpha 's "antipodean" a few pages back as well. That was a new one for me.

In more creative usage of language, I was reading an article about this weeks weather trends this morning in which the author described an effect of a low pressure system moving across the country in a way that made me chuckle: "Some sloshing of the Great Lakes is also possible." :lol:

Many of my co-workers are totally missing the point of wearing a mask by pulling it away from their mouth when speaking because it makes it easier to talk :rolleyes:

"Defenestrate" is a favorite word of mine. :love:

Yeah...People... I'm back @ work. People just dont get it. Guys that have been in home reserve for a month came in, saw the masks and gloves, and the entry procedures and were mocking it.
Then there's the "freedom crowd" I'm really torn on this one. I'm all about my rights and freedom. However I dont want this virus to get out and ravage out country. Not to mention, I would rather avoid coming down with it if possible.
How people can just throw others under the bus for profits is just repulsive to me.

Podcast alert!

​​​​​​Carlton Kirby's Cycling Lock-in is highly entertaining.

https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=519956&refid=asa

I don’t believe the city has a separate gas tax. State gas tax is higher than NJ, which is why I try to buy there when I go to my NJ office. It’s roughly $0.50 cheaper in NJ than in many Philadelphia neighborhoods. The price difference used to be greater, but NJ raised its state gas tax a couple of years ago. Much bellyaching over that. The oil lobby in NJ is strong.

Southeast Ohio. Athens County

My aha moment was for those sedentary folk. I am learning to be sedentary as we speak.

Yes it is a possibly snooty medical term. But I am not as snooty as some of those physicians who pronounce centimeter as "sohn-ti-meter," that's really over the top IMO. One of my partners does it. :rolleyes:

I think this weekend was the first time anyone could get a test, without going through hurdles.
I'm still confused as to (1) whether an antibody test actually exists, and (2) do we know with certainty that someone who has had the virus won't get sick again in the next year?
What was farmed?

I actually get a few hours of real pleasure from a good workout, in addition to the reduction in anxiety. My wife, who was a varsity team athlete in college and works out regularly, doesn't get that. She finds the acute process neutral at best. I read somewhere that the exercise-pleasure (rat wheel) trait is demonstrably heritable.

There are some antibody tests out there, but not available for me to order yet. I know that some of the nursing homes have them

We do NOT know how long acquired immunity to the COVID19 lasts. Maybe months. Maybe more, maybe less. We don't know.

My dad was a non-physician and pronounced it that way for unknown reasons, but he was also foreigner who learned English in England. As I think we've discussed, only surgeons and internists who wear bow ties can get away with talking like that and they shouldn't.

wut

It's $1.50s here.