This shelter at home is so boring!!! Anyone else bored? Any ideas on how to occupy ones time? How is everyone dealing with this abundance of time at home?
Ballers
Barry
Big Little Lies
Silicon Valley
Succession
HBO docuseries and documentaries
The Apollo
The Case Against Adnan Syed
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
McMillion$
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality
United Skates
We Are the Dream: The Kids of the MLK Oakland Oratorical Fest
Warner Bros. movies
Arthur
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Blinded by the Light
The Bridges of Madison County
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Empire of the Sun
Forget Paris
Happy Feet Two
Isn’t It Romantic?
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Midnight Special
My Dog Skip
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Pan
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Red Riding Hood
Smallfoot
Storks
Sucker Punch
Unknown
@rtjhnstn@sammydog01 I was able to find them. I’ll have to wait until this whole thing blows over. Buying useless Lucky Cat toys tight now might be frowned on.
@jst1ofknd That sounds about right. I’d tell my kid there were plenty of chores that needed to be done if she couldn’t think of something to do and kept telling me she was bored. As you said, all you have to do is put them to work a couple of times and that cures that. I’d also kick her outside and tell her to go find someone to be bored with.
I also used that when my kid would mutter mean things under her breath. I’d say, “Thank you for offering to clean the cat dirt boxes, clean the toilet (or whatever job she hated that needed done at the time)”. She’d then scream at me, “I didn’t say that!!!”. I’d tell her that is what I thought I heard you say. Next time talk more loudly so I can hear you". And then made her do that job. Put an end to that pretty quickly as well.
Read a book, take a walk, call friends, lay out bait for squirrels to bring them up to your door and see how long it takes for them to discover that and follow it. Put all your dryer lint outside for birds to build nests with, watch a live stream cam of elephants, etc, at a watering hole (I saw an elephant back into one and knock it over - fixed now). Create a new meh thread every 5 minutes and maybe meh will send you an irk for your contributions to the community (or maybe someone on meh will send you an irk equivalent to get you to quit ), send a drone with a camera on a spying mission in your neighbor’s yards, go to the grocery store and buy 5 esoteric ingredients that people on meh suggest to you and then create a meal from that. Sew 1000 masks for your health care folks, and of course, eat chocolate and ice cream!
I’ll take some of your boredom. The wife and I haven’t stopped working and my pay has been docked 10%. The kids are being home-schooled and my 18 y/o thinks that social distancing means only inviting 1 friend a week over that’s not her boyfriend. I will gladly take some of your boredom.
But in the event we cannot share, learn a musical instrument. Binge watching TV has a way of making life unpalletable…
@InnocuousFarmer I don’t think you actually didn’t believe that any parents were working right now. It was kind of implicit in what you said, and I’ll address that, but English is often poor at succinctly expressing necessary subtleties.
Other subtleties are also dropped. For example, parents of adult children are largely not experiencing the current challenges of parents of young children, but they are obviously parents.
But no, there is really no comparison.
Back to Sets and English:
The Set of Parents obviously includes the Set of Parents who are “doing some form of remote work.”
You wrote, “To the parents add people doing some form of remote work.” This clearly implies that “people doing some form of remote work” is not included in the set of “Parents.”
Obviously, there is a common subset between “Parents” and “people doing some form of remote work” – that is Parents who are “doing some form of remote work.” But you didn’t acknowledge the existence of that subset. You could have written, “To the parents add the rest of the people doing some form of remote work” or something like that. But you didn’t.
This is not explicitly a denial of the existence of this set, but it is very unusual word selection if one acknowledges the existence of the subset in question.
But again, I reject this proposed union anyway, because there really is no comparison.*
*This is a figure of speech. Certainly a comparison technically can be made in this case, but I don’t want to make it.
@Limewater I could have put it better… you’re right, of course. The original post kind of implied we were only concerned with parents and non-parents who were not working – otherwise, who’s got extra time in the first place? So I was looking at two slices of the population: unemployed (free time, unless parents with young children, as represented in OP), and employed (no free time).
I replied to that, but not super explicitly, and you replied to what I’d said, but framed as all parents and… all non-parents, reading an implication that zero parents worked… something like that. I’d tap “Cancel” to check the exact verbiage, but then meh would reset my scroll position to the top of the page and what are we even doing?
@InnocuousFarmer@sammydog01 Personally, as far as “free time,” I am currently usually limited to activities I can complete in under ten minutes. Reading or posting on this forum generally takes under ten minutes.
I’m doing a lot of weeding. And by “weeding” I don’t mean trippin’ balls. I mean digging weeds out of Mom’s huge yard.
Today I mixed things up and laid down (and leveled) a couple of nice paving stones so that her bird baths would stay upright and dignified.
It’s boring as fuck — I hate being outside — but I’m sick to death of being inside.
When I’m inside I’m either cooking (3x meals per day for two…how do parents do it!? holy crap), doing crosswords, working remotely or playing chess. Here’s an example of a recent back-and-forth game: https://lichess.org/n8VFatA8/black
I’m not bored yet.
Working on preparing the garden and keeping the greenhouse in production. Finished pruning the orchard trees. Replaced the fuel shut-off and lines on the rototiller. Getting the coop & run ready for the new hens. I still need to clean my workshop and pressure wash the deck. I just finished working on the perennial berry beds. We’ve been going through all the old DVD’s we have, watching one a night. There’s still lots of daily chores inside & out. Take time out to take a walk with my wife, play with our dog and enjoy a beer or a little Scotch.
@daveinwarsh Lately I’ve been surreptitiously doing some of the outside repairs/chores on my honey-do list and waiting for my wife to notice (repair the chicken coup door, replace a panel the wind blew out on her greenhouse, etc.). So far no response, but it’s been rainy for a couple days so she hasn’t been outside much.
I’m still working full time and grateful to have a job.
I does sting a little bit that the CEO declared that profits are projected to go down so everyone’s pay is docked 10%. Wife is still working and very grateful for that as well, however their CEO said on Friday they see an end to work coming in the next month or so if airplane makers don’t start making airplanes again. Fortunately, she has TONS of projects to work on as soon as she gets furloughed to two days per week.
As for our weekends, we are busy as heck planting a big garden and her latest hobby expellarmius apple trees. Supposed to wast fewer apples with this method.
Oh, and kids.
@JnKL that is insane to me. I get extra per hour since I’m still working. Granted, I work with the public, and I don’t know if you do. Either way, pretty fucking shitty to dock someone’s pay.
@JnKL@RiotDemon The state of VA did that once to everyone who worked at universities due to budget cuts. For salaried people pay was cut 20% with no change in work hours, responsibilities, etc. For hourly employees they only worked 4 days a week instead of 5 the entire term. For some that meant only 4 days of actual work and what would have been done day 5 didn’t get done. For others they had to find ways to do that 5th day in the 4 they were there.
@JnKL@Kidsandliz@RiotDemon
But what about that 20% productivity boost with no increase in labor costs?
Bet all the executives got big fat bonuses from all the money they stole from their workers.
@JnKL Oh, okay - that would be espaliered, but “expellarmius” would really be cool - apples that fly off the tree into your hand! Can’t get more accessible than that!
@JnKL@Kyeh I have considered espalier pruning, but have never actually done it. By the time I seriously decide to do it most of my trees are too established…
@Cerridwyn the answer to all questions - google and youtube (right? ). Not so hard to do a simple one.
Actually I used to make these (made 7 total and still have a couple of 3" bottles I was going to make smaller scale ones but haven’t). They take ages to make if you are going to do a detailed job. Because the masts fold back and then you pull them forward with string (that you tie and then cut) it isn’t all that hard to get the ships in the bottle. The scale makes it painstaking if you are going to do a detailed job, and of course most people get better over time, but it isn’t “hard” in the sense that you need a ton of talent to do a decent job kind of hard. Yeah the ones talented people make are likely “nicer” but people without a gift for this kind of stuff can make presentable ones. Cripes all the “mass produced” ones are made by hand out of China and I’d guess many of those folks aren’t “talented”, just careful.
@Kidsandliz
I have done hand needle work. Even did the embroidery on a set of livery for a medieval wedding. I can do it technically well, have also done needlepoint and beading, but can’t knit or crochet. I can tell you how to sew a medieval gown, but I can’t do it.
Eye/hand / fine motor or something.
Each terrible music vid takes several minutes to watch. That’s right.
SEVERAL MINUTES EACH.
And you can play them over and over!
And while you’re doing that, time will pass. Even if you are passing time by watching music vids so bad they make you wish you were asleep or unconscious, instead.
/giphy Jack Nicholson I’d rather stick needles in my eyeballs
So put on your (real or virtual) high-heeled boots, and find some horrible music videos to share!
And a link to the time-wasting “bad music videos” topic here,
since otherwise I would be remiss in the extent of my unjustifiable and rude self-created-topic-overpromotion.
@f00l@Kidsandliz And how did you know that??? I had no idea it still existed. It was what a lot of kids drank when I was in high school. And I think it was supposed to be notorious for bad hangovers.
@f00l@Kyeh I don’t drink, however most of my college friends did. This is what they usually bought if no one had any money. I am thinking price per ounce was the deciding factor. Based on comments it certainly wasn’t quality.
@f00l@Kidsandliz Yeah, and I’m guessing it was a good transition for beginners because it tasted kind of like soda pop. The first booze I liked was mixed drinks for the same reason - lots of juice to hide the taste of the alcohol!
I just finished 25 years worth of the Honor Harrington books (author’s time). Admittedly, I started the series before the virus hit, but that’s still 26 books.
Ok, almost finished, it looks like there’s 6 side novels I haven’t read yet.
Space naval combat, towering heroes, venal cowards, telempathic sentient treecats, centuries concealed conspiracies, clever spies, very human characters. What more could you want?
And I’m not even sheltering at home. I’ve been working in the office through this whole ordeal. But things have slowed down so much I’m spending more time playing Toy Blast than doing actual work.
I would cut the office back to a three day work week, but there are a few hours daily of stuff that just won’t refrigerate well. And it comes in sporadically.
there is A LOT of hbo shows free right now
HBO original series
HBO docuseries and documentaries
Warner Bros. movies
@communist Andrew Lloyd Weber is making one musical free every weekend. It’s Phantom of the Opera right now.
I was going to tell you to buy one of there but they’re sold out. Bummer. Mine shipped already.
https://sellout.woot.com/offers/otamatone-japanese-lucky-cat
@sammydog01 oh that is cute. Pretty sure my niece would have loved it
@sammydog01 I collect Lucky Cats. I’ve never seen one of these. Sorry it’s sold out!
@Fuzzalini I’ll let you know if I see them again. They’re often in stock at Amazon.
@Fuzzalini @sammydog01 for $35-$36
@rtjhnstn @sammydog01 I was able to find them. I’ll have to wait until this whole thing blows over. Buying useless Lucky Cat toys tight now might be frowned on.
@tinamarie1974
Go clean something. That’s my answer when one of my kids tells me that they are bored. They haven’t told me that in years.
@jst1ofknd
/giphy BOO
@jst1ofknd oh the house is clean! I have moved on to cooking and baking. All my meals are homemade, even the bread!
TV all day, with yoga breaks. OMG
@tinamarie1974
Come to my house and clean then! No one is my house is bored, so it is a mess.
@jst1ofknd That sounds about right. I’d tell my kid there were plenty of chores that needed to be done if she couldn’t think of something to do and kept telling me she was bored. As you said, all you have to do is put them to work a couple of times and that cures that. I’d also kick her outside and tell her to go find someone to be bored with.
I also used that when my kid would mutter mean things under her breath. I’d say, “Thank you for offering to clean the cat dirt boxes, clean the toilet (or whatever job she hated that needed done at the time)”. She’d then scream at me, “I didn’t say that!!!”. I’d tell her that is what I thought I heard you say. Next time talk more loudly so I can hear you". And then made her do that job. Put an end to that pretty quickly as well.
CBS all access has a free month promo?
@therealjrn
I read this as CBS All access has a free month of porn. Then I had to reread that.
@jst1ofknd @therealjrn oh well that would be interesting lol
/giphy oh my
@therealjrn yeah. Use code “gift” and you can get the premium subscription free.
@RiotDemon @therealjrn
Does that coupon get us the regular CBS or the previously secret “Porn CBS”?
Or is it “viewer’s choice”?
Read a book, take a walk, call friends, lay out bait for squirrels to bring them up to your door and see how long it takes for them to discover that and follow it. Put all your dryer lint outside for birds to build nests with, watch a live stream cam of elephants, etc, at a watering hole (I saw an elephant back into one and knock it over - fixed now). Create a new meh thread every 5 minutes and maybe meh will send you an irk for your contributions to the community (or maybe someone on meh will send you an irk equivalent to get you to quit
), send a drone with a camera on a spying mission in your neighbor’s yards, go to the grocery store and buy 5 esoteric ingredients that people on meh suggest to you and then create a meal from that. Sew 1000 masks for your health care folks, and of course, eat chocolate and ice cream!
I’ll take some of your boredom. The wife and I haven’t stopped working and my pay has been docked 10%. The kids are being home-schooled and my 18 y/o thinks that social distancing means only inviting 1 friend a week over that’s not her boyfriend. I will gladly take some of your boredom.
But in the event we cannot share, learn a musical instrument. Binge watching TV has a way of making life unpalletable…
@zinimusprime have you explained to her she won’t have food or a place to live if she kills you?
@unksol Clearly you’ve never explained anything to an 18 y/o girl. Logic has no place here, just like the sad cat diaries…
@Limewater absolutely correct!!
@Limewater @tinamarie1974 I’m sooooo happy my kids are old enough to entertain themselves.
@Limewater To the parents add people doing some form of remote work.
There are so many hobbies I am extremely ready to pursue but the remote work has only intensified.
@InnocuousFarmer What makes you think parents aren’t doing remote work? My wife and I are both still working.
@Limewater All terriers are dogs but not all dogs are terriers. (What you said isn’t what I said.)
@InnocuousFarmer I don’t think you actually didn’t believe that any parents were working right now. It was kind of implicit in what you said, and I’ll address that, but English is often poor at succinctly expressing necessary subtleties.
Other subtleties are also dropped. For example, parents of adult children are largely not experiencing the current challenges of parents of young children, but they are obviously parents.
But no, there is really no comparison.
Back to Sets and English:
The Set of Parents obviously includes the Set of Parents who are “doing some form of remote work.”
You wrote, “To the parents add people doing some form of remote work.” This clearly implies that “people doing some form of remote work” is not included in the set of “Parents.”
Obviously, there is a common subset between “Parents” and “people doing some form of remote work” – that is Parents who are “doing some form of remote work.” But you didn’t acknowledge the existence of that subset. You could have written, “To the parents add the rest of the people doing some form of remote work” or something like that. But you didn’t.
This is not explicitly a denial of the existence of this set, but it is very unusual word selection if one acknowledges the existence of the subset in question.
But again, I reject this proposed union anyway, because there really is no comparison.*
*This is a figure of speech. Certainly a comparison technically can be made in this case, but I don’t want to make it.
@InnocuousFarmer @Limewater
Omg. Ok then.
@Limewater I could have put it better… you’re right, of course. The original post kind of implied we were only concerned with parents and non-parents who were not working – otherwise, who’s got extra time in the first place? So I was looking at two slices of the population: unemployed (free time, unless parents with young children, as represented in OP), and employed (no free time).
I replied to that, but not super explicitly, and you replied to what I’d said, but framed as all parents and… all non-parents, reading an implication that zero parents worked… something like that. I’d tap “Cancel” to check the exact verbiage, but then meh would reset my scroll position to the top of the page and what are we even doing?
@InnocuousFarmer @Limewater Looks to me like you both have time on your hands.
@InnocuousFarmer @Limewater
I think it’s generally considered cool within forums, if forum language is a bit casual. Kinda like language at any casual social event.
This ain’t MiddleSchool/HS/freshman philosophy or math class.
So all’s well that ends well. I hope.
@InnocuousFarmer @Limewater @sammydog01
I usually wear my watch on my wrist. Not on my hands.
Ha ha ha.
If that didn’t make you roll your eyes, then I have failed.
@f00l @InnocuousFarmer @Limewater
@InnocuousFarmer @sammydog01 Personally, as far as “free time,” I am currently usually limited to activities I can complete in under ten minutes. Reading or posting on this forum generally takes under ten minutes.
@Limewater @sammydog01 Constant procrastination is one cure for boredom.
@InnocuousFarmer @Limewater @sammydog01
let me think about that and I’ll get back to you…
/giphy wink
I’m doing a lot of weeding. And by “weeding” I don’t mean trippin’ balls. I mean digging weeds out of Mom’s huge yard.
Today I mixed things up and laid down (and leveled) a couple of nice paving stones so that her bird baths would stay upright and dignified.
It’s boring as fuck — I hate being outside — but I’m sick to death of being inside.
When I’m inside I’m either cooking (3x meals per day for two…how do parents do it!? holy crap), doing crosswords, working remotely or playing chess. Here’s an example of a recent back-and-forth game: https://lichess.org/n8VFatA8/black
Oh, and https://www.swarmsim.com, which I read about on the Meh forums
@UncleVinny
That was the worst part about being a parent. I hate to cook and DHS takes a dim view of not feeding your kid properly.
@Kidsandliz buncha freakin killjoys, they are. Kids basically live on sunlight, or so I’ve heard
@UncleVinny
/giphy Archer “phrasing”
I’m not bored yet.
Working on preparing the garden and keeping the greenhouse in production. Finished pruning the orchard trees. Replaced the fuel shut-off and lines on the rototiller. Getting the coop & run ready for the new hens. I still need to clean my workshop and pressure wash the deck. I just finished working on the perennial berry beds. We’ve been going through all the old DVD’s we have, watching one a night. There’s still lots of daily chores inside & out. Take time out to take a walk with my wife, play with our dog and enjoy a beer or a little Scotch.
@daveinwarsh
Now yer talkin!
/image Macallan
Think I’ll have a little nip before bed!
@daveinwarsh @ybmuG heck yeah
/image Jameson
Oh shit, sorry, that’s not Scotch. I kinda prefer Irish tho
@UncleVinny @ybmuG My favorite of all I’ve tried (and I’d like to think I’ve tried quite a few) is:
/image glenlivet 15
@daveinwarsh @UncleVinny @ybmuG
@daveinwarsh Lately I’ve been surreptitiously doing some of the outside repairs/chores on my honey-do list and waiting for my wife to notice (repair the chicken coup door, replace a panel the wind blew out on her greenhouse, etc.). So far no response, but it’s been rainy for a couple days so she hasn’t been outside much.
@daveinwarsh I enjoy mine in bird form. He’s very well known I hear.
/image the famous grouse 18
@tinamarie1974
Perhaps some light reading.
@mike808 never mind the title, the publisher name is hilarious!
I’m still working full time and grateful to have a job.
I does sting a little bit that the CEO declared that profits are projected to go down so everyone’s pay is docked 10%. Wife is still working and very grateful for that as well, however their CEO said on Friday they see an end to work coming in the next month or so if airplane makers don’t start making airplanes again. Fortunately, she has TONS of projects to work on as soon as she gets furloughed to two days per week.
As for our weekends, we are busy as heck planting a big garden and her latest hobby expellarmius apple trees. Supposed to wast fewer apples with this method.
Oh, and kids.
@JnKL that is insane to me. I get extra per hour since I’m still working. Granted, I work with the public, and I don’t know if you do. Either way, pretty fucking shitty to dock someone’s pay.
@JnKL “expellarmius apple trees”? Huh?
@JnKL @RiotDemon The state of VA did that once to everyone who worked at universities due to budget cuts. For salaried people pay was cut 20% with no change in work hours, responsibilities, etc. For hourly employees they only worked 4 days a week instead of 5 the entire term. For some that meant only 4 days of actual work and what would have been done day 5 didn’t get done. For others they had to find ways to do that 5th day in the 4 they were there.
@JnKL @Kidsandliz @RiotDemon
But what about that 20% productivity boost with no increase in labor costs?
Bet all the executives got big fat bonuses from all the money they stole from their workers.
@Kyeh wrong word, but she is going to plant 4 Apple trees and weave the limbs into wires so that the apples are easily accessible.
@JnKL Oh, okay - that would be espaliered, but “expellarmius” would really be cool - apples that fly off the tree into your hand! Can’t get more accessible than that!
@JnKL @Kyeh
/giphy Harry Potter fan
@chienfou @JnKL Yeah, well, with 6 (7?) kinds of fruit trees, I was thinking you could use some of those yourself, chienfou.
@JnKL @Kyeh I have considered espalier pruning, but have never actually done it. By the time I seriously decide to do it most of my trees are too established…
@chienfou @JnKL Oh, I meant expellarmiusness(?)
!
If we gonna do booze pictures, let’s make them something unique and special, eh?
But yeah, bored to all hell
And I’m still working
still bored
@Cerridwyn Here is how to entertain yourself AFTER you have “emptied” the bottle. Make one of these:
@Kidsandliz
Very cool, but not my skill set
@Cerridwyn the answer to all questions - google and youtube (right?
). Not so hard to do a simple one.
Actually I used to make these (made 7 total and still have a couple of 3" bottles I was going to make smaller scale ones but haven’t). They take ages to make if you are going to do a detailed job. Because the masts fold back and then you pull them forward with string (that you tie and then cut) it isn’t all that hard to get the ships in the bottle. The scale makes it painstaking if you are going to do a detailed job, and of course most people get better over time, but it isn’t “hard” in the sense that you need a ton of talent to do a decent job kind of hard. Yeah the ones talented people make are likely “nicer” but people without a gift for this kind of stuff can make presentable ones. Cripes all the “mass produced” ones are made by hand out of China and I’d guess many of those folks aren’t “talented”, just careful.
@Kidsandliz
I have done hand needle work. Even did the embroidery on a set of livery for a medieval wedding. I can do it technically well, have also done needlepoint and beading, but can’t knit or crochet. I can tell you how to sew a medieval gown, but I can’t do it.
Eye/hand / fine motor or something.
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz I want to see a ship in a bottle of scotch
@Cerridwyn @unksol
At your service. Coming right up.
VINTAGE SHIP IN A BOTTLE PINCHED HAIG’S DIMPLE BOTTLE SCOTCH WHISKEY
Or if you prefer
Vintage ship in a bottle Teachers Scotch Whisky bottle
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz lol I meant with the scotch still in the bottle. That would be interesting. And ageing in the ships wood
@Cerridwyn @unksol HAHA I knew what you meant… couldn’t find one though so decided to take what you said literally instead.
(Shameless over-promotion if a topic I created, here. Yes, that’s a horrible thing for me to do.)
Hey @tinamarie1974
Still bored?
Each terrible music vid takes several minutes to watch. That’s right.
SEVERAL MINUTES EACH.
And you can play them over and over!
And while you’re doing that, time will pass. Even if you are passing time by watching music vids so bad they make you wish you were asleep or unconscious, instead.
/giphy Jack Nicholson I’d rather stick needles in my eyeballs
So put on your (real or virtual) high-heeled boots, and find some horrible music videos to share!
/giphy Attagirl!
@f00l
Actual Nicholson Terms of Endearment quote clip
And a link to the time-wasting “bad music videos” topic here,
since otherwise I would be remiss in the extent of my unjustifiable and rude self-created-topic-overpromotion.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/bad-or-excruciating-bad-music-videos
@f00l aawww thanks. I can spends hours watching good or bad music videos. I want my MTV (early 80’s, not that shit format thet have today!)
Gish hunt Saturday- could be a lot of fun.
gish.com
I’m registered if anyone wants to team up.
/image Boone’s Farm
@f00l They still makes that?
@Kyeh
Dunno. Too hungover right now to figure out what I drank.
@f00l @Kyeh Didn’t Boone’s farm stuff used to be sold by the gallon?
@f00l @Kidsandliz
And how did you know that??? I had no idea it still existed. It was what a lot of kids drank when I was in high school. And I think it was supposed to be notorious for bad hangovers.
@f00l @Kyeh I don’t drink, however most of my college friends did. This is what they usually bought if no one had any money. I am thinking price per ounce was the deciding factor. Based on comments it certainly wasn’t quality.
@f00l @Kidsandliz Yeah, and I’m guessing it was a good transition for beginners because it tasted kind of like soda pop. The first booze I liked was mixed drinks for the same reason - lots of juice to hide the taste of the alcohol!
I just finished 25 years worth of the Honor Harrington books (author’s time). Admittedly, I started the series before the virus hit, but that’s still 26 books.
Ok, almost finished, it looks like there’s 6 side novels I haven’t read yet.
Space naval combat, towering heroes, venal cowards, telempathic sentient treecats, centuries concealed conspiracies, clever spies, very human characters. What more could you want?
@blaineg Honor Harrington is the boss. I “finished” that years ago but I should check if there is new stuff.
Bore vs. Stroke?
@blaineg
/giphy double entendre ?
@blaineg stroke your own piston
Boring?
A huge bore?
@blaineg Yes.
@blaineg @rockblossom not sure TM will agree with the implications…
@chienfou There were … implications?
@chienfou @rockblossom I was TRYING to be good for a change and just let you guys have a little fun with the …
/giphy tongue and cheek
@chienfou @rockblossom @tinamarie1974 this is usually the best activity to cure boredom.
I am out of work and home alone. Cooking gardening cleaning learning ukelele reading
@CaptAmehrican You’ve been MIA a while from here. Glad to see you back. Your circumstances suck though.
And I’m not even sheltering at home. I’ve been working in the office through this whole ordeal. But things have slowed down so much I’m spending more time playing Toy Blast than doing actual work.
I would cut the office back to a three day work week, but there are a few hours daily of stuff that just won’t refrigerate well. And it comes in sporadically.
So. Ya. SO BORED right now.
@ruouttaurmind oohhhhh you can finish that miniatures project. Mothers Day is JUST around the corner!!!
@tinamarie1974 Excellent suggestion. But I’m in the office, all that stuff is at home.
@ruouttaurmind well…can you bring it with you tomorrow? Otherwise you can pull a George Constanza and take a nap under your desk
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@tinamarie1974
Didn’t Cream record a song with that title?