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This is the first time I've stayed home on Memorial day since at least 2000 (with the exception of 2012 when I broke my femur) and have been to IML every one of those years except last year. Going to be strange not doing anything and not like I need the time to catch up on stuff since I've been home for the past two and a half months. Something to keep in mind if you are travelling is a lot of attractions like museums will be closed as well as a lot of bars and restaurants in a lot of places. Also some hotels are closed. The Chicago Hilton and another large hotel we use for business travel are closed now due to no business. I also wouldn't want to be on a subway or bus or uber right now if you are flying to whereever you are going.

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I've noticed the same thing, and also notice the more upscale the grocery store the better people are at staying six feet apart and honoring the one way aisles as well. I'm not sure if it's the demographics that shop there or if it's because the more upscale stores have a lot fewer shoppers.

A place here charged me a surcharge and I was pretty pissed off because they didn't disclose it. I used a local through last week and ordered off the menu at the drive through and the amount was more than listed on the menu and I was told due to the Covid crisis they were tacking on a 10 or 15 percent surcharge and it was being split among the staff for having to work through this. No problem with them doing it and think it's a nice gesture but they should either change the menu board prices or have a sign up stating there is a surcharge.

A pet is a big financial responsibility and a lot of people who buy pets don't take that into account. A serious pet illness can easily costs a lot more than a human pet visit. I think it's a YMMV situation by state for places like petco and vets to be able to do grooming. I am pretty sure here they aren't allowed to, kind of like if there is a spa or gym in a hotel. I'm sure a lot of dog groomers are working out of their homes though, I know a couple people who cut hair and they still doing it on the down-low out of their houses (I haven't had mine cut but a friend of mine did and said the lady is calling herself a kitchen beautician) but it's a lot safe having a dog groomed than having your haircut.

I'm jealous of the dog:)

I'd adopt a dog if you have always wanted one and can take care of him. Now might be a good time to get one if you are working from home during this so you'll be home to bond with him and have time to properly housebreak and train him. Not sure if the shelters are open now or not and if foster's would want someone in their home. In some big cities people are adopting or fostering pets from people who have or died from Corona. Something to keep in mind though is taking the dog to the vet and if it requires grooming. With restrictions being eased it might not be that big of a problem soon but my sister hasn't been able to have her dog groomed since March because groomers were ordered closed. My cat's are due in this month for their annual vaccines and exam and my vet postponed their visit until July. And for the patients he is seeing you have to drive up in your car and an assistant comes and gets the pets and you have to wait in your car and they bring the pet back out. I'm sure a vet will see a new pet for vaccines and an exam and if you have to neuter him. My cats get timid if I'm not with them so I want to make sure I can be in the exam room with them. I wouldn't let a fear of getting the virus stop you from getting a dog as long as you'll be home during this and not have to rely on a dog walker or pet sitter. I have the fear of what will happen to my cats if I die and am hoping my sister will take them. They are purebred Burmese cats that are very loving so I'm sure a burmese cat rescue would find them a good home easily. I just want to make sure they get adopted out together. You can get sick or injured anytime. I broke my femur and was in the hospital for almost a month between the surgery and the rehab place. I use a cat sitter when I travel and when I was in the ER and heard what I had to go through, I immediately called the cat sitter and was fortunate enough she was available the entire time I was laid up. She came every other day and the other days I had my parents or sister or a friend go and grab my mail and they would feed them and change the water. Have you thought about getting a cat? You don't have to walk them and if you travel or get sick someone just needs to come in once a day to feed them and change the water and clean the litter box and you don't have to housebreak a cat. Some cats can be very loyal and like a dog. I have two burmese cats and they are like a dog personality wise with the care of a cat. They'll sit on my lap all the time and sleep with me. The breeder I got my oldest one from calls them velcro cats because they stick to their owners like velcro LOL

Kitchenaid mixer and Vitamix are both great for mixing dough. I make my own pizza crust sometime and either one of those is a lot easier to use than the bread machine kneading function.

Good luck with it and hope you have yeast because that is something being hoarded right now. I received one as a secret santa gift a few years ago and used it a couple times and it has sat on my counter since. The girl that manages my church's thrift shop said bread makers are something that gets donated a lot. It was easy enough to use, I just hate slicing the bread and the shelf life isn't that good. Sour dough is my favorite and I'm too lazy to make a starter so just buy my bread at the farmers market every week. To be honest, when I buy or get a small kitchen appliance it usually gets used a couple times and the novelty wears out and it sits in the kitchen or my storage locker. The only small kitchen appliances I've gotten my money's worth from is my egg boiler, my vitamix and my cuisanart countertop conviction/toaster oven. I love my kitchenaid mixer but sure haven't used it that much for what I paid for it.

There is a branch of a large bank on the first floor of my office building that is open. But my office is downtown and this bank doesn't have a drive thru so I think that's why they are still open. The other banks downtown have closed their lobby's but have drive thru's downtown. It's a pain because they have one teller working and they only allow one customer in at a time and you have to place your deposit or withdrawl slip in a basket and step back and another employee takes it to the teller to process and brings the cash or receipt back. It was a pain last friday on the first because they had a long line and no one was social distancing outside the door and I was forced to use a side door to enter our building since I'm trying to stay six feet away from anyone.

All employees in Ohio are required to wear masks. But I was talking about customers as well since they are the ones you have the closest contact with at most times. I have been pretty happy with how Ohio's governor has been handling this (with the exception of releasing a particular prisoner early that had seven years left on his sentence all every parol board member voted against it) but am pissed off he changed his original ruling on all people in retail stores being required to wear masks. The masks protect people from spreading it and I've noticed the people that are violators of the six feet rule and going the wrong way down aisles almost neve have masks on. And even if the state doesn't require masks the store can still require it. Costco requires everyone in all their stores to wear a mask and the local grocery store I like to go to requires masks.

I wish Meijer would start requiring masks and I'd go there more. It's my favorite mass retailer to shop at and they have the best produce of any mass retailer in my area.

I had to go to Kroger for a prescription and decided instead of using the drive through to just go in the store and do my weekly grocery shopping there since I got some good coupons in the mail this week instead of the local upscale store I've been going to since this started. BIG mistake. Wish I would have spent the extra money and time and just used the drive through for my script and went to the grocery store I've been going to. They didn't have arrows on the floor restricting it to one way traffic (not that people pay any attention to them anyway) and a lot of people didn't have masks on and weren't staying six feet away and I noticed it was the ones with no masks on just walking right by people not honoring the six feet rule. The local store I like to go to requires masks of all customers and so does Costco and I'm going to jsut stick to stores that have that policy in place. I don't know why they don't issue an executive order requiring masks in all stores. One thing I'm finding annoying is buying produce. I've noticed others have been able to get the bags to come apart but I've always had to wet my finger tips to get the bags to come apart they have in the produce section which I don't want to do anyway and is impossible to do with a mask on. The local grocery store I like to go to told me last weekend I'm not the only one with that issue and they will put loose produce in separate plastic bags but they didn't do that at Krogthetto for me.

St. Catherines street in the gay village. It's been a while since I've been there but last time I was there it was still very cruisey. Lots of young escorts that weren't afraid to approach people on the street.

Last time I was in Montreal they still had a good street scene.

Agree, if you have the money to hire, you should have an emergency fund. However, if someone loses their job that emergency fund will be going to pay necessary expenses and they probably won't spend the money to hire an escort. I have been fortunate enough to not suffer a loss in income and have a decent amount saved but if I lost my job I sure wouldn't be hiring. Same with escorts. Full time escorts with no savings also scare me A lot of times it's all under the table money with no overhead.

Nope. I'm not paying my cleaning lady anymore or the guy that cuts my hair anymore and they both had a lapse in income. Uber drivers are losing a ton of money and I don't expect to pay them more. A lot of Doctors and dentists have experience severe decline in business or have closed their practices for over a month and I'm sure as hell not expecting them to raise their rates. Restaurants are really suffering due to this and a lot are offering great specials and free delivery now. Like restaurants, I'm sure a lot of people are going to be hesitant to see an escort for a while. And a lot of their clients will have experienced job losses or loss in income. If they want to raise their rates fine, but I think it's a foolish move.

Not so much with Amazon but have been having some issues with the USPS on priority mail packages being held up. I ordered something from an amazon seller and it's been stuck in Detroit for over a week now and have another package I ordered from another company that has been held at the USPS Pittsburg sorting center for almost a week.

Did my weekly shopping today. Bought some Brats at the farmers market and she used to charge $6 and today it was $8.75, huge jump. The grocery store only had organic ground beef and I saw from a facebook friend from my hometown yesterday Wendy's ran out of hamburgers (he said that would be like going to Starbucks and them being out of coffee). Hope this doesn't mean beef will be horded next.

I wanted a fuchsia one:) They might be fun to have if bars are ever allowed to reopen and people want to wear a face covering

Mr. S. now has masks with the appropriate hanky colors LOL. But I see they sold out already LOL. Not sure how you can tell if someone is top/bottom or dom/sub like you can with a hanky since you have to cover the whole face. https://www.mr-s-leather.com/promo/face-mask?sc_src=email_355151&sc_lid=21740932&sc_uid=FVB1ePRiGz&sc_llid=14012&sc_eh=53a3bf36065dd9741

Mr. S. now has masks with the appropriate hanky colors LOL. But I see they sold out already LOL. Not sure how you can tell if someone is top/bottom or dom/sub like you can with a hanky since you have to cover the whole face. https://www.mr-s-leather.com/promo/face-mask?sc_src=email_355151&sc_lid=21740932&sc_uid=FVB1ePRiGz&sc_llid=14012&sc_eh=53a3bf36065dd9741

I think they are getting slammed with orders from people like us that want to stay at home and I'm sure they are short staffed with not only all the orders but they have also had a number of people getting sick at their warehouses and I'm sure some employees are refusing to come in for safety reasons.

I think they are getting slammed with orders from people like us that want to stay at home and I'm sure they are short staffed with not only all the orders but they have also had a number of people getting sick at their warehouses and I'm sure some employees are refusing to come in for safety reasons.