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  1. I received an email from Costco yesterday that effective 5/4 they will be back to their normal store hours and everyone will be required to have a face covering. I've been avoiding big boxes since this has started and my membership at Costco renews in June and was considering cancelling it since I'm getting no use out of it right now but may renew and consider going there next week if they are requiring face masks. The local grocery store I've been going to since this started has required them for a couple weeks and wish more stores would. I don't know why anyone has an issue with wearing one in a store. They protect other customers and the employees that are forced to work during this. On one of the news websites that reported it a couple people were complaining that it violated their rights and they were refusing to shop at Costco and it was going to hurt their bottom line. This new policy may get people like me who are avoiding big boxes to finally go shopping there again so they will be getting some more revenue there. And if this policy saves even one employee from catching it then it more than makes up for the lost revenue of the pissed off shoppers. I've noticed my grocery spending has gone up considerably since I've been shopping at the local, more upscale market, than when I was shopping at Kroger before this happened but my safety is worth the added costs and driving ten miles to get there. My sister and her fiance still shop like crazy (which pisses me off since she still lives at home and my dad is 80 with heart conditions and my mom is 79 with a few health issues) and she tell me hardly any shoppers at Walmart have masks on and don't pay attention to the one way arrows and don't stand six feet away but noticed at more upscale places like Whole Foods and the grocery store I like to go (it's in one of the wealthier suburbs and isn't accessible by the bus line and they don't take EBT or WIC) that cater to a wealthier clientelle that people seems to be more responsible about social distancing and wearing masks and the stores that cater to a more upscale demographic seem to be a lot better stocked. Not sure if it's that demographic is more responsible and concerned or if it's just because they don't have the huge amount of customers a big box has.
  2. At my church's vestry zoom meeting last month our priest had lost a husband of a good friend of her and her wife's to Corona over the weekend and she said she is sure that everyone will know someone that died from it before it's over, I sure hope she's wrong. I"m sure we all know people that have it and are just asymptomatic. I know two people just casually that have died here from it from work and both were ironically big time Trump supporters. The one was the head of our republican headquarters and the other one was George Voinovich's aid in our local office. No one close to me has died from it and I hope it remains that way. A good friend who lives in texas was home visiting family in NJ a month ago and caught it. He came home to take care of his mom since he was laid off and his sister works in a nursing home and didn't want the sister taking care of her during this and he catches it. He said it was like breathing into a plastic bag over his head the first three weeks and this is the first week he hasn't felt that way but still feels like shit and they wouldn't admit him. Two people in my company have caught it as well as a few tenants but fortunately I wasn't around any of them and I keep my office door shut when I have to go in. I found out Monday, a couple I'm good friends with both have it. And they've both been very careful, she's a type I diabetic and they live in a city that has the most cases outside of detroit and she works in a hospital. They were refusing to go out except when she had to go to work and used places like instacart and contactless doordash delivery for their food so she had to have caught it at work. She's in ICU and on a ventilator and they won't test him but he is feeling really weak and has a fever and is still at home. Him not getting tested makes me wonder how many cases there really are in Michigan and makes you appreciate life more but also scares the shit out of me everytime I have to go get groceries. I wish all stores would make wearing masks mandatory.
  3. Homemade gingerale sounds good. Great you have neighbors like that. A friend of mine that goes to my church and lives in the building next door and I have been trading off food every saturday afternoon. Her printer died on her right after this stuff started happening so I print off the church bulletin for her and leave that along with leftovers of whatever I made that week (this week it was roasted red pepper soup and cookies) and I put it in front of my door and buzz her in and she leaves me a couple bowls of whatever soup she made that week and some baked stuff. Works out great because we make some recipes that have too much food for one person and swap out stuff so we have a variety of stuff to eat I have to say my Vitamix sure is paying off.
  4. I was wondering how that worked in places that charged, unfair to make the consumer pay for bags when they can't bring their own. Has to be a pain in a place like Aldi that doesn't provide bags. I'm wondering how that works in municipalities that have banned plastic bags that aren't allowing cloth bags now seeing the stores wouldn't have a supply of plastic bags. I personally hate the ban and glad my state has a law that prohibits cities from banning or charging for plastic bags. A lot of times when it's nice out and I'm out biking or walking I may stop at the neighborhood grocery store to get a few items when I'm finishing up and don't want to tote around a cloth bag during the ride or walk and I also reuse the bags anyway for cleaning the cats litter boxes so I can dispose of it in the dumpster right away instead of putting in with my regular trash and having it smell up my place
  5. I wish EVERY public place would require everyone to wear face masks. I wear one and the main purpose is to prevent the person wearing it from spreading it and wish others would offer me the same courtesy. My biggest complaint of going into a store is when people won't stay six feet behind you. If someone is in front of an item they want they need to stand back instead of coming over and grabbing it off the shelf. Same with the checkout line. Just stand six feet behind people. The stores even have lines on where to stay, you aren't going to get out any faster if you five inches from someone than eight feet away. I've never understood the bag policy. Most grocery stores here have the policy (fortunately the farmers market here allows me to bring my own big, I walk or bike over and it's a lot more convenient using the heavy cloth bag I have). Just require the shopper to bag their own groceries if they bring one. Those bags won't have any more germs on them than the clothes they have on or a woman's purse.
  6. I think I'd drive a little further to go to a post office for a money order or go to my bank for a certified check before waiting in the lines at Walmart. Did you see if the property management company would allow you to issue a check out of your bank to be mailed via the banks bill pay system instead? If it was the management companies screw up and seeing everything going on they should be willing to waive the late fee and wait on the check if you're a good tenant that always pays on time. Mail is super slow. My condo dues are on auto pay to be mailed the 28th of every month so I'm sure they arrive the first of the month and they just received my check Tuesday and we still haven't received the check from another owner on autopay. Another owner that rents his out said his tenant is on autopay and hasn't received his rent check yet (he's trying to use that as an excuse for not paying his dues yet);
  7. I'm avoiding Walmart for now, but see on their site they are now going to start making the aisles one way. Lot's of complaints on their facebook page about it. Biggest complaint is if people have to pass you but I'd rather have someone pass me with their cart then face someone coming in the opposite direction stopping their cart when mine is stopped. I see they are also requiring their employees to wear mask but only asking, and not requiring customers to wear one. The farmers market and the local grocery store I like to go to have had one way traffic for a while and also require customers to enter and exit through opposite doors and I think it's a smart move, only problem is you have people that don't pay attention and do what they want.
  8. I'm avoiding Walmart for now, but see on their site they are now going to start making the aisles one way. Lot's of complaints on their facebook page about it. Biggest complaint is if people have to pass you but I'd rather have someone pass me with their cart then face someone coming in the opposite direction stopping their cart when mine is stopped. I see they are also requiring their employees to wear mask but only asking, and not requiring customers to wear one. The farmers market and the local grocery store I like to go to have had one way traffic for a while and also require customers to enter and exit through opposite doors and I think it's a smart move, only problem is you have people that don't pay attention and do what they want.
  9. Wonder what will get hoarded next at the grocery store. I haven't been able to find yeast in a few weeks and last weekend I wanted to make biscuits and scones and needed baking powder and the grocery store I go to said they have been selling out of it fast and can't keep it on the shelves. I called the small expensive grocery store near my condo before I bought the other items for the scones to see if they had baking powder and the had one can and held it for me, never thought I'd see the day where I would need to have a store hold baking powder for me.
  10. I'm surprised she didn't get charged. Sort of a hypocrite though if she wanted people to stay six feet away from her but wasn't wearing a mask. I wish they would make masks mandatory for both employees and customers in any public building. Not sure why someone would want to get in an elevator with a stranger anyway, especially if they don't have a mask in a place like Walmart which is a haven for it. Both my condo and my office building elevators have signs in them to not share the elevator with anyone not in your household.
  11. Did anyone here ever hire Drew Andrews, who was popular in the last 90s/early 2000? I always thought he was very hot. Same with Cougar Cash.
  12. I'm sure Trump has hired more than his fair share of escorts in the past:) Makes sense though they dropped the rates, I'm surprised they still allow escorts to list what they are into sexually. Is this law the same reason rentmen won't display detailed reviews in the US but will if you look at the reviews from a country outside the us?
  13. I have ordered wine from out of state online and had it delivered. The carrier just has to require a 21+ year old sign for it and not sure if UPS will want to handle checking ID's now since thaty can't stay six feet apartment for the signature and if the person appears under 21 and have to check the id. What they should do is what Ohio did last week and allow restaurants to serve to serve to go cocktails, it would also help the restaurants out, the mexican place I like by my house told me his business was almost triple on Saturday as to opposed to the week before since he can serve margirittas now. Another thing they could do is allow restaurants with an liquor license to sell liquor to go, would help the residents who didn't stock up have liquor to enjoy while allowing the restaurants to get more revenue.
  14. If you use a site like hide.me you can read the detailed reviews in the US and also see their rates if they are outside of the US and you are travelling overseas. Anyone outside the US can see the detailed review. I don't understand how some escorts have all these good reviews when they have messenger blocked and you are required to text or call them. I prefer to make initial contact through message even if they have the number published since I can ask for rate and verify they can host if I need them to and we are a good match.
  15. I feel sorry for the people that live in PA that are out of booze since neighboring states are no longer selling to them. If they order liquor stores closed here I hope Michigan will continue to sell to Ohio residents. I prefer to go to MIchigan to a liquor store to buy alcohol when I need it because it's cheaper, they have a better selection and the store I like to go to is offering curbside delivery.
  16. Now that our restaurants can serve two cocktails to go with a food purchase, I've taken advantage of that a couple times and will have one drink with dinner and the other goes in my fridge for a night cap and in the past I would never have alcohol with a take out meal at home. I'm very anal about drinking and driving and normally only have drinks if it's a restaurant I can walk or bike to, so I'm getitng the chance to try a few different cocktails from places I would had diet coke with the meal at before. But on the other hand there is a bar next door to my condo that is cheers type bar where a lot of people in my building go and a couple of my friends have apartments in that building and I would usually go there once or twice a week to meet up with friends and have a cider so my drinking there has decreased.
  17. I'm on our condo board and we talked about putting a rule like that into place but wasn't sure if it is legal and also no way to enforce it since we don't have a doorman but there is a camera at the locked main entrance but none of us want to babysit it. We have a couple medical professionals living here putting in long hours and they have to have someone walk and care for their dogs and have another guy who is recovering from bladder cancer who has a home health aid and physical therapist come in and also requires a cleaning lady since he is only able to use a walker. I haven't had anyone in my unit since this has started. As much as I want my cleaning lady to still come, it isn't worth putting my health in danger. We did send out an email asking residents to only have necessary visitors and to exercise good common sense as to who is in the building. We have a small work out area and are going to try to keep that open and have a rule of only person in there at a time and to wipe down all equipment before and after using it and it's strictly limited to residents living in the building (the owner occupied units have been great but have had a couple renters inviting their friends over to us the workout room since all the gyms are closed and another owner of a rental unit coming over and using the workout room). We also are only allowing people living in the building to use our rooftop deck and grill. I think these things are all common sense myself.
  18. Being employed in property management I hope that isn't the case. Fortunately we have a lot of long term leases. I'm finding it to be a real pain telecommuting to be a real pain and still have to go into the office a couple days a week and finding it a even bigger pain not having any support staff to help me out. A lot of our tenants are lawyers who are complaining about working remotely since they don't like doing teleconferences with clients and need to go to the courthouses and government offices to get things filed. I'm hoping our restaurants can make it. Almost every restaurant tenant we have asked for rent breaks or total defferements and I'm bopping our mortgage companies are going to allow us to defer mortgage payments by four months. One good thing our governor did last week is allowing restaurants to serve two to-go cocktails with any food purchase. Part of our problem is the area where a lot of our restaurants are, they are in the CBD area and depend on a large lunch weekday crowd and even though a lot of their business was carryout to begin with, seeing most people are working remotely their business is really suffering.
  19. The original flex in Cleveland had a fun dungeon theme room you could rent. Not sure if the new Flex does or not.
  20. There was a fun bar in columbus you could kinky at. I think it was the Exile. There was this dom couple in dayton I used to play with and they took me there a couple times on Saturday and they would restrain me and spank/paddle me really good. IIRC I think they used to have seating similar to gym bleachers.
  21. As big as Columbus is the BDSM scene isn't very big there. And the male dom really isn't the type I'd pay for a scene.
  22. Looks like the male does do m/m sessions. I see there's a $50 membership fee on top of the "tribute".
  23. Did he fake his own death a few years ago? I used to think he was hot (and he probably still is) but those pics in his ad are the same ones he was using back in the days of rent boy
  24. I was lucky enough to have my cleaning with my dentist right before all this happened. I had an eye doctor appt two weeks ago and they rescheduled to June. eye doctors have to really be hurting right now. My endocronologist appt is in two weeks anxc will be done electronically and that will be interesting since he does an A1C which is crucial for diabetics when they check my stats and wont have that number and also checks feet which he won't be able to do. At least they won't be able to see how much weight I gained during this:) There's a couple that lives in my building that are both residents and he is a Urologist and she's an ortho doctor and he was telling me the other day when I ran into him in the lobby that they are only seeing urgent cases. They are both at a teaching hospital and all the corono testing and cases are going there and he said if it keeps up most of them will be pulled to the ER and if that happend his wife is going to stay at her parents house (they are snow birds and staying in florida until this is under control) and he's going to stay at their place here because they're going to isolate. My GP sent out an email saying she is handling all visits through telemed if possible.
  25. He did some stuff on kink.com a long time ago when he was really young and advertised himself as a bottom/sub there but when he escorted he was a top. Wish he would have done videos as a dom but I don't think he's the sort of dom Kink.com looks for Some of the videos say his name is lief kaase but then use the name Eric Wild. https://www.kink.com/model/32465/Lief-Kaase
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