oldNbusted

Noticed a lot of the same here. I just chalked it up to the notion that the risk-averse folks were at home like they should be while the more risk-accepting folks had the roads more or less to themselves and are driving accordingly.

I blame video games. At this point, generations have grown up with highly realistic games where reckless driving is rewarded. I have no problem with the games themselves, but people need to distinguish between a game and reality.

Well today being Monday I did my weekly grocery run. Started at Stater Bros. Well stocked with everything except the usual suspects: toilet paper, paper towels, dried pasta, and bottled pasta sauces. No shortage of all types of meats; beef, chicken, fish, and pork. Didn't need much so didn't buy much. Stopped at Costco for the first time during the old folks hour. Line was quite long but not awful . They are now stocking their own brand of paper towels and toilet paper both of which I like. No lack of toilet paper but the paper towels were set to run out soon after I bought mine. The meat situation was interesting. Lots of beef, chicken and ground turkey. One old geezer must have put at least ten or more packages of ground turkey in his basket - go figure. Virtually no pork except marinated spareribs. The one thing I wanted was a two pack of Worcestershire Sauce and can you believe it they didn't have any.

I blame video games. At this point, generations have grown up with highly realistic games where reckless driving is rewarded. I have no problem with the games themselves, but people need to distinguish between a game and reality.

I agree.
 
While a lot of my life is documented on Twitter, it's through a keenly focused lens

This song reminds me of what I had and didn't have as a teenager.
And that time slips thru your fingers like dry sand at the beach and the harder you squeeze and try to hold onto it the faster it seems to slip away.
 
It also makes me think about an element of innocence in the US that has evaporated. Probably forever.
 

This song used to make me melancholy when it first came out. I guess it's the subject matter. Now it makes me even more melancholy thinking of that time in my life.
 

 
Gman

She performed this on the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live, which is what I saw, but that performance appears to be behind the Hulu paywall, so...
 

 
Maybe not a surprise that I felt like I knew exactly what she was singing about.

She performed this on the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live, which is what I saw, but that performance appears to be behind the Hulu paywall, so...
 

 
Maybe not a surprise that I felt like I knew exactly what she was singing about.

She performed this on the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live, which is what I saw, but that performance appears to be behind the Hulu paywall, so...
 

 
Maybe not a surprise that I felt like I knew exactly what she was singing about.

She performed this on the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live, which is what I saw, but that performance appears to be behind the Hulu paywall, so...
 

 
Maybe not a surprise that I felt like I knew exactly what she was singing about.

Dmitri - first, let me express my sincere sympathy for your beloved Mother. I can fully relate to the horror you went through knowing that you weren't allowed to be with Mom in her final hours here on earth. My Mom passed away last week. She didn't die from Covid but as a result of it. She had various health conditions which spiraled out of control at the worst possible time. As she went from hospital to rehab and back, and didn't eat or drink because we couldn't be there for her, she became weaker and weaker. I truly believe that she held on for as long waiting to see me. I am heartbroken over it. We were very close. I was her night caretaker. She would wait to have dinner with me. I was feeling guilty as if I had abandoned her when she needed comforting the most. We were able to have limited funeral services for her and I try to find comfort knowing that Mom is at peace.

Whether it is a masseur I know or a new masseur I would be interested in, the risk factor is still there. Close contact does not get any closer than massage. (except for escorts). And news reports are saying that antibody tests are kind of sketchy right now, with a substantial number of false positives, so accuracy is not totally reliable. In the beginning, if you read early threads ( Late February-Mid April) 99% of Forum members were anti-massage for fear of contracting Covid 19 and/or spreading it to others, especially the elderly. Now with the evening news showing daily stories of states "opening" , and protests of people wanting to end their lockdown, I sense the same mood starting in the Forum, of clients willing to start venturing out for a massage under certain conditions. In the past week I experienced the horror of Covid 19 up close and personal. My mother of 78 years old had a fever starting last Monday...it lasted until Wednesday when they tested her. She came back positive. She did have an underlying heart condition. She rapidly went downhill, and died yesterday, Saturday, May 2nd at 3pm. None of us (4 kids) or family were allowed in the room. She was surrounded by hospital staff (strangers) dressed in hazmat suits when she died. No one should die like that. I am shell shocked, seeing this up close happening with my own beloved Mother. No one knows how she contracted Covid 19, obviously through casual contact. After this experience, I will not get on a massage table again until there is a vaccine. It is worth the wait, in my opinion, after seeing your own Mother die from Covid 19.

one had to be there to really understand.....
 

This just showed up on HBO a couple of weeks ago. I loved it. @oldNbusted pegged it for me.

and also some tear-jerking moments. My buddies and I were huge Beatles fans in high school (not to say we still aren't) and this brought up so much nostalgia.
 
 

I'm not a big movie goer, and my usual manner of watching them is one that is not available at the moment (See the 'Foreign Travel this Year' thread in the Lounge), so I have missed more of his films than I have seen. I did see him in the 1980s TV series Riley Ace of Spies, and I think that was the first of his roles I had seen. Still, he is such an iconic actor in both of these two counties at the bottom of the world, I looked forward to last night's Australian Story episode that featured him.
 

 
He tweeted this today after the program aired:
 
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It's an interesting self-deprecatory note that his twitter bio is 'Proprietor of TwoPaddocks - in the cheering up business since 1993. Also seen acting on occasion', he refers to his Otago winery first rather than his acting career.

For the sake of completeness, now under
 
https://rent.men/RomanCharter/

Then I’d urge you to see the production. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.