That delivery…
“I took the crease to great applause and focused on me dinner:
I knew that I had little cause to fear their young leg spinner…”
RIP SKW
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That’s good advice, and you could always sell it like: we are thinking of remortgaging on the present price value (which you don’t) but it will give you an even better idea, as that is what an agent is really thinking it can sell for and a bank is willing to back…
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I heard about this yesterday, and I could not believe it.
I remember in the mid 2000s the Ashes going on, my parents visiting from Spain and me and my father trying to work out the rules of the game one afternoon (I believe it was on the BBC?? Could have been ITV). We sort of got the basics, which it would have been hilarious for a connoisseur, but we both agreed: that Aussie guy is good! He can bend those throws!
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Apologies in advance, a slightly ranty post incoming…
Mixture of disappointment and anger to find that the local community education support unit has closed as physical place as people have adopted working from home as a working practice. That is obviously absolutely fine, but in the process of shutting the unit, literally ten of thousands of gaelic learning material has been simply thrown into a skip. This is all current and brand new things like dictionaries, maths books, reading books etc.
The waste is shocking. The local gaelic school took what they could, but there was far too much to accommodate. Word got around so families who have children learning gaelic have been plundering the skip. My wife and daughter came back with a few hundred pounds worth of books (which I’m obviously not complaining about). But there was enough brand new dictionaries and exercise books for every family who has a child at the gaelic school. Why wasn’t this resource passed out when school’s were closed and parents tackling home learning, and to whom mamy gaelic is not a first language? How is it that this resource suddenly becomes surplus to requirements when people don’t work in a physical space - if the job has changed that much, are they really doing what they’re hired for? If there’s so much stuff that the school can barely make a dent in reducing the amount, how mismanaged has the purchasing and budget for this been? The more I think about it the angrier I get.
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God that’s terrible. I’m glad you were able to get to the skip in time.
The mind boggles. When I was teaching I had to buy my own pritt-sticks.
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This is all the stuff we grabbed. £60 for the two dictionaries alone. Safe to say a lot of people here are unimpressed with letters being written to local SMPs and newspapers.
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Sounds like the entire process has been mismanaged.
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Had an unsolicited text this evening from a new work colleague who has had the proverbial worst day ever. Left without a safety net and dealing with long term issues, he’s absolutely smashed it, but wanted to thank me for support.
It was nice to hear, but not needed. They’re great.
It’s only now, an hour later I realised.
For him, it was the worst day of his life, but for Ross, it was Tuesday.
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Just a reminder. Lift others up and be kind. Don’t make others feel small, do not undermine their self-confidence or question their choices all the time (it always is a matter of degree). If you feel bad or are apprehensive about something, say that. Talk about it. If you just let your own anxieties and bad emotions spill onto others, how can you expect them to care and help you in return?
I am going to do my best to open up the talks and clear this up. Wish me luck that I don’t have a breakdown midway through.
Sorry for the cryptic post. I feel so out of it this morning that even doom-scroling lightens my mood and I have another migraine following right in the footsteps of the one that ruined my week-end.
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Hoping for the best @yashima
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Its probably worth a reminder.
When this thread was set up it was offered that if anyone wanted to post something anonymously, they could PM me and I would post on their behalf. (Before Deleting the PM and associated records.)
This option is still always available.
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Thinking of you, @yashima. Hope things brighten up.
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Talk went ok. (I need to stress this is not my partner behaving in this way). I cannot remove certain obstacles and I cannot make promises. But I had written notes about things that I needed to say. My things. Not berating anyone. Things I needed to say about what is important to me. Turns out the other side needed to hear me say multiple times that we have their anxieties on our radar. We cannot at this time remove the anxieties but I could promise we will prioritize them.
I am still going to have a migraine. And I will have more games. For now I was able to get all the unspoken resentment out of the way. It’s not all roses but better than it was.
I hate this. I hate conflict. I usually avoid it where I can. I should have had the talk sooner.
The times are not great. And the times being what they are make other problems larger.
Thank you everyone who listens here. It helps to write out some things. It helps me gather my courage and I needed that today.
I am better now. Can’t tell yet if it will persist. I hope I moved things back to a better place now.
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The Ontario government has announced that the mask mandates will be removed in about 2 weeks (March 21st is the date currently floating around).
This… does not make me feel good. I’ve been nervous enough about the pandemic up to this point, and this willing capitulation against science and medicine is… troubling.
The biggest problem, of course, is that by announcing that they will probably remove mandates on the 21st, I’m going to have to deal with swarms of idiots now who refuse to wear the mask because “they’re going to be coming off soon anyway”, and my boss is already sick and tired of talking to customers who aren’t wearing masks.
So it’s going to be an awful two weeks followed by who knows what, and then another massive spike in cases (which, granted, will likely be centered on Toronto where the population density is the highest), followed by the provincial government whining that everyone misunderstood their “suggestions” and so on, and so forth, etc… etc…
sigh
I’m so tired.
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Of course, when the requirements came in it was all “I’m going to go out and be stupid because the rules only start tomorrow” (at least round here).
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I will continue to wear masks while shopping.
My partner just got another “red” warning from the local covid app–from being at the supermarket… this is a first. We saw nobody else that day–except a friend who would immediately have told us if she was ill. And I didn’t get a warning.
Mask Mandates and everything else will be dropping here as well they apparently announced today. I have only half heard “something.” But this was announced earlier.
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I don’t know if this is comforting or not. We in the States have the benefit of large, distinct subcultures who are either masking, staying at home, and staying distant, or are unmasking and going out in public. We’ve been doing it for some time.
While masking and distancing did a good job reducing the OG, B117, and Delta, the studies are now suggesting there wasn’t a meaningful difference in Omicron cases between the two groups. Omicron (and likely whatever comes next) are just too contagious.
Maybe good news? Vaccination still keeps you alive and out of the hospital, if not perfectly sterilizing any virus you come in contact with. And you can’t unvaccinate. But you (we) may not be any worse off in an unmasked world than a masked world given the current variant.
Or bad news, we’ve already been in danger and we’ll stay in danger.
For us it is bad news, because our unvaccinated, high-risk-of-hospitalization toddler remains unvaccinated and at high-risk-of-hospitalization 
She’ll be 5 in the Fall so worst case by then we can give her a layer of protection.
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I thought I’d read that Ford was removing all restrictions, including the mask, on March 1st, did that not happen? Did he change his mind? Did I misunderstand (wouldn’t be the first time)?
I’ll start heading back to the office three days a week on Monday (I live in Gatineau and work in Ottawa) and I take public transit (I’ll still be wearing my mask, if only because I have a rad mask that my wife made me). Masks will also remain anytime I go shopping (especially big crowded stores like Costco). Quebec’s looking at removing the mask mandate sometime around mid-April.
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Going back on forth on a job application that will involve managing someone particularly difficult.
It’s the next grade up, which translates to somewhere approximately 2.4% - 30% more a year and move me away from lab based stuff to business based stuff. I’m not sure, mainly due to said person but also the role is very broad.
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