What's everyone up to right now?

[The Valkyrie]

I sometimes think about moving back home, then I remember where I'm from.

Boru

And they won't let you back in?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I sometimes think about moving back home, then I remember where I'm from.

Boru

And they won't let you back in?

Oh, they would LOVE to have me back.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

My son has a terrible time with poison ivy.  He is super sensitive to its ill effects.  I am not but have certainly witnessed the misery it can cause.

I too am glad to be on the mend.  I recently read the first confirmed COVID case in the US was on 2/12/2020.  I was in the ER on 2/10/2020.  I am pretty sure I had what would be seen as a mild case.  While mild, it wasn't pleasant.

Actually, America’s first confirmed case was on January 30.

I should have been more clear.  The 2/12/2020 date is when the first case in Texas is noted.

[Little lunch]

Just finished another zoom meeting.
Two down, one to go.
There is a corner in my house that is so clean it looks really out of place.
And that's all my co-workers get to see. :-)

[Rev. Rye]

Decided to cross-reference as many films as possible on TVTRopes' So Bad It's Horrible/Film page with YouTube. Not sure about what exactly the situation with the library will be (especially since my due dates on everything have been extended to July 6), so I managed to find enough movies to last over a year's worth of Deep Hurting Project films.

Some highlights:

• Skidoo, wherein the man who directed Laura, Anatomy of a Murder, and Carmen Jones decides to make a movie about gangsters and hippies and somehow forgets what the fuck he's even doing. It also stars Groucho Marx and has music by Harry Nilsson (who sings the closing credits, even the copyright notice).
  
• Airplane Mode and Still Flowin, two films starring Internet personalities whom I strongly suspect might count as criminally insane.
  
• Inchon, wherein Laurence Olivier gets roped into a movie about the Korean War made by a cult.
  
• A Certain Sacrifice, wherein Madonna makes her cinematic debut and we find the most bizarre coming-of-age story ever told (it starts off with a teen angsting about being told to rake the leaves. It ends in a rapist being sacrificed to Satan by devil worshippers who appear out of nowhere to sing a song that takes up about a tenth of the film's running time).
  
• Ratatoing, a very stupid ripoff of Ratatouille.
  
• Leo the Lion, a film about a vegetarian lion with a surprisingly rapey scene involving milk. Unsurprisingly, Harvey Weinstein got the rights to dub it and slap it on Netflix (it's not there anymore)
  
• The Amazing Bulk, a superhero movie ripoff that pushes the limits of what constitutes a movie by being made up of mostly stock assets.
  
• Shark Exorcist, a movie made by the makers of The Amazing Bulk that's somehow even worse, if IHE is any indication.
  
• Rock: It's Your Decision: A Christian propaganda film about the dangers of Rock and Roll.
  
• Surprisingly, only about seven of the films were featured on MST3K.
  
• The Life Zone, wherein the Pro-Life movement scores the biggest Own Goal in Cinematic History outside of the Nazi Titanic film.
  
• House of Numbers, the only film that could possibly dethrone Vaxxed as the most reprehensible film in the Project.
  

[arewethereyet]

Very exciting things!

Emptied the dishwasher.
Doing some laundry.
Baking corn bread treats for the parrots.

I'll need a nap soon if I keep up this pace.  

[ignoramus]

^
Surely there's a few riots happening in your area where you can participate in

Maybe knock off a Costco while you're there?
Anything to pass the time really.



(been watching it on the news from far far away thank god.)

[arewethereyet]

^
Surely there's a few riots happening in your area where you can participate in

Maybe knock off a Costco while you're there?
Anything to pass the time really.



(been watching it on the news from far far away thank god.)

Just talked to my daughter.  Her dipshit husband brought my granddaughter and two friends to the protest in Dallas last night.  Minutes after they left the area the shit hit the fan.

Thankfully they made it out okay.

I think I will remain right here at home.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Drawing a diagram of the inside of my mobile phone.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

Texted the boss about how things have been since the store reopened. The response: it's been very quiet.

On the one hand, there are so many potential sources of exposure, from mask refusers, to asymptomatic carriers, to kids trying shit like this:



No, I don't put shit like this past some of the kids who buy candy at the store.

On the other hand, this means there's fuck-all to do.

And there's still a lot of other factors to consider, like the fact that I live with my Dad, who's in a vulnerable category due to his age (he's 65), or that my circadians are even more fucked up than usual because of the quarantine, plus that several of my other haunts are still closed (the local Half-Price Books is still limited to curbside pickups, which kind of defeats the purpose of my usual biweekly trawl, and while my local library is going to start doing curbside pickups, it's unclear just how this is going to work.)