Redhorse cafe

[OLChemist]

I want my normal life back. I can't get my brain out of this wacky space it has been inhabiting since March.

Since the paper goods, cleaning products and food shortages of the spring, I've been afraid of running out. I have been buying things in bulk which I normally won't since I live alone. I don't have storage for two 20 roll packages of bathroom tissue, cases of Kleenex, cartoons of hand soap, flats of canned soup... My guest room looks like I'm getting ready for a very strange giveaway. TP for the drum, antibacterial hand soap for the vets, canned chicken breast and tuna for the elders.

[subeeds]

Just got a small package of beeds with the colours I do not have at the momement. I now have a sample of every opaque colour you can get by Steffi Stricker's Perlenkontor at Dresden and I do my own sample card. The colours on the Webpage, the pictures of the printed sample card and the real beeds are different. If you by a colours at different times they will vary, I know from the light blue ones which you can see on a beaded piece clearly.

I forget where I read it, but glass has dye lots like yarn does. Glass has always fascinated me.

We are back on "the cone of concern" for hurricane/tropical storm ETA. Last night we were clear, and now we aren't. That thing has been looping around in the Gulf/Caribbean like a drunk raccoon. I am ready for it to do whatever it's going to do and go on. Since it's coming at us from across the Gulf, we won't get anything but some wind and rain from it. It's been raining for days now, so we don't really need more. I wish we could send it out west where it's truly needed.

OLC, our back bedroom looks like your guest room. We go out.Masked up, hand sanitizer in pockets and wipes in a zip lock bag. Before I get my card out of my wallet to pay, I hand sanitize my hands, and the same with my keys. I always wipe the cart down myself, too. LOL! I used to love that show Monk, now that's my life-or so it seems.

@WD, Happy belated birthaversary to you and Eyes.

[OLChemist]

For you, subs:

Mr Monk Shelters in Place

It's a blessing and a curse.

[OLChemist]

Oh heavens! Where does my store get these shoppers who do the delivery shopping? I can imagine the interview process:

Interviewer: "Have you ever grocery shopped before?"

Applicant: "Never, my Mom does the shopping."

Interviewer: "When were you last in a grocery store?"

Applicant: "I don't remember, but I was riding the grocery cart that looks like a car. It was fun, so I thought this might be the job for me."

Interviewer: "The customer requests a 42oz box of Minute Rice. But we only have the 26oz box. What you do substitute for the 42 oz box?"

Applicant: "Is this a word problem? I never did well on word problems in school... Is the answer the toaster pastries that are on clearance by the cash thingy?"

Interviewer: "Text the following sentence to me: The store is out of hand sanitizer."

Applicant: (Text) Store Santa is out to lunch.

Interviewer: "You're hired. Here's Rose's order, get started."

[Broken Arrow]

I pray that the Lord will send one of his Angel to help Rose.

Oh, oh. Mom got two letters of price increase for electricity and natural gas. According to the contracts we have for the non fees and taxes price gurantee until 12/2021 and 04/2022. Called the service line and you can imagine the answers.

Wrote the Bord of Directors for explanation why the price increase is 6.1% when the fees and taxes rise only 2.6%.

I do not want to get upset but I am upset.

[wardancer]

I often find it funny(funny as in puzzling not funny haha)that natural gas prices go up along with any other petroleum products right now as oil prices are down , and staying down. Yes there is seasonal demand but......it's every year and every excuse !
Now , I'll have coffee and maybe some pancakes today !
Hope everyone is safe and healthy !

[Broken Arrow]

We wait a little bit more than we have coffee at home.

It is 15:00 o'clock but dark as if we are close to 17 o'clock. We have awether warning for wind BfT 7 or 55 km per hour. Not arrived yet but have the foligae swept up two times this day. I get all the maple foligae cause the wind blows them in the corner of house and garage and than they swirl around.

Pancakes, must be like our Pfannkuchen. I take those with applejuice or apple slices.

Today we had beef roulades with beef neck, smoked ham and chili pickles, red beet and Pasta.

[OLChemist]

I just got a grocery delivery from a different store, with most the items that were missing from Thursday's order. Now, I have tortillas and gingerbread cake mix! I pine for the days when I could get everything at one store.

I think people are getting scared again. I couldn't get tp or mac and cheese. I had to order my tp from an office supply place.

I wish that fear would translate into more useful action, like social distancing, mask wearing and staying home. Last night when folks were walking by on the way to the bars and restaurants down on restaurant row, I saw few masks. And, unless polygamy is rampant in the DFW area, all those maskless women walking shoulder to shoulder weren't in one household.

We're at > 1200 cases a day in my county. The ICU's are at > 50%. And we're still having children and teen contact sports, with audiences. The under 35 crowd is driving this surge. Apparently, a true Texan would rather die gasping for breath in the parking lot of an overcrowded hospital than have a Friday night without High School football.

[Broken Arrow]

Just looke for some numbers

Inhabitants of your county 2.1 Million with 1.200 infections a day
My federal state, 18 Million, 2.700 infections per day.
My city 225.000, 70 infections per day.

We have closed down non professional sport, bars, restaurants, tattoo shops and so on.

I'll have 850 m to the next supermarket, better say two of them, EDEKA and Netto. They are just on the opposite side of the street. About 600m m further down the street there are the next two, Aldi Süd and Lidl. Each of the two supermarkets have a drugstore attached. Bakaries are at the two locations too. At the first location is a Pharmacy. Driving to the other side within 2600 m there are two more supermarkest, another Aldi Süd and REAL. There are two DIY stores. Halfway there is another Pharmacy.

To the center of the City I may have 2200 m but I don't go there.

Thos who party without distance and the spectator crowds at sport events are the greatest risks for getting infected. But as I can watch at school, those over 17 and under 25 are those who believe they are immortal.

Stay safe. I am planning for the time after Corona.

[OLChemist]

Moderna's vaccine is coming in with a preliminary effectiveness of 94%. Whoo who!

Moderna's technology draws on their MERS vaccine research. The refrigeration requirements for the Moderna vaccine are much less rigorous; well within the reach of most countries pharmaceutical distribution requirements. Back in Oct, Moderna said they're not going to enforce their Ip during the pandemic and work on licensing after the crisis. This should clear the deck for cooperation with other producers to make their vaccine.

[wardancer]

I would like them to give the first round of vaccinations to all of our most important politicians. I think with everything that's happening they should get the first round! Then the young folks 16 to 35........then the 36 - 55 year olds ! Then if they survive , I'll think about it !

[Broken Arrow]

I would like them to give the first round of vaccinations to all of our most important politicians. I think with everything that's happening they should get the first round!

But who dicides who the most important politicians are? I think that this will give a heated debate.

[wardancer]

But who dicides who the most important politicians are? I think that this will give a heated debate.

Well , we shouldn't discriminate ! All politicians !

[Broken Arrow]

Well , we shouldn't discriminate ! All politicians !

Than we have still the task to determine who is the first and who will follow at what place in the row.

[subeeds]

I would like them to give the first round of vaccinations to all of our most important politicians. I think with everything that's happening they should get the first round! Then the young folks 16 to 35........then the 36 - 55 year olds ! Then if they survive , I'll think about it !

LOL! If they glow in the dark I will pass. I worry that they are rushing this vaccine without thinking about a year or so down the road-what will the consequences be.

Rose, you don't want to use Walmart delivery either. My son was trying to use it, and he said two orders were late, then delayed, then canceled. He won't be using them again. He's sticking with doordash or whoever it is.

A few days ago, we had record heat for this time of year, now it's cold. Cold for us. It won't even hit 60 tomorrow and Thurs. morning is supposed to be in the upper 30s. Brrrrr!!