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I've been in touch with a few friends here, and those I've reached seems to be doing well.

So, for those i know who I haven't contacted, or anyone else really.....

Check in. Let us know how you're doing.

Still shake'n the bushes Boss.

Nice to hear from you.

I'll post what I just sent in response to herm's pm-


Thanks for reaching out. Scary times indeed. Never figured I'd seen anything like this in my lifetime.

We are nervous but ok. Cindy has been working from home for the past couple weeks. The shop closed initially per Governor orders and I laid off all 8 guys.  I was able to get an exemption to stay open so we had four guys come back last week.

They all freaked out, rightly so, and don't want to come back. So 2 are coming in next week to finish a couple jobs then they're gone.

Two others are going to work the next couple weeks to get some stuff done and we see how things look then.

Still waiting to see what the government cooks up to keep us going that isn't a 4% loan. I have enough holes to dig out of already.

I think we'll be ok in the long run. Maybe smaller, but ok.

We are doing well enough, AFIAK friends and family are healthy.

Hang in Kevin.  

Thanks for starting this thread Herm.
 

Kev,

I snipped herm's phone number from your post. He doesn't likely need any more spam calls on his phone. [thumbsup]

We sent all but about 30 people home for 2 weeks with pay. That ended on Friday.  Then the state shut everything down. Thursday and Friday work laid off around 150 with maybe more to come. Head count was 380. We can stay open and only work on essential orders - firetruck computer mounts, EMS stuff, and mounts for trucks. UPS is a big customer.

We did get an 8,000 piece order for hardware to mount tents for drive thru testing. Novel use of our product that someone came up with.

I have been in every day, and will continue to do so. Work and home. Once a week to the grocery store. I am the only car on block that goes out every day.

I sit in on meetings ( via phone from my office) with the owners and directors. Somehow, I am in charge of our response plans. I'm thinking that when it is all said and done and business is back to normal, I better get some extra vacation time. And a new title - Director of Environmental Health & Safety sounds good.

 [thumbsup] Glad you're all ok and holding up.

GLW and three of the four kids have lost their jobs. One kid and I are in essential services so very busy and have to be careful not to bring anything home. Glad I have that job as bike work will soon stop for the FY.

All still healthy. Glad I have a home gym and bike project.

We are approaching a stage 3 lock down. Our State is ahead of the others with restrictions and shut downs, so I try and ride to work as often as possible. The roads are quiet.

We keep track of the pandemic around the world. For us winter is coming.

Shit, thanks. I edited some other things there but must have missed that...

Hey Peeps,

Glad to hear folks are managing.

We seem to be doing well here in Maine, but I think we are just too far down East to have the hammer really drop yet. Ddan and I had a pretty good conversation last night, and he shared a pretty sobering website that he found (link at the bottom.)

My family and I are doing well. SWMBO works from home anyway, and her employer isn't laying anyone off.

As for my work.... Obviously, no one is getting laid off, and there's all kinds of over time. Not sure if the perks are worth it right now though..

 :-\ :-\

https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

My kids are home and I've taken to homeschooling them.

Paula already worked from home so she hasn't noticed a huge difference. Her customers are all working on this, so she's supporting them, and I'm supporting her. We haven't gone anywhere for weeks.

We're fine for now.

Nothing more I can do.

I live in Raleigh, NC. working from home. and hating it. None of my systems and structures are here or in effect. Don't like mixing my home with my work. Not afraid of getting sick myself but worried about our society, country, world. I work for CPS. Concerned for all our families.
I feel we in the US went through this at 9/11. That's all that compares with me.
Not good times.

Dustykitska (my loving wife) and I have been home with out cat now for almost two weeks.  We are in New Mexico.

We’re not in a total lock down, but a lot of businesses are closed.  We can still go out for walks & drives without having a specific destination.  It seems about half the population is abiding by the mandates.  Schools are closed.

I’ve been working from home and Dustykitska was searching for a job at the time of the outbreak.  So, as you can imagine, no one right now is hiring.  We spend most days working around the house/yard and try to stay in as much as possible.  I think we’ve ventured out six times in the last two weeks, never further than a few miles from home.  I have a motorcycle project in the garage too, so that helps...

I'm teleworking for the foreseeable future (I'm guessing 2 months). The wife is in Syracuse for school that suddenly turned into a tele-education. Once they lift the stop-move for us (currently projected for May), she might come home early.

No lockdown for AZ, we have a couple of cases in the county which have put everybody in freak-out mode. I went shopping today, and other than the empty shelves from what looks to me like panic buying everything seemed scarily normal. I've only left the property a few times since the 16th.

Glad you're both ok mate.

You too!

What does stage 3 mean for you?

Home except for essential service work, medical or shopping/fuel.  Only one non family member may visit your home at any time. Walking outside for exercise may not exceed two people (safety measure). 90% of businesses shut. Elderly and disabled given certain times to shop without competition. Anti hoarding measures. Schools closed, etc. I reckon about a step behind Italy.
Our testing regime has been quite good by world standards and we have national health care.

Still kicking. Still working too, since we've been deemed essential.

Since I'm largely antisocial to begin with, this whole thing hasn't been a big deal so far and is sort of normal for the most part. About the only real impact has been availability of asswipe.

My company contracts for HHS/CMS so we are definitely essential.
Over half our workforce was already remote workers anyway so no real impact outside of the random folks that have never worked remotely before.

It has allowed me to make a great big leap forward on my backlog of work since I am not interrupted by nearly as many daily "status" meetings.

As for here, wife unit is also a full time remote worker so with our home offices on separate floors, we usually only interact a couple of times during work hours but then have continued our normal day to day routines.
We have stocked up on some stuff to allow for a full lockdown if it occurs.

I've gone back to school with Zeke as a 7th grader.

It's my punishment for being truant in that period of my life.

Here still 60 and still kicking

Just got laid off my part time job ...was essential but because P/T keeping the full timers going 

 
What could possibly go wrong? :D

Everything? ;D

I am so tired. We are back up and running at work. Way less people and only one shift, but it was a draining day. The one and only person I asked them to let go was kept on. Now is not the time for safety scofflaws. He must of been talked too this morning after I made a stink about it, because he went out of his to say we all to do what I say. Is it next year yet?

I begin week 2 of WFH tomorrow. 

Car biz is considered by some to be essential.  It does play a big role in the economy.  I'm fearful that poor sales tactics post 9/11 and '08 meltdown that were finally starting to subside are going to be common place again.  Hmmm...seems to be cyclical.  And I mean that from an industry standpoint.  It's great for all of the consumers we tend to keep locked in that vicious cycle (cynical industry guy speaking).

Here in Texas, they've been a little slow to fully adopt the stay at home mandate.  My city issued it last week, but declared all businesses essential.  Then they amended that to actual essential businesses.  The city got served with a lawsuit on Friday by a realtor, seeking to lift the non-essential restrictions.  [bang] [bang] [bang]

Only downside for me so far is that I had agreed to let my tenant out of his lease early at my condo in Denver.  May be a bit tough to find a replacement quickly. #firstworldproblems.

So I think racing for me might be cancelled this year. #firstworldproblems

I initially thought this would be a two month problem, with impacts to relatively short term projects. I think I may have been surprisingly optimistic, and now I think it will impact Bonneville in August.

I'll happily be wrong.

Hopefully August. Touch 'n go.

My wife and I are way out in the boonies in Northern Arizona, and plan to stay that way. Once we finished building the house, I'd been guiding up in the Grand Canyon for almost a year, but that came to a halt about two weeks ago, and yesterday the National Park officially closed the gates, which was a couple of weeks later than they should have, but one week after the first confirmed case among the full-timers in the Park. The company I work for (Pink Jeep Tours, part of Herschend Enterprises) is keeping folks on the payroll & health insurance, so I get up there a few days a week to work on the vehicles and other solo tasks.

There's not much to celebrate these days, but a bit of extra time on my hands meant I finally heeded that little voice that said it's been way too long since I checked out doings on the DMF, so there's that.

Welcome back.

Great hearing from you!

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Yeah, that.

 [beer], tf! Been meaning to ping you about a Rat-like door knocker for a while, but 2020 has given me such a vigorous rogering with no lube so far that I've forgotten it. Soon, I hope.

Big pay cut, but still working here. Things are looking tough for my employer and all I can hope for is that we hang on and for things to turn around.

Stay safe, all.

 https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections (https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections)

My door knocker has graced the front door of my house for years now.

I'm not sure anyone has ever used it.  [laugh]


Maybe if I get rid of the doorbell.....

It's good to be back! One of the big projects I'm looking to tackle with my newly idle hands is to FINALLY get some solar power set up down at the 40 foot shipping container that will someday become the shop.

So far, Northern Arizona is dispersed and rural enough that the virus hasn't taken a real run up here, but before the Grand Canyon National Park closed it was getting a lot of traffic - nothing like it would have during a normal Spring Break season, but still disconcertingly busy for the current situation. My wife and I headed into the park a couple of times during that period, but if you're willing to avoid the trails, it's easy to have hundreds of acres all to yourself - and really, on the South Rim that's the best way to do it in all seasons. Park where nobody is, walk north, stop when the ground disappears in front of you. Getting lost would take a rather dedicated effort.  Here's the view from one of those un-trailed spots, Zuni Point:

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Spectacular. I'm thinking Cowboys Vs Aliens. :D

On the plus side: some the to-do’s for the house are getting done...

I still exist

 [thumbsup]   [beer]

Is this driving anyone else a little nuts?  I'm having some trouble.

Here, physically, mentally, too, for now . . .
Yes, cannot reset on weekends

I was already a little nuts.

This isn't making it any better.

Saturdays are my normal day. I get to drive to the shop and do something.

The rest of the time is just a blur. I'm up till 12-1am and don't get out of bed till like 11-12 in the morning.

I've read the whole make the beast with two backsing internet. I have things I would like to do but can't because of lockdown (bikes, mustang etc)

Wife is still working all day in the upstairs office.

I would not do well in prison, I'll tell you that.

This is a true test of mental defenses.

I've got enough to do that I'm wishing I could take vacation days  [laugh]

Monday - Thurs are school days...that is an experience.

I'm sure you missed some stuff, want suggestions?

Monsterlover, do you have any CAD programs at home on a computer? Maybe it's time to design the next incredible thing-a-ma-bob!

I've got one (of sorts) which I can lose myself in for hours.... not lately, but in general. It's all mental mind games for me, as I've no way to turn design into reality (or for that matter any clue whether a given design will work/ have value.)

If you've never used Google Sketchup, give it a look..

Excellent idea!  I'd have to learn something free. My seat of Solidworks will only run at the shop. I could transfer it here but the guys still need it there.

I do have a fixture I could work on so that SketchUp thing may be the ticket. Or fusion 360 maybe.

We have our first worker testing positive and his room mate works day shift, kept coming to work, and said nothing. 5 people home now.

 [bang] [bang] [bang]     [drink] [drink] [drink]

Wow :'(

 [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang]
Well, people did not understood 'stay at home and only go out on your day/time allowed' . . . Now, 8 days mandatory lockdown, only police, fire dept, doctors, nurses, airport, port, canal workers will be allowed to circulate to go/com from work, NO supermarkets, NO gas stations, NO drugstores will open during this  8 days . . . By the end of this shite, I would have become a new evil version of spider man
 [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink]

What the eff?!?!?    This should be considered a crime.   

Continued best wishes that no one, especially YOU, become infected. 

They'd be arrested here. [bang]. Damn.

Carlos, hope you have enough supplies.

got what I could today

Hope it’s enough...

Hello . .

Got the dreaded blue screen of doom last night on laptop which I use for work, this pc is just good for basics, 8gb ram, can't cope with my job's remote assist app, and or VoIP phone very well; trying to revive it . . .

>> Duck-Stew, well, 2 loafs of bread, I was able to get, 4 trays of meats[beef, pork, chicken], 1 pack of hot-dogs, some cheese and pre-cut deli, but that is usually a 3~4 supply which means, one whole meal/day until we can go out again, today, even is Good Friday and most establishments would normally be closed, supermarkets remain open, but, we'll manage . . . There is some speak of allowing groceries and drugstore as up to yesterday but, doubt it

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