US has more motorists. It’s not a good comparison.
No. He looks a little like my dad but no.
Well it seems I have the first death of a relative due to COVID here. I just found out an uncle on my father’s side passed away earlier this week or not too long prior. I don’t know if anyone will want to see me at the funeral. I did not attend the service for his son, my cousin, whom I used to hang out with when he died. I remember knocking on the door and asking for him and being informed he was dead.
My father doesn’t even know but my mom and sister and niece do. My father definitely won’t go and does not probably want to answer any questions for a eulogy.
I just tried to tell him right now. Unsuccessful.
Sorry to hear about that, Mark. I know nobody who got seriously ill from Covid. Even the few cases I’ve heard of among people I know have only been acquaintances.
I’m going to try to make it. From what I understand it’s not a cremation or “celebration of life” with just a nice custom metal urn like the last similar event I attended. My father still can’t hear me or my mother when we tried unsuccessfully again to tell him. I don’t know if the information is really needed for the eulogy. I just finished helping filling out, printing, scanning pages upon pages of veterans documents that was painstakingly put together including awards for Vietnam war service and campaign and exposure to Agent Orange and damaging decibel levels.
I think it is two days, a viewing and then the actual funeral/burial. I can’t recall programs since when I was a child. So I’ll try to make it if I can. I’ll take a lyft or uber and get there myself.
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It would be nice if you can make it, Mark. My uncle always said to never skip funerals. Skip weddings if you must, but never funerals. I won’t adhere to that rule. There’s about half the family that I’m just not close to and I think it dishonours people to pretend you cared about them when you didn’t.
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I need to get the information first. Nobody is being cooperative and I don’t have really any contact information.
I don’t know if it’s wise to go. My other sister and nieces don’t live here, so they can stay away after attending the service. But, my immunities have kept me alive and both my parents. I would love to see people I have not seen or been in contact with for some times. But I was not directly invited. Also I was cautioned by my mother about showing up as undesired guest or possibly saying the wrong thing. I think it’s because my head is on fire and I don’t know it sometimes. But even with the social distancing and the masks, it’s the overwhelming stares. It’s just a stare like somebody is underwater and still with no signs of life or breath. The discomfort of it. A stare from 50 feet away like that is all it takes. I can take a lot. I mean rooms filled with people like that. But they hate it.
I’m sure we all know people like that or some of us here are people like that. But you know you are demanding your life with all the others. Maybe it won’t be like that. But having a vision of somebody whose features are like coffee and milk poured on water is so delicate that the slightest disturbance destroys anything.
I’ll see. I’m always a bringer of life to the dead in spirit and body. But that’s something undesirable about me at times like these. Also I’m as kind and caring as a ventilator and just as blind. My eyes would be there just to see for others who aren’t or can’t.
I don’t know if there will be glass, but there always seems to be. It doesn’t do a thing it’s intended for.
I am working on getting an invite through my niece. I just had to get the message across to find another way.
Sounds like you’re handling it well. I wouldn’t go without an invite.
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Yeah I think I’m being prevented. It’s hard to explain the phenomenon but I could show you with your family. Your will to “save face” will be a lot stronger than your own.
I’m not attending. It’s the right choice.
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Maybe it’s the air quality from the fires, or small exposures to the virus, or lack of prolonged cardio, or the heat, or the difficulty of breathing with the mask, or maybe it’s weight gain, or maybe it’s salt, or maybe it’s tight fascia and muscles around the rib cage and abdomen, or maybe it’s toxins in my system, or maybe it’s fluid retention.
But I find myself feeling it is impossible to physically continue at times, yet I somehow do. I think my immunities are just borderline from overload and depletion.
I haven’t dropped like a sandbag yet.
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I hear you, Mark. Maybe it might be time for some lifestyle changes.
When I laundry my socks I don’t wrap one pair around the other because it stretches one sock out disproportionately. If I do it with the opposite the next time I just get two stretched out socks.
I don’t think I’m going to change that.
What size, type, and how many cookies do you use in your socks?
Amazing you are still alive after listing the 10 plagues warring against you. Which one do you think could be affecting you the most? Probably toxins from poor air quality, which explains why your governor would like to go all electric.
Yeah, I wish I could help. Good luck with that.
Nonsense! You’re just frustrated over your workouts because you see no results and no way to attain the short term goal, much less long term. That’s always disappointing and frustrating.
Well, good luck. I hope you work through it the best you can and don’t let those little demon plagues get the best of you.
Workouts almost never give results when one is seriously overweight. 95% of weight loss comes from food. You can’t exercise the weight away in most cases. You have to cut caloric intake by huge amounts.
I curl with your bodyweight.