taff
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Post by taff on Dec 11, 2020 19:53:56 GMT
Hi folks, thought i would see how you folks are coping with all these restrictions etc. that aare in place now-a-days...
Hope you are all coping well?
Eileen and I are fine, but bored to tears, with this not being allowed to go anywhere or even visit anyone... looking forward to when these vaccinations will be sorted and we can resume a more normal life.
And about these jabs we are apparently going to get to make us sorta immune to Covid....how do you people feel about this? will you be having one or not decided yet?As for Eileen and myself, being the age we are (i am 73 now) i cant wait to get it... and hopefully let me get back to more like normality... so what's your thoughts on this topic, as there sure seems to be loads of doom and gloom merchants out there saying its all a hoax etc, or that there will be trackers etc, in the injection... what do you think?
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Post by bear on Dec 11, 2020 22:45:31 GMT
Hi Taff and Eileen We are all safe and well here . Just working and no play for months , will be off in the new year for a week. As for the covid jag yes it will help to a more kind of normal but a long way off yet .  Puppy says hello 🤗 |
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Post by feeson on Dec 12, 2020 9:51:23 GMT
Nothing and lots is what I have been doing taffI had a flooding garden from a road drain 100m or so away, so I had to work on that and fight with people about it, but I think thats sorted. Me potatoes were P poor this year. STILL prepping to start doing model kits, probably about £1000 - £1500 spent, thats on kits I fancy, airbrushes, compressor, paints, glues, fillers and tools ++++ and not one kit started yet, being candid I am avoiding doing a proper tally of what I have actually spent on it so far. Watching lots of youtube vids on modeling, things sure have come on from the days when I was a 14 year old dipping his brush into a pot. Going to try and start a couple of Pratchett Hogfather figures today for the wifes Xmas. The plan is to put the tree up early this year so that may happen this weekend. As to the vaccine - I will be front and center. We had a very big wake up call as our fit, healthy, active, never smoked, 1/2 pint for a treat some weekends 40 year old next door neighbor was in a coma with covid and her hubby was told she may not make it. She has pulled through but is far from fit and healthy. She has been left with medical conditions, some of which may be with her the rest of her life, lungs, liver, kidney, diabetes so no joke. As I say a wake up call of no small measure. TBH I think unless someone has a medical reason not to take it, anyone who does not present their arm for the jabs is an idiot (I tried to think of a mild term but realised that was the mild term). Not only for themselves but they may carry it to others. Its not 100% but it should provide the much needed firebreak. Oh and I have been given permission to get a resin 3D printer if I decide I want one down the line  I love my wifey. |
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Post by paulspeller on Dec 13, 2020 21:23:06 GMT
very odd christmas this will be feel a bit sorry for my six year old son . been a struggle for him as he does not get it all the distance stuff. . vaccine let’s hope it can get a sort of normal back but to be honest i don’t see it being ever what you would call normal or as was in the near distant future
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Post by feeson on Dec 14, 2020 7:00:41 GMT
very odd christmas this will be feel a bit sorry for my six year old son . been a struggle for him as he does not get it all the distance stuff. . vaccine let’s hope it can get a sort of normal back but to be honest i don’t see it being ever what you would call normal or as was in the near distant future I agree that things will take a long time, if ever, to go back to what we were like before covid paulspeller its been a wake up call for many. With so accessible and affordable world travel it was not a case of "if" but "When?" and always will be to an extent. lets just be relieved it is not something like ebola. For your lad, I hope it will not take away from what should be the best day of the year for him but as a crumb of comfort all the very best Christmases I remember are of when it was our small family group, not friends and family over or going out to someones for dinner. In my memories it was warm, happy, fun and relaxed. Against the bigger gatherings where mum was stressed out cooking all day, dad was grumpy to get things sorted for guests and I felt more of an inconvenience being in the way because folk were going to be coming over or even worse we were going to someone elses on the day -Toys away! Get washed! Get dressed up! Be on your best behavior! I think thats why I insist that its only me and the Mrs for xmas dinner. We just relax, have fun and do things at our own pace with no added pressure, I do the cooking and she pours the drinks. Give him a big empty cardboard box and he will play all day  And in relation to my post above, the tree is still in the loft, some paint did make it onto the figures for the wife and I spent another £16 on modeling gear. |
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Post by nemesis on Dec 14, 2020 12:59:50 GMT
Christmas for me and the wife will be the same as the last 8 years and that will be just us. Even if we wanted to visit anyone the Covid restrictions stop us from doing so but whatever. I will hopefully be upgrading my pc over Christmas, already got the Ryzen 7 5800x and just waiting on the new motherboard to be back in stock and I'm all set. 2020 has been a sh*t year all round, Kath (my wife) lost her dad 19th January and her mom 1st November and I lost my mom 8th October. None of these losses were due to Covid rather a combination of ill health and old age, my mom was 86 when she passed and I watched her deteriorate drastically over a 2 year period, it is probably the hardest thing I have had to witness in my life. Add Covid to the mix and I would love to be able to wipe 2020 from memory and pretend it was just a bad dream, but that is not going to happen. As for the vaccine I do not know how I feel about it. Sure if it turns out it is safe and it does work then great but vaccines usually take anywhere from 10-15 years to develop and test and these have taken less than 12 months plus they have already had allergic reactions to it in some recipients. I personally feel it was rushed and current recipients are still beta testing it, they don't even know how long it will protect you for and I feel that rolling it out now is purely out of panic because the government know they have lost control and are hoping desperately that this will turn out to be the magic bullet to save the economy and not so much the people. It is after all ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY. It will be some time if ever that everyone gets the vaccine and you can call me selfish or indeed an idiot if you want but I will use that time to monitor the situation before I make a decision to get the jab. That said I wish you all as happy a Christmas as you can have and a Very different and unsure New Year.  |
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Post by feeson on Dec 14, 2020 16:23:23 GMT
... I will hopefully be upgrading my pc over Christmas, already got the Ryzen 7 5800x and just waiting on the new motherboard to be back in stock and I'm all set. Ryzen 7 5800x  So if I told you I am still running a phenom black II 555 you may chuckle a little bit at me then nemesis ? BTW I dropped some more RAM into that HP thin client, a bigger HD and shoved windows 10 on it for me mum, suits her needs okay. Sorry its been such a sh it year for you bud. |
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Post by nemesis on Dec 14, 2020 19:50:48 GMT
Yeah had to go Ryzen this time feeson as my A10 7890k although still ok does struggle a bit with modern AAA games and bottlenecks my GPU. Motherboard back in stock today so got an Asus Rog Strix X570-E on the way along with 2x 8GB Adata xpg spectrix d60g 3600 memory and a Cooler master MASTERAIR MA620M cpu cooler. Should keep me busy for a while setting that lot up.  Nowt wrong with the Phenom II X2 555 Black feeson, at the time that was a pretty highly rated cpu and got some good reviews, if it still does what you need then more power to you I say. Good to hear the thin client is still going strong, mine has yet to skip a beat in its role as a music server. Lets all hope next year will be better but lets face it, it would not take a lot to be so. |
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