Oppo and Walrus will be by in a bit. Probably. I can’t find the keys to lock the door and they just waltz in and start typing, so…
Of course, for real, we’re located all over. I’m in Georgia, as you may know. Frank’s out in Texas (but he rarely posts anyway, so…). I don’t recall either Oppo or Walrus mentioning where they are. I know where they are, so if they mentioned it, it didn’t really register. But the point is, we’ve always done this remote.
Well, it’s not the same thing as actually having a giant building to go to and punch a time clock (especially when we’d rather be punching hippies), so this whole End Of The World VirusTM hasn’t impacted our writing much at all.
However, in the world outside of IMAO, there has been an impact. I’ve been working from home. For me, that wasn’t a big deal. I’ve been doing that a couple of days a week already, so I didn’t have much of a change. And Frank has been doing it full time for a while, so he hasn’t been impacted much either. But what about you?
Seriously, how are you doing? Has this time been a major problem and not just a slight change? Let us know.
And if you have any tips on how to survive this whole thing, someone here could probably use an idea or two.
How have you been dealing with this latest Apocalypse?
Whenever I start feeling sorry for myself, I think about SarahK. One day she’s a promising young T-Shirt model with her whole life in front of her. Now she’s stuck in a home with FrankJ and a horde of children that are biologically half FrankJ.
And I want to send a sympathy card, but the Hallmark store is closed.
I’m lucky to be running a consulting team that does amazing work helping our customers make the world a better place. I have 3 new consultants that started on Monday. We are onboarding them virtually as everyone is working from home. Seems to be going really well.
I am Russian Bot so not affected at all by dastardly Americanski Army virus, da?
Seriously though. Working from home fairly well since like 90% of my job is online anyway. I never go out much anymore so not going out at all is not a big leap. With golf weather coming up my cabin fever my increase. No one I know is sick thankfully.
I’ve worked from home for 6 years. Get my coffee from Black Rifle. So other than my dwindling stock of cigars and Jameson I’m good.
1 – Count your blessings and be grateful for them. If you have time to fool around here at IMAO your good fortune far outweighs the bad.
2 – Give yourself tasks to complete everyday. Organize that box of photos you’ve been meaning to go through for years. Go through your clothes and sort out things for Good Will. Clean the cat hair out from under the refrigerator. At the end of the day you’ll be very satisfied with yourself for finally completing those tasks you’ve put off for so long.
Just a slight change. We’re swapping out at work — I’m working at home this week, next week I’ll be in the office and someone who’s in the office will be working at home. They’ve got us working reduced hours, but I’m salary, so I’m still getting paid the same. Our organization doesn’t have a lot of concurrent VPN licenses, so I get kicked off sometimes. But that’s ok, because I don’t need to be connected all the time.
I’m currently homeless. After watching my home state(the Gold one) implode over the last two decades we bit the bullet and put the house on the market at the end of February.
Escrow closed two days ago and the money is in our account. We are sheltering in place in the Sierra town of Twain Harte waiting between storms that effect travel over Donner Pass. We are in a log cabin with a wood stove. When the weather clears we will be over the Sierras and then north into Southern Idaho where we have a rental opening in a week while we look for a new home.
Not the best time to be doing this, but better sooner than later.
Best of luck and remember. The thighs have the best meat if you get stuck. 🙂
What you’re telling me is that there is no IMAO Tower?
No Stately IMAO Manor?
Not even a “Designing Women” style home office where you all lounge around and talk about Poplar Bluff, Missouri and the Miss Feed & Grain Pageants you’ve attended?
sigh
Well we DID have a Bat Cave but, it was closed for, reasons.
And I never shut up about the Miss Feed & Grain Pageants I’ve attended.
It’s why we had to institute the “No firearms on premises” rule. Many were none too happy with that I can tell you!
You and Suzanne Sugarbaker, like twins.
https://youtu.be/ewB5PDrHluA
I’m an educator that has been advocating for our department to port more of our content online for a while now. Prior to all this I had myself well positioned to take my entire class online.
Now everyone else is scrambling.
I’m sitting pretty.
“They laughed, they all LAUGHED! Well, who’s laughing now?!?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!”
-Fangbeer, probably
If there are no students in the classroom how can you know they are laughing?
They may be in the forest under a fallen tree!
I’ve been keeping a low profile and staying home to avoid contact with others just as the government recommends. Not difficult to do as my wife and I are both retired. I’m reading a lot more now but I suspect I’ve selected the wrong book to read during a pandemic. I’m reading The Stand by Stephen King.
I’ve been showing my kids clips of the tv miniseries. It doesn’t seem to be helping with their nightmares at all.
That’s a good one Rihar.