EmirOfShmo

No way. **** him. He gave the huge speech about how he wanted to 'look them in the eye' to defend what he did. Straight up **** him. Phony ass christian ****. "And since I don't have the corona virus, I thought it'd be a good opportunity for me to be here, to be able to speak to these researchers, these incredible health care personnel, and look them in the eye and say 'thank you.' " https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/28/847570879/pence-responds-to-critics-after-not-wearing-face-mask-at-mayo-clinic

Had to get a prescription refilled today. I get in line (car #2) at the CVS drive-thru. Wait a bit & then a bit longer. Finally, the woman in the car in front of me PASSES HER CELLPHONE to the ungloved hand in the CVS window. Which she promptly carries into the prescription area. I blow a gasket & wife says "What's wrong?" I tell her & pull out of the line and leave. People here in RVA (west) are starting to not give a ****. SMFH...

Apparently. But it seems to be concentrated to the Russian strain. btw...word of the day for me. Had to look it up. Made my mush-for-brain learn something new.

Your tax dollars hard at work. The IRS system is horrible. My mother-in-law passed away October, 2019. Her 2019 taxes were filed in January. We checked the IRS site yesterday based on an earlier post in here. She's due to receive a check - or we need to provide the correct direct deposit account (which we declined to do). I'm guessing we'll get a check mailed to us sometime (we used our address to file her taxes). Not sure what to do with it if we get it. Edit: Anybody here filed for the PUA (Pandemic Unemployment Assistance)? If so, is the amount prorated somehow or is it a flat $600?

Same message I got today! Fingers crossed for sure!

https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a52078/crunchwrap-supreme-recipe/

Interesting read... PARIS, Texas (AP) — Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County could make a pretty good argument for Texas' reopening on Friday. Only a handful of the 50,000 residents here, right on the border with Oklahoma, had tested positive for the coronavirus. None had died. The mayor of Paris, Texas — a pit stop for drivers passing through to snap a selfie with the city's miniaturized Eiffel Tower — had drive-thru virus testing in the works, just to give locals peace of mind. Some wore masks but many saw little reason to bother. Then an outbreak at a nursing home turned up over the weekend. Now at least 65 people are infected, and everything has changed. A courier drove 11 hours through the night to pick up testing kits and stores are second-guessing reopening as Lamar County becomes a cautionary tale of the fragility of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to get Texas back in business faster than many states. And on the eve of every retailer, restaurant and movie theater being allowed to let customers back in the door, Texas set a single-day record high for fatalities Thursday with 50. “We don’t know what it’s going to do here,” said Taylor Wright, owner of Aden Ann's, a women's boutique in Paris. Word of the sudden outbreak at Paris Healthcare Center, she said, shelved her plans to reopen over fears of exposing her staff and family. “We don’t know where it’s all spreading," she said. The whiplash in Paris from healthy outlier to overnight hot spot illustrates the balancing act states are taking on as they begin relaxing public health restrictions, particularly in places with Republican governors, who broadly support President Donald Trump's determination to get the U.S. economy back up and running. More at the link ---- https://www.yahoo.com/news/then-boom-outbreak-shows-shaky-215051818.html

Come on people. They're wrapped up in American flags. One guy is wearing it as a cape. See how much they love America? Give them the respect they're showing the flag.

I was able to get my sourdough starter going & made 2 loaves of bread. Pretty decent, learned a lot. Ready to try it again but cook it on my smoker. And add some olives. Overall pretty pleased for my 1st attempt. The starter is now hibernating in the fridge waiting for its next activation We went with inexpensive ramen noodles tonight. Tried a new method of cooking onions, garlic, spinach, sausage on the grill at the same time. Veggies in foil with sausage over the fire. Ended up pretty tasty with some pad thai inspired sauce. Pineapple Chicken sausage from Costco - tasty & juicy...Cheap eats...

As I get older I find myself less & less bothered by stupid people. I used to feel sorry for them or try to offer help. Now? Even if it means sure death to somebody, I really dont care any more. I won't encourage it, but please, if you feel the urge, drink it. "It’s like a Venn diagram,” she said. “What they all have in common is the idea that the government is hiding something from you. These people not interested in what scientists, doctors or the mainstream media has to say.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-bleach-statements-echo-claims-121919659.html

^^ No surprise. This is going to be (already is?) a disaster. The clock on the loan starts ticking when you get the money. You have to pay 75% of this to your workers. If I own a restaurant & depend on butts in the seats to make it, I'll need to pay all of the wait staff to come to work. If no one shows up to eat/drink? I'm paying them for 2 months to play with their phone. They're missing their unemployment pay + $600/week bonus which isn't being paid by me. So they can't pay their bills with no tip money coming in from customers. Loan money is gone & I have nothing to show for it. SMFH. I can't believe there was no plan in place for this type of situation. We can't figure out how to take care of our own people, while lesser countries (in wealth & capital) have already implemented their plans. US Government waste at it's finest...

She's probably now showing the signs of Covid-19 so she was tested. Edit: Based on this article, she would have been at her most contagious "during the period before they have symptoms." "In addition, a study (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5) published about the same time reported that people might be most contagious during the period before they have symptoms. “Of those of us that get symptomatic, it appears that we’re shedding significant virus in our oropharyngeal compartment, probably up to 48 hours before we show symptoms,” Redfield said. “This helps explain how rapidly this virus continues to spread across the country because we have asymptomatic transmitters.”" https://www.healthline.com/health-news/50-percent-of-people-with-covid19-not-aware-have-virus

Got this message when I checked this morning - highlight mine. WTF? Mail you a letter? You are eligible for the payment. Once we have your payment date, we will update this page. We will deposit your payment to the bank account below. Bank Account Number: ************ Updates to your payment are made no more than once a day. We will mail you a letter with additional information on this payment.

Disco night tonight. Sitting fireside with good wine, wife, blasting Fios 1808, remembering the 70s...the Reverend Al Green with that incredible voice...Forgot I had the deck speakers for about an hour. Hope the neighbors enjoyed it!

Where's Senator Pat Toomey on this? Why is he silent?

Too soon?

No. I filled that out as well & haven't heard anything from them. Their site was just as bad. Edit: I received this email last night.

The further adventures of Virginia Unemployment: Trying to file as a Sole Proprietor is messy. The screen for that comes up AFTER the employer screen, which has mandatory information that must be entered to get through. Long story short: I got my rejection letter from Va today saying I had no income reported for any quarter in 2019. No ****, dumb asses. I haven't filed my 2019 taxes so the 1099s I have haven't been recorded by me yet. There was no place to enter it in the system! I filed an appeal & will wait to hear back. At least the appeals website let me explain the situation AND upload 1099s. I do need to commend them on the relative speed in replying to my original filing given the number of people filing. We'll see how long the appeal takes.

Looks like a software update scheduled for tonight. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/irs-payment-stimulus-tool-critical-151654081.html

I believe today is the day the White House Occupant unveils his new super-secret method to attack this virus.

He's a simpleton. That someone with so much high-end education can be so ****ing stupid is just amazing. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. Oh, and then there's this: 🤯 ... Only a lunatic!

I got a different response today when I checked the IRS site. It asked for my AGI & my bank account info. I mistyped my AGI & was prompted to re-enter because the figures didn't match. I reentered the info and the response was - Ok, thanks. Makes no sense. Nothing changed from my 2018 return. Why did it take 2+ weeks to get this prompt to appear? 😠 And now that I've done this step, what other hoops do I need to jump through? I hate these people. 😠

Listen, I'm no botanist medical expert but...

****'s real...

Lol...I do (did). I wrote Cobol programs in the 80s. Before that I wrote programs with IBM Assembler & NCR NEAT/3. Cobol was like wading in the baby pool.