I'll hand-deliver it to you, but you gotta drink all six from the bottle without washing the bottles or your hands, haha!Does the winner get a six-pack of your brew after you choose? If so, do we have to quarantine the bottles for 14 days?
Joking aside, wishing you and your family (and community) the best and hopeful recoveries for those affected.
Mind if I ask what you do profession-wise in China?
Cheers!
Haha, none of his books are "literature". Still, I love the post-apocalypse genre. Read The Road (McCarthy) for a big boy version of same. In fact, though I think this virus is just a +1 version of the typical flu, these plots keep popping into my head. (Vonnegut Galapogos, too).
The lyrics to the children's poem Ring Around the Rosie reference the bubonic plague (which killed 1/3 of Euorope in 14th century). Maybe a name there.
That's a military term. At least, that's what we called it in the USMC.
Of course by USMC you are referring to United States Navy, Junior Auxiliary Division, I presume.
Brooo Brother
USN, 1973-1994
You darn sailors. Always trying to remind us Marines that we are in The Department of the Navy, and you’re right. THE MENS DEPARTMENT.
Semper Fi, Devil Duck.
I've always had a lasting if not grudge-worthy respect for our little helpers in the USMC!
Over my time in service I actually spent more than five years in join Navy-Marine Corps squadrons. Along my way to commissioning I had the option to pursue a Marine Corps 2nd Lieutenant appointment. At the time a Navy commission held better career aviation opportunities than the USMC. I've worked for and with Marines, and have had Marines work for me. Never a finer group of individuals. Never a finer honor. Semper Fi.
Brooo Brother
Unfortunately, there's more sunshine in Wuhan than normal because there's so much less commerce and traffic polluting the air, but we don't get to enjoy it. :sadface:Ain't no sunshine in Wuhan
Bill Withers, ever heard of him?Unfortunately, there's more sunshine in Wuhan than normal because there's so much less commerce and traffic polluting the air, but we don't get to enjoy it. :sadface:
Yeah, I've heard the song one or two (thousand) times. Just giving a literal response to the lyric.Bill Withers, ever heard of him?
My older brother was a helo pilot and then flight instructor for the USMC.
So I'll jump in with the thing he told me once that has stuck with me, and which all USN/USMC folks might agree.
It was when he was still a reservist during Desert Storm, prior to being an aviator, sleeping in tents guarding water while the Air Force folks were basically put up in near-hotels.
"The Air Force. They're the finest paramilitary organization the world's ever seen..."
So we've established navy good, air force bad.
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Now it's time to ask myself, is it worth risking the wife's ire if I use up some of our limited printer paper to print these up?
We were at the grocery store yesterday and while my wife was picking out lemons, a latino guy next to her buying limes said "these are for the coronas! *wink*", we all had a laugh but I was suddenly gripped by an urge to purchase and drink a bunch of Coronas with lime.
We had four more confirmed cases in Chicago today and I am starting to dread riding the train into downtown every morning. So far I haven't seen any sanitizing crews working while the trains are idling and very few passengers wearing masks while they all seem to casually grab the hand railings as if everything were normal. Weird since all the local stores are sold out of hand sanitizer and face masks, guess all those folks are self-quarantined at home.
In other news: my requisition for an emotional support helicopter seems to be caught up in channels.
Better hang onto some of that printer paper, in case you need to DIY some face masks!
TV news media blowing things out of proportion causing world panic and widespread disruption to economic markets ale.
There's word that public transportation will start ramping up in the next couple weeks here in Wuhan, though for now communities are still largely closed so they'll have to open up before many people need to use public transportation. Technically, there's still no official timeline on opening the city, but it's starting to feel like it's on the horizon.Hey @FatDragon how are you doing?
I just heard from a colleague of mine in Dongguan city, she said the virus is subsiding and public transit is opening back up. Hope you and yours are in tip top, please let us know.