Living in Quarantine is Weird

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I hope you get it sorted out.

Ours works ok. It occasionally needs unblocking but other then that it is fine.

I'm a naturally introverted hermit type person with health issues that make it hard to go anywhere. Unlike most other people, I'm fine being home alone, and have always been good at keeping myself occupied. I have a nearby relative who uses some of my money to buy groceries for me about once a week, and takes me on my occasional doc visits. We usually run other errands once we are done at the doc's office. I order a lot of dry goods and other stuff online for home delivery, so I still get to do some of my own shopping that way. Because of my health issues I can no longer drive, so when I qualified for my nice handicapped accessible subsidized apartment, I sold my car to my nearby relative for enough money for the security deposit on the apartment. We both got a good deal, as I really like my new home. When my health was better I did go out for more than just errands. I would go to parks for walking and hiking, go to the movies, and the malls, and go anywhere else I felt like going. Being a loner, I never had to ask anyone to go with me, or ask if they wanted to go to X place or Y place. I just went where ever I wanted to go.

Being a loner does have it's good points, if that's what you like, which I do, but I realize that there are many other people out there that are more comfortable being with other people more of the time. My father was one such person, and could never believe that I was happy being alone. He was always after me to socialize, and I had to keep telling him I was fine as I was. He just passed away a few months ago, so he won't be nagging me about it anymore. Although I never spent much time with him, I do miss being able to email or phone him once or twice a week to share stuff with him.

I am sorry that more sociable people have to go thru what is a real hardship for them right now. Please be patient. This lockdown of the country will eventually be over. Many areas, including mine, have already been phasing in a return to a more normal way of doing stuff.

In the meantime, keep safe, keep cool, and keep well.

Thank you^^ you too.

Corona is way out of control in my country. We are heading for an economical and epidemic disaster.
Chaos. I am providing myself with as safe an environment as I can while the politicians have their heads up their bums.

i cannot believe the governments of the many nations of the world can be so well organized to pull off faking this whether it is just a trial run or the actual establishment of martial law, especially with leaders like Trump and Bolsonaro running some of them. if these governments are that good at it, maybe it is better. or is it? why would their scheme include a resurgence? i have never seen a virus. they can't be seen with visible light because they are smaller than a fraction of a wavelength of light. but i do believe in viruses. i have believed in then since my school days. and that has affected the way i have lived my life since then. and bacteria (much larger and seen in microscopes). i avoid kissing and other close contact. i am paranoid of airplane flights (except one where i got to be the pilot). i am also paranoid of sex.

so, i do believe in what the news says is going on. i do believe in SARS_CoV_2 and CoViD-19 that it causes. and i am also fearful because of my age and health. i bought a small PulseOx device to check my oxygen saturation level regularly.

i've been tested once. negative! my youngest brother (NT) has it as does his whole family. he got it from his church.

i have stayed in my own special quarantine for the past 4 months. i'm enough Aspie that i can go a few more.

The quarantine rules have not changed how I live, really, except for the masks.
And the fear.

Calculated that I have had no less than
eight floods in 12 months from the buildings' blocked sewage system. I stopped my checks for building maintenance and called a meeting today with the buildings' committee and the maintenance co. I went ballistic . I said if I have to call my own bloody plumber (the building pays) and deal wth him myself whilst bailing out the water then I don't need to pay a bloody useless impotent maintenance company. They are taking down trees on Thursday and cleaned the drains today. I said I won't settle for less than a new sewage infrastructure.

They have awakened the beast, I am scaring myself

I am raaaaaw and angry that Corona prevents me from seeing my man and he is his usual OCD aspie bloody nudnik self.

NB nudnik is a hebrew word for pestering.
Nothing beats it.

I know nudnik. Yiddish words are somewhat commonly used in NYC.

Sounds like your guy is somewhat of a schlmiel

No, he's very coordinated, athletic and bright not a schlemiel, just a nudnik. You KK are a mensch and not a nudnik.

Nudnik sounds related to Polish nudny - boring. The meaning appears shifted towards "annoying", though.

Interesting. Yiddish is a combination of German and Polish I believe, I am not an expert. Annoying, nagging, yes, perfect. My grandparents were from Poland and Russia and spoke Yiddish. My extensive Polish family perished in the holocaust. My great grandfather left Warsaw (a small village outside) for England in the 1800's so only his tiny branch of the family survived. Jewish Polish mothers are notorious for nagging, complaining, or "kvetching" in Yiddish, I have some Polish friends who are champion kvetchers
While visiting Budapest it suddenly dawned on me that Ashkenazi Jewish cooking is just Eastern European, nothing uniquely "Jewish". Apart from the Tchulent that must be cooked over the Sabbath and perhaps the Chollah bread the rest seems the same. I felt quite at home.

Yiddish is primarily Middle High German, written in Hebrew letters. Many borrowings from the language of where the Jewish speakers live. Ashkenazi, not Sephardic Jews.

New Yorkers from the 20th century used to use many Yiddish words, and a few phrases as well. Not so much in the 21st century.

My great aunt had a Yiddish German accent. She was originally from Belarus. Her sister, my grandmother, spoke with a Bronx accent and only used Yiddish words which were common among native New Yorkers.

Thanks, Teach

Corona is out of control and the economy is crashing. My lover has become an attentive, more mellow suitor as the months go by without us meeting and I am tempted to throw caution to the wind.
My garden has burned under the August Middle Eastern sun but it will recover. Discontent and anti-government protests in the streets as there are world-wide. Nobody knows how to control this virus but I think nature is telling us we have messed up with this wonderful gift of a planet and destroyed it with our greed. I am smiling as I write this as I can hear Fnordy saying: who's this"we"you are talking about? I think nature is changing the order of things. We will live a simpler, wholesome and natural life hopefully with no plastic or hyper-consumerism. People taking care of each other instead of exploiting. Sitting on the balcony having a chat and eating sunflower seeds and watermelon with friends as the sun goes down like in the old days.Wooooouldn't that be loverly....... and of course lots of chocklit for me to eat.

Any occasion to re-think what is really important in life is worth it

I met my lover today, he was so kind and affectionate (aspie!) 5 months apart has changed him so much for the better. He convinced me that he takes precautions regarding Corona. He was happy, I was happy and I have returned to life from this Corona "coma" that I have been trapped in. I am so miserable without him.
Life is so strange just now. His refusal to carry on with his life without me because he is so much younger is very touching. I care for him more than ever and this is proof that if there are communication problems because of Aspergers they can be overcome if there is enough caring and persistence. Yes, and he verbalized his feelings . So many miracles. We sang songs together and had so much fun, it is heaven being with him, the pain in the a$$ persistent, lovable, cheeky alien that he is.Absence makes the heart grow fonder.Sing hallelujah!

Nice to hear you've had a good day and things, in general, are looking up a bit

Thank you Bender
It has taken a long time as you know.