Diary 14th To 24th April 2020
@arthurchappell (44941)
Preston, England
April 24, 2020 1:59pm CST
A diary of doing virtually nothing, given the ongoing lockdown. I'll be talking to sock-puppets before long if this goes on much longer.
The 14th April would have been the day I returned home from the big science fiction convention I attend annually, but it was cancelled for the first time since Hitler messed up people's vacation plans.
Each Thursday I have joined the national round of applause for our wonderful doctors, nurses and health workers, many of who have risked catching the deadly Covid 19 virus themselves and many have sadly died.
I have kept up my daily online job search which seems more pointless than ever as few if any employers are going to arrange interviews and public transport is on a skeleton service making getting to many work places near impossible for most non-drivers.
The weather is going really nice, which seems cruel when we are expected to minimize how much time we spend outdoors.
Some neighbours have kindly given me foods they don't use so I have quite a few soups, bread and fresh fruit in.
I gave my flat a very thorough Spring Clean.
I had a nice long chat with a friend on the phone, and a science fiction group I know of from my time in Manchester is having its meetings online so I have taken part in those.
Today my freezer had too much ice in it, so I had to defrost it, which was horrible, and I got some fresh air by getting some drinks in from a local shop. I also got a letter telling me I have less council tax to pay this year which is great.
Arthur Chappell
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@crossbones27 (52906)
• Mojave, California
24 Apr 20
There is some positives in this. I like the nature returning videos, Holy crap there is a wolf in my yard, never mind, just Kai. cleaner air, less noise, somethings are good. You know they could turn this situation into a big positive, but they still to greedy and do not think many will change their ways even over a somewhat deadly virus.
I mean US the worse and our leaders want everything open and running again. No wonder we have four more times infected than any other country. Well, china, we know they lying but bet even a country of 1.5 billion does not have as many as we do as poorly as we handled.Not just our current leaders but whole economic system is exposed.
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@crossbones27 (52906)
• Mojave, California
25 Apr 20
@arthurchappell I will agree had a better comment need to reset my firefox that backspace killed me and so funny how do I feel it. I want to destroy coders 
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
25 Apr 20
@crossbones27 coding is an alien landscape to me
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
25 Apr 20
@crossbones27 it is bad there with a deranged president telling people to inject themselves with disinfectant - good handling in many countries including ours would have contained this outbreak - hope it makes us better prepared for future viral problems globally
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
25 Apr 20
@egdcltd I am looking at online publishers for some of my writings - good that supermarkets are taking so many on
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@egdcltd (12059)
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25 Apr 20
@arthurchappell Some parts of the online world are doing okay, or better, but that will run out of steam at some point.
@LindaOHio (222534)
• United States
24 Apr 20
Sounds like you've had enough to keep you fairly busy and some good news at that. Please don't talk to sock puppets. Talk to us instead! :-)
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
25 Apr 20
Yay for cleaning! Which is nowhere near as fun as the other things you would have been doing
