Subj : Re: Covid-19 was: To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Jul 06 2020 16:42:28 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 26-Jun-2020 15:53 <=- BM> Guess I'l continue replying for a bit: was going to go outside to do BM> some yardwork but a quick drizzle so things are damp right now. Might as well stay in... ;) NB>> And seems that instead of having big graduation parties, they're NB>> making up for it with setting off fireworks... every night...! Some NB>> of them have been seeable from our windows, and rather impressive, NB>> if probably not exactly legal.... ;) BM> That would seem to be a valid reason, though not legal. Most of our BM> graduations have occurred and I don't recall hearing any fireworks BM> then. Here just started about a week ago, but more isolated 'tests' as BM> opposed to a group mini-display. I haven't been looking out the BM> window at the right time to see. Next door, with their high-school graduate, had a string of parties to celebrate... At one of them, they had the now-legal ground fireworks which they set off from the front walk... I could see them out the window, being only next-door... :) And then, on the 4th... there were fireworks everywhere... all through the neighborhood.... all day and well into the night... :) From the sound, some were legal... from the sight over the trees, some not... NB>>> At this point, she's a friend, too... but mostly it's that she does NB>>> know how urgent my need is... And now, finally, it has opened, and I NB>>> had my first rub in three months Saturday, with another scheduled for NB>>> this Saturday... I normally have them weekly, to keep pain under NB>>> control... BM>> Glad that is finally able to done! As an isolated event between the BM>> two of you probably would have been perfectly healthy, just almost BM>> impossible to make rulings to allow this site to open and another not BM>> to, even though essentially the same, so everyone of a category lumped BM>> together. (Sloppy example: thinking Shop A has no kids at home but BM>> Shop B does so the possibility of bringing home and therefore spreading BM>> the coronavirus.) NB>> Or just the therapist sees a lot of high-risk clients, vs not so NB>> high-risk.... She'd chickened out about a week before the shutdown, NB>> as the virus was arriving... Possibly she could have done a rub or two NB>> "under the radar", not at the office, but doing a home visit, but she NB>> wasn't ready to risk things either.... Anyway, now we are back on a NB>> weekly schedule, thankfully... :) BM> Yes, IMO not worth risking the license -- permanently or temporarily. BM> As for 'chickening out', maybe, maybe not. She may have foreseen the BM> issue and simply took action before others did. No, that was her words, when she called the morning of to cancel that last appointment.... BM>>> They did have several grab-basket displays of hand sanitizer: noticed BM>>> by Pharmacy and at the checkouts. Didn't recognize the brand; quite a BM>>> few of the local and regional mini-breweries temporarily coverted to BM>>> producing hand sanitizer so could have been one of them. NB>>> I've heard of that happening other places as well... Shouldn't be NB>>> running out of sanitiser now.... ;) BM>> Probably not! LIS I have a small pocket-sized bottle I carry with me BM>> when I go out; refill from the larger containers which are not nearly BM>> as convenient to carry. NB>> I don't generally use, as I've had a reaction to some of them... but NB>> it's good to have it available for those who can use it... :) BM> There was a segment on the news some people are having reactions BM> because of the 'constant' use of hand sanitizer. I have been using as BM> I think beneficial as opposed to constantly. Not surprising about the reactions... and good that you use it more it intelligently... BM>> Right: the less to move the easier and faster it is. A while back was BM>> chatting with the 'chips guy' -- he is from Frito-Lay and stocks BM>> daily. Did mention he, an assistant and probably his boss would be BM>> doing the move -- he wasn't looking forward to it. NB>> At least it should be a once and done.... then just stocking in a NB>> different section of the store thereafter.... :) BM> Yes. Frozen is looking more full but still holes. Did notice one BM> strange thing yesterday: frost! Several of the cases had a pretty BM> good amount of frost build-up. My guess is a combination of air leaks BM> in the doors (by the frost pattern), humidity, and the new cases being BM> set a little too cold. Were they already stocked...? Or still mostly empty...? that could have an effect, too... BM>>> A relatively large number of shoppers haven't noticed the directional BM>>> markings; some are ignoring to get to an item they need. NB>>> Makes me glad that Wegmans never went to the one-way aisles... A NB>>> friend in the Toronto area was telling about how his grocery store had NB>>> the one-way aisles, and they took half the cashiers off the checkouts NB>>> to have them stand guard to yell at anyone ignoring/not seeing the NB>>> arrows... very nerve-wracking....! BM>> Oh Good Grief! No, no one here yelling at customers; I haven't heard BM>> any issues with someone going the wrong way. The occasional grumbling BM>> when a customer has to go down an extra aisle over to go up the one BM>> they want. ...Or the 'longing look' when at the 'top' of the aisle and BM>> when the customer wants something about 10' from the top but they can't BM>> get to it because they'd have to go the wrong way. I'll give that BM>> 'conspiritorial' look and tone and give permission "I won't tell if BM>> you won't!". NB>> His wife got around it by walking backward down the wrong aisle to get NB>> something that she needed near the wrong end... and got away with it... BM> That'll work!! Yup, it did... :) NB>>> At least you finally found them... :) And before long, customers NB>>> and employees alike will get used to all the new locations... ;) BM>> Right. Just a matter of getting used to the new placement. The BM>> raisins were probably always part of "Dried Fruits", just not labelled BM>> as such, or I remember their location with the 'wrong' landmark BM>> (baking). NB>> Probably dried fruits were next to baking items at that time... maybe NB>> on the other side of the canned pie fillings or something... ;) BM> Pretty much yes. I think the flours and canned pie fillings are BM> together (make sense) and the next major section down has Jell-o and BM> instant puddings. I think the dried fruit section is more with the BM> granola and healthy snacking type section. Still need to learn the BM> new layout but getting there. When in doubt look at the signage -- BM> overhead ones are reasonably specific and then the signs hanging over BM> the shelf detail. If that doesn't work find an employee (not too hard BM> to do!). Eventually you'll be familiar where everything is again... until the next time things get moved around... ttyl neb .... Brains by Tequila, body by the table on the floor --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .