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2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« on: August 03, 2020, 02:45:40 PM »
OK, so Moby wanted to know about those of you who were separated from partner during crisis.
Here, you can tell about you and the partner you are with during crisis.

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I have a UW wife.
I tested negative for Covid as was required for a follow up medical operation I had a few weeks back.
Wife took Covid test last week as was required for University students and employees.  Results not back yet.

We are quarantined together on our property in small town USA.
Not tired of each other . . . yet.

Having regular sex; but I feel somewhat guilty about this in view of the cases of several others here.

Keeping very busy with tons of outdoor projects.
Getting much more done than in a typical summer because wifey did not go to Ukraine for a month (or at all), as was the earlier practice.
We are watching another Great Courses lecture series on the History of Russia from Peter the Great to Gorbachev.
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2020, 11:00:42 PM »
I live with my wife and her two Russian girl friends and until the end of next month also with my two adult teen daughters, the oldest of whom is getting married in Moscow this October...

the women tend to cluster on different floors, my wife and her friends on the first floor and my daughters on the second, and me and my golden lab in the nice cool man cave basement...

every once in awhile, when I hear the wimmin raise their voices upstairs, then I know it’s time for me and my dog to head out the back door to the woods, afore one of em, comes downstairs to try and get me AND the dog to choose “sides”

me and the dog are WAY TOO smart for that

we just head out to the woods instead...

I pack a Glock 9mm model 17 in a nylon shoulder holster
the clip holds 16 rounds of 147 grain +P hollow points, plus one in the chamber

I take my dog over to the lower spots, where the ground is wetter and we can see animal tracks
the two of us work together, he keeps his nose to the ground smelling
and I keep my eyes peeled looking for tracks or fresh scat

since I have the piece...
I will let my dog decide what to do if we encounter whatever is makin tracks
as long as it ain’t over a 300 lb hog, I’ll let my dog get in one lick before I shoot that hog in the head
and he’ll be layin on the ground with his back legs kicking spasmodically

so, if my dog feels like he wants to make the play, I’ll let him “go for it”
I totally got his back and he knows it

well, anyway “thanks for listening” that’s what life is like now in southern Texas...

oh great!
now my wife came out into the forest lookin for me, probably to complain about something unimportant
now I gotta find a MUCH further away place for me and my dog to go, now that my wife found me here in this spot
sheeet man, this my favorite spot man...

 
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2020, 02:04:07 AM »
My wife and I are fine. We live in one of the lowest "zip codes" in Florida for Covid 199. My Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law tested positive (in Russia) about 1 1/2 months ago.......but are fine now.


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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2020, 12:34:34 PM »
The devaluation of world currencies will cause the price of Bitcoin to rise 50x to 100x in the next five years.

As of this writing, the price of Bitcoin is approaching $11,800, having risen 6% in the last seven days

it’s risen about 270% since March 1

I made a stoopid amount of bitcoin in Russia over the last 3 yrs
first, with mining rigs in Moscow and then south of Irkutsk

then selling up to 6 rigs per month in our compound in siber
getting 10% monthly management and operating fee in bitcoin
ROI 6 months to customer
so in first year, customer gets 2X rig cost in bitcoin, gets 1X next year and so on

then after careful analysis by me and my crew
we leveraged some of our bitcoin
to start the very first anonymous edible cannabis distribution system in Moscva
that became known as the dark web

and all it REALLY was is a way to use drugs to convert dollars, euros, or ru-bley
into bitcoin and then suck up that bitcoin again...

so you play “all ends” in this game my friends
you “swap” your bitcoin for dollars for example
use that those dollars to buy an apartment on the first floor
you can convert into a shop

then someone takes that bitcoin and buys your edibles
so they just turn right around and give you that bitcoin right back
the “velocity” of bitcoin on my exchange is about an hour!
people are buying bitcoin from me to buy edible cannabis from me

and repaying me in real estate AND bitcoin

I only pay taxes if I sell, and I have no intention of selling
I’m building up a “rent portfolio” of properties to be shared by children and grandchildren some day



after careful review of all Russian financial disclosure laws
I found a useful loophole about property purchases based in cash

so...
if you get the seller to accept cash in whatever currency you’re trying to unload
and if he straight deposits this into the bank
then HE is the one who has to write the disclosure
and the origin of “his” money is from “sale of property”

this is how you clean cash in Russia, you buy property
if you’re smart, you buy property that earns you some kinda rent
and then you just keep buying more and more

should you ever want cash you can sell your property
but it’s ALWAYS better to hang on to it
and make improvements to it

 
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2020, 06:32:42 AM »
Mother in law from Ukraine came to visit us in the late winter and is still stuck with us now in August. Back when we didn't know how long this will last we upgraded her sleeping arrangements in our living room and prepared for the long haul. She was taught to plant food in turns of crisis and stock up on staples so we became preppers last April and started a Russian food themed garden. These people can easily handle times like this and are better prepared for crisis than Americans that is for sure.

She goes home next week. It's actually been great and we will all miss her. The kids especially.

The wife and I are doing well during quarantine and it has made us realize how lucky we are to have each other. She's not letting up on the home improvement projects though, it's like a never ending circle of work to keep us busy.

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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2020, 06:57:14 AM »
same here!!

I have completed two home improvement projects to make our brick home in Texas more “fire-proof”

first was to replace the shingle roof, with a ceramic tile roof, underlaid with fireproof insulation
second, was to replace glass windows with armored shatter-proof windows, resistant to rocks, molotov cocktails, shotguns, etc

next up is rebuilding each door frame to have a steel to concrete connection
and then purchasing armored double doors

I also have 24/7 security monitoring with multiple video cameras

another month or so, and I’ll be ready....

couple of months ago when I was trying to drive to Houston
I got cut-off by a George Floyd protest, there was according to the media
a mob of several thousand people who were blocking roads including a freeway

I was less than 1/2 mile from them, and I saw a highly agitated group of people wearing masks
on the edge of the horizon in front of my car, that ran all the way from my left, all the way to my right

normally, my daughter uses siri to navigate for me
but how do you ask siri
“Siri, how do I drive around the riot”

so I said “screw it” called up my appointment and rescheduled

but now I KNOW....

for some reason I though I’d only have to deal with looters a couple at a time
based on what I saw, when the looters come
there will be thousands of em at once!

so how ya gonna save yourself from that, eh homeboy?

also, stay away from the food banks!
I went to one to check it out!

first, worse food ever!
second, hours of waiting
third, everybody's angry and tense
waiting for the right spark

life in Trump Land, "
"it'll all go away soon"
but...
apparently, "we the people" were the "it"


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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2020, 07:24:24 AM »
Funny, one of our projects is getting an iron door. These women love their steel doors... The stronger the better. And exterior cameras too. You can take them out of the FSU but...

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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2020, 09:00:19 AM »

Good to see you're doing well DKMM. It's been awhile. My MIL actually has a green card so she's a legal permanent resident but she went to visit back home in Ukraine at the beginning of this pandemic and decided to stay there longer than planned. She doesn't feel a need to travel back anytime soon. If you ever decide to help your MIL get a green card, the fastest way is to do it while she's on a visit in the US.
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2020, 02:17:37 PM »
Basically unaffected here, other than its made my work crazy busy.



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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2020, 02:53:21 PM »

Good to see you're doing well Jumper. I don't think one person on the forum said they are hurt a lot by COVID-19.
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2020, 12:10:00 AM »
May be they just do not post about it, BillyB?

I was glad to read ML is still having sex, though...








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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2020, 07:32:36 AM »

This is a state with few restrictions,relatively low population, few cases overall  and few per capita.
So the impact is minor in the overall picture here.
The neighboring states more stringent lock downs drove their residents to come here for recreation and shopping,and in many cases relocation. My home property value escalated quickly.,listings were already average of 3 days on the market, its basically 24 hrs currently. (Granted the home I sold here in 2014 was on the market 6 hours,and this one we purchased 2 hours after listing as I was on the street and the owner approached me about putting it up that afternoon )
Our child is attending school,in person, and things are normal other than being more busy than normal as mentioned.

The only effect this has had for our family is that I've often wanted to relocate to a more remote area,and this   overall ,along with social unrest,etc etc  ,likely more solidified that.
I'm a hermit at heart i suppose.

Obviuosly other regions, cities, and individuals were effected to a much higher degree.

Hope everyone is well and safe.




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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2020, 03:08:24 PM »
Would be good to hear from more of the gang on this topic . . . a good break from the political silliness that takes up 95% of the space here.

We are still doing OK and haven't divorced yet, despite no break from each other for close to a year.
Wife is keeping over-busy with math work related to her possible dissertation topic.
She is off into a relatively new math area called Dynamical Systems (which is not the same as engineering dynamic systems).  The concepts go back to Newton, but only with more recent powerful computers has serious work been accomplished.  It is becoming more of a hot topic because it has possible applications for medical problems including (as I understand it) mutations and spread of viruses, bacteria, etc.
She decided not to teach anything this Fall, and is making that same decision for Spring 2021.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_systems_theory
And, if you really want to get a queasy feeling in your stomach, try this:
http://math.berkeley.edu/~rezakhan/dyn-partII.pdf
Wife has typed up several pages of this stuff and asked me to proof read.  Obviously, I only proof read the sentences containing no math !!!

I have continued to be surprised at the interest shown by potential buyers of some of my R.E. parcels.
Excavators started working just this past week on a two acre heavily wooded parcel that we sold in September.
New owners want practically everything cleared except for some very large trees.  I wouldn't have done that.

Anyway, since the equipment was here, I talked to the head guy and we made a deal that his guys will clear just a house site for an adjoining parcel.  They will move the trees and brush over to the next parcel which will be safer for burning because cleared more.  One couple had already shown some interest there, and I wanted them to be able to get a better picture, if and when they return.

And just yesterday, one of nearby neighbor couples came over and asked what was available.  The woman's father had passed away last spring and the mother was wanting to  move closer to make it more convenient to spend time with her two grandchildren.  They were going to bring her by sometime this coming week for a look-see.

What's going on in your daily life ???
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2020, 04:49:24 PM »
I've been trying to spend less time on the political threads.
I've revived some oldies but goodies.

Minime is in Kindergarten, Smiley girl is married and has a baby. 
Angel Eyes garden finally froze up for the year so she is getting
ready for winter.

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FSUW don't do vague
FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
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Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2020, 05:09:11 PM »
The wife has been remote teaching her math courses for the high school and for the community college. She works too much I think. I went back to work as a contractor for GM. It sucks but I get to keep my retirement and my Soc. Security.
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2020, 11:42:27 PM »
I've been trying to spend less time on the political threads.
I've revived some oldies but goodies.

Minime is in Kindergarten, Smiley girl is married and has a baby.
Angel Eyes garden finally froze up for the year so she is getting
ready for winter.
How time has flown by.
It’s only been 6 or 7 years since they came to you, isn’t it?
So she married quite young?

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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2020, 11:58:33 PM »
. . . a good break from the political silliness that takes up 95% of the space here.



You're missing out on history! My wife is busy studying 8+ hours a day. I'm busy with work and keeping up to date with politics.
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2021, 11:43:08 AM »
Time for some more updates here since last posting was in early December 2020.

As I told elsewhere, I fell from ladder and broke several ribs on right side both front and back.
Back breaks most serious.
And also broke right side clavicle.
Yesterday went in for session with Anesthesiologist who injected me in two spots in back ribs.
Doesn't seem to have helped much yet; but we will see.
Scheduled to have operation to fix clavicle a week from today.
Got the two injections of Pfizer vaccine.
I am still limiting my interactions with the public and wearing face mask at all those times.

Wife is still keeping very busy on a couple of math research projects that hopefully will lead to published articles in scholarly journals and to a completed PhD dissertation.
She had doubted her ability to do original research in mathematics, but she has done it and professors tell her that she is quite capable.
She still is thinking she will want to get job mainly as teacher of math at university, but the professors are telling her that she really can make it as researcher at a major university.

She has not gotten Covid vaccine yet, as her age is not yet eligible in our state.
She has wanted to wait a bit longer anyway as it is uncertain how long the vaccines provide protection and she wants to go to Ukraine in summer.
Worried about her family in Ukraine with respect to Covid and they only have vaccines from China and India at this point.

Interest starting to pick up again from potential buyers for some of our one and two acre parcels for sale.

We have had a couple of fairly serious spats during this Covid lockdown . . . but are still together.

Somewhat interesting that we can just act normal a couple of days later.
A bad sign perhaps in that it may indicate that we just really don't care and are willing to slog on.
Could also suggest we are suppressing things that should not be suppressed
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2021, 01:10:22 PM »
So she married quite young?

Yes she did. She didn't come up to me and ask
Beeel, do you theenk I should get married and have
a baby??

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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2021, 02:52:04 AM »
Perhaps a good topic to update on my past year.
Last year from December I suffered bad vision, such that I did not want to drive when it was getting dark. This slowly got worse, until the beginning of February driving at all was becoming a tedious task. February 13 I went to the local eye clinic, they requested met to go to MaastrichtThere they told me I would be operated the next day.My right eye has been bad for years, and sigh in the left eye was down to 5%. Emergency surgery was needed to save it.The next day surgery went well, the eye lens that was 25 years old was replaced, a 360 degree laser correction done and the retina ear that had caused the problem was fixed.
What followed was a recovery process with slowly improving eyesight, and as sight was unstable prescription glasses were not possible. Which meant the COVID crisis was a blessing as I could not have left home (apart from local shopping) anyway.
From October the recovery was finished, I am back to about 90% which means I am alowed to drive legally.

During this time I have reorganised my work in such way that I work from home. If a meeting is needed I have an account with Regus to use their business lounges, but rule is I do not travel more than 30 minutes from home. Since October I added one day a week for full  travel, which is a three hour drive one way.
This means that for about a year I am mostly at home with MrsShadow and the Jrs. Our family has been extended with 2 Belgian Sheperds that cause us to have regular excersize.Rearranging my work has actually been positive towards my income, and on the days I travel there are 5 eagerly waiting my return.
Currently the country is still in lockdown. Only essential shops are opened. We miss our Russian supermarket as crossing the border with Germany is advised against, and frequently travelers are checked. Other shops are now open on appointment for a maximum of 10 minuets, and situation is not expected to change until the end of March. Luckily schools for the Jrs have re-opened since February.

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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2021, 09:49:34 AM »
Shadow, thanks for your interesting update.

Sorry to hear about your eye problems; but good to hear things seem to be improving.

I had cataract surgery on both eyes a few years back, and now have 20/20 in both eyes.
Need glasses to read.

One of my younger brothers (now deceased) had a lot of serious eye problems which substantially negatively  affected his life since childhood.  Not fun.

Hope the best for you and your family there in your large country.

Were you born and raised in an English speaking country . . . or just somehow acquired excellent English skills ?
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2021, 10:48:50 AM »
I am born and raised Dutch, but even in school somehow English was even easier than my native language. For my work I used it as well, and of course MrsShadow has good English skills.Which meant that the children are near fluent in 3 languages.

The talent hey have is not strange, I am reasonably fluent in 4 languages and know a dozen more from being able to follow the conversation to being able to buy groceries and read.
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2021, 10:53:30 AM »
I am born and raised Dutch, but even in school somehow English was even easier than my native language. For my work I used it as well, and of course MrsShadow has good English skills.Which meant that the children are near fluent in 3 languages.

The talent hey have is not strange, I am reasonably fluent in 4 languages and know a dozen more from being able to follow the conversation to being able to buy groceries and read.

Quite amazing . . . at least to me.

One Ukrainian teacher here in our group is fluent in 4 languages.
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #23 on: March 06, 2021, 10:59:47 AM »
Quite amazing . . . at least to me.

One Ukrainian teacher here in our group is fluent in 4 languages.
One of the things I had to learn during my life is that most people find what I do with ease quite difficult. Which is not always a blessing.
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Re: 2020: A wonderful 'bad' year for us.
« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2021, 12:47:05 PM »
A lot of things (used) to come to me easily also; and not just academic type things.

e.g. Mechanical things, handy man things, etc.

As result . . . I (used) to get extremely frustrated when I could not quickly do or learn to do something.

Chess I can do, but card games still are a puzzle to me; I would lose my shirt if I were a gambling man at cards.

So I understand what you say about mixed blessing.
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