12 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

You sound like my wife.

Thankfully for me, you sound nothing like mine.

52 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

Thankfully for me, you sound nothing like mine.

See how I gave you a "laugh" even though your "joke" was also pretty lame?

2 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

See how I gave you a "laugh" even though your "joke" was also pretty lame?

No. I actually didn't even notice until you pointed it out. My wife does that all the time too, it's annoying.

30 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

No. I actually didn't even notice until you pointed it out. My wife does that all the time too, it's annoying.

Soooooo, I am like your wife now?

6 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

Soooooo, I am like your wife now?

Ok man, this is getting weird now. 

6 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

Ok man, this is getting weird now. 

27 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

Soooooo, I am like your wife now?

 

19 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

Ok man, this is getting weird now. 

 

12 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

5 hours ago, rambo said:

We've been living the curbside life mostly.  Curbside at Giant, Target and BJs and Instacart has been awesome.  To be quite frank I don't know that we'll go back to mostly in store shopping.  It's easier and way more convenient for us since we're always running around with the kids.  I just go in to pick out steaks anymore.  Stuff my chest freezer with a whole pig once a year and if I have room a quarter steer.

I do curbside at BJ's.  It's pretty good, but there are drawbacks.  They originally were pretty slow, or if you go when it's crowded, you can wait 15-20 minutes.  I've had them bring stuff out in as little as 5 minutes if there aren't too many people waiting.  I also will not buy fresh food or food by weight online for curbside pick-up, either.  I like picking the fresh stuff out myself, and I like to pick the exact weight.  Plus, with the food by weight, they charge a general price up front, so I don't want to play around with possibly paying more than the weight price by getting a smaller item that an employee picked out.

 

I mainly get stuff shipped from other places, like Target, Kohl's, etc.  It's almost always free shipping, so why bother even driving somewhere?

Just now, xzmattzx said:

I do curbside at BJ's.  

Where are these curbside BJ’s that you speak of ??

1 minute ago, downundermike said:

Where are these curbside BJ’s that you speak of ??

Kensington. 

We did some delivery stuff, but for the most part we:

1) Stocked up on non perishables before spikes and lived off the stockpile

2) Fresh items like veggies I hit up at 7 am when there is no one in the store.  

 

Has worked pretty well. 

 

For Lowes runs, I've been trying to order as much as I can online for pickup and get the remaining few things when I arrive.  At 6 am.  Most times I'm the only shopper in the store.

36 minutes ago, downundermike said:

Where are these curbside BJ’s that you speak of ??

Tinder

7 hours ago, Toastrel said:

I can't trust minimum wage workers to pick out my meats or produce.

 

I should add, that I am particular about these items.

I can tell you we hire nothing but, stupid kids to pick your groceries and they don't give a flying eff that your produce looks like sheet or that the fresh meat you were looking for is grey and going out if date tomorrow. 

 

Holy ish Moderna #2 has been a wild ride. 

Got the shot yesterday morning. Started feeling tired and like slow last night before bed. Went to bed and had full body aches, sweats, chills, headache. Couldn't get comfortable or sleep for longer than like 30 minutes at a time. Everything hurt it seemed. This morning definitely feeling significantly better, just feel like I have a mild hangover or something. Gonna take it easy today for sure. 

Two weeks and I can emerge from the COVID cocoon . Have my vaccinated family over, have sit down dinners in doors. Have the granddaughters over for a sleepover and explore the creek, play stupid card games, look at weird bugs and see if the crazy russian hacker guy has any new videos.

Got my second Pfizer shot last night. So far just a sore arm and a little tiredness. Home with my son who needs to do online class this week (2 kids in his class have covid), so tried instacart. Wow that's convenient and not very expensive. I guess they make their money in volume?

15 minutes ago, Gannan said:

Got my second Pfizer shot last night. So far just a sore arm and a little tiredness. Home with my son who needs to do online class this week (2 kids in his class have covid), so tried instacart. Wow that's convenient and not very expensive. I guess they make their money in volume?

It's really been money.  Right now my kids are in karate, softball, baseball and gymnastics.  Needless to say finding time to grocery shop is not easy.  Put together a list in the evening after kids are in bed then get them delivered the next day since my wife is wfh it's done and we can spend the evening running the kids around and cooking a quick dinner plus all the other household upkeep.  It's already exhausting so taking grocery shopping off the list is nice.

When does your immunity peak after the mRNA doses? I know they tell you two weeks until you're protected, but I think even at that point, it's still around 80%. Is it like 4-6 weeks until you're close to 90%?

1 minute ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

When does your immunity peak after the mRNA doses? I know they tell you two weeks until you're protected, but I think even at that point, it's still around 80%. Is it like 4-6 weeks until you're close to 90%?

Once you give into an unstoppable urge to purchase Microsoft products and buy a new surface you are at full immunity.

44 minutes ago, Toastrel said:

Two weeks and I can emerge from the COVID cocoon . Have my vaccinated family over, have sit down dinners in doors. Have the granddaughters over for a sleepover and explore the creek, play stupid card games, look at weird bugs and see if the crazy russian hacker guy has any new videos.

Wild uninhibited paint parties?

53 minutes ago, Gannan said:

Got my second Pfizer shot last night. So far just a sore arm and a little tiredness. Home with my son who needs to do online class this week (2 kids in his class have covid), so tried instacart. Wow that's convenient and not very expensive. I guess they make their money in volume?

There's a baked in up-charge per item, but it varies. You would think it would be volume or weight based but it's not. A package of 40 water bottles at costco is only like 20 cents higher, which is less than a 10% up-charge. Yet mac an cheese is like 20% or more I think. Doesn't make sense, but at the end of the day, it can be worth it as long you as understand it's not great for everything and you have some patience with the idiots doing the running.

12 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

When does your immunity peak after the mRNA doses? I know they tell you two weeks until you're protected, but I think even at that point, it's still around 80%. Is it like 4-6 weeks until you're close to 90%?

I thought 2 weeks after the second dose was peak protection. You start to build serum antibody levels 7-10 days after the first shot, then hit like 70-80% protection at the 14-21 day mark (pfizer). And then ~95% at the 35 day mark. Might be off a bit but the timeline is supposed to be something like that.

Though I should note that protection refers to protection against symptomatic disease in this case. Sometimes you'll see it in reference to protection against severe disease or protection against infection in general (including asymptomatic infection.) Three different criteria.

9 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

I thought 2 weeks after the second dose was peak protection. You start to build serum antibody levels 7-10 days after the first shot, then hit like 70-80% protection at the 14-21 day mark (pfizer). And then ~95% at the 35 day mark. Might be off a bit but the timeline is supposed to be something like that.

Though I should note that protection refers to protection against symptomatic disease in this case. Sometimes you'll see it in reference to protection against severe disease or protection against infection in general (including asymptomatic infection.) Three different criteria.

 

Ok, thanks. I think what I did was mixed up reports that you're about 80% with one dose, but the second dose gets you up to 90%

 

So, as of today, I have officially reached COVID God-Level Status